Hi. I figured I would repeat all of my questions in one place. When I get too close to the giant to hit, he can still hit me. Is this supposed to be the case?
I just hit the giant on advanced difficulty with 10 arrows and he didn't die. Is this reasonable? This isn't a complaint btw I'm just observing and makeing sure this stuff is working the way it's expected to. The guns don't do any damage to the giant it seems. Why is this? I can't imagine why arrows would hurt him but guns don't even begin to. I'm wondering if we can re-implimint ducking the way it used to be, so you can stay ducked as long as you want, it just doesn't do you any good to stay ducked down for more than one hit because the enemy will compensate. It is confusing when you duck and stand up again, I find that it makes it difficult to keep track of what's going on. I would like to be able to duck, shoot, stand up, then maybe jump and shoot, but the way ducking works in beta 2 this isn't realy possible to control, because ducking works for it's own amount of time and all that. You mentioned possibly impliminting keystrokes to be able to walk while ducked down. I can see some reasons to do this. If you code in a new kind of obsticle, an air duct, or something like that, or a ledge is too low to the ground, you have to duck to go under it. There's been a lot of discussion regarding your range to an enemy. I think I believe that the character should be blocked by the enemy and thus unable to pass the enemy. I also believe the pistol and the combat knife should still be useable in such close contact. The pistol could be jammed against the enemy and fired that way, and the knife could be jabbed at the enemy from the side etc. If the character is blocked from passing the enemy, when the enemy tries to fire a weapon too close to the enemy, the weapon is not fired at all. In the menues, should the first item in the menu be selected automatically and spoken after the menu title is heard? Select a menu item. new game. press enter. Select a game. Arcade. Press enter. Select a difficulty level. Beginner. Down arrow. intermediate. press enter. for yes no prompts if an option is selected automatically it should be no, not yes. Just a thought. In the view scores menu, should the score be spoken without having to press enter? Intermediate. 20, 5, thousand, 9, hundred, 40, 5. In some cases when speech is happening it is impossible to interrupt speech. These include when the score is being spoken, when some things are being performed status keys like s for score, a for ammo. When the game is started and the copywrite information is being spoken, etc. Should it be made possible to press any key and interrupt these things? I know that for instance when you check your ammo the game is paused until the speech is complete. what i'm after is the possibility to just stop speech and have the timer resume. I could press control, or press an arrow key to walk etc. One problem with this is that I like to hold down navigation keys and do other stuff simultaneously, it would be nice if the keys could avoid interrupting speech unless they are released and pressed, not if they have been held down from the begin with. Did you receive my improved 5 sound? I have noticed that my character can get hit even after the eneemy is dead by the dead eneemy, or after the view or inventory menues are brought up. Say I walk into that giant. I hear the character scream. I press tab because I have the wrong weapon and I want to switch useing that menu because I'm not comfortable pressing the numbers to change weapons just yet. So I press tab, the menu comes up, the voice says select a menu item. and then I hear the character scream again. I have been killed this way. I have also been killed after having already killed the enemy that killed me, more than once in a row. For example imagine I go aft3er a harpy with my 9mm. I blast 5 times, but I had 40 percent health, I got hit once while I was banging away. The harpy dies and hits the floor, and then, almost a full second later, I hear angela cry, and collapse to the floor. I am useing a netbook. The performance could, but probably isn't the issue. I have a 1.7ghz processor and 2gb of ram on windows xp. I have been able to run any audio game I want without a single performance related problem that I am aware of. I am going to regret this change if it is impliminted, but I think it should be impossible to fire the bow quickly. There should probably be a two second delay or there abouts. The pistol makes sense but you know the 9mm probably can only hold 15 shots. Have you thought about makeing it complicated and you have to change clips or something like that? I don't know anything about those guns really but the shotgun can probably only fire one shot, or maybe two if it is a side by side or over and under. It could also be a revolver but those things are huge and cumbersome and then it could still only fire 4 shots without being reloaded i believe. It's just a thought. it would complicate things to code these things both for players and the programmer but I thought I would mention it anyway. With the sub machine gun, could you change it so you can hold down the space bar and fire shots until you release it or run out? That would be the only weapon that works that way. As it is you can make it sound like you have two or three of those sub machine guns going at once. I didn't think that would actually have been really difficult to do, but the sound would have to be changed.. Could probably cut parts of the existing sound out and play thema t random queueing them one after the other, one sound per shot, and when you release the arrow key you can stop playing those sounds and queue up the echo sound that's on the end. That could make the machine gun some pretty fun stuff. Someone has already mentioned this one, if you get killed in the room with the two pits, the game thinks you're walking on a ledge every step until you jump over one of the pits. With the rope, I have found that sometimes I can jump streight up to get onto it, but I have found that it's persnickety. Sometimes I can't jump from the left of it to the right and land on it. I pass the rope entirely. I thinkk the code there is maybe just too strict? Is it possible to allow some slack in the coordinates or what ever you use and have it just provide a better chance to snag the rope if you jump up at it from any direction? unless you really do go the wrong direction. I probably ought to be able to grab the rope even if I jump from slightly to the right or left of it streight up, since she can probably still reach out and snag it. There is no way to go from the water room back to the beginning again. Is this supposed to be the case? When you jump into a statue, the statue isn't opened automatically and you can't walk another step towards it to open it, you must press enter. Is it possible to open the door or statue automatically even if you just jumped to get there? People have mentioned the creatures seem to be a little too quiet. I agree with this. But I have my hearing impairment to contend with anyway. I find with one of the creatures not sure which, I can't tell when it has been killed. All I hear is the character saying All Right! or something like that. And sometimes I miss that too if my weapon is makeing a racket. Just figured I would mention it. That particular creature doesn't make a clunk noiseas though it were hitting the ground. Should it? Ok, I think I'm done for now. Thanks for reading this. I'm not complaining anywhere in this I just like this game and I wanted to contribute my thoughts. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
