My playthroughs

[Willie The Automaton]

I managed to beat the demo on my "first" run. The running felt great, however....

• I had no idea how to start the game, in fact, I thought the demo was just a free run test in that little starting area until I saw someone on tiktok playing it. I apparently missed a pop up?
  
• The procedural generation, while I get it, can leave some really poor / broken levels. I got stuck in the bottom of a ravine in a skull level and had to sit there till I died to the "fog".
  
• So far, the buffs from the shops seem lackluster. For a roguelike, shops should really change the feel of your character. The buffs available feel like they could have been a level up system rather than shops / rather than a roguelike entirely. They're not bad by any means, but the general design behind the game lacks the crunch to really benefit from the roguelike mechanics sprinkled in
  
• Maps / challenges need some sort of coherency, in 99% of the levels you're going from point a to point b. I had one that I had to dodge beams coming down, so I figured I had to dodge them while racing to the end of the level, which cause me to launch myself off the level.
  
• I also had a skull level that had a giant, thing? right smack dab in the middle of the map that I had to run through but couldn't without going hard right or left which let the fog catch up to me. I ended up losing my run on that map alone due to this. which leads me to
  
• some sort of indicator on where to go would be really helpful.
  
• What is the scoring system at the end of each level? I get a rating, but no idea why I got said rating. Was I too slow, did I take damage, did I not beat LIN Shidong by holding my ping pong paddle with my feet?
  
• I had a bug the first time I played, which is probs why I missed the where to go note pop up. Not sure how to recreate, but I never noticed the tutorial pop up about boosting until I was just about to leave the level. I clicked right as I went through the portal and after that the boosting animation where she jumps on the board kept playing over and over as if I was clicking my mouse repeatedly. Couldn't fix it, so I had to close the game out.

Even with all of this said, I love the gameplay. It gives me an old school Tribes feeling with the movement and I love it. Even if nothing of what I said is changed, it's still a day one buy for me. Landfall kicks ass, ya'll are always making such interesting games. Any openings in the audio dept? XD

[Beth]

Glad to hear you liked the demo and thanks for the feedback :) The rank is determined by speed and how close you are to the killing barrier that is following you.

[dragonjet]

I had the exact same issue in the hub. Needed to restart the entire demo in case I missed something. Finally looked it up and found someone else show where to go. There's no indicator in the hub at all of how to start the shard.