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Shinken

6 Jan @ 8:36am

Suggestion: High Stakes mode

Hi!

The game is a wonderful co-op experience! That said, with some experience, you can keep your ship alive for a long time even if you opt to choose the more dangerous missions.

This is fine, but as a co-op game, you can keep a session running only for so long before you have to retire it early because of the clock.

Especially if your teammates have family or need to be up early next morning, you're lucky if you can get 2 hours of playtime in the evening. That's like two bosses or less if you dawdle around and chill a bit between the action, which is, in my opinion, part of the charm.

Unless saving and continuing a run will eventually be an option, a faster high stakes mode would help. Something that can be completed in two hours max but will mostly be cut short anyway because of odds stacked against you.

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[HUTLIHUT] Daniel [developer] 23 hours ago

Originally posted by Shinken:
Hi!

The game is a wonderful co-op experience! That said, with some experience, you can keep your ship alive for a long time even if you opt to choose the more dangerous missions.

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Hey!

First of all - thanks for those kind words! Making games players enjoy is what gets us devs up in the morning ... well, that and coffee, naturally.

And you are correct. The sessions were never meant to be that long, we have underestimated players. The good news is this is one of our highest priorities for the next update.

We will do some official space log on the subject with more details, but in essence we will be doing two changes:

1. Adding optional mutators - mutators being add-ons to make runs more difficult, but also more rewarding! The exact mutators are not set in stone yet, but one could be that your circuit breakers flip 75% faster, or enemies all have shields!

2. Meta Balancing - The game is a bit too rough in the first few objectives, and doesn't scale relative to the player's power progression, so this is turning a ton of knobs to invert that curve (ie easier to begin with, and scaling faster).

It is still in the works, but our goal is to make shorter session more intense and rewarding - and avoiding the extended grindy sessions.

Does our thoughts and plans align with your thoughts? (Just to make sure I understood you correctly).

Sincerely,
Daniel from Hutlihut Games

Shinken

19 hours ago

Originally posted by HUTLIHUT Daniel:
Originally posted by Shinken:
Hi!

The game is a wonderful co-op experience! That said, with some experience, you can keep your ship alive for a long time even if you opt to choose the more dangerous missions.

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Does our thoughts and plans align with your thoughts? (Just to make sure I understood you correctly).

Sincerely,
Daniel from Hutlihut Games

Yep! That sounds awesome! Thank you!

Last edited by Shinken; 19 hours ago

Sasha Mason has Void Crew

18 hours ago

Sounds good to me and also lines up with my own experience.
Early game, the first few missions when you still have starter weapons all the way until the first boss, that's the hardest part of the run. The first few missions especially. But once you managed to beat your first boss, it'll only get easier from that point forward. A few bosses later and you'll have such an insanely overpowered ship and barely any worthy opponents to throw it against.

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Date Posted: 6 Jan @ 8:36am

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