BEAKER'S PROFILE

author=aquatorrent
I know that i can go to the far left area to activate the green switch, but there are 2 buttons there. The right one unlocks the green switch and the left one unlocks the door in the same area as left room to the south of the starting area (and idk how to reach this door)

author=Zeigfried_McBacon
I'm finding the movement to be really sluggish in this game. Is this how its supposed to be or is there something that need to be fixed?

It shouldn't be. I should be running at about 60fps (the actual drawn fps would be higher, but the update rate is 60fps). If it's sluggish, you can try switching to a different video driver with config.exe, and trying a few different settings with it (eg: 1x vs 2x, fullscreen vs windowed).

author=aquatorrent
can i change the screen size? the game starts in fullscreen and it seems that the screen is "cropped". i mean.. it's not in the same size as the screenshot and mine looks like zoomed out.

You can run config.exe and go into "configure driver." Then uncheck 2xScale and click "ok." That will reduce the window size. From that menu you can also set the game to do proper fullscreen as well.

author=Archeia_Nessiah
How many endings are there?

Show

Aside from:
> Shoot yourself
> Fight the black mass thing

And what happened to Davis ? @_@

There's really only two endings. If you make it to the second ending on hard you get an expanded version of it. In the 1.1 patch, this will unlock an achievement and you'll be able to replay it (along with it's catchy tune) from the menu.

author=Ratt
Same problem here. I wanted to start the game but all I got was a black screen and when I tried to do something it gave no response so I had to close it again. Might be a little bit late but it would be great if someone could help c:

This is usually a problem with the graphical, or audio settings that the engine is using. Running config.exe and changing the video driver and/or changing the audio driver used will often fix this if the freezing black screen issue persists. From what I've gathered, changing the audio driver to winmm in these cases is the usual fix.

author=Fallen-Griever
My only complaint so far is that "ambushes" are always incredibly cheap as they're instant damage you can't really do too much about, no matter your skill level. What's the point in introducing a system that will always deal damage to the player no matter how good they are?

EDIT: At least this game doesn't suffer from all the same gameplay problems your previous game did.

I kept your previous review in mind during the development process, particularly about having non-linear level designs (though I only really started to implement it in the second half of the game), cheap enemies (like the little green guys you complained about), and that enemies can jump on top of you. Your previous review is also why I sent you that message back in January.

Now, with the exception of the fall in the tutorial (which is there specifically to get the player to use some adrenaline to recover health), and a few falls in levels 5 & 6 (which remove about a pixel of health), you don't have to lose health anywhere right up to point where you get weapon 8. For the ambushes you can either use grenades, the shotgun (in particular, it's alt-fire mode with 2 or 3 shells loaded depending on the enemy), or sprint intelligently to pass it without a scratch. Then well, once you get weapon 8, you can use it or its alt-fire too.

However, that's getting around the point that this game is fundamentally designed around the shooter/fps model and not the traditional platformer (much like its inspiration, Abuse). Platformer is the medium, but the design cliches it uses are from FPSs: alt-fires, sprinting, ammo instead of powerups, and of course, a lot of health /w regen items. Having to (or requiring a lot of skill not to) lose some health at some points is not such a big issues with these games.

The bosses however, well, I'll be expecting the reviews to rant about those. Especially the ones in the middle (and Id's in particular). The first boss and the very last bosses were designed fairly well in that you have to figure them out, and it doesn't take way too long to do so. The fight with the big guy in the screenshot should have had more variation as the fight carried on (there are no formal "stages" with the boss, but once you get its health down to x percent, change the attack types). Alas, designing and implementing boss battles were only slightly less eye-gougingly painful than making the cutscenes. :S