Horrible horrible latency

[The Great Cornholio]

I really wanted to like this game, tried the demo and everything lags even at 240fps. The mouse cursor, the response to when you move the probe around with keyboard. It's nigh unplayable. Is this inherent in the unity engine or else what gives?

[Krobill]

Nothing is inherent to Unity. What you call latency for the probe's movement is in fact inertia. It's a game design choice. I can understand, you don't like it though. Sorry if it's not to your taste.

[The Great Cornholio]

Oprindeligt skrevet af al_kgs:

Nothing is inherent to Unity. What you call latency for the probe's movement is in fact inertia. It's a game design choice. I can understand, you don't like it though. Sorry if it's not to your taste.

So the mouse cursor has inertia too? Because that's definitely not to my taste.

[Krobill]

No, not the mouse cursor. You can be pissed all you want about that. I take the blame for it. ^^

[Siku]

This game is incredibly CPU intensive. I noticed that despite being able to keep up graphic wise, if my CPU is busy doing something else (Video playing on second monitor, WoW in the background...) the game will slow down by a TON.

[Krobill]

hu... when developing a game you don't profile performances so that people can run WoW or a video player on a second screen. More seriously, the reason why it "slows down by a ton" is that Unity is a mono-core engine so far. It uses your main core and the others only for secondary tasks. It is not designed to create applications which run along others.

[Siku]

I didn't expect you guys to profile performance like that either. That comment was more an observation i made to the OP that maybe that's where his issues lies, where he's trying to run a million things at once and thus, everything slows down to "nigh unplayable".

I personally loves the game (minus a certain issue ive posted in another thread), sorry if my post seemed like being against the developers :(

[Krobill]

no offense taken. And I'm sincerly sorry for some shortcomings of the game. It's our first 'real' game and hopefuly the next one will be much better ^^

[The Great Cornholio]

Oprindeligt skrevet af al_kgs:

no offense taken. And I'm sincerly sorry for some shortcomings of the game. It's our first 'real' game and hopefuly the next one will be much better ^^

Whatever you do, don't let our comments discourage you. From what I saw, it looked like very high production value, and that's rare to see in an indie game. The sound, music and graphics looked great and they meshed well together as part of a whole.

If you can figure out a fix for the mouse lag, just patch the game no big deal.

I wish you the best of luck and don't give up. Minecraft wasn't Notch's first game, if you know what I mean.

[Hurtbringer]

If you are a serious PC gamer and like a wide variety of games, you NEED to get a xbox 360 controller for games like this. I got mine for $22 used at gamestop and it was the best thing I ever did in this regard. I use it for this game, assassins creed 3, prototype 1 and 2, retro city rampage, sleeping dogs, mark of the ninja, etc. GET ONE! And how in gods name can this game be cpu intensive unless someone would have a slow computer? its not like its assassins creed 3 or b-ops 2 or anything.

[5pectrum]

what the hell [KE]Messiah... we are pc gamers cuz we love pc games, if you want to use a controller use it, nobody stops you, we just want a better experience with the "common pc controls", and, not everybody ♥♥♥♥♥ money to buy better hardware....

[zhunGamerTTV (人^▽')～]

Wtf? I had absolutely zero trouble with the controls using keyboard/mouse, if the game has any sort of "latency", I think that just means you're below the minimum specifications for this game to run.

[Andralyn de Bagschaghe]

I tried it with my xbox controller, and though it worked fine, I much prefer the KB Mouse with the game. Others I prefer controller.

Anyway, the movement seems very syrupy slow at first, but that's because you need to buy speed upgrades with your points. After a couple of levels it's no longer an issue.

[Scorcher24]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Siku:

I didn't expect you guys to profile performance like that either. That comment was more an observation i made to the OP that maybe that's where his issues lies, where he's trying to run a million things at once and thus, everything slows down to "nigh unplayable".

I personally loves the game (minus a certain issue ive posted in another thread), sorry if my post seemed like being against the developers :(

This. Played it today the first time and I loved it so far. It is an awesome mix and visuals as well as audio is really fun. So good work.

[Sabbymoo]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Zhuinden:

Wtf? I had absolutely zero trouble with the controls using keyboard/mouse, if the game has any sort of "latency", I think that just means you're below the minimum specifications for this game to run.

You do realise that comment was from 2012 right?