Weekend 1: Feedback

I managed to spawn at the bottom of a very icy ravine, then build a base inside it.
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Currently, no more than 4 people can join a lobby... even if there are slots open and waiting for them.

So I made a thing;

Although apparently I wrote it upside down.... >.>

Also the T2 bot Fac builds it's units below the Fac's build pad.

Mike

I believe I noticed air turrets attacking ground units.

Its hard to give feedback at this point besides "Continue development" considering its current playable state heh.

I believe the idea of the first weekend was to for Uber to be sure that the server was going to accept connections from random places around the world and that we could even get games going. Bonus points are awarded for us getting to more than 20 mins into a game


Crashes seem to have (mostly) stopped. Connection issues aside and the 4 player limit on lobbies, we're sitting pretty on something we can actually play 70... maybe 80 percent of the time with 4 people and it doesn't explode.
That's progress on the first time I booted it up I can tell you.


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And yes Knight, you did write it upside-down.

Not a bug. We explicitly limited any game to only four players for this weekend. It automatically should spin up a new game for the fifth player who tries to join.

Well, that works as intended.

On a side note for balance:

I loved the start of the game in FA. You could start building a factory right away which increased the rather slow pace at the start. We would need a bit more resources for that to work though.

It seems you guys try to stick very close to TA (which is a good thing in many cases) but I think this would be worth trying.

Remember the Egg isn't implemented yet Colonel.

I get 40FPS zoomed in fully and under 10 when zooming out and moving of the map. It's pretty much unplayable for me right now.

What Video Card are you rolling with Penguin?

An nVidia GTX 560 Ti. I normally play most modern releases on High-Ultra at 60FPS, can't even move the camera here.

I'm on an ATI 7800 here. Maybe that's the issue... ATI vs nVidia?

I have a GTX 650 TI and it's working pretty fine on my end. Get some stuttering and texture streaming when I zoom out but that's to be expected at this stage. I can't really tell how much FPS I get though. The counter on Space changes too quickly and the mumble overlay doesn't work properly.

Any news? or better yet anyone up for more games?

Working on LOTS and LOTS of stuff for a new build.

After reading the backer forum I think we need a 'What you can expect of the alpha' post. Too many people with high expectations. They need to be reminded that these first builds are mostly about engine stability and that they don't need to report stuff like 'Unit XY is OP, unit XZ doesn't work'.

Basically, we should crush some dreams before the alpha goes live. Probably make it a bit worse than it really is to dampen the expectations.

Wish grimbar was here, he is a specialist in killing the mood in one word... =3

Where have you been? I've been saying essentially this almost the whole time!

Also after testing the PA Client on my laptop, I have deemed I will not be able to undertake any long distance testing from Hawaii, I'll try again if I can get a connection and there is a new build.

Mike

Otherwise you'll be testing by proxy, through me

Lots and Lots of stuff, eh Neutrino? Care to give we few a hint on what's to come?

Oh, and are you and some of the Uber Staff going to play against us sometime? I'd like to see how working on the game keys you into knowing the little details that we testers might not pick up on.

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And I want to beat you in a fair match too! Ben is the only one to "defeat" me so far, and he cheated! :lol:

- pretty much an entire new front end UI
- fog of war
- complete new balance pass

For starters.