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Thank you. As you asked which room it is ,i mean a lever puzzle room in hospital 2F, you have added 2 zombies there. And you have added one additional zombie in 2F Theatre room (well that one doesnt really matter to stability of game)

So I have finished 2.0.11 - at least on Easy

All puzzle's work correctly for me.

All save locations also work well.

Yeah zombies dont stuck on a bodies of their dead friends.

I like idea what you done with restaurant area - increasing ammo here plus making it accessible.

Also i have checked a manhole where you fight Mr. X. It work correctly now.

I didnt checked yet a prison save room, to check if a locker and radio is interactive without game stuck.

Btw I have faced

Now as for bugs/small issues.

Theatre entrance key still is in inventory after using it. You cant discard it.

Zombies sometimes easily get staggered while you use knife against them. Idk if it worth to fix for now.

Zombie dogs can attack now, but sometimes they just dissapear as they touch Ada. But I see they do transition attack between their pounce and zombie bite. Also idk but it seems they damage seems high (2 pounce's took Ada HP to yellow). That a lot.

Well in future what you want to look is still a Health balance.

Also idk if you planned it But a 2F Hospital red herb room again give 2 red herbs.

That are just minor issues I have noticed, and i get that Map is not fully working yet. But I can say i had a lot of fun replaying game ^^.

P.S. There are any differences between a Easy and Normal difficulty atm? Over amount of zombies and their durability?

Doors work again in 2.0.10. I have noticed you added in some areas zombies. After you added zombies to a room with the hospital levers puzzle cant be finished, even if you pull them in a correct order door to room with bolt cutter are still closed.

As for zombies they have a collision problem with other zombies, if you kill one of them in for example door, zombie behind cant pass through dead zombie.

Idk if you fixed a save rooms yet. But a save room in end of Arcade is still unavaible, as it doesnt detect ink ribbon in inventory.

I have tried a version 2.0.9 from start. And you cant leave first room. Opening door always will get you back without moving to second room.

As for fighting zombies I saw you added fact you can shake off zombies after first bite. Its a turn into good way ngl.

Well np, improving take times. I just point out a things what you might look into later. Its easier to point it earlier so you will have them in mind. After all adding new content, areas, puzzles etc can generate more bugs or misplacements.

Well I guess you didnt updated or i didnt noticed. Well i would say case of shotgun is depend on how you use it. Range to take down a 4 zombies at once with headshot is really nutty. So i guess it all comes to range and angle you are shotting from. If we look at that then yeah, shotgun is perfectly fine weapon. You just need to master a angles and range :). 

As for combat itself with knife. I tried solo knife zombies on both Easy and Normal. So what I have noticed it easy sometimes and sometimes hard to do. What I mean by that is fact knife atm (ofc due to a enemies interaction etc) is very sensitive to a camera positioning. Sometimes its easier to manuever zombie around, sometimes it is not. And its perfectly fine. Knife is a weapon which need a lot mastering ;). Sometimes it is hard to escape from imminent zombie grab. Coming to it as I said Sometimes its all up to pixels. Zombie pixel before death reach Ada and she get into a grab animation and now there is hard for me to say part as Idk if we take a damage instance or not. If there were numbers in health it was easier to check and analyze how it work. Also what I have noticed if you hit zombie with knife and instantly aim up, you have chance to "stunlock" zombie where he is very close to Ada but cant trigger grab animation. It not always occur, but that what i have noticed sometimes. But it is hard to explain without a field testing. As always it is all coming to enemies behavior so as you are fixing an Animations etc for enemies that case might fix itself later.

What i noticed in 2.0.7, you have changed how health work right? I can say now values for "Fine" status is too high. Ada from animation get into caution status, while in Inventory health still indicate "Fine".

As for Zombie's grab on Easy they bite you to 3 times and on Normal even to 5 times, that all occur in one grab animation. As I have mentioned that cause a lot of damage if every instance of bite count as damage (in OG RE all instance of bite count as damage, but players can shake off zombie before 2nd and more bite's).

Mr. X is really doable. 2 out of 3 encounters i was able to knife him down. It can be extra satisfying in future as you add a drop to him :).

I am trying to give a subjective and objective hints what i have noticed to help you improve game :). So some of things I have noticed might not be really problems. But i guess they are worth to mention. Have a Nice Day after next wall of text from me.

Game is really looks a more polished. You do great job here. As I mentioned before if you need more feedback about how combat with knife feels like in 2.0.7 I can always add comment about it :).

Now Moving to a 2.0.7

First of all thanks for fast reply and also fixing some of bugs. I have made it atm until entrance of Prison.

P.S. NVM I have finished a story so far. And I can say you I had really great blast. Even if I again replayed a lot. I had a lot of fun :). I have tried a bit of combat with knife. And also I noticed you changed a bit a Health system if i am correct. If you need any feedback about it or enemies behavior etc. I can add it.

What was fixed and work well now.

As I have replayed game yet once again. I can say that now you can pickup ammo even if your inventory is full so its a nice fix.

A generator Room alongside morgue work now well. Light is here after you restart generator.

Puzzle room in hospital with levers work now well.

