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Played some more, this time recorded https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2026572022 & https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2026584363

• I am getting stutters in the game, it feels like each time I start it, gets worse. You can maybe feel it in the stream recording. Stopped OBS once to see if that was causing it, but lags remained.
• Idk, playing more, I really don't know about these random reels. I feel the strategy comes down to "stack 1-2 colours, and know which 1-2 types of enemies you can beat with that." The other enemies are in some cases not only "hard" but statistically nigh impossible. There is a bunch of enemies that grind you down badly if you do not find an ultrafast K.O.
• Timing each reel individually, there would be some point in playing a "jack of all trades" all-colour build, if you are very good at timing, because it would have the benefit of being able to farm all enemies. But as things are right now, if you have too many colours, you simply will never hit anything.
• Expanding on this, I feel the enemies that manipulate your slot machine are really stupid (now?) because quite soon you are just unable to hit anything. You go from an OK machine to regular 3-4 turns of nothing in a row.
• Maybe the fix to individual reel-stopping being to stressful is just making reels (much?) slower? After all, there is also a strategic angle in deciding, given 3 randomized reels, which 9x9 you want to hit. If you are stacking all red, you don't care, but if you have more mixed colours, you can actually try to hit blue vs. machinegunners, and red vs. tourists, and yellow when you need money, and so on.

Just some more thoughts, idk, take it or leave it, might play more and change my mind more. Need to get a purple build running at least one time....