Early Access version 82.2

[Doge1]

so i only find 2 wormholes but after knowing this fun trick

[SA-GoldenBoss128]

Wait if Fractorial thought of elevator wave, why Francis gets credit:

@InterAction_studios

Added “Elevator Action” wave (@Francis Idea)

[OneWingLunarian]

@InterAction_studios
Please pardon the video thumbnail. It’s just the culmination of how we felt in discord after we discovered this rather broken keyboard wormhole search trick.

How to find all wormholes in less than an hour [CIU Early Access v82.2]

[Pidgey]

Awesome age restricted

[iIfireIi]

@InterAction_studios Can you mention in-game that pressing l-shift slows down your movement

[Ahmed577]

Thank you so much for the trick.

[InterAction_studios]

@Recruit_75

Elevator action is just too claustrophobic

I’ve reduced the columns from 6 to 5 to give more space for maneuvering. The low number of chickens is intended, because this wave is more about proper positioning and less than mindlessly holding the fire button down.

@Recruit_75

Can it look more like Fractorial’s original design with 3x3 chickens

I can make this into a separate wave.

@Fractorial

Thanks for reminding me, yup this one

In your design, are elevators continuously going in one direction (with wrap-around)? Or do they stop and reverse direction (like the current “Elevator Action”)? If they reverse direction, then there are moments where some chickens are off-screen, correct?

Incidentally, your medal was incorrectly awarded for this wave – you’ll receive it in v.83

@OneWingLunarian

I found like 10 wormholes in a span of 1 minute with just using my keyboard to explore

I was aware of this when I first implemented the keyboard controls, but I left it in because keyboard navigation is already painful enough as it is. But I’ll look into making them unselectable beyond a certain zoom level – that might work.

@OneWingLunarian

in the 2 years and 4 months of my CIU career

No one has noticed this trick until now

Keyboard navigation is a much more recent thing – v.64 in the beginning of this year.

@SA-GoldenBoss128

Wait if Fractorial thought of elevator wave, why Francis gets credit:

Autocomplete failure, will correct in v.83.

[Francis]

Wow, lol

[Fractorial]

@InterAction_studios

In your design, are elevators continuously going in one direction (with wrap-around)? Or do they stop and reverse direction (like the current “Elevator Action”)? If they reverse direction, then there are moments where some chickens are off-screen, correct?

Yeah those elevators continuously go in one direction (like the one on castle levels in Super Mario Bros.) Both chickens and barriers warp on the opposite side.

One more thing, the design of the level pretty much requires the player to constantly move around between the barriers and soon switch columns (like on The Radar). This is quite different on Elevator Action where the player can just go up and down in one column. I got the inspiration of this wave on some shoot em up games.

Summary

@InterAction_studios

Incidentally, your medal was incorrectly awarded for this wave – you’ll receive it in v.83

Thanks

@SA-GoldenBoss128

Wait if Fractorial thought of elevator wave, why Francis gets credit:

Thanks goldenboss

[InterAction_studios]

@Recruit_75

can the initial entry animation for Retro Highway be made more arcade and jittery, the current animation is too smooth and modern

I can’t fix that. The animation is just as jittery as any other retro movement, however it’s very fast so the quantization isn’t really visible. And I can’t slow it down (wrap-around will not work correctly if it happens while enemy hasn’t settled down in its final position yet)

@Fractorial

Yeah those elevators continuously go in one direction

Ok, I’ve added this as a separate wave. Added to v.83 Idea.

[InterAction_studios]

@OneWingLunarian

step 3: pan around and occasionally press arrow keys till cursor locks onto empty space

Fixed in v.85 Bug