I saw you added a ink ribbon before sewers entrance. This is nice addon.

Also i have noticed you fixed a red herb in red herb room in F2 hospital.

Now moving to another Topic.

Saving

Yeah Sewer entrance typewriter still doesnt recognize if you have ink ribbons in inventory. Also I have checked a prison entrance save room. There is same issue with typewriter here.

A backroom/streets of library behind crashed truck

Fight here with Mr.X is really nice, but what i wanted to inform about is fact you cant interacted with opened manhole.

Items

Now I see why you dont discard a manhole opener at first. It make's sense now.

But as i mentioned in post above other items stay. Like a Theater key. I know bolt cutter might be useful in future, same can go toward a keycard you get from zombie in morgue.

Atm that it from what i saw. If you have any other question or need me to check give me head up in reply. I look forward to next version :)

Thank you for fast reply. I have tried 2.0.5 a while ago and also i forgot to mention a bit on last post.

For Items

Theatre key doesnt discard itself after you use it.

Idk if its bug but also manhole opener for a sewers dont discard itself as well.

Same goes for a gate keycard we get to input code to reset generator, or It is needed somewhere else?

Saving

As for a 2.0.5 a typewrite before a sewers entrance still doesnt work,

idk about a before prison save.

Damage/Health system

I forgot to mention it but there is a really weird transition between a fine > orange/yellow caution. As there health drop really fast. As from a caution to a danger it go slower.

Idk how zombie damage work, but if every bite count as damage every zombie do a lot of damage. 3 bites at a Easy, and even to 4 at Normal is a lot. That made knifing zombies dangerous on a Normal for a normal players. 

For a 2.0.5 bug

A room after a sewers puzzle and before prison if you interact with a locker by a bed, game freeze or i should say Ada dissapear and you only see shadow on ground. You are stuck in there and cant move.

I guess by adding a prison, you are planning for us to pick up a route? Or we can explore both Prison and Hospital?

Remark about a MR. X and how he work in OG RE2

In RE2 he have addition of a "sucker" punch a fast one which dont do a lot damage but he do it if you want bypass him or when he is close to you, Then he transit into his heavy punch. At Orange Yellow and Danger he always switch to a Heavy finish hit or sometimes if you want bypass him he will do sucker punch. That how he worked if I recall well xD. As for a drop, yeah OG RE2 have him dropping ammo.

Ammo Pick-ups

Idk if you are planning to change a amount of a ammo we pick-up. I mean idk if you plan to follow a usual route of Resident evil 2 and 3 where a single HG ammo pack is 15 and sometimes 30, and Shotgun Shells are in packs for 7 or 14. Or you are intend to save it for now as it is. Honestly 5 HG ammo at restaurant is small amount for fact a window to grab ammo is really small/non existent

Restaurant

I would say a zombie spawn here is a quite fast/give you small window to escape. Idk if you plan to change it or keep way it is. I would say its look okay/or is a bit hard to evade these zombies. Once i forgot about camera transition and got grabbed ;). Well i would say if you are not careful in this room you can be trapped between 4 zombies. A sandwich we wouldnt want to end up in :D.

A bit more about a difficulties

As i have replayed from the scratch I would say ammo for at least Easy mode is sufficient before i have went down to the Sewers i was able to save up 65 HG ammo and about 16-17 shotgun ammo. So i would say at least for Easy mode its balanced as knife is strong. I took some hits due to as i mentioned earlier due to Zombie pixel reaching Ada, so even if I have finished Zombie a grab and bite animation still occured. Idk if it done full bite damage, as there are no numbers sadly. So even if Easy mode is perfectly Balanced with current approach. 

Normal mode suffer from a same amount ammo pick-ups and from less health items. Also fact you start with only 15 HG bullets made it hard at start. Zombies have 33-50% more health and probably do more damage. Not to mention bigger amount of them in certain areas which made game harder. But honestly plenty of them can be evaded. Like 3 first rooms (with a moderate difficulty) but in 2nd room you can get grabbed before you reach doors due to a camera transition. Honestly this mode really made you evade most zombie in a clutch of getting grabbed. I guess as you progress with how zombies work and if they will be able to be staggered or even took to ground knife would be extremelly good here.

Weapons

Handgun - I would say balanced weapon. Dont feel too strong or too weak and rate of fire is at good rate.

Shotgun - good, at Easy mode pretty much monster to deal with multiple zombies. In restaurant with well putted shot it can even took down entire 4 zombies. On Normal mode it is strong but not as strong and you need to aim on zombie head. And there is problem sometimes it looks like Animation dont went well and shotgun dont work as intended. I had it like 2-3 times. So i would say it varies from a very strong weapon to Take off Zombies head offs (taking of 3-4 zombies decapitation in single shot is very strong) to a completelly missed shot which mostly result in a grab by zombie. I would say maybe its a inconsistency with a angle of shot or simply a range of aiming high with shotgun dont work as intended.

