Hey Seifir,

Thanks so much for your suggestions. The rescued characters can actually each be placed as towers now. I do think it can be interesting to see the survivors walking around camp and stuff. The dog and hunger are both ideas I've played around with, there was a survivor idea which was an old man with a dog that would attack automatically. The hunger originally added an extra meter which made the game more complicated as it has so many moving parts already. I'll try play testing some ways to add the hunger and dog which would add to the overall game.

Your feedback is greatly appreciated,

Rafi

gabgab01,

Thanks so much for the bugs and suggestions i'm working on these fixes.

so far only found a few bugs:

1: going into the cave to the north (windows version on win7) causes blackscreen with "loading" happening and save symbol at top flashing. left it there for approx 5 minutes, nothing happening.

This seems to be a problem with the Autosaving that happens when you enter the cave. I'll try and make it not freeze if it can't save. The problem might be happening if you're out of space on your computer or the program is not getting access to be able to save, I'll look into it

2: at the end of the tutorial (where tutorial dude gets munched), if you "rescue" that dude by killing the zombie before he get to the dude, the game is stuck. you can still look around and shoot things, but you can not move or do anything else.

Just realized by fixing something else I added this bug accidentally

- also, it apparently "deleted" my safelile. after restarting the game (alt+f4), i had to start from the beginning.

- pretty sure the above problem did the same, but as i did it right at the start, i'm not sure if it even saved in the first place.

There seems to be a problem with your saving. Enter is pause which has a manual save button could you try this and get back to me?

3: when building a tower, the rotation is ignored. (tried to place a tower with the ladder facing forward. tower always faces backwards.)

The towers should be able to be placed at any rotation. Maybe what you are experiencing is the locking on to another piece which rotates to place automatically. I'll make sure you can actually place rotated but it really only a visual thing as the towers work in 360º

some issues i found:

- the hordes are very frequent. exploring the map might be problematic, as you have to return to your base to defend the attack, so you can't really go anywhere.

Upgrading your home actually slows down the frequency of the hordes letting you explore more of the map.

- placing things with the controler seems to be flimsy from time to time. ex: placing a tower on a specific tile. you have to use the right stick on the controller to not "wanky" it. then pressing A is kinda hard, unless you hold down the right stick with the left hand, and then fiddling around with the controller.

I'm gonna allow a piece to be placed using the attack button as well, this should fix the awkwardness.

- apparently finite fuel. it's no fun when you can't make fuel on your own in any way. maybe a 200 - ressource - pumpjack, like unturned had it? (so far have not played too much, never got to any gas station)

You actually collect the fuel from any of the many cars around the world. There are also 4 Reservoir tanks you can find which increase your total fuel.

- towers don't have a big range. placing a tower on the top left corner in the camp (inside) doesn't allow it to shoot the zombies on the right. so i have to go out and deal with them myself, instead of entrusting the safety of my base to some random chick i just found.

I'll Increase their range a bit but the goal was so you need various towers to protect all sides

- repairing (is it even there?). zombies will munch on my wall. there's the issue that apparently you can't repair walls, just upgrade them. and i don't know how much durability is left on them. how can i be sure that my high level steel wal isn't going to burst by the next rotten shambles?

Everything not destroyed is repaired automatically after every Herd. I tried adding health bars and repairs to the build objects but it makes the game seem much more complicated.

- UI-annoyance: especially when playing solo, the boxes in the corners (press X to join) can be a bit annoying at times. i get it, i don't have any extra controllers and(or friends. you don't have to rub it in my face 24/7. can't you just disappear after maybe 15 seconds or so?

I see what you mean, the game actually started as a multiplayer experience so much of that is in its core. I like the reminder that players can join in at anytime as long as you are in the camp or at the entrance of a dungeon.

