The VA work was a long night of editing. :’) Totally worth it though, I love how it came out. I highly recommend checking out the VAs here, Anubitek was responsible for the Patrol chatter you hear. Many of my favorite lines are quite rare as they’re bound to inactive/idle time per guard, and I’m not sure if they’re even possible to hear in the current version of the game.

I can’t account for trackpad vs. mouse, but you’re far from the first to have issues and an alternative WASD control scheme has been highly requested. As for VIPs spawning in buildings, it’s a regression from the 5.05 update which fixed the Patrol system so that patrol squads actually roam a desginated patrol path instead of sticking only to the F.O.B. patrol route. The change was too important to wait and test, and unfortunately this ended up being one of the side effects. Before this update, VIPs and patrols all spawned in the area where you drop off clearance codes and it made the first few VIPs agonizingly difficult while the rest of the game was a breeze.

Thankfully, the AIs don’t ever get trapped in buildings as buildings all carve obstacle zones into the navmesh. If you get their attention and run away, they should chase you out of the alley they got stuck in. That’s our stopgap for before the fix goes in.

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There is a system in place that makes foreground buildings fade in opacity. Unfortunately, the Kenney assets we used as placeholders were never intended for this or for textured surfaces, and we didn’t have enough time to clean them up.

As far as I know the WebGL version is mostly accurate now, with the only difference being slight distortion on video quality and a noticeably worse framerate. There are issues with lighting as a result of rushing through the environment art, and I will be revisiting that at some point postjam.

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Unfortunately the environment is a lot busier than it ought to be. I’m not satisfied with the buildings; there are some custom buildings that are okay, not the best, but the Kenney assets had some rough UV wrapping as they were never meant to be textured. Since I didn’t have time to fix the FBXs, I scrambled to throw whatever materials had already been made up on the buildings, and as a result the buildings’ neon windows are just as bright as the HUDs, characters, and other elements of essential gameplay. Even worse, these buildings have a tougher time fading for the camera because of the dark color hiding their rough edges.

In postjam I’ll be making a new set of less aggressive neon materials and I’ll take a little more time into the buildings’ quality. In the meantime, just try to let the objective marker take you in the right direction. I think the game definitely needs a panel or two of clear and concise gameplay explanations, but once you figure out the objectives loop it’s a very simple back-and-forth affair.

PRO TIP: With some exceptions, enemies can’t see in the dark and SHIFT will break line of sight– even when they’re already engaged in combat with you. You can use this to safely reload, get out of a tough firefight, or close the distance to your VIP target while avoiding the fire of their guards.

You didn’t miss that, it’s the most commonly requested feature. I want to get alternate controls in there soon but I don’t have a timeline for when postjam support will start. I don’t think implementation will take too long.

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Pretty much agreed on all points. Hotkeys sound like a wonderful idea; my first instinct would be 1,2,3 as hotkeys for abilities, but if we continue the game I think I’d prefer to have multiple playable characters at once which would definitely take priorities for numbers. I think the focus on the entirely world-space HUD was a gamble that people will love or hate in its current iteration.

While the emission helps with the character a little bit, I agree about the environment. We played around with a few different lighting levels and environment textures during development, and only the rain system and main characters shipped looking as they originally did in the early days. We probably would have actually accounted for the dark player model causing problems, but I fell way behind on the world generation until maybe the last Friday or Saturday; at that point it was all hands on deck for getting the game working properly.

Thanks for playing, and I appreciate the very thorough feedback!

I greatly appreciate how many chances you gave this game. I understand it’s not for everyone and needs a little fine tuning to clear some of the gamejam jank.

The concept is pretty straightforward once you get into the loop, but I think this game would have benefitted greatly from a stronger tutorial like textboxes on the first spawn or a basic training room.

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If you play it now, 5.05 has made the initial shock of the game a little more bearable as an AI bug caused most enemies to crowd around the main forward base, making the initial VIP harder than any other sequence in the game. Now that this is dealt with, you’ll be able to avoid most encounters as intended and focus in on the enemies you need to take down. You’re not the only one to have issues with the control scheme and alternatives are being investigated, but it probably won’t be in time for GDTVJam.

