FIGHT-QUEST

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Hello.

TL;DR - good shit

After sinking around 15 hours into gnocking out gnomes and making my way into the top 100 on the leaderboard, I've made a few observations. I'll start with the things I like first.

The movement and combat feel quick and responsive. Airstrafing 30 feet in the air while healing almost feels like cheating. The map feels large and small at the same time, which I'd say is a good thing. It's large enough to not be easily goofable, while also being small enough to see everything running towards you. Discovering the little secrets hidden around was definitely interesting. I'm not sure if the secrets are functional at this point, but being able to explore the map before you start allows you to speculate and theory-craft, which is always nice.

The mushroom jump pads can be a little finicky in terms of consistent output. Sometimes they work as intended, sometimes they do weird stuff, like turn all of your momentum into forward momentum and launch you across the map (there is no fall damage yet thankfully). I've noticed something similar with the skull mushrooms, where if you hit them or land on them at the perfect angle, they will fling you pretty far. It's honestly not terrible though, and it never ruined anything for me.

One of the few gripes I have is with the terrain. Your ability to traverse the sloped terrain is strange in its function, as some slopes act differently than others. This was never too crazy for me, but sometimes you'll get stuck for 2-3 seconds on a slope, and get boxed in by tiny gnome people. A frog got stuck on top of a tree and almost ended my run one time, which was funny but a little scary. Generally pretty good though.

The enemy AI is generally pretty good, though rarely, the smaller gnomes can get stuck on boxy geometry. The spot I saw this occur the most frequently was the hole underneath the boiling cauldron. There were some other spots, but I think none ever got stuck long enough to really be noteworthy.

During endless, the game starts to buffer a bit. After round 50, the latency caused by the sheer number of entities on the screen gets to be a little overwhelming. Definitely not an issue most people will ever encounter, but can become a little frustrating for those trudging through endless. It seems like the size of the horde also affects how fast things are registered, or if they are registered at all. Hit detection definitely becomes iffy when there are 300 gnomes standing around you. There have been plenty of times in endless where it seemed like a punch should have landed, but just didn't.

I can't think of much that would make the game better aside from the obvious, such as furthering upgrade progression, new upgrades, more upgrade rarities, more combat options, different playstyles, challenge runs, more movement options (crouching, sliding), etc.

Overall, a fun and addictive vertical slice! I can see this becoming massively popular. Mr. Moist himself has already played, so I'd say you're doing well enough.

Also, I agree with the last person, you should make a server of some kind for the game.

Please make a discord server

Hi! 

Firstly, I must say that I absolutely adore Fight-Quest. The game's premise, as well as its art style, is super fun! Congratulations!

I have to ask, are you planning to localise your game into additional languages? Because if you do, then I would like to offer my help with that! I deal with the English<->Polish language pair.

If you'd be interested, you can reach out to me on Discord: krucha8964 

Cheers! And good luck with further development of your game!

Played the demo for a good few hours yesterday, had a blast! I wanted to give some feedback on the demo so far:

• The movement and light combat that is in the demo feels great! It’s fast, responsive and reactive which is always a good thing to have in a game like this
• The enemy AI works well, no apparent problems there, and the tougher enemies in the later rounds are a fun challenge
• One consistent problem I faced when playing was trying to pick up healing potions while running. At times the item won’t get picked up and I’ll have to go back and pause for a moment before being able to grab it. Whether this was an intentional feature or not, it was definitely jarring.
• Having some sort of menu/indicator to see what upgrades you’ve collected and what levels they are would be pretty handy! I’m not sure if this is something that is planned to be added later, but I think this would be a nice quality of life addition

Those are all of my immediate notes/thoughts, I think this game is great and you are doing a wonderful job with it! I would love to see a discord server made for this project so we can see consistent updates and give our feedback there as well!

SO GOOD

Cool stuff!

idk I think I’m going to like this a lot

leave no gnome un punched!