Posts made by islesofurth

additional holes i find will just go in this thread

There are multiple holes in the immediate vicinity of my character.

Started with it as Street Rat > was in hot bar / active memory

Learnt it from spiders > the ability to purchase it again appeared despite already having it in my active memory

Learnt it from goblins > was not in active memory, so purchase is a must to ever use again.

@Znirf @Prometheus

I was speaking with @Spectre in game earlier today about changing/Resetting Attributes as i thought such a thing would be possible in a horizontal progressive game.
He mentioned that there was talk of maybe adding in something like limited resets...

Currently the game feels very much designed for a traditional level up system where you can add attribute points to your character to great impact.
I say this because the way most abilities are designed relies to heavily on what attributes you currently have.
Without being able to freely change your attributes (even at a cost) Players are forced to only be able to use what works with the attributes they are given & not freely choose how to play the game themselves.

In my opinion if your going to put a hard limit on attribute resets then you are killing your game.
You created a great kill points resource with the knowledge system, use it for other things too.
Give players 1 free Attribute reset, then make them pay 5,000 points each reset.
This way players will think twice before using it, but it is cheap enough that you might want to change attributes before a big fight or raid, etc.

If you do not create the proper systems for people to use, your game is going to kill itself...
The only way limited resets would work is if attributes were worth nothing, hence you got nothing to reset...

Trees, stones, plants & other interactables spawning in the ocean.

Unable To use Paralysing Touch with a Dagger despite the description saying it can be used with a 1 handed weapon

The recipe for Strong poison Paste only requires 1 x Unguent
however it uses all the unguent currently available in players inventory regardless of being 1, 2 or 3.

The slow effect from the dire wolf's bite persists even after the de-buff has gone.
The only way to remove it is performing an action such as picking up an item or interacting with plants
or
getting hit with the de-buff again.

Getting hit with the de-buff a second time while slowed reverses the de-buff & lets the player run around when they should in fact be getting slowed.
(not tested if this also happens if encumbered)

Even with the door shut hostile creatures are still able to enter ones household & attack you.
didn't bother adding fences as they do not join to the house walls & walls don't block anyway.

Without "Remember Me" ticked my email is still there & my password empty.

With "Remember Me" ticked my email is also there & my password is still empty.

Obviously i am also not being logged in automatically as my password is not being saved.

Regardless of what this function is meant to do, it is not doing it

I started as the Rat so i already had "Poisoning Strike" by default.
Just after Learning Arcane missiles i found i also could learn poisoning strike despite already knowing it.
I only got a notification for the arcane missiles. (was not fighting both types of spiders at the same time)

If the wolf was eaten by the spider this makes a little bit of sense, but since the monsters never fight each other...

This has happened to me personally 3 times now when attempting to make arrows, both the heads & shafts would vanish when i am crafting the threads.

Others online have said their items also vanished but not specifically related to arrows.

EDIT:
Someone from the Alpha 1 said this was to do with pressing the Enter key, specifically the num enter key.
It causes random item slots from inventory to be cleansed. more items you have the higher chance you have to losing items.

@deusex2 said in Combat Targeting:

No auto-targetting, you even have to aim at yourself, if you want to heal yourself.

now thats cool.

I hope this leads to some interesting gameplay like healing the enemy of your enemy or even outright strange things.

The interesting part will be when people decide to specialise in a single resistant type at one time.

@Xzoviac said in Where is the news of the next test phase...:

self entitled much?

Your attitude stinks ur not his boss.

Calm down take a deep breath

The manger will be with you shortly sharon

Iv complained too and made lengthy posts about it and actually agree with you.

But there is ways and means of asking for things being on the attack calling him unprofessional so on is not the way.

Suggestions

In future have some posts lined up every few weeks with mini bits of content, or competitions whatever to keep the forum from feeling your lack of presence during holidays

Or just make a little I'm off on holiday post cya guys soon

Keep up the good work with the game guys

Thanks for the laugh, no i'm not his boss. I'm his customer & I'm far more deadly.

Seriously tho
I get what your saying and sure maybe i was over the top, but that was also the point.

