Nice job with the amount of content, asset loading could be smarter to avoid ANRs when switching scenes. I like what you did with the cockpit
also can I detonate the TOW rocket in mid air pls
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Hell yeah mech fights! I'm both amazed and confused, have some praise have some doubts...
From the start, mech models, cockpit, weapons, handling, integrated UI, everything is great, feels great, loved the small camera showing our mech from the angled front view. The environments are hit and miss though, levels consist of mainly basic geometry and big textures, some of them were glossy, other textures were very detailed which looked off in the vicinity of simpler ones. The big level (as in the characters telling me it's huge) had it the other way around, ground texture was just so low poly I could count pixels. In that level trees looked very nice and that contrasted with that texture (and some trees were levitating). I don't know what the deal with the lighting is but something tells me it shouldn't look like that - in the dark rooms and with a flashlight rooms are just too dark. Overall levels are simple and almost feel like a rushed job when compared to the quality of the mech. In short, game looks like it was developed for N64 but with extension memory going in gigabytes.
I did the whole available playthrough and I'm not sure about the plot either. I see it's a play "art vs author" with a little bit of 4th wall breaking, but I guess that also ties with the title - your assets are waking up to the reality of you, the developer, "the Boss", throwing at them stuff to blow up. I was just going from level to level waiting for the typical conspiracy stuff to happen, when suddenly everything felt a little too much on the nose.
From the smaller things, one boss looks almost exactly like Metal Gear. Boss fight with gravity changing was cool. On two occasions fast moving boss mechs were stuck in the wall, both sometime after they deployed turrets and energy shield. It took me a while to understand what TAB menu does, that could use some idiot-proof tutorialisation. I tried to pick up some items but I can't? I deployed one tank just to get a pick-up with another tank and I still couldn't do it. I tried all possible buttons but I don't know why I can pick up normal weapons but not deployable stuff. Sensitivity was super high when leaving mech, also 3 spiderbots IS too much. I had to cheese it by activating their spawnpoint, run back through the door and then taking potshots from the doorframe (cool reloading animation though, was worth it!). Mission with destroying the giant gun is kinda lame, the gun has so much health you just have to shoot at it constantly. There should be limited weak spots that deal massive damage and explode. Physics demo basically stops when shooting explosives at the wall. When there's only debris I have 5 FPS :( I can bust through the walls no problem though). Oh, and I found this guy!
There's a lot to like but levels have to get another look. Game can benefit greatly with a cohesive design, right now it almost feels like any texture, no matter the quality, was added to the resources (so I guess it plays with the story very well?).
The arcade mode is still by far the best part of the game lol, the game is already quite big and you are still adding more content. The imsim stuff is nice but now you have to design levels with that mechanic in mind, it's gonna become a never ending cycle. These are just my thoughts but I would like to see you just polish what you have already, especially the arcade mode.
I also found this kek.
Good work Federx!
always see you posting progress cool to see how much you made, I have never played a mech game before so I cant think of anything to compare it to / don't know what is considered good in the genre. I like the handmade anime portraits, I also like how you mixed up some big open environments and dark claustrophobic ones. I only played through 5 or 6 levels I feel like there should be more enemy movement patterns/ attack types, like a fast enemy that try's to circle around you to shoot you in the back or a mech that's like a sniper and you have to avoid there targeting system. Very cool game lots of cool things you could do with it
it took 7 seconds to show splash screen on sn8950 and 7950x3d and 64gd ddr6 6400mhz system.
I think that either your start up scene or maybe your auto loads have too many load() or too many references...
Or you are using preload() in your startup code too much
I don't know if you reqlised it but your font has some weird anti ailising or something
Look at the sides of P I and N, is there a way to make it all sharp and the same color? like why dim-bright-dim over 3 pixels and not just bright-bright over 2 pixels? I assume you are using a "pixel" .ttf and it is using variable spacing and being pushed to a sub pixel location. Don't know how to fix that but maybe there is an option or some way to pixel align each glyph?
Main menu music should be set to loop. instead of plays out and stops.
your art screen should have a grid of icon buttons with the image shown at small scale, then on press it pops the full size, another click and it disappears and goes back to the button grid.
that can be done with a node layout very similar to the scroll but it would be better UI just need the onclick signals and the popup.
models is cool. but should have something on screen saying what to press to change them and also the sky box looks bad. if you need the sky box for ambient lighting on the models then you can probably still do that just have a billboard sprite3d behind them that rotates with the camera with a set offset and it can have some cool dark techno background shader or something. but even just pitch black would be nicer than default skybox.
it wont let me choose the construct, imsim, zanzibar, or earthQuake. the buttons just ignore any click
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