>My suggestions are towards allowing the player more freedom to choose a specific weapon or build.
In general, I think roguelites should really encourage "making the best of what you've got." At least that's my philosophy towards them, so I don't think I want to change much of that other than keeping the upgrade level of weapons when switching them (And maybe even lowering the "upgrade level" by one so the upgrade price isn't permanently higher). If it's easy to scrap together the same super-strong build every time the game gets boring, IMO. This way selecting your upgrades can be more skillful and a bigger influence on your success, so in theory just getting really good at that part will let non-bullet-helly people win. Swapping weapons/builds with turrets is interesting though, I'll consider that. Maybe I'll have that feature unlock in meta-progression so new players aren't overwhelmed with buttons their first time playing.
>Other things I'd like to mention is that I found the repair +/-% a bit confusing. I'm not quite sure whether +repair (as in turret repairs more) is good or -repair is good (as in turret needs less repair)
The wording is deliberately a bit vague because the number does a lot of stuff. You definitely want more, it's both the max "health" of turrets, and repair speed for that turret. On the player it's repair speed for all turrets and repair range. Honestly, the stat isn't working out exactly how I wanted so I've been considering scrapping it. (Ignoring damage items and stacking Repair on the player was way too strong, it's annoying when it turns out low, it doesn't feel good to be forced to pick some up, etc.) Alternatively I might just throw it in a "Helpful Tips" text box somewhere in the game. Alternatively alternatively I'm going to make "good" stats green and "bad" red at some point... Thanks for letting me know it's unclear.
>And I don't understand why, on the first level: I get a free turret+turret upgrade is within budget but player upgrade is out of budget
Since the turrets are the unique, central element of the game I'm trying to push and encourage their use, so that's a subtle way of doing it. If they don't feel like a central element then I'm fucking up and I need to find more ways to tie mechanics into them, hehe.
>Oh I almost forgot. Esc pauses/unpauses the game but it's also the shortcut in the browser to leave fullscreen.
Oh right, I noticed that before and DID forget. I'll fix that up, thanks
Good feedback.
Any thoughts on the difficulty curve? I've been making pretty sweeping changes to it lately, would be really curious to hear how far you got and what difficulties you played. + If it ever felt unfair, or too easy.
