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Looks fun, but a bit overwhelming (though don't mind me on this part, I'm not a very good player, and this is the 1st vampire-like I played)
Tried a few runs on the 6th char and one run per other characters, only for 5th run understood what I need to do to move forward.
Also, about key mapping. It weren't pleasant to remap as it always says like "this keybind is already used", I suggest to either swap it on the fly, or letting two binds for one action, so it won't feel such clunky there. But I see it is an early stage, so you will get to those later anyway, I guess.
Good work! Wishlisted to help with steam algorithms.

Thank you for playing the demo!
You can turn off auto-equipping in settings, though if your class has two crystal slots, they are more suited for extra skills/casts, and not very good for a melee combat. Though, I understand why would you want to try them in melee anyway.
For weapon blocking Trinkets are good, they go in off-hand slot, that will let you block with a main weapon and most of classes can use them, expect classes with crystal slots for offhand. I think I can finally make it available for all classes, I like variety in builds.

Thank you for playing!
• As for easy enemies, if you didn't leave the tower, first time game starts (when you enter the tower) with default difficulty, later entrances let you pick your difficulty. As I saw too many times when new players picked hard and hate quitted soon on floors 2 and 3.
• As for ????, it means your hero had 'Oblivious' inborn trait, for such chars you have to open the char window to see the stats and they can't memorize healing potions on the map.

Most important demo changes since last demoday (DD 57):

• You can block with melee weapons (except brass knuckles) if your second hand is empty or a trinket is used
• Clan Hall is filled with decorations and new characters
• New quest in the Clan Hall
• Added Polish localization!
• Added new fonts: big, normal, thin, small
• Level 1-1 redesigned
• The damage of unarmed attacks is based on STR/DEX (whichever is higher), not just STR alone
• Trinkets are available to all classes except "Firestarter" and "Electro"
• Increased bleed damage for the “Bleeding Cut” crystal
• Significantly increased the chance of burning for the “Fire Bolt" crystal
• The manual has been redesigned, instead of a book, it is available in the dialog with the Advisor in the camp
• Rewrote code of item description displaying
• Fixed incorrect height of combat text flying out of enemies
• Bugfix, often throwing the smoke bottle of blue cultists was too fast
• Some of the achievements are hidden, you can find hints through game playing (for old saves, descriptions of already known achievements will not be hidden)

Most important changes since last demoday (DD 55):

• Overload now only slows a character down at 100%, lower overload only affects runaway speeds
• The "Loading" perk no longer affects speed penalties from overloading, but now doubles the capacity of bags
• Characters with the "Greedy" trait can see loot on the map
• Added plants
• When "Tenacious" characters survive, invulnerability is activated for a couple of seconds instead of dodging
• Extra stat points are now given 1 for each level up
• At level 5, an extra perk choice is available instead of 5 stat points
• New dynamic reticle reacts to accuracy and aiming (has new settings)
• The combat indicator (next to the health bar) shows when enemies are alarmed outside of the combat status
• New game logo, animated
• Maximum item glow highlights simple items more intense
• Updated tower texture on the title screen
• Smooth increase/decrease for HP/RP/TP/EP/SP and Exp bars (enemy HP bars too)
• Enemy health bars have lines for easy determination of approximate amount of health (has settings)
• New charge effect for Fighters
• The "Sell Junk" button is customizable in the trade window itself
• Revamped the graphic effects of electrical skills
• Some slight code optimization

Thanks alot for playing and also big thanks for streaming demos, bro!

I used to play some RTS many years ago, it is funny feeling, all those muscle memory hotkeys working, lol.
By the way, normal browser build didn't work on me, clicked stable version and it worked.
Interesting concept, a bit slow (maybe it worked bad on my browser). On second reality my troops got divided between hordes of new enemies, I couldn't unite them and lost my hero when he was acting strange and going straight to the enemy castle, while his army were retreating correctly. Also I don't get if it was a bug, or intentional, but first summoning circles like kinda over time stopped spawning ranged ones, and on second land it soon were building only one type of units (terminator-likes).

