Thanks! I'm trying.

感谢您的美言，感谢您玩我的游戏！

未来会有更多的底盘选项，也许还会有本地多人模式。

Hey man, thanks for streaming my game, kind words, and the feedback! I appreciate it tremendously.

The audio is actually, unironically peak. Finally, my purchase of good headphones is justified lmao.

Glad you like the audio, I spent a long time rewriting the audio systems and trying different settings to get it to sound right. I hope I can take it even further with some extra ambient effects and eventually a soundtrack.

Needs more blood on the bugs though.

Agreed. I'll juice them way up in the next build, expect geysers of blood...

UPD: I just remembered - the grenades seem to fly on the same "plane" as the buildings. So while it does move in an arc - it can hit the building in the way of an arc (as it was shown during throwing) and get blown up - so it isn't really usable for sneakily tossing them over buildings. I think that's a bug.

This is a really strange bug, nothing in their code should have them do that. Are you sure it wasn't a C-RAM turret shooting them down when you were tossing one? They're meant to intercept grenades and missiles while in mid-air so you can't always destroy them from far away, instead forcing the player to get up close:

Thanks for playing!

- I want more and I don't have it!

Same.

- Missiles having a proximity detonator would be great

Technically they do when you single-fire them, but I'll see if I can have multi-lock ones use them as well. I thought giving them a bit of inaccuracy (or rather more collision accuracy in this case) when salvo launching is fun since they tend to spiral back around if they miss their target.

Hey, thanks for playing once again!

Apologies for the info text being hard to read, had a few other people say the same. I kind of tried to keep the weapon descriptions compact, but I clearly went too far with the size of the text. Will make it much larger and readable in the next build for sure.

Things got really insane during your playthrough as you were setting off multiple reinforcement calls at once, and you handled it really well! Loved seeing you manage to dodge the fire from the gunships and take out incoming transports each time.

Did you try holding down the rockets when firing them, or did they always only fire once if you clicked and held down? The main difference between the rockets and missiles is that you're supposed to be able to rapid fire them more as a crowd control weapon at the cost of not being able to lock onto things, so spamming them at the command center would've probably worked. I'm just wondering if something went wrong and they weren't responding to you holding down right mouse button. It is possible to kill the command centers before they call for reinforcements, but you need to focus your fire pretty hard on them -- best bet is not to use missiles or grenades and just your primary weapon. (Although the incendiary grenade isn't too bad if you use a few at once)

The boost/overdrive you can actually hold past the line on the bar. It's just once it passes and you release shift, you have to wait until it recharges forward from the line to boost again. No damage penalty or anything.

Also this new mission kicked my own ass pretty hard so no worries about the repeated D ranks, haha. You can actually take one or two hits and still get an S rank, but you'd have to do the mission under 2-3 minutes so it gives you a time bonus. You can take as long as 5 minutes on a mission and still get S if you take zero hits, but any longer and it'll start to detract from your score. Maybe this system is a bit brutal, but the ranks don't matter too much in the grand scheme of things I think...

Thank you!

Thanks, glad you like it!

I use 3D models as references for everything. It would be hellish to do it by hand and also keep any of the designs consistent otherwise.

Thank you for playing again and the feedback!

It seems like the enemies get stuck inside buildings even more, maybe redesign maps a little to remove this pockets if it cannot be fixed with pathfinding

I've kind of noticed that as well, I'll see what I can do to fix it even though technically the mech enemies remain unchanged since the previous build. The buildings technically despawn when they're out of view, so maybe I'll just increase the size of the area before deactivation.

Rotary cannon is now obsolete, maybe it could be balanced with mobility and other stats?

I might end up giving it more ammo. Eventually there will be an arms dealer you buy weapons from; you won't have anything like the Vulcan or railgun right at the start of the game, and the rotary cannon will probably just be one of the default starter weapons.

The bugs mission feels underwhelming compared to the others, add some variety like fatter/ spitting monsters?

I agree. Don't worry though, I'm working on additional variation with them and also giving them different behavior by allowing them to burrow underground. I just didn't turn it on for this build, perhaps I should've.

Didnt like the free movement on world map, it felt rather annoying and timewasting, giving literally nothing over classical options, I think it will be better to make it snap to points or selection with the mouse instead

Understandable. My goal is to have different missions including optional ones unlock and you'll see them sort of branch out into different directions. With their just being five for now I know it's quite bare, but once those extra options come in the snap navigation would probably make it hard to navigate fast. You can actually click on the points with your mouse by the way, it should snap the navigator right to them.

