There we go, update is uploaded
Wow thank you for the quick turnaround! Also, this is incredible amount of work for a week - amazing job!
I finally got to destroy some nests :D The way that mode is structured is incredible - the real-timesness gives a sense of urgency, but pausing still lets you pick tactics. It's more dynamic, and in some ways plays even better, than X-COM.
The downside was that after destroying 4 nests, I didn't know what to do - going next to the bases did not let me disembark into them, and I was receiving no new radio messages. So it felt like my submarine lost its purpose xD (Maybe the second radio message I missed had some clues? More on that below)
Bugs I spotted (I'm playing on Wine, but I don't think it would introduce this kinds of issues):
- The radio buttons (both < and <<) scroll to the earliest message (and similarly, > and >> scroll to the latest), and since I had 3 messages to listen to, I never managed to listen to message #2.
- Alien nests don't disappear from the sonar after I destroy them, and keep suggesting to disembark
Other things:
- It's rather tedious to switch between different systems on the submarine - it would speed me up a lot to use key bindings. Although I understand that you probably don't want to overload the player with 20 different hotkeys either :)
- AI starts doing weird things when your crew members die, as if it doesn't realize they're dead - like hanging around them and ignoring the rest of my team
- The logic of auto-repair + assignment + return to positions is hard to control: I think I need to turn off autorepair, and ask to return to positions for them to do the right thing. I was confused when I kept assigning them to positions and asking to return but they kept running around the ship.
- No matter how much the enemies damage my submarine, it doesn't sink, and all the systems seem to work anyway. Is it meant to be this sturdy?
Yep! That radio message tells you what to do next! I will upload a version with the radio fixed (and also fix the constant disembark prompt).
Indeed, getting your submarine damaged cannot directly make you lose the game, it only makes the submarine way slower and harder to maneouver. I wanted to write some kind of submarine destruction (for example, the batteries exploding), but time was running low.
(For now atleast) I won't fix some of the harder bugs (specially the AIs), as I'm thinking of continuing this project further, which will need a lot of code rewrite anyways ;)
Did you make the alien nests harder by any chance? I got 3 golems on the very first nest, and just generally (seemingly) more enemies on each.
That aside, my submarine came to a complete halt after sustaining some extensive damage. Even though my batteries are full, the current speed bar in the maneuvering system is just shimmering at one block:
Is that intended? I feel like it has to trigger a loss, otherwise the player is just stuck in limbo :)
4 years ago(+1)
Agghh turns out I was reporting the X coordinate of these stations twice! Should be fixed on next upload...