If you ask nicely for something that someone does not have but they promised you, then they will most likely ignore you, say they don't have it, or possibly provide you with news of when they will have it.
If however they do not provide news of something they promised you, and you have been asking nicely. Then you need to stop asking nicely.
The person or party who promised to provide you something is only going to give that information/promised thing to you when it's finished/worth doing.

Now @Znirf is now aware that he needs to communicate more & not just rely on discord.
It certainly isnt hard or time consuming to leave a 10-20 word message saying something like "hey guys, still working on port. Were almost done, but Alpha2 will be delayed, stay tuned)
Could have also added the fact he was going on holiday so we would know when to expect another update, or organise someone else to do it instead.
But the fact that nothing happened is why i said it was unprofessional, because that is a basic thing anyone with basic training would know.

But anyway, now they know.

@Znirf said in Where is the news of the next test phase...:

These are not excuses, it's the reality of a small startup as we are.

maybe you should lookup the definition of what an excuse is & educate yourself, being as young as your are you clearly need it.

@Gibbx said in Where is the news of the next test phase...:

@islesofurth wow dude relax. Few projects in the history of mankind have stay on scheduled. Info is coming. This game is going to good. You need to exercise a little patience there friend.

No I don't expect them to remain on schedule.
I do however expect them to keep us up to date on such matters when they have a staff member who's job it is to deal with the community.
Even if he was on holiday it is still his job to ensure that we are kept in the loop.
@Spectre does a far better job at dealing with the community than @Znirf does and he is only an un-payed moderator, not a payed member of Dynamite Studios

@Althalus said in Where is the news of the next test phase...:

@islesofurth the company doesn't owe you anything other than a finished game... they don't owe you to give you status update on when they are taking a vacation... Dynamite has been doing a phenomenal job of keeping us updated compared to some other companies... since you don't even know the difference between mid October and early October (which we are still in btw) obviously we should not expect you to behave any better but cut the rudeness mkay?

Perhaps they only "owe" you a finished game, however they "owe" me & many others more than that.
Like many others they "owe" me access alpha 2.
Sure they don't need to provide news of when it is going to happen, they could just launch and force users to check constantly if they wanted to play.
And then most of the people would miss the test phase, the game wouldn't get the needed QA for launch, Launch would be horrid & everyone would boycott the game giving the game & company a bad name.

@PeachMcD said in Where is the news of the next test phase...:

@islesofurth - now THERE'S the sense of aggrieved entitlement I'm familiar with from so many game forums! "I paid MONEY! now JUMP, you lackeys, or I shall stamp my foot once again!"

So many places that kind of attitude is normal, I guess I can't blame you for thinking it would work here too.
So glad to see you are wrong. @Znirf's reply is so lovely and polite, and you probably won't appreciate that at all. Hope you'll find someplace else to be. You're obviously not going to enjoy this community at all.
bu-bye!

I kind of feel sorry for you @PeachMcD
For you to say that, you have a many years before you realise the importance of what i did. That is why you see it so often on other sites, not because "i paid money, now jump" but because of the laws we live by & the professionalism expected of companies.
If a company does not keep its clients happy by whatever means, then it is only natural that those clients let their grievances be known, either via media or to the company itself.

Many people think it is funny to harass the person who is in fact helping the company by letting them know they are upset with them.
Would you prefer i took my grievances to social media sites instead?

@Znirf said in Where is the news of the next test phase...:

@islesofurth but I was on vacation and the others were focusing on the porting.

Stop making excuses, when the studio is simply bad at keeping people up to date on events that people have already payed for.

If you are going to go on holiday, then you need to make sure such events are covered by another staff member or you complete it before hand.
You should also have provided a statement saying you were going on leave so backers knew not to expect updates.

This is downright unprofessional and dynamite is certainly not deserving of its fanatics when you act like this
Get your shit together and start acting like a proper company

@Specter said in Next test phase:

More news is coming soon. The test weekend is being postponed to early October though. They're almost done with porting Fractured to the new SpatialOS version.

It is almost mid October, you said we would have news early October but there is nothing going to our email, on the website or even on discord...

So whats the deal Dynamite.

@Pwnstar
Actually most games keep their security as secret as possible for obvious reasons.
It would not be smart to tell the very people your trying to catch how to avoid being caught or what system they need to hack into