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Hi, thank you so much for the kind words, and especially for the feedback!

Would you mind expanding on what you mean by a separate screen for the Upgrades? To view which upgrades you have installed? Currently you can view those when viewing your deck in the upper-left, but I know it's not ideal and it likely won't be the final way to view them.

I'll have to look into why existing upgrades are being offered up, that's definitely a bug! Right now it should just give you a generic +MaxHP mod if no other upgrades are available, but clearly that's not the case.

As for the game getting stuck after using an ability, that's an old bug that I hoped was finally resolved as of version 0.811, which was released Friday 8/11. Is that the version that you were playing? If so, it's back to the drawing board for that problem. Also if it gets stuck on you again, pressing F8 will allow you to submit a bug report which also grabs the state of all in-game objects and sends it to me, which is a huge help in tracking down bugs!

Thanks again for the interest and the feedback, it's much appreciated :)

Malkavian Grin5 years ago(+1)

Not a problem. I'm happy to give my feedback on something I had so much fun with.

Upgrades:
Yes, to view which ones I have currently installed. Correct, they are shown in the upper-left when viewing your deck. My issue is that after so many loops through the game it will very likely be the case that I will run out of room for them in such a small horizontal space. That's all. It'd be nice to see their art in original size as well. That's why I was asking for a separate screen for them, pretty much identical to how you view your deck.

As far as the upgrades in the store, I never ran across one that increased my max HP (that would have been very useful!) but perhaps that's because I didn't buy every single upgrade that was offered to me, only the ones that seemed worthwhile. But yes, during my 2nd loop the store offered not one but two Steroids cards for my characters to purchase, even though I already had one installed on my Ninja.

Version:
Ahhh, I see. I currently have version 0.719 so perhaps that bug did in fact get fixed. I'll keep the F8 reporting function in mind in case things happen again. In the meantime it seems I need to download the newest version. I suspect that means it'll restart my progress, which means I still don't get to try out that third character yet LOL.

Also, nice to see a developer responding to feedback! Good on you :)

WhisperingSpider5 years ago

Thanks for the additional kind words :)

When the character windows are opened I'm working on putting in tabs on the left-side to switch between characters, and tabs at the top to switch between Cards and Upgrades using the same card view. Hopefully that should help alleviate that issue!

I'll have to look into why the upgrades aren't looping properly, that one is definitely a bug. Each upgrade should never be offered twice, and since there aren't enough upgrades currently in-game to handle looping, it should just offer the +MaxHP upgrade when it runs out for now.

Currently the Engineer isn't in-game yet, so there's no progress to be lost :X The next patch is making the final changes to core systems (card removals and viruses are getting reworked) and filling out the remainder of the core cards for the Soldier and Ninja. The Engineer will likely be next, so she should be playable sometime in early October.

If you're interested in keeping up with things and providing more feedback Discord is a great place for it, and sometimes other people will chime in with their thoughts, too! If you want to join here's a link, and if not that's cool, too. Thanks again!

https://discord.gg/BdwueB6

Malkavian Grin5 years ago (1 edit) (+1)

Hey, no problem! I'm happy to offer constructive criticism (especially if it means the game gets better!)

Tabs would be awesome and I think a great way to save space.

I never did try to click the Engineer, so that's why I had mentioned it in my previous comment. After I had beaten the game once, her character art was in color instead of black and white so I was certain I had unlocked her. I was afraid I'd end up losing all the good stuff I'd built up already so I didn't try a new game. Speaking to that, would it be possible to have a few save slots instead of just the current game you have going?

I'm on Discord for voice acting projects so I have no problems joining your server. I'll do that now and leave these comments here. Thanks for your hard work!

Edit: BTW I just wanted to mention that I can't speak to anything regarding Viruses. I actually never died and had to gain one XD

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