Very cool game! I didn't understand why you would ever change the polarity of the shield, at first, since I was only getting blue enemies. But then I got red enemies and understood. The difficulty jumps way up and down, though, depending on where and how the enemies spawn. My only real issue was that losing all your "stored up" ammo when you get his feels too punishing, especially when there are tons of bullets flying around - I'm already taking a beating to my health, not being able to fight back either is too much.
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Thanks for playing! Really fair criticisms here — we wanted to make sure that players couldn’t camp with their shields which is why the “ammo” bar works the way it does. You can recharge your bar though by not using your shield and having the polarized bullets hit the shield, which is admittedly a little hard to remember to do in combat (and also not something we properly instructed players to do). Good things to work on in the future!