Thanks so much UsGrig, I have now implemented all your feedback (except for the more varied missions, this is the next big step). And uploaded a new version v85 (overwriting the old one)
Thanks a lot UsGrig. I have taken your suggestions into consideration and improved clarity of the Tower message + made the bullet spread show only once. Regarding the move/shoot, you never know when someone picks up which weapon, some simply stick with the sniper or mp i have found for example. So having a few more points where you remind them that you can only shoot OR move with MGs for example is good (i had someone vocally complain about the "bug" that he couldn't fire the MG from hip during a recorded playtestsession :D)
Hehe, the sound is actually coming from where it's emitted. So if you fire it at the left side of the room it will play only left. I kind of like it, as it gives a sense of place, but it might be weird for some?
Thanks so much for playing and for your comments. It felt really painful to watch. The mixture of you being ignorant to all the information that the messages give and then complaining sarcastically about the things that the popup messages tried to tell you ( the main mechanic of focusing your shot with pistols and rifles) is just soul crushing.
I guess if i wouldnt be the dev and know how many cool subsystems are implemented here to make the enemies and weapons and everything feel really tactical, i would have got a good laugh out of you destroying the game.
I dont know why you are seeing stuff outside the actual room, it does not happen on two of my laptops, with monitors or without. I assume its either OBS or you have a resolution bigger than 1920x1080 which i didnt account for yet (would be great to know though).
You know my biggest Problem is onboarding, as many people dont want to read, so every thing is minimal text. But with any kind of novel mechanic, it requires a bit of experimenting for the player to find things out if ihe doesnt want to read. You seem to have "read" but ignored the fact that you can actually focus your aim when you hold your mouse, to be super precice. It says it in the quotes and in the tutorial. Its a main mechanic. It says RELEASE to shoot. You actually complain about it not shooting when you hold the mouse.
It even says it on the Itch page.
So if you have any idea of how a player like you would understand this mechanic, i would appreciate.
I also didnt buy any asset pack. The environment is custom made by UnfuneralOD and the chars and animations and effects by myself.
The sound has a short looping bit at the beginning on pupropse as it enters the main loop with a deep trombone once you kill the first enemy. Thats a dramatic effect to entertain the player, which i understand doesnt work if you are still making fun of the HUD and everything for the first minutes without interacting with the game.
Anyway, i understand that i as a developer need to come up with a better onboarding that works for every kind of players. Thanks so much for showing me the problems.
Mate, thanks so much for the kick in the ass. I sat down and fixed this now. Zoom works smoothly, shake adapts to zoom, resolution works fine, i will update map sizes to get rid of some tiny black borders here and there, but the whole "view" now is as intended.
If you ever get the time I would feel honored if you could try v84, to see the changes I implemented after seeing your stream. Would love to understand if it feels like a more polished onboarding experience.
Sorry for the bad onboarding experience, I have worked on it since.
You can simply stay close to cover to be protected and you can simply stay there and shoot from behind cover, still receiving partial protection. Moving it of cover is only useful when you want to change position or when you get flanked.
The game rewards using cover efficiently and planning your next moves. But I fully understand that I need to communicate this better in the onboarding process.
I have since seeing your stream already reworked the early levels to make them more straightforward for a new user.
So I now are more confident that a new player will have a better experience (and all players who have feedback said, once you understand the pacing and mechanics of the game, it's excellent and exciting).
Thanks again for the stream, it taught me a lot about user experience.
Cool, really looking forward to it. I think your solution with spreading the combat out could be even better. The game is very horizontal, so using that space for epic combat is good. It also makes it more tactical where to position which unit.
Hey, nice graphics, nice concept, but there is no real choice or tactic involved in the gameplay. Looking forward to see where you are going with this. I can just say what hythrain wrote is fitting.
Hi, this is a promising game. But as Hythrain said, its low on content/the content repeats and the deals are meaningless without basebuilding/progression. The Combat ist cool, but also the perspective makes it not really nice to watch, as all units just agglomerate in one place. I would love for it to have more of a 2.5D perspective, where the units would actually be visible in combat because you had some depth. Gameplay could stay 2D, but for visuals a 2.5D / more isometric plane where they can walk would help. The events reminded me of Bannersaga, which is cool. Once you have some other progression they will become meaningful and risk/reward will be intriguing. Setting is cool as well. Keep it up, keep developing.
Hey Tim, great to see you here. Feels great to have a long term fan. Really motivating, thanks for posting! (New features and more polish already in the works :D)
the Art and Sound and Worldbuiling is amazing. Except for the combat and enemies, it almost feels like two different games mashed up. One with this wonderful art, characters and story, and then the bullet hell with this innovative, interesting, but completely unrelated mechanic of blue and red. I enjoyed the combat and the atmosphere, but it still seems a bit wacky. I also didnt find a way to exit the game without having to windows out and close the app.
Thanks for confirming that, its a bit of a relief. I will check out your game as well! If you could let me know what exactly was hard to figure out in how to play, that would also go a really long way for me. As the tutorial has gone through a lot of rework after feeback. So is it missing information or is it just accomodating to the systems in place (gunplay, enemy behaviour, etc.)?
Stuttering and lag is very weird, as I tested it on a few machines and never have lag or stuttering (there is a slowdown in animation when the player character dies, but that's on purpose;))
I have already reworked the text to make it shorter and put all controls in a forumpost. Moved the Companion to the top. I need to cut a trailer, but i need to find a suitable program for that first. Currently its obviously a gameplay video. As only one video can be linked as a main video, where would you put the gameplay video? in the text?