- camera rotation. especially useful when trying to place towers directly into the corner of walls, being able to know how far exactly away they are might be useful. but meh

The camera moves to a topdown view while placing object to facilitate placing things around. Ill see if I could make it a bit clearer.

and last but not least: online-multiplayer?

4 people always in the same location is surely fun, but we can't divide workload. everyone has to do the same thing (defend, explore, etc). if we have multiple people, at least let some of them explore the map while the others defend the camp.

There's future plans for Online, we just want to get the game out there and out PlayStation first. One plan is to have separate 4 player groups with different camps sharing a world, which you can fight each other or work together.

after all, great game, great concept, lots of potential. cute graphics, maybe not enough blood, but fun nonetheless (until your base gets inevitably mawled by zambros). would've wished for more survivors though, i'd like to place 4 towers at the corner and just set off trying to get the goal stones :D

There are 12 survivors that are each playable with unique traits, attacks, and can be placed as towers. Thank you so much for playing and for all your suggestions and issues found I'll have these bugs fixed as soon as I can, tomorrow the latest.

Hey Kennethdhau,

Thanks so much for your feedback it is greatly appreciated

Great game - I've run into the same problem as Eas3r so far with the game failing to save (Linux 64-bit Intel, Nvidia GPU [more detail upon request]).

I found this problem happening on Windows and Linux the new update v 1.0.2 should fix these problems for you

The guide at the beginning is awfully demanding - sometimes he moves and his "area of movement" circle actually confines me to a section of the base without walls. The solution was to select "move" then Esc, which seemed to delete the wall. First of all, is there a better way to remove placed items. Also, could the AI be somewhat more patient about waiting for the player to leave the area before moving back towards town?

I'm planning out ways to refine this experience I definitely see what you mean about him being a bit demanding. I've seen how few play testers get trapped inside the walls as he starts to make his way to town, I do like how it teaches how to move objects out of the way which is why I kept it in there. Yea "ESC" seems like a weird button choice on Keyboard the game is really developed with a Gamepad in mind. Any suggestions you have for the Keyboard/Mouse controls would be appreciated. I'll definitely keep working on this part.

The camera-pan-to-enemies after first reaching the base is somewhat slow to start. I thought it was the game freezing or being in an invalid state because while I could swing, I couldn't move.

I want to add dynamic letterboxes (The black bars at top and bottom during cinematic) to help emphasize that what he is saying is important and give more sense to the not being able to move thing.

I also noticed that some menu's asked for certain key-presses, especially to exit certain prompts (Shift when you first learn to build, clicking to attack/aim/shoot). It would be great if, while the prompts are visible, the actions are not done.

I like the feedback you get instantly, are you worried about wasting the bullets? If you can clarify a bit it would be great

At least for me, exiting out of Options required pressing Enter not Space.

You should be able to exit options with space if you navigate to Resume in the menu I'll Look into this.

I was going to try manual saving but I had trouble finding it.

Manual save is in the pause menu which is only active after the small tutorial is over. You can also only save while in the world map as the dungeons are randomly generated.

Again, fantastic game - I look forward to seeing where this goes (esp. with multiplayer!)

Thank you so much for playing and all your feedback, with your help and others like you this game can grow and be even greater. It's only up from here. Please either re-download a build or use the itch app with its automatic updates it will keep getting updated constantly.

Rafi

Hey Bellcranel337,

Thanks for finding these issues I'm adding a fix to the update I'm working on now!

Thanks a lot really I appreciate it,

Rafi

Hey Bob,

He should be showing you the button for checking the Map. I noticed on the XBOX controller its a bit difficult to see that the Back button is lit up. Could you be a little more specific on the situation?

Thanks a lot,

Rafi

Lol i got a intel core i3 1,70 ghz with integrated gpu and 4ram

40fps on simple

Did what u said, I got plenty of space, Drivers already unparked, and moved it to another drive... Nothing, + I launched it as administrator.... Nothing

I really think it's just a problem with compatibility between my Graphics Card and the game :l