somany nuisances in this game. why!?!?

[Ciggie-Butt Brain`]

only just bought the game today and there are a lot of things that get in the way of the actual playability of this game.

scrolling between droids is random. WHY!?
there is an annoying screen shake every now and then when changing droids which makes it hard to see on the bottom which one you have chosen. WHY?!

when one of my stupid AI bots are walking in to a gigantic group of droids ahead and im deciding what droid i want to use, i cant select him before he gets obliterated.

[cprince]

Next patch fixes scrolling between droids and has option to turn off screen fritz effects, and has an indicator on your current droid at the bottom. Also, droid can be selected with keys 1...8.

Due out possibly later today.

Droid AI is not designed to keep them alive, it's designed to make them kill other droids. If you want droids that are better at staying alive get armoured ones, or ones with more hitpoints, and try to ensure they've got multicore brains. Their only other purpose is as a meat shield and emergency hosts when your current host gets the finger.

[Ciggie-Butt Brain`]

glad to hear about the updates!
also i think the chasis bar and the life bar of the selected droid is usually different.
arent they meant to be the same?

[cprince]

that's a bug if they're not the same; they should be consistent (and are, in the new patch)

[Princess Fuzzy]

Publicado originalmente por cprince:

that's a bug if they're not the same; they should be consistent (and are, in the new patch)

Here are a couple of screenshots from the new patch, showing them being different...
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=120669548
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=120670872

[cprince]

Ah yes, sorry; the large chassis bar also shrinks as the chassis degrades (that is, the red bit shrinks) I should probably render it slightly differently.

[Princess Fuzzy]

Publicado originalmente por cprince:

Ah yes, sorry; the large chassis bar also shrinks as the chassis degrades (that is, the red bit shrinks) I should probably render it slightly differently.

Yeah, I thought it might be something like that.
Perhaps a frame around the chassis bar could make it more obvious, so you've got blue for intact chassis, red for damaged and black for degraded.

[dingu]

I havent got the game yet but i will
Tell me if its fun

[cprince]

Of course it's fun :) You don't need to invest your life into it, just blow ♥♥♥♥ up!

[Psy-Q]

I'm not sure if being able to switch off the "screen fritz" effects includes also the shake effect? That's the one that gives me nausea (even in game trailers).

[cprince]

ah, never thought about that one before. Could add it to the "shader fx" option.