Hey, thanks for playing, glad you liked it!

>Some enemies have an "auto-dodge"
It is random, they don't react on your attacks.

>Small bug, "New level: 2" text says "New level: 1" for half a second at first
It is not a bug, it was done on purpose.

>Not being able to open Lost Loot in combat
In general, this was not done as a matter of principle, it just seemed logical at the time. Perhaps I could allow it outside of combat, but the lag when opening large bags can be unpleasant during combat.

>I wish the view distance was naturally capped by the candlelight
Unfortunately it has some real problems with light sources limit.

>Low Rez option
It just imitates pixelization

Thank you for your feedback!

I don't exactly remember, but I think it is something like 2 hours on demo (4 floors total), 3-4 with side quests.

Thanks for playing!
As for pots, you can also open those by pressing E (controls by default).
It is unclear, don't know how to tell it to players more straight, without making those Press E popups that I dislike. Now it only mentions as random tip of Adviser in the camp, but you also can find it out on your own as you go.
Same goes for "you can interact with weaponracks", by the way.

Most important changes since last demoday (DD 52):

• Added Spanish localization
• New consumables: food (meat, fruits & vegetables, fish)
• New status effect Satiation (exp in combat +15%)
• 2 new traits
• New containers with food
• Better drop chances of green loot from chests on first floors
• Better chest loot for Story difficulty
• "Subtlety" trait now works only out of combat
• More convinient quick use of lockpicks and flints (don't have to use it, just interact with a chest/hearth)
• Added act separation
• Rogue, Main Skill, 2nd upgrade of 1st tier - in addition to slowdown, allows you to throw a knife while in a combat state
• The damage of bows and slings for active skills has been significantly increased
• More prominent shop and stash tabs
• Difficulty "Story", boss battles, if you lose, a bag of dropped loot appears at the entrance before the battle
• Ranged weapons can no longer be used without suitable ammunition
• The available Tower Upgrades are more visible
• Redrawn low-level light armor (when worn by a character)
• Bugfix, quick retirements sometimes gave miniscule amount of Fame instead of 0
• Optimized excessive amounts of shards/decals/stains on walls and floors
• Some code optimizations
• Some bugfixes

Crash Bandicoot vibes hit me uncontious :)
But it runs very badly on my browser, almost unplayable.

Very interesting concept, liked playing it. Beated all missions and campaign. But felt not too much strategy and challange, only needed to think for a moment on last two campaign missions. Has some potential, it is very intruiging to see more of it later.

It looks like it asks for manually installed DirectX 9c, it always fixes this problem.

The most important changes since last DD (50):

• New system of resisitance debuffs, only one type of resistance can be cut at once
• Added minibosses with personal health bars with a name on it
• Added green version of powerful crystal "Power Shot" for archers, so now it available for demo players too
• Stash now has 4 tabs (previously it was 1 common stash with no tabs)
• Added malus inborn trait "Wasteful" (has a chance to waste 2 consumables on use, instead of 1)
• Fame bonuses for retirement now: no traits +0%, normal traits +5%, rare traits +7%, malus traits +10%, rare malus traits +12%
• Max clan level increased to 45
• Improved some tracks (Title Theme, Floor 2, Credits), replaced track in Clan's Domain with a new one
• Power crystal "Bleeding Cut" - bleeding stronger by 25%
• Removed sort order button form inventory and stash, now you can sort in both orders just pressing LMB/RMB (Gamepad - A/RB+A)
• In the camp and Clan's Domain visible range of quest markers on map ("?" and "!") is unlimited
• Fighter's second skill quest, gobloids won't count anymore, 30 cultists are required instead of 50 cultists and gobloids
• Sticks now STR/DEX based weapons, instead of being STR-ones, Vagabond's 1st lvl perk "Stick Fight" was removed (did the same thing)
• Rogues now have a text message for non-planned break of stealth
• All archetypes who use Rage Points can enter relax state only in home places like domain, camp and ally locations (relax makes you loose Rage Points quickly)
• Fighter, passive skill, 1 tier upgrade, instead of medicine pot power => +50% combat passive RP regen
• For rage classes skills like weapon buffs and crystal helpers won't require prepared RP before activating it
• Some balancing for an OP skill Multi-Hit, blue quality won't reduce damage penalty from -30% tо -20% anymore, heavy weapons increase this penalty by 5%
• Archer's Quick Shot, trick points cost can be reduced from 2 to 1 with upgrades
• Trait "Oblivious" changes: now its rare malus trait, instead of not seeing himself on the map just forgets about healpots and potions on the map, picture of it updated
• Renewed hp bars of enemies
• Fixed some ugly bugs

