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sterling_archerit is glitched to all hell for me. almost unplayable
slugmoney***preface: I know nothing about game development, so some of the stuff below could be totally stupid from a development point of view, these are just some thoughts from someone who's been playing the game.
I think this is a great game with great potential, but it feels like you guys are more concerned with aesthetics and pumping out new maps. I have no idea how the development works, all I know is that the past few updates haven't done too much. M2 was great, but there wasn't that much that changed, only trails/prewind. I hate to do this, but I have to compare this to shredsauce. Snow is much better looking, it's got more diverse maps, and feels "realer". However shredsauce has got its technical stuff so good. Rails are very good in shred. Jumps are very good. I think that snow has immense potential, but it needs work at the basic level. Focus more on just rails, just jumps. Its amazing how complex snow is, but I honestly think the issues are in these basic things.
My dad always told me to offer ways to improve instead of just complaining, so here are some ideas (just my ideas, devs prob know better): Maybe focus less on maps, especially if there will be a custom map maker implemented, the community will then make them for you. I would say focus on the basics of rails, jumps, and riding overall. Fixing jumps could be as easy as adding some speed...
In the end, I think more people will appreciate a game that works great, rather than looks great.
tl;dr: function over form, not form over function. Great game.
TNORTSplease just get rid of pre spins. Also its impossible to clear any jump in the new update. This has gone from a really fun game to nearly unplayable.
slugmoneytl;dr: function over form, not form over function. Great game.
SNOWTheGamebut we feel that a lot of what we believe is really solid gameplay will come from having they skis fully physicalized. With that fixed, grinding will actually work properly without us needing to build a whole system around it.
SNOWTheGameWe decided to release SNOW early so you guys could give you feedback, but we also ask that you are patient while we try to get things working properly.
SNOWTheGameYou're completely right in your feedback. But as _DUSTY_ said, these are different areas focused on by different developers.
Shredsauce definitely nailed the core gameplay really well, but with a bunch of smoke and mirrors to make things feel good. As we're developing a much bigger experience we can't rely on tickery to make systems and mechanics work as we want. We have to build them from the ground up to be completely dynamic so that the world can live and breath on its own.
One of the things our lead developer has spent a majority of his time on over the last month is to physicalize the skis. As you'll notice in both SNOW and Shredsauce, the skis are not actually "physically" there. If you ski into something you'll see that the front half and back half of the skis clip through the object. Malcom has done a great job working around this for Shredsauce, but we feel that a lot of what we believe is really solid gameplay will come from having they skis fully physicalized. With that fixed, grinding will actually work properly without us needing to build a whole system around it.
The reason we can release new levels is because our art team (3 guys now!) are building assets all the time. To build an entire open-world mountain with every possible detail we need to pump out a lot of art assets. We have made a priority list and sometimes those assets can be used in stand-alone levels. So for JOI and Fochi, 99% of those assets can be reused in the game somewhere else.
I spend every day playing SNOW trying to figure out what we need to do to get the core gameplay locked down. Unfortunately it's not an easy fix and will take a few more attempts to get it right (including a few new features). We decided to release SNOW early so you guys could give you feedback, but we also ask that you are patient while we try to get things working properly.
albatross.finally got some time to spend with the game, and I am really liking it. played it with a friend who I used to play a ton of amped 2 with back in the day, and wound up tweaking a lot of values to get things feeling better:
- we increased rail magnet distance a ton because rails were a pain to get on to
- reduced ski friction a ton because rails are crazy slow and sticky at default values. once we got a value we liked the skier was bouncing over kinks at speed in a pretty realistic fashion
- the old values for changing speed didnt seem to exist anymore, so we changed the threshold for pushing so we could push infinitely as getting speed right for rail lines is pretty annoying still
stuff that feels mechanically clunky still:
- Grabbing delay while jumping is weird. I was doing grabs in jumps at the same timing as amped 2 and the skier wouldnt grab, currently you have to wait too long to start the grab or it wont register
- jumping just feels really clunky in general. I feel like i press jump at the right time all the time and the skier just doesnt jump or jumps a second later
- getting speed for rails and rail lines really suck, too often you wind up just not moving between features or even on features. rails need to be smoother and getting speed on flat needs to be easier/faster
the games gonna be good tho!
Andrew_MWould love to know when you plan on releasing for mac or if you will at all, the amount of feedback you would receive might make it worth it.
SNOWTheGamewe have been able to compile the game for linux (50% of the work) but now are waiting for the last few files from Crytek to get it running.. we expect this to be relatively soon
McLSHow do you do screaming semen?????
mmccarthy14Ever since the new update my game won't open and I have no idea why.
SNOWTheGameUpdate went live earlier today that should fix the issue of the game not running on many of your systems.
If you have a low-end PC, please let us know how it runs on the lowest of settings - we've tried to really pair down the game for low spec, so hopefully it runs better.
SNOWTheGameUpdate went live earlier today that should fix the issue of the game not running on many of your systems.
If you have a low-end PC, please let us know how it runs on the lowest of settings - we've tried to really pair down the game for low spec, so hopefully it runs better.
SNOWTheGamewe have been able to compile the game for linux (50% of the work) but now are waiting for the last few files from Crytek to get it running.. we expect this to be relatively soon
ny300zdoes anyone else want a big jump line with just a shit load of jumps one after another?
im sure that would be really is to make too
McLSHelp!
none of the 3 arrows grab work (so dub tailgrab, bow and arrow, screaming semen). They never actually worked for me, i just didn't know those grabs existed, should i redownload the game?
swordsandpensI found one skiing around it was like 4 o 5 i think, haven't found it again tho
