Fun game but seems rushed/unbalanced

[Kaisha]

I played both the normal and frontiers on kongregate. On both I got almost all the stars. I'm quite enjoying the smoother animation, better graphics, and having alot of fun. That said I don't think this game was well balanced. The faster unit movemnt (by a large margin) means you're forced to field 2-3x the number of baracks, and you can't keep up with the upgrades. My men are getting over-run. Most of the towers are ineffective against the faster units. The normal difficulty levels are easily 2-3x harder than the hard modes on kongregate. I like that its harder, but at this point some of the missions are near impossible.

[blizzzilla]

It's a bug if the enemies move faster than in the flash version.

[Spicedstoner]

im happy too see it released on steam tbh iron deserves some more publicity frontiers is fun as well i belive this has all content expansions or should it does take 1.5 gigs acording too uncomrpessed version

[FrozenSnowFox]

Others have been saying it but the game should be running at 30 fps. If it's running at 60 fps the game runs at 2x speed, at 120 fps it runs at 4x speed. It seems by default the game halves the refresh rate to get the framerate, unfortunately they don't seem to have taken into account that people have 120hz or higher monitors. If your running at anything more than 60hz the game is sped up. A dev has already responded that their going to try to get out a fix as soon as possible. In the meantime people have posted various ways to fix it. I myself just use one of my custom resolutions which run at 60hz.

[Spicedstoner]

eh give them time steam is a enw venture compared too ios or flash game

[Kaisha]

I'm running at 60hz. That said IF it was a framerate bug then the towers would shoot faster as well. Thats the problem, the enemies move much faster but everything else seems to occur at normal speed. So towers don't shoot faster, units don't attack faster, ect... Its just movement. Seems to affect all unit movement because hero's zoom around at ridiculous speed as well.

[Spicedstoner]

hmm well they will patch as they can

[Corobo]

Originally posted by Kaisha:

I'm running at 60hz. That said IF it was a framerate bug then the towers would shoot faster as well. Thats the problem, the enemies move much faster but everything else seems to occur at normal speed. So towers don't shoot faster, units don't attack faster, ect... Its just movement. Seems to affect all unit movement because hero's zoom around at ridiculous speed as well.

No, only the enemies are restricted to monitor refresh rate; towers are unaffected. Even with a 60Hz monitor it is going to be 2x speed because the default speed is at 30 FPS, so if you have an NVIDIA card, you need to go to to the NVIDIA control panel and turn v-sync to ON: adaptive (half refresh rate). That limits the game to 30 FPS, which will make the enemy speed normal.

[Spicedstoner]

lol so thats new wya of difficult levels the refresh rate XD

[Kaisha]

Originally posted by Kingling:

Originally posted by Kaisha:

I'm running at 60hz. That said IF it was a framerate bug then the towers would shoot faster as well. Thats the problem, the enemies move much faster but everything else seems to occur at normal speed. So towers don't shoot faster, units don't attack faster, ect... Its just movement. Seems to affect all unit movement because hero's zoom around at ridiculous speed as well.

No, only the enemies are restricted to monitor refresh rate; towers are unaffected. Even with a 60Hz monitor it is going to be 2x speed because the default speed is at 30 FPS, so if you have an NVIDIA card, you need to go to to the NVIDIA control panel and turn v-sync to ON: adaptive (half refresh rate). That limits the game to 30 FPS, which will make the enemy speed normal.

Bizzare, but ok I'll give it a try. TBH I was enjoying the harder difficulty, even if it was a bit masochistic :)

[Kaisha]

Thank-you that worked, and was MUCH easier. Perhaps too easy...