Build 124

[rob]

Greetings Brave Testers! One day late, it's build 124, which includes:

* Add Omega Complex
* Reduce loot on Excluder
* Increase loot on Isolator

The Omega Complex is a new region boss for red threat level regions. Unlike most enemies, the Omega has no guns. Instead, it features bullet-hell style projectile waves, circling exploders, debuff-on-hit missiles, and bomblet dispersal when taking damage.

The loot changes for the maze region are the removal of augments from the door forts and the addition of a 20% chance of a tank unlock to the wall units.

Tim's project to upgrade the hitpoint system has turned out to hairier than we expected, but we should have that ready for the next push. After that our plan is to have him build a system that lets you craft wormhole-opening devices. Or warp gate activation matrices. Or spacetime tunnel actuators. Or dimensional portal instantiators. Or dungeon keys.

We always appreciate your help testing the game. Thank you!

Rob & Tim
Jetbolt Games

[gingerbear]

Hi!

"You need flash player 11.something or higher to view this page" message on Chrome after installing the latest flash player.

Game still works on Firefox.

[Will]

I don't know what happened to the equation for tank exp by level, but it's
(n/2)(n)(100)
n = tank level
I thought it was something else, but this one works for sure.

[Will]

Also, if are curious as to what level a tank would be if it had all your exp on account, make total XP = X in the following equation:

X = (n)(n/2)(100)
X/100 = n^2/2
2X/100 = n^2
sqrt of (2X/100) = n
For me it is only 163.46
For Zed it is 453.22
For aesc it is 333.34

But yeah, fun facts for today haha

[gingerbear]

Please do something with the map loading / processing logic. Standing with both hands on the Nexus key, and watching your tank still die from full HP without doing anything (even after "arriving" to Origin) is utter bullsh*t. (Goodbye lvl 4 hard earned corvus shield, i hardly knew ye)

Someone message me when the map is reset, I'm taking a break. Nevermind, looks like something on my end is really messed up, which shouldn't be. Still taking a break, though.

[Will]

You lose shields when you die? Damn once I get my level 5 for my Tbolt I better be careful.

[Ood]

Critical Feedback:

So, I played a bit again today... Perhaps not long enough, but I've come to more or less the same conclusions I had about the game as before.

Gameplay overall is boring. Add into that now that many areas are not doable alone (even in easy 'green' zones), the player population is miniscule, and the new death penalty can be quite harsh; makes for a frustrating game.
Personally, I don't play games to be bored or frustrated, so why do I keep coming back? The potential is there. Fortunately or unfortunately, Rob & Tim seem to be taking this game their own direction, which tends to be away from the potential that I thought I saw in it. Wether they see something better I guess remains to be seen. It's your game, Rob, I realize and respect that and encourage you to continue with what you think is best.

This is probably going to be my last post on these forums, so, as I see it, the game needs only two things:

Dynamic 'normal' gameplay:
However this is achieved doesn't matter, but something to make killing overworld structures (and everything else too) not boring and extremely repetitive.
Yes, there have been improvements to this since the last time I played, but if I were to endure the boredom long enough, get a few augments, I'm sure I could relearn structure patterns and snipe everything to oblivion similar to before. Having long range enemies is good, but that is only one aspect that could be explored. Buff/Nerf structures, player structures, mingling structures, big structures, small structures, etc. are only a small list of possibilities.

Players:
People who want to play the game, yes testing is necessary, but if there are players, there will be testers too. Having a core that is 'fun' would make this quite simple.
From the sound (or lack thereof) of things on the forums, people don't play the game anymore, there's only a few testers left who enjoy finding bugs and such.

I wish you the best, Rob & Tim, but I can't follow your vision for this game any more unless something drastic happens.
Best of luck to the fellow testers and players who are left.

Ood.

[Will]

Dec 14, 2014 15:38:56 GMT -5 Ood said:

Critical Feedback:

So, I played a bit again today... Perhaps not long enough, but I've come to more or less the same conclusions I had about the game as before.

Gameplay overall is boring. Add into that now that many areas are not doable alone (even in easy 'green' zones), the player population is miniscule, and the new death penalty can be quite harsh; makes for a frustrating game.
Personally, I don't play games to be bored or frustrated, so why do I keep coming back? The potential is there. Fortunately or unfortunately, Rob & Tim seem to be taking this game their own direction, which tends to be away from the potential that I thought I saw in it. Wether they see something better I guess remains to be seen. It's your game, Rob, I realize and respect that and encourage you to continue with what you think is best.

This is probably going to be my last post on these forums, so, as I see it, the game needs only two things:

Dynamic 'normal' gameplay:
However this is achieved doesn't matter, but something to make killing overworld structures (and everything else too) not boring and extremely repetitive.
Yes, there have been improvements to this since the last time I played, but if I were to endure the boredom long enough, get a few augments, I'm sure I could relearn structure patterns and snipe everything to oblivion similar to before. Having long range enemies is good, but that is only one aspect that could be explored. Buff/Nerf structures, player structures, mingling structures, big structures, small structures, etc. are only a small list of possibilities.

Players:
People who want to play the game, yes testing is necessary, but if there are players, there will be testers too. Having a core that is 'fun' would make this quite simple.
From the sound (or lack thereof) of things on the forums, people don't play the game anymore, there's only a few testers left who enjoy finding bugs and such.

I wish you the best, Rob & Tim, but I can't follow your vision for this game any more unless something drastic happens.
Best of luck to the fellow testers and players who are left.

Ood.

Have you ever been in a wormhole before? They open randomly in regions like once per region (rare - ikr) but this dungeon is an example of what we need more of in this game - monsters or enemies with different phases. We also do need more dynamic loot. Like shields - those were a good addition to the game because they are lost upon death and are really hard to get.

[Will]

Hey is there anyway that players who installed mods before they were customizable could be able to change the values of those mods to a +5 value? Like, maybe there could some kind of function for "if" modlevel != modvalue*modlevel or something along those lines?

[Deleted]

I think it should be changed so we can distribute mod points individually. It's only a matter of time until somebody manages to get 3 level 8 mods.


Oh, and I think we might need another zoom level.