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It’s truly beautiful to see testers deliberately seek out and play a version clearly labeled “potentially BROKEN and UNSTABLE shadow TEST for TESTING”, only to get angry and shout “I hate this version!” instead of providing the developers with constructive feedback about newly added features or bugs. And when I see comments saying “You can’t defend this just by saying it’s ‘in development’!”, I honestly don’t even know what to say anymore, lol.

This game hasn’t been officially released or sold yet, and you, me — all of us — are testers. There’s absolutely no reason to get angry. If you care about VOTV, gather the things you don’t like and send feedback to the dev. And if, even after that, you still don’t like the direction the updates are taking… well, what can you do? You can simply stop playing the game.

I definitely think the control in v0.9 is simpler and more friendly for new users, and it feels like an update the developers put a lot of thought into. On the other hand, when I first encountered the Alt control in v0.8, it seemed a bit cumbersome at first. However, once I got used to it, it allowed for much faster inputs and became quite comfortable to use (of course, I reassigned the Alt key to another shortcut that’s easier on my hand — personally, I replaced it with a mouse thumb button).

So what I want to say is this: I think the new control is a good direction for the game’s development. That said, since this is still a test build, it’s inevitable that there are many areas that need improvement. For example, the E key has different actions assigned to click and hold, but the input detection often confuses the two, causing noticeable hiccups. Also, sometimes the Shift + E combination doesn’t get recognized properly in a single input.

However, considering that the developers likely have many other aspects of development to focus on at this stage, I think improving the new control should be a higher priority than adding an option to revert to the old control.