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>-FISH-D Dec 21, 2022 @ 9:33pm
No online leaderboard no buy
Its almost 2023 so no excuse for a PC shmup to not include this feature.

At the the bare minimum there should be Steam leaderboard integration...

EDIT: it's verified that dev hosted leaderboards are included :)
Last edited by >-FISH-D; Dec 22, 2022 @ 10:05am
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GDMilkman Dec 22, 2022 @ 7:44am 
No, stick with no online leader boards. Steam leader boards get hacked in a day.
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>-FISH-D Dec 22, 2022 @ 9:09am 
Originally posted by GDMilkman:
No, stick with no online leader boards. Steam leader boards get hacked in a day.

Wrong for 4 reasons:

1. Niche shmups or arcade games dont have a large player base so rarely do we encounter any cheaters.

2. Devs that care about their product featuring dev hosted online leaderboards will check the database weekly and remove any fake scores. They can also blacklist IP addresses that fake scores originate from. Also, cheaters don't generally stick around to keep posting...they move on to the next game.

3. Good shmup devs go as far as to make any score uploaded to an online leaderboard database also upload a replay. Some examples of this are the Cave titles and more recently Like Dreamer.

4. It's not 2004 and we shouldn't have to use external resources for posting high scores.
Last edited by >-FISH-D; Dec 22, 2022 @ 9:35am
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BloodHawk Dec 22, 2022 @ 9:44am 
This actually does have online leaderboards though....
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>-FISH-D Dec 22, 2022 @ 9:48am 
Originally posted by BloodHawk:
This actually does have online leaderboards though....

Wait it does?? The store description doesn't say so.

If so I'll remove this thread.
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BloodHawk Dec 22, 2022 @ 9:56am 
it does, it's accessed in-game though and not through Steam so that may be the reason it's not listed as a feature on the store page. Just need to go to Ranking in the menu then press RB or LB to switch to view online rankings.

edit: It does save replays at least locally as well, but I am not sure if it uploads them for others to view. I just checked and I wasn't able to download any others.
Last edited by BloodHawk; Dec 22, 2022 @ 9:59am
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>-FISH-D Dec 22, 2022 @ 10:04am 
Originally posted by BloodHawk:
it does, it's accessed in-game though and not through Steam so that may be the reason it's not listed as a feature on the store page. Just need to go to Ranking in the menu then press RB or LB to switch to view online rankings.

edit: It does save replays at least locally as well, but I am not sure if it uploads them for others to view. I just checked and I wasn't able to download any others.

Thank you for the information. I'll leave this thead in place for now just in case any other players were wondering if leaderboards were included.

Cheers!
Last edited by >-FISH-D; Dec 22, 2022 @ 10:05am
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