Bugs and Suggestions

[Miloš Sladić]

Bugs:

1: I found out when my ship is at the bottom of the screen and I need to move it up, as I start to move my mouse up, the ship is still standing in the same position. After a few centimeters of mouse movement ship starts to move too. Its like theres a little lag when I need to move ship for the bottom or top of the sreen. I am not sure about sides...

2: Also first time I played I notice strange mouse sensitivity. I need to change my dpi from 1000 to 2000 to make it *somehow* tolerable. In 4.15 version sensitivity was excellent.

Suggestions:

1: About engine color. I like colors which I can unlock, but they look so stupid coz my cabine glass remains purple. It should change color as I change my engine color. Right now with non purple engine color my ship looks like a clown.

2: That many upgrades for side weapons... I mean does anyone use these? the game is easy as it is, and those side weapons as rocket one can only help you die faster... And as I know they don't last very long, so finishing 50 levels without using side weapons just so you could have 5 of them at the same time and then spend them in 10 seconds is just stupid....

3: Instead of them (btw 200 keys for each upgrade omg...) there should be more main weapon upgrades. Like level 30, 40 and 50. (I usually finish with more then 80 upgrades so 50 is just fine). At least that would be VERY usefull.

Ty for reading. Agree if you think the same or make a suggestions or bug report yourself.

[🅱InterAction studios]

Thanks for your feedback!

To maintain compatibility with touchscreens, the game doesn't capture the mouse cursor exclusively. Your normal mouse pointer is not visible, but it's still there, and it functions normally as it would on your desktop.

This means that:

1. There is no way to constrain the mouse pointer in the game window

2. There is a region around the edges of the screen that your spaceship can't follow, so if your mouse pointer is there, you will note this 'lag' in following the mouse.

3. We don't mess with mouse sensitivity at all. Whichever way the mouse works on your desktop, that's exactly how it should behave in the game.

Also, thanks for your suggestions! We have some of them in the pipeline for Chicken Invaders 5 :)

[KOZZA]

Originally posted by InterAction studios:

Thanks for your feedback!

To maintain compatibility with touchscreens, the game doesn't capture the mouse cursor exclusively. Your normal mouse pointer is not visible, but it's still there, and it functions normally as it would on your desktop.

This means that:

1. There is no way to constrain the mouse pointer in the game window

2. There is a region around the edges of the screen that your spaceship can't follow, so if your mouse pointer is there, you will note this 'lag' in following the mouse.

3. We don't mess with mouse sensitivity at all. Whichever way the mouse works on your desktop, that's exactly how it should behave in the game.

Also, thanks for your suggestions! We have some of them in the pipeline for Chicken Invaders 5 :)

OMG CHICKEN INVADERS 5 !!! :D
BTW, are the scores world wide ? because I can only see my own. but if there not, i think it would be an awesome update if they were :D...

[Miloš Sladić]

CI5 !!!!!!! please make it pre-order available on STEAM!!!

[🅱InterAction studios]

Well, first it has to go through Greenlight, but we're counting on you guys to vote it through! :)

We'll let you know once the Greenlight page is up.

[Miloš Sladić]

kk ty

[hotsnr]

I've founded some bugs:
1. After sheap's death and returning there is no weapon sound for 1-2 seconds (I'm not sure is on every level, but I had this.
2. On multimonitor systems there is problem with fullscreen mode. I know that your engine takes data about fullscreen modes from SDL, but this is bad because in window mode there are a lot of problem with cursor.

[🅱InterAction studios]

Originally posted by hotsnr:

I've founded some bugs: [...]

Which OS? Windows/Linux/Mac?

[hotsnr]

Sorry for that reports, here it is:
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS x86_64
Cl4.log:

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Current directory: /home/roma/.steam/SteamApps/common/Chicken Invaders 4
Log file: /home/roma/.IAdata/InterAction studios/CI4/4.17steam/CI4.log
Log date: 2014-06-19 22.16.16 UTC
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[🅱InterAction studios]

Yes, SDL seems to be reporting 3286x1080 which is not a valid video mode (looks like 1920x1080 joined with 1366x768).

What happens if you go to Options -> Graphics -> Advanced and set your resolution to 1366x768 and also turn full screen ON? Does the game appear correctly?

[hotsnr]

Yes, I have 2 monitors (1920x1080 and 1366x768). And no, it doesn't.
There is a screenshot[dl.dropboxusercontent.com] with your settings (I have set settings and restarted the game), there are some artefacts on terminal window (they are not real) , but that black shadows behind game really exits.
Fullscreen mode is mystery, this is screenshot[dl.dropboxusercontent.com] from wine.

[hotsnr]

After some time I've solved the problem with quite dirty hack:
1st monitor screenshot[dl.dropboxusercontent.com]
2nd monitor screenshot[dl.dropboxusercontent.com]

First of all, I needed to force SDL choose correct monitor for fullscreen mode.
That's why I needed to modify startup param to "export SDL_VIDEO_FULLSCREEN_HEAD=0 && %command%". (you can switch monitor by using 1 instead of 0). But this is not enough to second monitor and I had to set manualy monitor resolution in Cl4.cfg. (if you switch monitor in this way and do not modify cfg file, you can receive app crash with such error in log:
calcClosestMatchParameters(): Requested mode 1366x768 fullscreen.
error(): Error: Assertion failed.
Statement: bestW!=0 && bestH!=0
Function: calcClosestMatchParameters()
File: UveGraphics.cpp
Line: 586
error(): Forced exit.
)

[hotsnr]

And also I've founded another bug I think.
On video when I loaded my saving and started move mouse quickly, additional weapon is in quite long distance for 1-2 seconds. This video is not the best example and I'm not sure is this a bug.

[🅱InterAction studios]

Thanks for the awesome info, hotsnr! It will come in handy for other Linux players too!

Regarding your bug video, this is a known "limitation" of how satellites are handled when resuming a game. It doesn't look great, but that's life :)

[OneFineJester]

I havea bug issue, when I start gameplay, the title music plays while I'm on the Chicken Battlefield.

[OneFineJester]

I'm on Windows 8.1