Xbox Version

[C64 Mat]

I really enjoy the game, but the menu control scheme is absolutely bonkers! In game it's fast and intuitive, but in the menus it's awful.

Also, I cannot for the life of me figure out how to start challenge mode. There's nowhere to select the challenges you want, it just says "You don't have any challenge mode options turned on".

[jinthreestudio]

Sorry for the issue! 😥

We don't develop Console version include Xbox and Nintendo Switch version ourselves, but we'll try to resolve it quickly by contacting the development team.

[C64 Mat]

Thank you! There are achievement issues too, with many not unlocking properly. I appreciate the response. My wife and I are enjoying playing together.

[jinthreestudio]

Originally posted by C64 Mat:

Thank you! There are achievement issues too, with many not unlocking properly. I appreciate the response. My wife and I are enjoying playing together.

Thank you for your patience and thanks for enjoying our game. ☺
We'll do our best to release 1.0 version as quickly as possible.

[C64 Mat]

Thank you for that.

I realise this is being developed for consoles by a different team, but the state they've launched it in makes you look bad - the game is very broken. Here's a more concise list:

(Xbox Version)

• The game supports Quick Resume, but when you resume the game it quits back to the title screen, making the feature pointless
  
• Scrolling through the level list causes pauses and hangs for multiple seconds, as does pausing the game
  
• Challenge Mode doesn't work as you cannot select challenges to play
  
• 20 achievements are broken and don't unlock - all trophy / leveling / planet completion / module combining / challenge related ones, as well as ones for getting level three and four items. Look up the game on Gamertag Nation or True Achievements to see which ones nobody across the entire Xbox Network has unlocked.
  
• The corner screen decorations during gameplay often appear above the on screen icons, so you can't see the icon / button / energy requirement
  
• Menu controls are borderline unusable. They are absolutely bonkers! Have to combine both analogue sticks, buttons and the Dpad to simply select different towers. A simple cursor (like in game) would have been MUCH better. Genuinely never encountered a menu so utterly alien to use.

It's a huge shame, as we love playing it - we play it every day - but it's a battle against the UI and UX, rather than against the funny animals.

I hope this helps.

[jinthreestudio]

Originally posted by C64 Mat:

Thank you for that.

I realise this is being developed for consoles by a different team, but the state they've launched it in makes you look bad - the game is very broken. Here's a more concise list:

(Xbox Version)

• The game supports Quick Resume, but when you resume the game it quits back to the title screen, making the feature pointless
  
• Scrolling through the level list causes pauses and hangs for multiple seconds, as does pausing the game
  
• Challenge Mode doesn't work as you cannot select challenges to play
  
• 20 achievements are broken and don't unlock - all trophy / leveling / planet completion / module combining / challenge related ones, as well as ones for getting level three and four items. Look up the game on Gamertag Nation or True Achievements to see which ones nobody across the entire Xbox Network has unlocked.
  
• The corner screen decorations during gameplay often appear above the on screen icons, so you can't see the icon / button / energy requirement
  
• Menu controls are borderline unusable. They are absolutely bonkers! Have to combine both analogue sticks, buttons and the Dpad to simply select different towers. A simple cursor (like in game) would have been MUCH better. Genuinely never encountered a menu so utterly alien to use.

It's a huge shame, as we love playing it - we play it every day - but it's a battle against the UI and UX, rather than against the funny animals.

I hope this helps.

Thank you so much for providing detailed information about the issue. This information will be of great help in troubleshooting.
We'll forward this to the team whose develop console version and try to resolve it as quickly as possible.

[C64 Mat]

No problem; I'm looking forward to seeing future updates, should they come :D

[C64 Mat]

Just a quick bump to say we eagerly await an update so we can play challenge mode and unlock the broken achievements on Xbox

[thefrozeneskimo]

Just bought this on Xbox and was looking around online about some of the achievement and other issues and found this - any updates on this by any chance? I know you said it's handled by another company but wanted to see if they'd reached any conclusions

[C64 Mat]

It's been TWO MONTHS since I reported the issues with the console versions - I'd like an update too!

[jinthreestudio]

I'm really sorry. We have notified the console development team of the official release with the issue, but have not received any response.

[C64 Mat]

Kindly keep at them - this is the kind of thing that can easily destroy the reputation of a studio early on. And it's a great game - I just want to be able to play all of it.

[JORAX]

The issue was reported to you 2 months ago, and you haven't got a response from your dev team in that time? I'm assuming you contracted them for this work, but it looks very badly on your studio when 20 out of 54 achievements don't work properly. Can your publisher (Xbox says it is RedDeerGames) assist with this? What about the ID@Xbox team?

[C64 Mat]

On the 7th of this month it will be three months since I reported the issue. And it's not just Xbox, it's Switch in docked mode as well, because we simply cannot access Challenge Mode, as it's been designed for touch screens with no back up.

[CheshireMulisha]

Interested in buying this on Xbox myself but it sounds too broken to purchase. I know i'm not alone in waiting for it to be fixed, so you're losing out on sales at the moment.

[C64 Mat]

Three months, and we still can't play a huge chunk of the game or unlock half of the achievements. Feel absolutely ripped off, but more importantly upset at the thought of my missus not being able to play it. Kick them up the bloody arse! It's your game, it's your fault if you hired incompetent porters.