Cute gamie, nice graphics and sound, but I'm too brainlet to go far here.

Hey! Currently I'm working on Archtower and I have lots of work to do for now, I need to do all preparations to launch it in Early Access soon. But I could return to Blaster Cop for that later.

You can change GUI scale pressing Num+ and Num- (you also can remap theese in control settings)

Hey! If you have all needed quest items (check that in the Quest Log (press L)), then you need to go to their leader Agal, he is at the end of 2-3. Gobloid at the start of 2-1 can short cut your way to their base.

Thank you for playing, also tell your gf, I saw her post on 4chan. Such things boost my moral these days :)

Archtower Hotfix 0.3.9.1

• For new players firstly you go for the camp
• Ice Shards crystal skill changes - more adequate spreading, higher damage
• Fire Blast crystal skill changes - faster cast, higher damage
• Bug is fixed, there were problems with a big pile of goblins at 2-3 for new players
• Other minor fixes

Thank you for playing!
>Ice Crystal which felt pretty underwhelming
Yeah this one has some problems, will have to think on how to fix it.
It has mixed damage (physical+energy), which is especially bad with guys who have both good armor.
Higher quality versions of this skill will have more shards, but looks like I need to fix the spreading and increase damage a bit. Also, what was your character class? Did it have +physical damage or +energy damage bonuses? When I will add first STR+INT class I think this skill would work better for him.
>I couldn't light the fires in the Swamp Area
When your char don't have an Elven Flint after a quest completed, it starts dropping from barrels randomly on this floor.
>Despite you saying it was fixed, I saw a Firemage behind bars pretty early on, so Bug not fixed I guess?
If he was standing there from the start then this was intended, but if he went behind the bars accidentally while fighting you, then this is the bug :)

Most important changes since last DD:

• New parry system (prevent enemies' attacks and blocks with well-timed strikes)
• Small chests, contain power crystals
• 3 new crystal skills
• New casting animations and effects
• Some trees are much easier to walk around, except those that serve as way blockers
• Statues foundations are bigger for pathfinding purposes, so enemies won't stuck at those anymore
• Map and minimap are reworked
• Increased Fame you get for retirement/death, having traits and traumas improves it
• Slings drop less often for most classes
• Using pet crystals (like Barrel Destroyer) requires part of your skill resource to be reserved to maintain
• Barrel Destroyer has some changes, mostly nerfed, but now you can Reactivate boosting its attack speed when it is already called out
• Crystal skills don't increase its cooldown by 25% for Trick Points users (DEX and DEX+INT classes) anymore
• Now you have a message when you have a new traumas
• More clear description of some quests
• Redone Tower Upgrades window, also Tower Attendant is shown on map, by its icon you may know that you have new upgrades available
• Light helms now have an innate bonus to headshot resistance (half of the heavy one's analogs' power)
• Can't save in combat or if enemies are chasing you
• Crystall skill Thunder Strike buffed, higher damage, range +20%
• Smoother camera
• Bug is fixed, sometimes some mobs could get behind bars of jail cells and stuck there
• Better optimization, especially for a Floor 6

Hey, thank you for playing! :)
As for bandits it is not a bug, you need to use chain lever near one of the gates to open way to that one guy. (it is north-west)

>What specifically made you frustrated?
Nevermind, it was just a conclusion of all problems I mentioned

Wishlisted! :)
Also, I always have 42~45 fps, is it normal? I remember that the last time I played it, everything was fine, but I didn't check fps back then.
Also, encountered a bug, I beat a slime boss, chose an all-seeing orb, then the demo ended, after that my new character had an all-seeing bonus, without that orb item.

