Thank you for the feedback. Could you please elaborate on what you mean by the environments not feeling relevant?
I can mostly just sit in place and shoot, and sitting in place elsewhere in a level doesn’t make a difference.
That's fair. Maybe I have made the enemies too easy. May I ask if you tried any of the different weapons out, or was it all the same regardless?
The levels all just feel like an open field; the lack of a physical objective and terrain that is nondestructible makes any semblance of layout currently irrelevant; destructible buildings seem to only give you an advantage and enemies a disadvantage, and so it doesn’t feel like there’s any design to them. The… third? desert with water. level felt a bit more interesting with the water slowing you down and there being hovercrafts. What I think you should do is add in non-destructible terrain and physical objectives in the mission that you have to attack/defend/escort? or simply progress through the level to a goal, so that there is a reason to care about the terrain & certain spots can be better/worse to play around in. Destructible terrain would then act as a way to modify the battlefield as you play, but you would still be constrained to a degree on how you play in the level.
This is all very fair and useful feedback, thank you.
I originally did intend to have set objects/installations that you'd have to destroy for the fourth mission, but I simply ran out of time for this DD. I'm going to be redoing a bunch of levels and the mission's structure since all of them are honestly placeholders right now. There's going to be different missions other than search and destroy/shooting of course - defending and escorting missions will be included as well.
I'm not too keen on adding indestructible terrain since I feel it takes a lot of the oomph out of the gunplay and weapons if they hit objects and don't react, but I understand that this can make the levels feel maybe too open. I'll see if I can include enemies that also demolish terrain when the player is close and don't hold back firing even if they're behind cover. I realize now the player maybe has too much advantage by being the only one doing that.
