Thoughts on the new Prelude Encore?

[Shinyfaint]

I really wasn't expecting Hakita to work on an encore level so soon, guess he just wants to dodge work on Fraud lol. It's good insight into what encore levels will be however, having themes that contrast the rest of the layer, which keeps it from being visually boring. What interests me the most however is how Hakita didn't save a permafrost theme for Treachery, meaning there's a decent chance that layer 9 won't have it to avoid repetition, which actually makes me excited for what the devs are cooking.

[Der dicke Shiba]

What does encore even mean?

[<#76428a>Sharkbilby]

The lighting is bad. The prelude textures on their own are an ugly grey, relying on lighting to make them great, and the encore level fails at this. There is grey everywhere.

The rooms also feel poorly mixed together, making them feel even more random than before. They just do not flow well.

[<#76428a>Sharkbilby]

Originally posted by Der dicke Shiba:

What does encore even mean?

Typically in music, it's a repetition. I don't know much though, and google isn't helping.

[BohemianCat]

I think the level it's self is good, but the lighting and music is not the best.

[Shinyfaint]

Originally posted by Sharkbilby:

The lighting is bad. The prelude textures on their own are an ugly grey, relying on lighting to make them great, and the encore level fails at this. There is grey everywhere.

The rooms also feel poorly mixed together, making them feel even more random than before. They just do not flow well.

I say it could be an easy enough fix on the lighting, simply make it ice glow a bright blue just like prelude as of now has lots of orange light, and ofc add more ice where lighting is required. For the rooms the randomness could be made a bit more sensible by reaching different rooms via vents or holes, but ofc they should still go well together.

[Shinyfaint]

Originally posted by GiantClams:

I think the level it's self is good, but the lighting and music is not the best.

The music was definitely a letdown tbh, it adds to the dilapidated rooms yet dosen't fit well in combat, it's barely even noticeable

[BohemianCat]

Originally posted by Shinyfaint:

Originally posted by GiantClams:

I think the level it's self is good, but the lighting and music is not the best.

The music was definitely a letdown tbh, it adds to the dilapidated rooms yet dosen't fit well in combat, it's barely even noticeable

I think this is the first time ULTRAKILL players have come together to agree that something is bad.

[Waltnut]

Originally posted by GiantClams:

Originally posted by Shinyfaint:

The music was definitely a letdown tbh, it adds to the dilapidated rooms yet dosen't fit well in combat, it's barely even noticeable

I think this is the first time ULTRAKILL players have come together to agree that something is bad.

I don’t know about that. I just think people in here are jaded. YouTube and Twitter comments seem to be for it.

[BohemianCat]

Originally posted by Waltnut:

Originally posted by GiantClams:

I think this is the first time ULTRAKILL players have come together to agree that something is bad.

I don’t know about that. I just think people in here are jaded. YouTube and Twitter comments seem to be for it.

Really? I guess they're so used to ULTRAKILL being good that they can't see how bad somethings can be.

[Waltnut]

Idk… It just really looks like a custom level, I don’t care for custom levels at all. Doesn’t help that this concept of Layer encores were already made as custom levels before Hakita either…

[purevessel]

it looks cool, altough id prefer for you to be able to make an encore playthrough, so the gutterman requiring knuckleblaster is a negative.

[BohemianCat]

Originally posted by Waltnut:

Idk… It just really looks like a custom level, I don’t care for custom levels at all. Doesn’t help that this concept of Layer encores were already made as custom levels before Hakita either…

I think awhile ago Hakita said there'll be encore levels and people just made their own interpretation of them.

[purevessel]

Originally posted by GiantClams:

Originally posted by Waltnut:

Idk… It just really looks like a custom level, I don’t care for custom levels at all. Doesn’t help that this concept of Layer encores were already made as custom levels before Hakita either…

I think awhile ago Hakita said there'll be encore levels and people just made their own interpretation of them.

i already knew it wasnt supposed to be like that, i meant like a challenge run

[The Official Dwayne "The Rock" J]

Originally posted by Shinyfaint:

guess he just wants to dodge work on Fraud lol.

the reason theyre not doing fraud yet is because they cant
hakita has plans for fraud which require a full rewrite of enemy code, which has taken and is taking a long time to finish
while the programmers are busy fighting in the trenches of spaghetti code, hakita and victoria are revisiting old content to bring them up to par with newer content

[Shinyfaint]

Originally posted by The Official Dwayne "The Rock" J:

Originally posted by Shinyfaint:

guess he just wants to dodge work on Fraud lol.

the reason theyre not doing fraud yet is because they cant
hakita has plans for fraud which require a full rewrite of enemy code, which has taken and is taking a long time to finish
while the programmers are busy fighting in the trenches of spaghetti code, hakita and victoria are revisiting old content to bring them up to par with newer content

True, but encore levels aren't old content, they also still have Wrath and Heresy to rework, Hakita hasn't released any vids on those layers yet.