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Knightsurfer5 years ago (5 edits)

Review for version  0.6.r21

Nice to see you fixed quite a bit ^ ^ I was rather convinced it would take you some time to get rid of half the bugs this time. uwu

btw the game performance is a tad slower than normal ^_^; just thought I'd throw that out there.

Bug Reports:

  • With the farmer, you can actually lose out on choosing a skill if you hit escape upon leveling up.
  • It's hard to tell if farmers even have skills due to the fact they have no way to communicate this.
  • More of an oversight than a bug, the floor tile on the market place is unnamed and thus just appears as "%TitleText%"

Suggestions:

  • A bit of a large leap but a character creator for one of the cats would be rather cool, it would also help find an excuse to put you into an introduction to the story as your character is being hired. if you do go this route what would also be neat is making this cat controllable like mmo style.
  • A load button would be nice.
  • I could argue there are slightly too many enemies on level 2, but they are managable if you're careful, still something to think about.
  • The game could do with some sort of gatherer skill, so a certain cat can carry more resources back than the rest.
  • More instrumental music, I've left a few suggestins for songs that you could take inspiration from.

Music Suggestions:

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badoptics5 years ago (1 edit)
  • Perf -- I'll look into it. Is there a particular time / place when the perf gets bad or is it across the board? (Ex: perf during combat? Perf on level 2?) Also, I assume you're talking about FPS?
  • Farmer skill -- Okay I am fixing it so you have to accept before the skill is chosen. The farmer should get extra abilities depending on which skill you chose (but if it's the Brewer skill, it's only one extra ability ATM which is the Tavern)
  • Market Place floor tile - Oops, I forgot to fix this last time. Will fix in next patch
  • Character creator - I actually have a scene that will do this right now. Might not be too bad to add one in, though I'm trying to figure out how to set the created characters starting stats without it being too OP lol
  • Load button from the esc menu? I'll see if I can work one in.
  • Level 2 enemies -- Yeah I keep pruning them down over time. (the pack of 5 boars from the original release is gone at least haha) I'll prune some more.
  • Gatherer skill -- I might make some of the items stack higher. I feel like 6 wood is a pretty large stack -- at least visually. I'd like to fix the "one item left behind because some villager decided they wanted to pick that up instead" bug and see if that makes things better. But I've also toyed around with the idea of maybe having a profession talent to make that cat and their apprentices be able to carry more. It's on a bucket list in my head somewhere lol
  • Music -- I actually got a composer to create original music but he's been busy with his other work so new songs will take a little while longer. The music right now is temp stuff I got from an asset pack. 

Thanks again for the feedback as always!

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Knightsurfer5 years ago

Yeah, fps feels slower, I don't have an fps counter or anything but you kinda get used to how things should feel when you've tested the same levels over and over xP it's just the game overall really, unless of course I'm imagining it, which I guess is always a possibility...

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badoptics5 years ago

If you press Ctrl + R, a green FPS counter will show up in the upper right corner. Can you run an old build (and tell me the build number) and tell me what FPS that has versus the newest build on your machine? That way I can pin point it to be caused by a change between 2 ranges. Thank you!

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Knightsurfer5 years ago (2 edits)

I've never done the technical tests before so I dunno if I did it right, but this is the average for a new save on 0.5 and 0.6.


0.5 where it averaged between 10 and 11


0.6 where it averaged between 8 and 9


though mind you I haven't exactly got the best computer, it always a bit lackluster when I try to run games in 1080, though it's still playable ^_^;


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badoptics5 years ago

Thank you for this! It's very helpful. According to your computer rating (which is a 6.06), the recommended Quality setting should be "Good" for your set up (I'm adding some "recommended" text to the graphics settings in the next update). Could you try setting the quality to "Good" and let me know what the FPS difference is between 0.5.r19 and 0.6.r21? Thank you so much for doing this. It's super good data

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Knightsurfer5 years ago (1 edit)

Alright, changed to "Good" harder to get a good reading here, 


0.5 keeps bouncing between 22 and 25.

0.6 is anywhere between 18 and 22.


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Knightsurfer5 years ago

just leaving a comment here incase you didn't notice me editing my last post the next day.

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badoptics5 years ago

I did! Sorry I didn't get a chance to respond yet. I will look into this. Seems like something definitely reduced the framerate. Hopefully it's not the hats XD

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