Knife - Honestly really hard to score it. Rate of swing is decent and damage is surprisingly good. On Easy mode at least it really well. On Normal mode i didnt tried it as much due to grabs. I would say its balanced and inbalanced weapon at same point. Damage is pretty high for knife in RE series (only maybe second to knife from Resident Evil Code Veronica). But due to how game is atm a bit range would be handy. But that one stat can change knife from a good weapon to have to a bit too overpowered one. So its hard to say if range is perfect or it should be a bit bigger. Not by much but by a small margin.

Minor bug

Btw you can save game through a wall in a Wine Cellar nearby an entrance to a freezer room if you click on a wall where is a typewriter you can save game especially if you stand on light shadow visible on ground, maybe i will add screenshots later. Visualising some bugs might be easier by them to show what i mean.

Regarding Hospital

I have tried to do lever puzzle again, at it is still bugged here for me. Btw when I enter this room for first time a foremost right lever seems to be inserted there. I attached image down (after i collected 3 levers and inserted them.

As for other items appearing in there on a 2nd floor of a hospital in a red herb room there are 2 red herbs, one is visible and second is not.

First floor in a room where you grab note there is invinsible green herb nearby computer. 

Save room before prison

As i said it seems that room is bugged interaction with a locker or radio make game stuck and Ada dissapear. I will post it under this topic

As you can see i am stuck here and there is only shadow on ground where Ada is supposed to stand.

Generator room/morgue before elevator to hospital

As I mentioned also in previous post there is issue (After I went back from hospital).

Well if you open image in another Tab you will see morgue. But as i mentioned rooms are back to a state before generator is turned on even if it is working. But still maybe it is my pc problem but two rooms are kinda too dark.

Sure thing then. Under this post I will try write what i have catch saw during my gameplay. English is not my native language, but i will try my best to keep my writting understandable.

So starting with a difficulty:

Easy - balanced so far, amount of ammo/health is sufficient, still you need to manage and think strategically. Ink Ribbons were in clutch.

Normal - hard/challenging with amount of ammo, but with some skill menagable, i have reached a sewers but i was low on ammo. Its hard to say for me if its too hard or unbalanced, but with a increased amount of ammo atm its challenging

Enemies:

Zombies - work as intended, sometimes there is problem as if zombie is too close and other zombie is behind Ada shot a zombie behind instead that close on her, like bullet go through zombie. I have tried knife zombies, currently if even zombie's dont grab you, if their hitbox reach Ada they still do damage. Also I am curious can you shake off zombie when they bite? if not, then its something they lack from OG games (Re1-Re3), other things what would make fighting them more menagable is that if they could be staggered by knife/handgun or any other weapon

Zombie dogs - currently seems bugged, as they probably try do grab attack like zombies, if you are in their hitbox they will damage you. Otherwise they mostly run at you and most of them just stuck in animation of running. OG zombie dogs are easily staggered any damage. Handgun or knife just take them to ground.

MR. X- i have defeated him on Easy, i have didnt tried on Normal. I guess mostly what i saw is his powerful punch attack. If he does it, a skilled player could knife him. Maybe later i will try knifing him. What he lack is ammo drop, as mostly in Re2 and Re Gun survivor he dropped ammo.

Puzzles:
Sewers - I didnt found a valve for a sewer puzzle yet, so idk location of it if its implemented

Hospital - puzzle with levers didnt work for me, I have found all three of them and game is still saying I miss lever. Unless there are more than 3 of them

As goes for Levers themselves, Its nice one of them is randomized to a room 1 or room 3 in hospital corridor of F2. Room 3 lever on a bed on right is a bit bugged, you can get it under a certain angle. Otherwise you only interact with a bed.

Also backing to a lever puzzle room, sometimes you cant interact with body of a umbrella soldier here and grab shotgun ammo from him. Depend on angle you are on.

Rooms:

I know some rooms lack a rendering so i cant say much about that regard. Unless i can in future pinpoint lacking rooms. 

Entering a Arcade first room - at least in 2.0.4 even after a cutscene with Ark re-entering it from street , it seems a game try to trigger cutscene again. There is a black screen for second, so it might be associated as i mentioned with cutscene.

But i can point one thing:

A generator room and morgue are bugged after you bring back power. After you leave rooms to either sewer or hospital and comeback they are again dark. Also sometimes i think they are a bit too dark. In my first playthrough i couldnt see a zombies in a morgue room (but i must admit i have played during sunny day).

Save rooms:

A save room before sewers has non working typewriter. Even when I had a ink ribbon it still said out i dont have it. Thats why i didnt fully checked it out a sewer and hospital. As only avaible save spot was in winery room it was hard to go back to it at least on Normal difficulty.

Inventory:

You cant pick up ammo after your inventory is full. I mean even if you have shotgun or handgun ammo you cant grab any ammo to inventory if it is, you need at least one space free.

Also more like questions here:

Regarding Ammo: Does there are only 2 handgun ammo pickups before you leave restaurant? One on beggining room and second one in restaurant?

Second Regarding Coins: Are there only 2 coins? And did they have any use in current 2.0.4 version?

I guess it is most things i know atm. I would need think a bit more. Sorry if my english is clumsy, and ofc if there is way too big wall of text.

Really great experience so far. I have tried v 2.0.4 . So if you need i can say a few things what are not really working out, so it might help you polish game,