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Yipee! Thank you so much for doing this, I'm sure there's gonna be a ton of folk who appreciate this, even if they don't say it!

I'll keep an eye on this for when it has more things to do, but I ran into two bugs during my short romp in this game.

1) At the start while you're outside, if you go right you'll end up disappearing and being unable to return.

2) Pressing E on the large blue box in the first room causes the game to crash. The error given is:

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ERROR in action number 1

of  Step Event0 for object obj_Door:

room_goto argument 1 incorrect type (string) expecting a Number (YYGI32)

at gml_Object_obj_Door_Step_0

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gml_Object_obj_Door_Step_0 (line -1)

All in all, I'm curious to see what you'll come up with for hall0oween. I'm looking forward to seeing your next update! especially if it includes any popping!

An odd bug I noticed is that when a player is teleported by the boundary wall, they are teleported to (0,0,0) instead of the player spawn point. This can lead to softlocking the player if (0,0,0) is not in level's playspace.

Is there an official place to share levels? Like a discord or something? I finished up one and want to share it. 

Here's a link for the few interested: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lvlPURexA6NzJnnHY_8YmYLfTjFJLzNT?usp=sha...

I've played it and enjoyed it. I do have a few suggestions I'd like to share, if that's okay.

• For purely cosmetic changes, maybe you could add an option to have enemies leave an explosion of scraps via a particle effect to help add to bursting the infected. I mainly suggest this one because I find myself turning away from infected I finished off if they're away from the horde, expecially blimps. You could also add other cosmetic things such as pallets or texture for our weapons that cost experience, to help add an additional sink for that.  Also, when the fire rate is increased for the Sniper and the Thumper, their animations don't reflect that so maybe speeding them up as you upgrade them could help better translate that information. 

• On to balance suggestions, I'd say the Sniper is in a very weird spot. When upgraded, it tears through early rounds so easily you can just sit right by the ammo pile and be pretty much invincible, but on the later rounds it becomes next to useless against the horde. I suggest toning down its max fire rate, in exchange for allowing it to pierce multiple enemies. I feel that would make it more satisfying then it currently is and stopping it from invalidating early waves outright. The Thumper, on the other hand, is extremely inconsistent. It feels like its hit registration is RNG, with shots clearly phasing through opponents, or mysteriously hitting an enemy I didn't even point at. This also extends to its self damage, which makes it impossible to tell the safe distance to use. Not only does the explosion animation not showcase the blast radius, but it feels like that radius also fluctuates randomly. Sometimes I shoot someone really close and take no damage, other times I shoot someone a good 6 feet away and lose half my health. Making it both visually and mechanically consistent would make it much more satisfying to use. Finally, the AR is just overpowered. I feel like it would be best split into two different weapons, a harder hitting but slower firing rifle, and a high capacity fast firing Light machine gun. That way, you don't get the best of both worlds in one weapon, and have to pick which you would rather have. 

• For some new things, maybe a revolver secondary to act as an alternative for the sawn off, dealing enough damage to two shot eliminate most enemies in exchange for having to reload one dart at a time like the Shotgun. You could also add some purchasable weapon charms, like a shield that halves gas damage, a cat that heals you at the end of every wave, or even a detrimental one that damages you at the end of every wave in exchange for more experience or faster cola build up.

Thank you for reading this, and the game is already very fun as it is.

A strange bug I ran into is with the species changing in the cabal, it seems to be impossible to edit the species you pick, trying to do so will result in the default traits for the initial species being put through instead

Release 23, When you get the HP boost event while your max HP is over 1000, It gets Dropped down to 1000 for the event, then lowered an addition 50 when the day ends.

Similarly, if you get a TECH boost while at 500 TECH,  25 is lost when the day ends.

It hurt losing 1000 HP to this bug