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Interesting concept, the style is neat, but i feel like the movement speed is a bit fast, especialy for a mech moving. (Maybe it’s just the missing animation, that it feels like im slithering around on ice). That also makes the enemies get to you very quickly, so it feels a bit like you are just randomly moving around shooting, becaues it’s way to fast paced to think about it strategically. The first time i also fell of the map on the borders and get stuck there and needed to restart.

A major annoyance was the reload sound. It’s mostly 2 sounds, who sound very similar, and whenever i hear the first one i thought i had already finished reloading, but in fact i did just start. I think the reload finished sound needs to be alot more prominent and distinct from the starting sound, because it is my “go” signal to shoot. In contrast to that, the little suicied bots where very well done, they where good to hear so you could react to them.

Another issue was the turrets on the side, their hitboxs where very akward. As i finished the waves in Stage 2 i was confused why it didn’t, because i tried to shot at them but nothing happend. As i later figured out i just have to stand at a certain position that they get hit. But the hit indicator for them shoud be way stronger, especially because they are very dark and hard to see, so i need some feedback from where i can actually hit them.

Also the text background was not there for some reason, so i had black text on black background, so couldn’t read anything.

Thank you for the feedback.

We had no one on the team with any animation experience, and our 3d character modeller fell sick halfway through the project. So the method we came up with was just to have it sliding around and use an effect to imply it was "skating" like mechs in Armoured Core. It's also the reason that we kept it fast, as we felt it would look weird if the mechs were all just slowly sliding around the map.

Thanks for letting us know there's still issues with the map borders, I had thought we'd ironed that all out, but there must still be some gaps in the invisible wall we haven't found yet, so we'll go over that again.

For the reload, we had planned to have a visual indicator for reloading, as I agree that just using the sounds isn't quite as clear as it should be. Sadly, this feature got cut due to time constraints, but we'll try to add it in post jam.

I'll increase the turret's hitbox as right now it only covers the centre gun part of the turret and not the base. From a top-down view, I can get how this would look wrong and like your shots are missing, as the turret would look larger than it really is. It is programmed to flash red, but with the point light on the bullets being yellow it kind of becomes hard to see it flash, so I think we might try adding a spotlight above the turrets.

As for the text box not appearing, could you tell us what scene this happened in, as we've been unable to replicate this bug?

Again, thanks for all of your feedback, it's super helpful when it comes to improving on our game and game development skills.

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The text box background not appearing happens every single time. Might be due to the fact that i’m on a wide screen, so the text is partially out of view anyways. The first line of the text is visible thou, so dunno quite why just the background would be gone.

I didn’t find a solid way to reproduce the issue with the borders thou, it only happened one more time. Might be an fps drops issue? (Dependns on how large those border hitboxes are).

I think the issue with reload is also, that it just takes a very long time. It’s like 3-4s? And this everything is moving so fast this feels like an eternity. And i mean viusally you have the bullet count at the bottom, but that’s not so great to look at within combat. Also, i realized another thing. The visual bullet count refreshes before the reload is finished. So there is an additional delay, so even when i look at it is a tiny bit out of sync, which makes it feel even worse. Because i’m always trying to shoot but it’s not quite ready yet. Synchronizing those 2 and making it a bit shorter will probably already be a big improvement on how it feels.