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Hex Machina195 days ago (1 edit) (+1)

I think you have something real solid on your hands here, but after five rounds I have to admit I straight-up don't get what the game wants me to do during the later rounds of disorder. 

The entire letter bank can change (sometimes multiple times) in the middle of typing out one word, and I can't figure out if I'm supposed to adjust my word mid-entry to account for the new letter bank or finish the word I started typing. Both approaches have gotten me inconsistent results, and it's a bit frustrating to try testing it when the scrambling starts so late into the run.

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StonieDude195 days ago

Hi Hex Machina!
So with disorder, there is a large array of preset letter combos. Each combo has a max of 8 letters and an average of around 100 words to form with those letters.

The game will choose one of these combos at the start of the round and shuffle the letters around. during the later rounds the game will shuffle those 8 letters again after a few seconds, so the game doesn't bring in a new set of letters, it is the same letters in each round so you don't need to adjust your words or anything. I just found during development it made the rounds much harder.

I also found the shuffling made rounds easier at times so i nearly removed it and made it a lifeline instead (Lifelines coming soon)

Thanks for playing! and for the feedback Hex!

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Hex Machina195 days ago(+1)

I believe I may be encountering a significant bug, in that case. Frequently I'll reach the round with the egg timer and find the letter bank rapidly begins toggling between entirely new sets. These are screenshots taken only a few seconds apart from my most recent run:

When this happens, there appears to be a single set the game chooses as the "real" list its accepting words from but shuffles in new sets of letters on the display whenever the letter bank would be scrambled instead of shuffling their order.

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StonieDude195 days ago(+1)

Ooh this is the first time I have seen this!! Thanks you hex! I will investigate and push out a patch later today. Your name will be carved in the table too ;) 

Cheers!

Stonie.

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StonieDude195 days ago

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Hex Machina194 days ago(+1)

That's rad! Thank you. Happy to help out. 

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