Which is why there will be two more difficulties in the first place.
Wanna play harder game modes?Upgrade from SSH(well,I do hope we get those difficulties soon,cos it’ll be embarrassing if we still don’t get 'em reading this a few months later).
There’s actuälly currently no info about if/when theſe’ll be available, except for the graphic. If they are introduced, it won’t change the fact that the difficulties need a rework.
The increaſed key rate is to reward people who play at theſe difficulties, and give them a few extra keys to ſpend on things like miſſiles. Their exiſtence ſhould not encourage everyöne to play on the hardeſt difficulty and then complain that it’s too hard.
Alſo, why does this ſound like a joke?
It’s not too ſmall on Rookie in my experiënce. I’m willing to be proven wrong, though.
The reaſon I don’t think it’s too ſmall on Rookie is that the enemies on Rookie are eaſiër to kill, and therefor one can uſuälly clear a nice, wide, circle before they actuälly get around to dropping eggs on one’s head. It’s ſo much harder in SSH ſimply becauſe it takes longer to cut that initial clearing, with the reſult that it’s harder to dodge when the enemies ſtart tryïng to kill you.
I wasn’t disproving you but ok,
Actually, I would like to ask something at @InterAction_studios. If I started designing waves, are they considerable for implementation? I know you said that we can suggest anything we want, It’s just that I think waves are one of the most, if not the most important part of the gameplay and I like to double confirm, before wasting time. And all of the ideas liked are just tweaks of the existing ones.
Of course,that has limitations,otherwise I’d have Freddy in the game by now.
Hope I’ve given nightmare fuel for anyone reading this.
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Yes, you can suggest waves and it is indeed possible that they make it into the game.
Bear in mind though that each wave is implemented purely in code at my end (there’s no visual editor), and it’s generally made up of small ‘building blocks’ that are combined together. So there is a chance a nice wave will not be implementable using current tools.
Current building blocks include:
- Each enemy can be a single enemy or a group
- Enemies in a group can be released all together or one at a time, with a specified delay between them.
- Enemies in a group can be released only when the previous one dies (generally speaking, when there’s less than N already alive on the screen)
- An enemy can just wait/delay for a specified time.
- An enemy can be commanded to follow any path on screen (paths are straight lines or curves).
- Enemies can move at specified speed (which means longer paths will take longer to traverse), or at a ‘normalized’ speed (which means that all chickens will arrive simultaneously, no matter how long their path is).
- Enemies can belong to formations (formations are different from groups). A formation forces all enemies in it to follow it. Grids (e.g. classic invasion, squawk block) are formations.
- Enemies can move smoothly from formation to formation (e.g. 3-ring circus)
Also note that there’s a distinct lack of conditionals in those blocks. There’s no way to say e.g., “move over here but only if the player comes near you.” or “follow this path but only if another chicken isn’t on it already”.
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While I thought about how the system works myself, and I think I was close, this is still very valuable information to know for wave creation!
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When is it poſſible to zoom in and out? And when can ſafe zones appear? What about the ſhip’s rotation?
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Ship heading, camera zoom, and safe zones are all determined when the wave first starts.
Some waves, however, use custom code to vary these parameters dynamically. That’s certainly possible (and easier than adding custom building blocks)
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