07.02.2013, 16:55 by HPoltergeist
[quote="dcode"]Hello everyone,
as the game seems to be pretty stable at the current point, I decided to go for some bigger feature requests / CTD 1.2. This might include the following:
- Ranked matchmaking starting with a 1on1 ladder (special ranked skill per ladder, fresh start per season, finishes with play-offs)
- Custom game rules (disable certain towers, modify starting credits, income and lives, ...) as a PRO feature
WDYT?[/quote]
Hi!
Let's get to the point. =)
Just read your post, and I can't leave it...
First of all, the game is not stable at all... One of every ~10 games starts normally. The others are aborted with "connection aborted" message or alike or just simply get frozen, even at the game creation, while I'm waiting for others. Or the room is closed because of a timeout, or I have to close myself, because it is not responding. Sometimes the game lags so badly, so it's hard to play. Other times I don't get chat messages at all.
I have 120/10 cable internet connection and a PC with 8-core processor and 8GB of ram, 1GB of graphics ram, SSD and so on...
I don't think, this should go this way. So it seems you have much more to do... like performance tuning and network adjustments.
Not to mention the game experience. The balane is not the best I can tell. On easy, there are situations, where you can almost have no kills (early - later I don't know, because I don't get that far...), because of a short map or fast creeps or alike... the easy, should be easy... you know. =)
Or put a game mode in like "Casual Players" to be played by Saturday night players, who has not much time to play and to improve their tactics. Just for fun, you know...
The other thing is: the player gets no XP for the last position, doesn't matter if it is easy or hard (observing from different points)? I think, that's annoying. Az least 1 XP should be given and if you plan to boost the winners' advance by XP, then give them moch more than last positioners... but the last one shoud get -if not much but at least 1 XP-, that player was there too, and played your game.
If it causes to make the ranks higher, then you should do that. =/
Casual players again: for them there can be a game mode, where the last one gets XP too...
Altogether:
I see serious performance, network and balance issues here, so that post was a bit to confident.
So you should solve these, before adding new features or so.
These are just viewpoints of what I've experienced about your game.
You decide: delete it, to not to be seen, or use it as a constructive criticism.
Greets,
HPoltergeist