I know that your demo is in an early stage of development, and some of the problems could be just you didn't have enough time for this, I'll just list you problems I encountered, don't mind it as a hard criticism.

Controls for the menu and inventory are weird, I think, it is better to use just a mouse.
It's cool that there is a focus on the enemy, although on the next battle already I forgot what this button was, lol.
Any combat activity eats TONS of stamina, either try to make it cheaper or at least make some basic things free, like weapon swings, those are slow as a snail truck but eat so much that you can run out in like 4-5 swings, and you need stamina for everything besides sword swings.
After an attack, if you hold down the right mouse button, then blocking with a shield will not work.
It is cool that the run is a thing, but, strangely, you can't just run holding the shift.
Oddly, the equipment can only be changed in chests.
There is no pause on the Esc menu.
Heals are spent, even if you have full health since nothing can be done when you hit, or when you are beaten, you have to quickly press heals and spend extra ones as a result, and attacks with a sword, on the contrary, are buffered too much and occur when you no longer expect them.
Combat controls are uncomfortable and unresponsive in general.
Monsters have interesting attacks and abilities, but the battle process itself makes you frustrated.
Also, it seems that the health bar and other ones are displayed inaccurately, seemingly, part of it is hidden behind a huge panel on the left.
When enemies killed me and it threw me back offscreen, I had about a half of my maximum health reduced, above which I can't heal, this is very punishing and limiting, I suppose you will have some ways to handle it later in development?
The cool bleeding effect you have, when low on health.

Interesting potential, nice graphics, and art.

Thank you for playing!
>rats
They have a few attack preparation frames (when the rat raises its tail before attacking).
>batbirds
Those don't have any preparation frames and are a bit random, but they are weak enemies overall, and you can get used to them, also they have a decent waking up window (~0.83 sec) when they are vulnerable, and won't dodge your attacks or bite you at all.
>strict classes are working against you
Yeah, I see it being a thing, but I plan to add more classes and make subclasses later. For example, Rogue - Assassin (quick kills, critical hits), and Outlaw (more evasive and elusive, more stealthy), Firestarter - Pyromancer (more about burns), and Incinerator (bursty damage). Also, subclasses will have different third skills (ultimates?) and might alter a bit other skills.
>You could also generate adventurer based enemies
Absolutely yes, I have this in my plans, at least you'll meet your rival clan dudes from time to time, as a pseudo PVP.
>I'm also not sure if the perma-death is the best inclusion
You have options to save your life and/or dropped loot, you'll even unlock an ambulance (costs with crystal currency) eventually. So you always have options to cancel permadeath, but with the cost - bet hero's life on random or pay with crystals for sure, spend gold to heal traumas. Traumas might appear when you survive after defeat, body resistance affects trauma chances.
>It's interesting that you keep all your floors unlocked but starting from the beginning felt necessary with a fresh character anyway.
Tower Attendant NPC (near the Tower entrance) sells you Tower Upgrades, there you can buy the right to hire more experienced dudes from your clan (higher starting level, have starter gear).
>Had lots of fun, will definitely wishlist this and pick it up when it comes out!
Thanks a lot! Glad you enjoyed it :D

Hey, cool game world you are making!
Nice style, cute lowpoly models, comfy textures.
Didn't have any problems with combat, tried out a two handed staff/mace-like thing and a bow. What I noticed, your arrows fly straight forward in its direction, was it intended to work like this, or is it planned to add trajectory to arrows with a gravity later in development?
Colors are bright and beautiful, but eyes got a bit tired of that combo of lowres imitation and highly saturated colors and high contrast. Also, water flows are too flashy a bit.
Mobs are cute and SOVL. Overall I like your animations.
Also you could try to get some inspiration on mobs and their animations from old game Ecstatica, your kobolds gave me that vibe a bit, or I just got my boomer-like flashbacks out of the blue.

