Loving the game needs more goblins though. Combat is a bit rough, main character is pretty sluggish, maybe if you could cancel her attacks with a roll it would be better. hope this project goes far, it's nice first release.
I would imagine that the environment is the one tanking the performance heavily, all those trees,grass, flowers, rocks. It would be nice to have a simpler level for the people who can't run the game well, like a combat arena or something, and also look into World Partition and LODs. For my "game" I'm doing all my combat stuff in the default GASP level which is just a bunch of cubes and mannequins. I have a 3070ti and from the 5 fps I was getting I think the one cinematic I was was quite nice, hope this project goes well.
nop, i tried a bunch of settings combos and i wasnt pushing more than 10fps, and that wasn't even constant. It does have only 8gb, but for the 2 characters and beautiful animations you currently have u shouldn't really sacrifice your performance on a pretty environment. I hope my comments don't come off as arrogant, I'm also learning to develop in unreal and just wanted to point out potential issues that I also encountered
The balance needs a bit of work. The player character's movement is sluggish and the rate which the elf attacks is sometimes too fast for the player's dodge to keep up. The slow swing rate leaves too big of an opening for the player, leaning the advantage for punishment too far in favor of the npc, due to the lack of animation cancelling and high stamina costs.
Once you're in an attack animation you're forced to complete it. Visually, it looks absolutely stunning, but the automatically tracking attacks which also propel the npc into striking range meant that I would dodge an attack only for the following attack to connect before the dodge animation completes.
After punishing the only single attack that can be consistently punished a single extra click would lock me into a slow swinging animation that cannot be canceled, and dodging after the animation completed wouldn't help since the NPC would just move forward in her animation.
With such punishing attacks, reducing stamina usage for dodging and allowing animation cancelling would smooth out combat significantly and the combat would feel amazing.
I did end up learning her attacks and beat her, which is A+ for a souls-like experience.
All in all, it's a really great little game/tech demo. I love the idea, the animation quality is amazing and the gameplay has promise. I think you have something very worthwhile already.
Also, I actually liked the AI voice, you managed to make it sound surprisingly good. The only part that sounded off was the moans, but I imagine voice models aren't really trained on moaning.
Edit: Also, I really do want to stress that the animation quality is superb. Seriously, you have a great eye for framing and the perspective shifts were fantastic. You had a few shots that I won't spoil which really took me by surprise in a good way.
This looks fishy. Downloads from external sources, with weird host names. Different file sizes. Extracted files contain a python script with an install option, that create some very sketchy files that get added to Windows startup.
I'd be very very careful. Caught it in time, hopefully, and currently scanning my computer and trying to assess any damage.
Both download mirrors, basically. Both served files of different sizes. Claimed they were 8.08GB, the actual downloads were actually 729 and 817MB respectively. I see you've taken down the download links.
This is what they both contain: an Instaler.exe, Instaler.py, log.txt file and data, lib and renpy folders.
Ok both links work, but I tried them without an adblocker and they both have popups that link to shady websites, which is probably where you got those. I'll find another hosting site
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Loving the game
needs more goblins though.Combat is a bit rough, main character is pretty sluggish, maybe if you could cancel her attacks with a roll it would be better. hope this project goes far, it's nice first release.I would imagine that the environment is the one tanking the performance heavily, all those trees,grass, flowers, rocks. It would be nice to have a simpler level for the people who can't run the game well, like a combat arena or something, and also look into World Partition and LODs. For my "game" I'm doing all my combat stuff in the default GASP level which is just a bunch of cubes and mannequins. I have a 3070ti and from the 5 fps I was getting I think the one cinematic I was was quite nice, hope this project goes well.
Does the 3070ti not even work on low graphics and lowest upscale quality?
nop, i tried a bunch of settings combos and i wasnt pushing more than 10fps, and that wasn't even constant. It does have only 8gb, but for the 2 characters and beautiful animations you currently have u shouldn't really sacrifice your performance on a pretty environment. I hope my comments don't come off as arrogant, I'm also learning to develop in unreal and just wanted to point out potential issues that I also encountered
The balance needs a bit of work. The player character's movement is sluggish and the rate which the elf attacks is sometimes too fast for the player's dodge to keep up. The slow swing rate leaves too big of an opening for the player, leaning the advantage for punishment too far in favor of the npc, due to the lack of animation cancelling and high stamina costs.
Once you're in an attack animation you're forced to complete it. Visually, it looks absolutely stunning, but the automatically tracking attacks which also propel the npc into striking range meant that I would dodge an attack only for the following attack to connect before the dodge animation completes.
After punishing the only single attack that can be consistently punished a single extra click would lock me into a slow swinging animation that cannot be canceled, and dodging after the animation completed wouldn't help since the NPC would just move forward in her animation.
With such punishing attacks, reducing stamina usage for dodging and allowing animation cancelling would smooth out combat significantly and the combat would feel amazing.
I did end up learning her attacks and beat her, which is A+ for a souls-like experience.
All in all, it's a really great little game/tech demo. I love the idea, the animation quality is amazing and the gameplay has promise. I think you have something very worthwhile already.
Also, I actually liked the AI voice, you managed to make it sound surprisingly good. The only part that sounded off was the moans, but I imagine voice models aren't really trained on moaning.
Edit: Also, I really do want to stress that the animation quality is superb. Seriously, you have a great eye for framing and the perspective shifts were fantastic. You had a few shots that I won't spoil which really took me by surprise in a good way.
This looks fishy. Downloads from external sources, with weird host names. Different file sizes. Extracted files contain a python script with an install option, that create some very sketchy files that get added to Windows startup.
I'd be very very careful. Caught it in time, hopefully, and currently scanning my computer and trying to assess any damage.
woah which file host did that
Both download mirrors, basically. Both served files of different sizes. Claimed they were 8.08GB, the actual downloads were actually 729 and 817MB respectively. I see you've taken down the download links.
This is what they both contain: an Instaler.exe, Instaler.py, log.txt file and data, lib and renpy folders.
Ok both links work, but I tried them without an adblocker and they both have popups that link to shady websites, which is probably where you got those. I'll find another hosting site
ah this explains the loss of download links lol
if you want examples of what other people use for hosting sites id recommend looking at peoples games on f95 as all their shits hosted off-site
I did get those hosting sites from f95 lol
I don't mind AI so I'm leaving the voices on. Good job on this!!