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I mean, technically you aren't still able to pause. The Pause text is glitching, yeah, but the game is still running. You're not paused. At the same time, there is a nice shock to having something you expect to work to not work in its entirety. Now I'm conflicted.
I do like being unable to pause over opening the menu without pausing, but it it is mainly for what you CAN do when you have access to the pause menu, you can change settings and read the help menu which can help you figure out what to do.
I feel like it should be some middle ground where you normally can't pause, but there would be some way to open the menu if necessary. Maybe pressing Esc normally plays the deny sound without opening it, but if you hold Esc for a bit it opens the menu. Something like that.
that’s a great idea, i just really miss the horror aspect of not being able to pause, but making it harder to pause is a great idea.
I am... so confused by this perspective, and am opposed. We still can't pause during events, you can just open the menu so you can read hints and change settings. I want us to be able to pause fully and I don't care about the immersion, it's an accessibility issue to not be able to pause. If you want the increased fear, don't pause the game.
there is an extreme combat setting its at the furthest right column in the options menu.
If more alien reputation systems are added, why not just use the other existing alien factions? They won't probably won't have a "base" but we already have some known relationships between them.
The Rozitals are allied with the Arirals, and they even try to protect the few arirals we meet that are just having a vacation on earth here from a threat.
The Grays are hostile to everyone, so could you even try to get on their good side? (IF they even have one.)
The next faction to show up isn't here yet, so we will have to see what they are like. They do have some kind of relation with the grays, don't know if good or bad.
..Could you even try to reason with an autonomous alien construct that shoots you on sight?
True, that is a good idea, however the relations between these factions seems like it's predefined, so if one wants to combine them (like getting ariral reputation increases rozital reputation but lowers grey reputation and vice versa), it would remain predictable. Though such interconnected reputation between the factions would still be a cool balancing act as long as there's a tradeoff.
This might be a frequently given type of feedback, however in my opinion a quite necessary one. I really enjoy the game for its atmosphere and unique ideas, as well as the amount of detail in practically every interaction. But in terms of user experience, I find some interactions terribly cumbersome.
Some of the basic gameplay user interface elements (for example the inventory and the hotbar) are way to overcomplicated for the simple purpose they are supposed to have.
Also requiring a extensive tutorial with multiple walls of text is a very poor first impression to a game. It would be way more elegant to slowly introduce players to all concepts.
I get that the current way of solving these issues might be a placeholder, to quickly build more relevant features. But I would kindly suggest having a gameplay designer or user experience designer on your team in the near future to improve on some of the said cases.
I attached a few pictures to showcase some very quick and dirty overpaints that clean up a few usability issues I encountered. I tried to keep it as close to the original style as possible, as I found it quite charming and unique. To be very clear: This is in no way a final idea, just a quick sketch to elaborate on why I believe the user interface deserves a few changes.
Original Hotbar
Overpainted Hotbar
Changes:
Original Inventory while Using an Item Container
Unfinished Overpaint (Would Take to Long) of Inventory while Using an Item Container
Changes:
I hope my feedback is of value. If not that's also fine, because I enjoyed working on this for a few happy minutes of my freetime.
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Giving this my 2 cents. I personally believe the hotbar is a hot mess right now, and I have 2 ideas to fix it.
1. You can "favorite" items where you can assign an item to have priority on a hotbar slot.
2. The hotbar no longer automatically gets filled by items in your inventory. You have to manually set what items go into your hotbar and which slot.
Personally speaking I both love and hate that hotbar gets auto-filled. Sometimes, it's very useful to switch to things you've just used, but sometimes, especially when you collect trash - important items get shifted away.
I think that having both - an auto-fill, and an option to "favorite" items would be the best.
I definitely agree with this, this was my first version to play this game in and it felt like I actively had to force myself to learn the controls instead of them being really intuitive, it created a large hump where i only continued to play and learn the controls properly because i heard that this game was good, but it could very easily turn people off from the game
Going to a new area sounds too much, but having other tasks other than hash codes and signals - such as analyzing stuff, which could appear out of nowhere, or fall out the sky, or be mailed - seems like a fun idea! Especially if analyzing them would either require specific items, actions, or some kind of new puzzle game.
Please increase nails' "power" and make them work like actual nails, and not chewed gum
There is a lot of potential to create custom stuff, such as upgrading ATV - but nails fall off so easily and ATV driving is so messy, you have to crawl like a turtle not to break everything off it (meanwhile hooks are unbreakable and never detach)
And the last part of the image - Kerfur having a beacon on him would save so many nerves since that idiot loves to stuck in any terrain he possibly can
Then it will get up, but in a wrong place, like half a meter away from a wall. And when you try to push it towards the wall, it will fall over again.
Are you just grabbing it or are you dragging it? If you hold shift as you grab a heavy object, you will start dragging it, it will try to follow your movements without falling over.