Thanks for the feedback! In the most recent patch, the blue rings on the player HUD– they extend out further and only have two rims instead of three. The goal was to move it away from the player HUD and make sure you were focused on the actual center. It’s not a complete gamechanger, but things have improved.

I like the movement system as-is, but it does need some fine tuning and carries some general gamejam jank with it.

It seems like I missed your comment earlier. Thanks for giving the game a go, and I’m glad you liked the final result! Development was a wild ride and I feel lucky for getting brought on to be a part of it, as I was originally going to skip GDTVJam for other ongoing projects.

Believe me, I’ve tried with the patrol audio. Really, those guys need better military radios. Ragtag resistance or not, walkie talkies? Seriously? It’s the late 21st century, act like it!

Jokes aside, I rushed through the audio filtering for anubitek’s dialogue in a single night and the system involves simple calls. I think the changes will be too sweeping to promise a deadline on, but I’m thinking I can fix them by doing the following:

• Reprocess the original VA audio with a less aggressive set of filters (this will take time as the game has around 130 separate audio files for the patrols)
• Break patrols into their own mixer with an adjustable slider on the menus
• Have every PatrolVoices component report in to a Patrol Dialogue Master when speaking, and tell the DialogueMaster when it stops (most likely an int, currentPatrolVoices, that increments and decreases)
• Don’t allow dialogue if too many are playing (only play if maxPatrolVoices > currentPatrolVoices)
• Don’t play dialogue if the player is too far away to hear
• Expose the maxPatrolVoices variable of PatrolVoices and allow the player to customize it in menus

Other audio in the game… I’ll wait for postjam since the lines that were in but bugged have already been dealt with. The rest were never implemented and remain on the cutting room floor. I believe we ended up only using 30-40% of the VA dialogue for the PA system, and many of the sounds for abilities or gameplay are unfinished or absent entirely. I’m not happy about that, but that’s just gamejam jank for you.

The point is, I think we have our work cut out for us if we go postjam. Again, thanks for giving it a go, and hopefully soon we can squash some of the more complicated problems!

Thanks for playing! I’m not exactly happy with the abilities implementation, and that’s entirely on me. It’s hard to click on them and it doesn’t communicate their abilities particularly well. If we get a chance to fix it postjam, it’s getting reworked immediately.

I like the idea of clicking on the HUD for reloads, but the implementation leaves something to be desired and I’ll see what I can do to refine that part of the controls.

I noticed that a lot of people are clicking around like a MOBA or RTS instead of holding the mouse button. Personally, once I started testing the game while holding the mouse it felt a lot better. The game has some jank to it and definitely could have used a day or two of fine tuning in this regard.

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Hey there, awesome work on your game!

I think as far as the mixing up goes, I got exactly what I wanted out of the design and wished I didn’t. I actually intended for you to get jumbled up and distracted by the reload in combat, and by deliberately making it a burden I hoped players would either get away from the enemy formation to safely reload or exploit the hilariously overpowered stealth system to do it safely. The Reload button doesn’t block the Mover script though, and that’s not okay.

Since a lot of people have asked about a different/better/traditional control scheme, I’ll try to look into getting that in before the jam ends. Thanks for giving our game a go!

Thank you! I think we caught the overlapping bug by accident, but there are a few potential fixes in place just in case. I can’t reproduce it at all on newer builds, only the current web version. Videos are a mixed bag, and they might be a little broken in this next build.

I’m honestly surprised the mouse controls work as well as they do. I’m hesitant to say it needs to be scrapped because it introduces some classic jank that I’m all for, but there’s definitely room for improvement. At one point the game had more of an RTS-lite/MOBA spin, which would be the actual reason behind the control scheme. I think an alternate WASD mode wouldn’t be too hard to throw in there, but I’ll wait until postjam to be safe.

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