Feedback for Devs: The game is great but needs a healthy dose of QoL updates.

[Yalden]

Edit (29/08)
Editing this to include more stuff, adjust formatting and adding a TL;DR at the end.

More small QoL suggestions

1) There's no need to get more heat after re-spraying the SAME SPOT just to change a graffiti I didn't like/repeated.

2) Don't lock the porta potty after changing skin when you don't have heat on you. I just wanna customize my character a bit.

3) Please add some way to play without getting heat. While I do love the pressure and challenge, just chilling and tagging while playing would be great.

4) A way to stop showing a unit arrival cutscene every time the heat increases, just make the siren noise and show the star increase on the top-left.

Graffiti

The phone is a fantastic feature and opening it to sparying looks like a design decision for immersion, but a preview of the graffitis when tagginh would be great.

Little thumbnails could be present near the dots, so the "first dot" shows the group of graffitis usable within that action and so on until the graffiti is complete.

Alternatively, let us choose what S, M, L and XL graffitis we want to graffiti within the phone and skip the mini-game altogether to improve gameplay flow, just pressing RB to graffiti while passing by.

Music Player

Let us build a playlist, repeat a song indefinitely, shuffle etc. More control over the music! When an event or mission starts, you can take over without an issue. Also, when the song changes or a new one starts, a little pop up on the right hand corner would be really handy and on brand.

Maintain combo on stage transition

This one might be impossible due to engine, coding, etc, but it would be fantastic to hold a manual/slide on stage transition and continue from there, imagine the content of this.

Proper Photo Mode

The camera on the phone is a genius idea, adds a lot of charm of the game and it's really funny (also goes back to that design immersion decision), but this game is BEGGING for a proper photo mode. Look at this art style, the enviromental design and everything, pure eye candy and virtual photographers would ahve a field day here.

On-the-fly Mode Switching

This one is a doozy. Imagine you're skateboarding and while on the air you pop out the bike and build more diverse and insane combos, this would look fantastic and just would feel natural within the game.

(I actually just looked and someone already modded that into the game and it looks insane. People are awesome.)

Combat

This might be the most well-known criticism, but more feedback when fighting would be great, more landing sounds, bigger and more vibrant impact flash and a proper feel just like when you're hitting the trash and soda machines.

Closing

I'm running out of stuff to say so only two more things: water splash sound when falling out of bounds through water and higher NPC density.

TL;DR

• Improve Graffiti by adding previews while tagging or selecting tags on the phone beforehand.
  
• Let us repeat a song or shuffle. Also show a popup on the screen when a song changes and what's being played.
  
• Keep combo on stage transition.
  
• Proper photo mode with free camera, focus, filters, etc.
  
• Change Movestyle on-the-fly (as already modded)
  
• Improved Combat with bigger and more flashy impact flashes, louder hit sounds, frame-freeze (like when hitting the soda machines)
  
• "Small" stuff: higher NPC density, splash sound when hitting water, no heat increase on re-spray, keep porta potty unlocked when you have no heat, heat-free mode, hide heat increase cutscenes.

I really love the game and will probably play this forever or until a sequel comes out, you guys did a fantastic job. I CANT GET ENUF

[KentuckyFriedSpy]

+1

[Snoopier]

Also wondering what the limitations are in regards to music list restarting on stage transition, and if it could be changed.

[Yalden]

İlk olarak Snoopier tarafından gönderildi:

Also wondering what the limitations are in regards to music list restarting on stage transition, and if it could be changed.

Yeah, really interrupts the flow.

[Cero]

Love the game too and agree with everything. They definitely captured the early 2000's game design lol. My only thing to add would be the ability to fast travel without going to a taxi pole. It can be a chore to run to one in some cases.

[Battle Dro!d Ω]

It would be great if their were basic map markers for things (Cipher locations) (Porta Potties) since you have to know all those by memory, especially if police are gonna be as annoying as they are.

[dq333]

Just make doing combos harder and turn up the heat. Make graffiti harder to pull off.

[GIRL]

• I would like graffiti dots to change color depending on if you're using a new design or not. For example, say you're doing a medium design, and you've already used every design that starts with the top dot in that area. Now the top dot will be a different color (blue, red, a darker yellow, idk) to show that there's no fresh options there.
  
  This can have layers as you connect dots, so for example if you have 3 designs that start with... say, the right dot, then after selecting the right dot, the 2nd and 3rd dots will change color too as you use up each specific design.
  
  This way I wouldn't have to scroll through the phone every time I'm doing a design to keep track of which ones are new (for the State of the Art achievement and so on)
  
  
• The map should show hidden collectibles like CDs, t-shirts, etc once you get the map chip in a given area. If the devs think that would be too easy, maybe the map could show a general area that the collectible is in, like with a bubble (not centered on the collectible of course).
  
  
• Think it would be cool if there was some level of npc interaction, if nps said generic stuff as you walked by that would at least be something (besides the stuff they say when you run into them). Street vendors giving you boost fuel when interacted with would be cute.
  
  And to make a bigger request, maybe some little crew events just to add life to the world? Like maybe you could dance in front of a cafe, and have your crew show up and eat together (would make for nice photos with OP's suggestion of a proper freecam mode). Or maybe an underground dance club with a dance pad. Or a spot with tons of cats/dogs where dancing summons your crew and you all start petting them? :)

[Ossie]

if you dont want heat just dont tag, You should see "heat" as something part of the story, once you are done tagging everything you will never have to deal with cops in the game, so why even "nerf" that

[俄]

feedback for the devs, the game is great full stop

[El Noisiero]

İlk olarak Battle Droid tarafından gönderildi:

It would be great if their were basic map markers for things (Cipher locations) (Porta Potties) since you have to know all those by memory, especially if police are gonna be as annoying as they are.

this, plus some post-game counters for collectibles present on the maps with a completion percentage (not necessarily positions, even if jsfr had them for graffiti souls i know that can be lame with more and diverse collectibles like here in brc), and for last but not least some replayability of the subconscious/dream sequences maybe with speedrunning challenges (in fact it would have been nice to get back red in the post game after some challenge like that related with those sequences instead of having him by deafult out of nowere)

[Yalden]

İlk olarak Os tarafından gönderildi:

if you dont want heat just dont tag, You should see "heat" as something part of the story, once you are done tagging everything you will never have to deal with cops in the game, so why even "nerf" that

Just to add more variation to the game! Let's say I wanna do a tag challenge while trying to combo the whole map, getting "scorpioned" from across the whole map is really not fun. It's not for the default experience. I've already finished the game and I'm wanting to explore, change the placement of tags and do more fun stuff. I don't see the problem in that.

İlk olarak RED tarafından gönderildi:

feedback for the devs, the game is great full stop

It is, but so many things are adding up to keep it from being a masterpiece, and it's a bunch of trivial and polish stuff too. I love this game and just wanna see it getting better :)

[everythingincorporated]

would love an option to shuffle music/make playlists. not to mention once you reach the post game it plays the same 4-song mixtape everywhere you go instead of the mixtapes made for each area. and as good as the music is hearing the same 4 songs gets old quick

[~ItsFelix~]

funnily enough, some of these things have already been made as mods by the community. they're still a bit buggy though, like equipment switching mid-combo or removing the heat/readjusting it to not be so insane

[Fgeitas]

To add to this, Give me a dancing spot in Hideout to swap characters please? It makes no sense for me to go into MIllenial Square and back just to swap characters.

[Yalden]

İlk olarak Fgeitas tarafından gönderildi:

To add to this, Give me a dancing spot in Hideout to swap characters please? It makes no sense for me to go into MIllenial Square and back just to swap characters.

They literally just patched this in