This here is a masterpiece. I got pretty hyped when I saw the other comments, and it sure did not dissapoint, every compliment here is fully deserved.
The game looks simply gorgeous and plays like absolute heaven, specially after getting the sliding skill, that was the moment this game won me over. The wall kick was a little tricky to get used to, but when it clicked, oh boy, HOW it clicked!!
Honestly you know the game plays well when it legit made Q my new personal keybind for crouching on every 3D game I'll play from now.
I really love how the main character looks too, they're just super cool, and animated really well too.
And the music is also just so good... Specially the one from the Empty Bailey. That song legit gave me some chills when I heard it the first time, and I legit increased my volume just to hear it better.
The game also run surprisingly well on my laptop, and it has a pretty infamous reputation of not smoothly running Unreal games, or any 3D jam games at all. But sadly, the game was crashing a huge lot for me. It crashed on every single save point, wich was mildly incovenient, but the game still managed to save my progress regardles, so it didn't had much of an impact on those cases, but unfortunatelly I wasn't so lucky throught the entire game, because the "Tower Remains" in specific seemed to not want me to progress. That area in specific was crashing pretty often when I did wall kicks, and when it didn't crash on my wall kicks, it would crash on the switch inside the tower, that I assume activated the elevator to let me get to the save point on the lower floor. I still insisted a lot on trying to brute force my way into the tower (and the fact my last save point was on the empty bailey did help motivating me, since I got to hear a lot more of that song lol), but it simply wouldn't budge... This is the crash message if you wanna check it out.
I know you can't update the game during jam time, but I would gladly still try to play it again after the jam ends if you manage to fix that.
Even tought I wasn't able to finish it, this is already a personal contender for top spot for me too. This is a really impressive one.
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some staggering praise here haha, thank you so much!
yeah it takes a bit of time to ramp up the movement but its real nice once you get a few moves. i'm really glad to hear wall kick clicked for you! i think most people agree that once it clicks its nice, but some people never get there and we could definitely do more to smooth that process over, haha
i am very sorry to hear about your crashes!! looking into the D3D device error, it doesn't actually seem like there's much i can do on my end! There's a few fixes i'm reading but the most common one just says to try upgrading your graphics drivers. So lemme know if that or anything else you might find works, and i'll see if there's anything else on my end
Ey, thank you for awsering!
I actually did receive a warning telling me to update my graphics driver every time I opened the game, but since it seemed to be working fine after I declined so I assumed it wasn't the actual reason of the crashers (at least not alone.). Even then, when I actually went to check wheter or not I could update my drivers, my laptop said it actually is in check (last update was 03/03 this year, aparently).
I'm really not very knowledgeable when it comes to this kind of more technical stuff, but I'm afraid my hardware might be just a little too weak sadly, but I really have no clue myself lol.