The game crashed during mission 5 once

Damn! Can you tell me what weapon you were using, what happened, or even what the error screen said? I didn't have much of a chance to test the build as thoroughly this time around.

Thank you. I'll be looking into a publisher once it's a little further developed. I think there's still much that needs to be implemented before setting up anything like a Steam page.

Thank you for playing again!

I've lowered the autocannon sound a bit now, apologies if I blew your ears out, haha. I didn't want the starter weapon of the game to be lame, especially as the previous couple of builds had a somewhat wimpy sound.

i want MORE!

same...

Thanks! I can't promise anything, but hopefully more content and fleshing out the gameplay even further.

Thank you for recording a video!

Very sorry about the incessant quips from the pilot on the first level. They use an RNG script at random called when certain objects are deleted, so sometimes you can play a full level and they'll be very infrequent or not present at all (like the fourth mission) , however I can see in your playthrough they were going off much too often. I'll implement a cooldown timer to prevent this from happening. I also intended to have an option to turn them off entirely since I realize it can get grating very fast. I'll see if I can add that in the next build.

I'm disappointed you never visited the hangar, though I blame myself for not making the button more noticeable. There's nine different weapons and three different types of grenades, and also the missiles you had have a lock-on feature if you hold the right button.

I might end up having a sort of legend in the corner with different mission types/icons to show win conditions since a few people now have said that they've had issues figuring out what they're supposed to do.

Eventually there's going to be other characters and an actual plot, but for now most of everything you see is a placeholder in terms of writing/setting. I would still like there to be a light comedy element to it, but I fully understand without any additional context or writing, detached a lot of this seems incredibly stupid and detracting, haha. I promise the final product will be a lot less grating, genuinely the last thing I want is for someone to play it and be annoyed with everything but the gameplay... Though I'd like to say "Kwik-Mart" was a completely unintentional reference to the Simpsons, I just wanted a 7/11 stand in and  I realize in hindsight they sound too similar, my bad.

Music is also definitely a must. I'm not much of a composer when it comes to writing action-packed stuff, so I'll need to recruit some help eventually to give it a properly banging OST. 

Thanks again for the feedback and criticism, I appreciate it greatly.

Obrigado por jogar!

Thanks for playing all the way through!

Love the overworld map, looks great. I think the only thing I really wanted was a better dodge option, especially against the melee guys.

I'll see if I can have some different parts/upgrades for close-range combat specifically.

The missiles also felt a little weak compared to just using the gun for everything.

That they are. I'll need to do some more variations like with the guns. I'll see if I can give the player aircraft-style cruise missiles and burst munitions...

Really like stuff like the toggleable fixed camera

Glad you liked that feature! I think very few people tend to use it from what I can tell, but I still felt compelled to include it.

Thanks for playing once again!

The little horses you can explode were a very nice touch. I hadn't noticed before that the AA turret enemies can kill your grenades mid throw, really cool.

Indeed! They're basically there to prevent certain players from spamming grenades and finishing levels too fast, but I also just thought having a functioning C-RAM in game would be cool.

Interesting idea with the airborne reinforcements in the new level, but maybe they should come accompanied by the gunship enemy for fire support if you don't want the player to shoot the transport helicopters down every time

I was worried it might be a little bit too hard, but looking at some footage it seems I was mistaken. I'll see about having them occasionally spawn a gunship in to accompany them.

The vulcan completely overshadows the rotary cannon but man does it shred. The smartgun is kind of weird but it's comparable to the basic cannon so it's solid. The unguided rockets are right up my alley since I used the other missiles as unguided weapons anyway. The mortar enemy does its job of threatening you from behind cover with its fast projectiles.

Indeed the Vulcan basically makes the rotary cannons obsolete. Perhaps I'll increase their spread to make up for it, I feel like they should still have some application. Glad to hear the mortar enemies are working as well.

The development log button fails to open x for me:

That's very strange. I checked the code and everything seems to be formatted correctly, but Game Maker isn't printing the colon on https:// and seemingly adding a " at the beginning. Will need to look into why this is happening, thanks for bringing it to my attention.

Amazing progress as always.

Thank you!

Thank you for playing!

I'm going to focus on overhauling a lot of the menu UI and the general readability of everything. I'm not particularly happy with it either and I also agree the colors could be toned down a bit. Cheers!