Now that I was able to play the game. It's pretty fun! It has a nice style and it's pretty good. However, it suffers from a number of performance issues, some actions have not been pre-instanced, causing freezes at the beginning of the game. It also suffers from a painful amount of lag, sure, I run a weak setup, but I don't see the performance strain this game could have as it is pretty simple. There is also some input delay, may be caused by the low FPS.
Jumping off the performance issues, the pathfinding of the player is quite poor, puzzling since the Ally pathfinding is fine. The Enemy AI could be a bit more threatening and cooperative. The drop rates could be a little kinder. And the environment could be a little nicer on the eyes (without necessarily causing more performance issues).
But judging off the technical achievement of making the game, it's some pretty amazing work, good on ya.
If you downloaded the latest build (0.14.7 i think) you didn't even get the worst lag. Theres still lag when items spawn for the first time and a few other things, like you said its an instancing issue. Already got something in the works for the items, the rest i need to figure out as i go.
Anyhow, enemy AI really needs some work, archers just stand still instead of going around walls if they block their line of sight to shoot you. Since i am currently working on making companions more useful, the same problem will apply to them, so i want to address that.
Pathfinding for the player im not sure what exact cases you mean. Theres the issue in the starting area where collisions just block you, because the navmesh wasnt updated for these obstacles, so thats expected. Other than that im only aware of the fact, that the pathing feels a bit off walking from tile to tile, you still get to the destination, but its not always a straight from starting position to the cursor.
Drop rates and difficulty in general will change a lot soon. Companions will get skills and abilities that makes you way more flexible and your party more durable/stronger. That will need a lot of playtesting to find a sweet spot of course.
Hope i can iron out those freezes and lags until the next game jam in may!
Elaborating on the pathfinding issue, the player often times takes a convoluted path forward, or gets stuck at doorways, or gets through doorways but not before spazzing out, or straight up doesn't walk towards the objective.
Good luck Mett, already following and that's not gonna change!
Which OS version did you try? Just tried the win version again and it works fine on my end, even with a clean slate (deleted all saves and such) The Linux one i can't test right now :(
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Now that I was able to play the game.
It's pretty fun! It has a nice style and it's pretty good.
However, it suffers from a number of performance issues, some actions have not been pre-instanced, causing freezes at the beginning of the game.
It also suffers from a painful amount of lag, sure, I run a weak setup, but I don't see the performance strain this game could have as it is pretty simple.
There is also some input delay, may be caused by the low FPS.
Jumping off the performance issues, the pathfinding of the player is quite poor, puzzling since the Ally pathfinding is fine.
The Enemy AI could be a bit more threatening and cooperative.
The drop rates could be a little kinder.
And the environment could be a little nicer on the eyes (without necessarily causing more performance issues).
But judging off the technical achievement of making the game, it's some pretty amazing work, good on ya.
Hey, thanks for playing and leaving feedback!
If you downloaded the latest build (0.14.7 i think) you didn't even get the worst lag. Theres still lag when items spawn for the first time and a few other things, like you said its an instancing issue. Already got something in the works for the items, the rest i need to figure out as i go.
Anyhow, enemy AI really needs some work, archers just stand still instead of going around walls if they block their line of sight to shoot you. Since i am currently working on making companions more useful, the same problem will apply to them, so i want to address that.
Pathfinding for the player im not sure what exact cases you mean. Theres the issue in the starting area where collisions just block you, because the navmesh wasnt updated for these obstacles, so thats expected. Other than that im only aware of the fact, that the pathing feels a bit off walking from tile to tile, you still get to the destination, but its not always a straight from starting position to the cursor.
Drop rates and difficulty in general will change a lot soon. Companions will get skills and abilities that makes you way more flexible and your party more durable/stronger. That will need a lot of playtesting to find a sweet spot of course.
Hope i can iron out those freezes and lags until the next game jam in may!
Elaborating on the pathfinding issue, the player often times takes a convoluted path forward, or gets stuck at doorways, or gets through doorways but not before spazzing out, or straight up doesn't walk towards the objective.
Good luck Mett, already following and that's not gonna change!
Oh right the doorway/wall corner issue! This will be fixed in the next build, got that figured out for both the player and the others.
Great work. I think I got all the goblins. I like the melee option for the bow when enemies are close.
Crashes while in loading screen.
Which OS version did you try? Just tried the win version again and it works fine on my end, even with a clean slate (deleted all saves and such)
The Linux one i can't test right now :(
Windows.