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15.30 with comments on the side.  Gave up on 16 .45 without having reached the final Boss.

Your Resolution options are blurry. All of them, even up pto 2560x1440 Only Text and UI tho, the Gameview is crips. And minimap is still pretty useless. Overall I think the UI takes up too much for what it displays. And it might be on non-intuitive locations, but maybe thats just me. But I never really looked at health/dash since its so far out, Gun/Ammo counters could be smaller and maybe even merged into something, demons counter is kind of useless with them all swarming you anyway, and theres a lot of wasted black space. I'd rather have more screenview.

The Level Screen is a nice addition, its a bit thin for the Screensize I think, but its nicely filled over with background Art.

Level up should also be before next level selection I think. 

Apparently the big Bosslike Symbol on the Level ment a free Level, was kind of disappointed on that.

Having the option to replace my backup weapon so I can completely run out of Ammo seems a bit dumb to me.

Took active trying to figure out the Blue Crystals explode for Damage, I thought they'd just act like the normal rocks. Maybe some Incentive or something on the Level design to showcase that might be better.

Your Spawners also seem way too tanky, I easily empty half of my ammunition into one.

And your Red levels are so much more enjoyable then your Blue ones. The wide open Spaces are really better suited for this I think, as opposed to the small Corridors on the blue Ones. Unless they are the same and I just get bad generation on blue Levels.

Shop Font is basically impossible to read. You can figure it out by what makes Sense, but thats about it.

Theres no Feedback on getting hit, and in the later parts you just loose massive Chunks of health when anything touches you. Also I keep running terribly low on Ammo, even when only picking ammo reduction/ammo max increases.

Any Plan to have a borderlands-like weapon generation? Or just the static ones as is now?

Its still pretty addicting, I kept starting run after run, thinking I could get further if I'd just do it better. Which I couldn't. 

Thanks a lot for playing and all the feedback!

I'm a bit surprised about the blurriness at higher resolutions, you're the only one that's mentioned it. I know it happens at lower res. for the sidepanels right now because I haven't set it up properly, but it definitely should not be on 1440p (I use it on my main monitor too). If you could give me a screenshot as an example, preferably in a shop, I would really appreciate it. Although if you mean what the shopkeeper says you're not meant to understand him. Out of curiosity, what size is your monitor?

About the UI, the reason for it taking up so much space is to make the viewport more square and normalize threat assessment. In widescreen you'll overestimate danger from the the horizontal axis because you can see more enemies - even though it might be inaccurate because there are just as many  in the same radius to north and south for example. A lot of this is inspired by Nuclear Throne, although there are things I really disagree with that they did like running the game at an awful 30 FPS for no real reason, thank you mods.
The actual locations of the different elements I'll be honest and say its not been given nearly as much thought, but I do like keeping them separate from the game view. Maybe people really dislike having so much of it in the periphery though. I'd say out of everything the UI is the least set in stone though so might change it all entirely. I will have to do some tinkering to what feels best.
The demon counter is really just there because I think its fun hehe. I think I've said it before but I really don't want people to be staring at the minimap all the time so it won't be filled with useful information. In the earlier levels its probably mostly used for finding lone enemies,  and finding your way back to the portal if you run off for some reason. Its a blue dot on it now. On later levels its good for quickly finding a good angle of attack for a level. For example after playing a lot you'll start to recognize some minimap signatures for specific spawn formations such as the scepter ones, stationary shooters, which you'd probably want to take out first. Or find an area where the density is lower and start from there. Also special objectives will show up on it, on the boss for example where you really need to find your way to them.
But maybe I could come up with a better solution for all that.

I'm glad you like the map, will probably make it larger. The intent is to have you travel to, at least, a new map after finishing this one.

Not exactly sure how I want to handle leveling up actually, at least before a level is probably better - I've considered it too. Or having the option to do so whenever you like. Or only once per level, we'll see!

Being allowed to screw yourself by thinking you know better than the game, like selling all your weapons, is in my opinion a really fun thing about rogue* games.

Regarding the spawners, I'll paste a response I gave earlier about them:

Also enemies have armor and that one in particular has a high amount, all guns and effects have different amounts of armor piercing so if you used the SMG vs them it'll take a lot of bullets but others can kill them really quick. I know its not obvious at all right now so you might have missed it, but if you hover the cursor over the guns in the UI to the left you can see their stats (AP for armor piercing). And if you stand on top of a dropped gun you'll see its stats after a moment, can also compare stats if you hover at the same time. For now I think I'll upload a new version with the spawners starting at later levels.

Blue and red levels are indeed generated differently, I see what I can come up with for the crystals (I guess exploding crystals isn't the most intuitive thing to begin with haha). Tweaking level generation and balance will be a constant thing so its always good to hear what people think about it.

Right now the UI sidebars flash red when you get hit, but I will give it more feedback - sounds, obviously. Enemies deal the same amount of damage at all levels at the moment. Comments about ammo is good, and you're not the first to say so, I've been testing so much that I'm never close to running out. I actually increased the drops slightly just before DD. I might lower the importance of ammo management, its something I obsess about pretty much subconsciously in all games I play.

In this version there are 18 different gun templates that can have 28 different modifications on them, number and quality of them depending on the rarity of the gun dropped. I don't think it will change much more than that system, except some very minor crafting. And a lot more of both of course. I'm curious if you noticed that guns can have different mods on them at all though? Because I know I haven't made it clear at all here...

Its very reassuring to hear that you seemed to enjoy it though and played it for some time!

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Heres a Screencapture of the main Title. at native Resolution. That Screen is I don't know how big, but big.

I think I recall about not wanting People to look at the Minimap, but as it is now, I think its more or less useless. You might aswell just remove it, to get more Screenspace, and add some red indicators onto the actual Play Area as to where Demons are.

For example after playing a lot you'll start to recognize some minimap signatures for specific spawn formations such as the scepter ones, stationary shooters, which you'd probably want to take out first.

I agree on that, thats definetly noticeable on there. But I don't think it warrants a full minimap. I don't know tho, I don't usually make minimaps.

To clarify, the exploding Crystals are definetly nice, it just wasn't clear to me thats what they do, until I decided to blow one up in an empty level before continuing to check it out. 

And no, I didn't notice anything about Armorpiercing, different modificators or anything. I literally only looked at the Weapon name to decide what kind it was. So if it said Ultra Machine gun or whatever, I knew it was a super heavy spray thing, so I took it and promptly ran out of Ammo. I'm not really good at any kind of shooting. 

That's really odd, like the resolution isn't being set properly. If you press alt+enter does the window cover the screen? Does it looks the exact same no matter what resolution? I'll have to think about this. For comparison here's how it looks on my end.

Also I forgot the say: the "big bosslike symbol" is a rest stop - currently the only way to heal. Maybe it should look less intimidating then...

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Alt+Enter just exits out of fullscreen. Doesn't do much to the Font, stays blurry.