Feedback

[brybo]

I'm going to provide some feedback here after buying and launching for the first time.

I'll preface this with I am a HUGE fan of the original Vampire Slayer mod. I still play it to this day with my friends and family. I would like to see nothing but success for VS: Resurrection so I will offer some player feedback as I play.

Bugs / Needed Features:
-Invert Y access not working when toggled (mouse)
-No exit button on the main menu, must ALT-F4 to quit
-No mouse cursors on menus
-Custom keybindings are lacking, not all players use WASD to move. Allow any key or mouse button to be used for any purpose.
-No video options, resolution options, graphics options of any kind
-No sound options of any kind
-No integration into steam server lists
-While in game, using WASD on the menus will also move the camera in game.

Personal Feedback:
The struggle of not having the Half-Life engine as your backbone is apparent here. The Vampires do not feel good to play because the movement capabilities that the Half-Life engine provided with bunny hopping, air drifts and air acceleration is what gave the Vampires such depth in the original game. Without those movement options you are taking the core toolkit of the Vampires away. I could give a seminar on all of the intricacies and movement tech that was available to Vampires in the original. It is what made the entire game different from any other Half-Life mod. Not the slayers, but the vampire movement is what made VS well, VS. Recreate that movement here as much as you possibly can. That's my personal take on it. Otherwise I like all of the details of trying to stay true to the original content especially the classic maps. I would also say that the current down state time of the Vampires is way too long.

I know that a lot of the decisions are being made to try and push this onto the consoles which is fine. Two of those changes being a dedicated leap button and weapon cycling. I would highly urge you to bring changes to the PC version to allow it to function like the original VS. The PC community is where all of the fans of VS are and where all of the long lasting support is. The PC version needs further updates and options beyond the console version.

I hope this was helpful. Good luck and I'll continue to keep an eye on this game.

[wuG]

this 100% ^

[Dill Pickle]

Bugs;

-prayer not always working?
-pump shotgun randomly spawns with 0 ammo and you have to fire then reload to fix it.

[Dill Pickle]

Also molly's xbow heart hitbox is pretty unforgiving. Might wanna increase that a little

[brybo]

Originally posted by HAVEN Dill Pickle:

Bugs;

-prayer not always working?
-pump shotgun randomly spawns with 0 ammo and you have to fire then reload to fix it.

Yes please feel free to use this thread for any player feedback and bugs. Hopefully it will help guide the devs towards meaningful fixes.

[.........]

Add more maps please. Maps are small and get boring quickly. And please add more classes. The game really needs something that will keep the interest in it. For example, getting new skins for player levels or something other than fighting in matches. Need to give players more action, like day maps where hunters can break windows in buildings to let daylight in to keep vampires out.

[Zach]

A way to access options from the main menu is a must, and more options in general.
We need audio sliders, and the mouse sensitivity slider doesn't go low enough on my end!

[Dill Pickle]

Also inverted mouse checkbox doesn't work :(

[Wobbly Tooth]

I'll be fixing the mouse invert, it inverts the gamepad at the moment.

wow Brybo that's quite a burn, personally I like the way the vampires feel so yeah. I'll have a look at tweaking them after I've played against good slayers more.

[qeylime]

agree

[[BusyBees] Jim!]

QoL stuff aside, my 2 cents is that the game isn't gory enough. Let's take some heads as the vampires, and I prefer the old juicy vampire gib to the current turn-to-dust death.

[brybo]

Originally posted by Wobbly Tooth:

I'll be fixing the mouse invert, it inverts the gamepad at the moment.

wow Brybo that's quite a burn, personally I like the way the vampires feel so yeah. I'll have a look at tweaking them after I've played against good slayers more.

Thanks for the quick fix on the invert mouse. I see that you also added a quit game function to the main menu. It's not meant to be a burn I'm just trying to give some honest feedback on what I think the core of Vampire Slayer is. Keep up the good work with the fixes and features!

[Cracko298]

Even. More. Blood.

[[BusyBees] Jim!]

Can there be a way for the servers to remove bots as real players come in to replace them? I found some pub matches with 3-4 other players tonight and the game is damn fun, but the bots get in the way and are a real bummer.

[Junkso]

I think one of the main issues with Vampire movement is that you should be able to leap and strafe at the same time.

Right now you're only able to leap forward, this causes a loss of momentum when trying to strafe left or right while on a leap... the same applies to strafing when jumping, and that's how you got momentum in the original game as a Vampire.

In fact a lot of Vampire players used a leap script back in the day, to be able to leap with a single key.

Vampire is not playable like it used to be in the original, you simply cannot do the flashy moves or the high speed - accel strafes to get behind a slayer, turn around buildings and all that.

[Junkso]

I would add:

After doing some testing on Vampire movement, you can clearly see this behaviour if you strafe forward with W, then switch to strafe D or A and jumping at the same time.

Best regards!