Thank you for playing!
>write it more like this: "Archtower is an X genre game where you Y and Z"
I think I'll try this, thank you for the advice!
>a father calling his dead son a loser out of the blue?
He was lying that they were relatives to get that loot he dropped. I think, later I'll make a log book item of that grey dog dude to make it more clear.

Thank you! :)
Can't wait to get my hands on making some new classes after creating the 7th floor with an elf boss.

Thank you for playing!
>enemy variety felt shallow for the first two floors
Yeah, that bothers me a bit, I added rats, but it seems not really enough.

Hey, thank you for playing!
>the Mosquitos are really getting under my Skin with that Soundeffect, so good Job on those I guess?
Yep, this is an effect I wanted to get, though those swamp locations with mosquitoes become optional after you finish it once.
>Level 10 seems to be the maximum?
Yes, you increase the maximum level after boss fights, so when there will be a second boss, the max level will increase to 14~15.
>Twice I got attacked right when I was starting to talk with the Elfguy
It was intentional, as a feature of this unpleasant place. Normally I don't do that in other places.
>Would that just not be complete-able until I exited and re-entered the floor
this
>I still wish it had random floor layouts ( or maybe just in an extra mode) for more replayability.
Yeah, I'll definitely try to make such a mode with random floors to make it more variative.

The most important changes since the last DD:

WHAT'S NEW

• First book, a Manual (the Advisor in the camp gives you it if asked)
• New floor 6
• Water on the new floor, interactions with it
• 5 new traits
• Factions system
• Hearth system for drying up
• Ambulance (costs crystal currency)
• New enemy type: Rats (added for the first levels, for enemies variety)
• New enemy type: Mosquitoes
• New enemy type: Slime Monsters
• New equipment with item level 8, which may drop with rare (blue) quality
• New questlines for two new factions

CHANGES

• Max clan level 15 -> 25
• Vandal class won't get battleaxes (heavy axes) expertise by default (but still can get it with perks)
• Removed color filters
• Chromatic aberration settings option changed from on/off to off/rare/always (rare - only for some effects, like toxins)
• More detailed difficulty levels description
• Poisoner's Toxin Vial upgrade "Damage x2" nerfed to "Damage +40%"
• Fighter's Charge has no more auto-attacking on touching an enemy (it caused some player confusion, and it worked less effective if not used manually)
• Multi Strike power crystal skill has a more clear description
• Used weapon racks change their weapon display texture to distinguish from unused ones
• Barrels drop equipment and ammo items more often

FIXES

• bug is fixed, quest key in lost land quest dropped incorrectly sometimes
• bug is fixed, lamps could work incorrectly at some angles of view
• fixed incorrect hitboxes for decorative alchemical retorts and bottles
• bug is fixed, incorrect headshot hitboxes for elves

Uploaded a Hotfix 0.3.7.2

• fixed a bug, crash at the archer's class quest on getting a new skill

Thank you for bug reporting!
Fixed that problem and uploaded hotfix 0.3.7.2
I hope that would be the last hotfix for this patch XD

Uploaded a Hotfix 0.3.7.1

• fixed a bug, crash at the intro beginning
• fixed a bug, heavy weapons cooldown worked inappropriately sometimes
• after unlocking heavy weapons weapon shop lists get 1 extra lot for weapons for sale

Thanks, it works just fine now. This time I went to the 25th level.
More complaints: sometimes when I shoot too many bullets it is really hard to read my current position, and when the background goes red-colored I often barely see enemy bullets, although it is good I can destroy them.

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