My unstructured quick and dirty review:
Bugs:
- The time notes/event messages at the top are doubled and spammy
- Many sounds are heared globally
- When you start swimming in water, you get 10/50 breath
- Kit name “grenadeer” is a typo, it should be “grenadier”
- Trapper kit has unknown item
- At start of game, this chat msg appears: “Match starts in 240 seconds”. This is a lie. It starts in 30s.
- Stamina does not reset after a new round starts or you respawn
- Most inventory goodies are broken or useless
- The inventory help talks about weird flag stuff
- Once ESC-ed away read the initial game rules, they are gone for good, with no chance to make them re-appear
- Some interactable blocks are broken. Example: Furnace, chests. Maybe remove all formspec magic from these blocks?
- Deathlog does not display all forms of death, e.g. due to an explosion of a mine
- When you dig in your base, there is some senseless message about a flag
Ugly:
- Chat commands are mandatory for kit selection
- Chat command is mandatory to see the ranking
- Kit selection is klunky due to annyoing chat commands. Kit selection must be FAST with 1-2 mouse clicks tops
- afkkick is too aggressive. You barely have enough time to read the initial rules!
- Too much chat spam with pointless “hint” messages that get repetitive after 10 minutes of playing. The tips get boring after the 200th time I saw them. Suggestion: Remove all hints (at least from chat)
- When you die, you don't see your dead body or the cause of death because you insta-teleport. You just ... die. Very frustrating to never know what hit you :-(
- You randomly switch teams all the time which is very confusing
- The damage/hit sound (when you hit an enemy) seems unreliable. Sometimes I hear the hit sound, sometimes I don't. I don't know the logic behind it
- All weapon shots seem laggy
- The bullets seem to be very slow. I find it very hard to hit anything that moves
- I find it very hard to remember which bullet type belongs to which weapon
- The whole game in general still needs a LOT of polish, but it seems to go kinda sorta in the right direction
- Medic seems massively OP and is very hard to kill due to all the food.
- If you start with a strong fighter kit and survive for 90 seconds, kits unlock again and you can select medic. Now you have lots of medipacks AND weapons and you're basically an unkillable murder machine
- Inventory management is time-consuming and potentially deadly. You can't afford to re-order your items in 5 seconds in a heavy battle.
- Ammo fills up precious hotbar slots
- It is not clear where the capture area begins and where it ends. If you step outside the capture area even just for 1 second, your capturing stops
- When the game goes down to 0, it shows “00:00:00” for a second, which is wider than the time field
Ideas:
- Add fast (!) kit selection. Pro-tip: A chat command is NOT fast. Maybe add special blocks in the base, one block for each kit. To equip a kit, just rightclick the corresponding block. Buttons in inventory would also be nice
- Add mod:
show_wielded_item
- Show type of death/weapon in deathlog
- Make rankings available via GUI
- In general, make the game less dependent on chat commands. You could still them as alternative if you want
- Display health of your team mates, very important for medics
- Display damage you dealt after a successful hit, like in Xonotic
- In HUD, make visible the remaining ammo
- The game should automatically select maps based on the number of players. Huge maps should not be played if there are only 2 players.
- Revert max. breath back to default. Max. breath of 50 means you can dive in water for way over 100 seconds!!
General comments: The general game idea seems quite fun, but the overall execution still seems pretty klunky.
The biggest problem with the game atm are the laggy and slow bullets which make it hard to hit anything. This is definitely not the same gameplay as with your average first-person shooter, which are much smoother.
I think the general klunkyness is also due to Minetest's server-only architecture, you can't do much about it atm. Minetest is clearly never meant for first-person shooter style games. ;-)
Don't get me wrong, I still had some fun in the about 3 hours I playtested the game, despite the clunkyness.
There's a lot of weapons to choose from. It takes a while to get used to them. It would be nice if there would be a list of all weapons somewhere, so they can be easily compared. It is clear this game is best played with lots of players. It is very boring for 1vs1 or 2vs2 matches.
But the game still needs a lot of work and polish for it to “feel” like a real action game.
The sound system is also very broken and inconsistent and I have no idea if I have even hit anything. It needs rework badly. What the game also lacks is polish of the user interface. Especially the event messages are all over the place, and the chat is abused too much as well. In general, important game events should be printed in the center, like Xonotic does. Otherwise, they can be missed too easily.
The top time bar looks nice, but it could be still improved:
Show the current “score” of each team on the colorful bars (“score” = number of seconds owning the capture point). So you can always see who is ahead. The message that says “XX:XX remaining until team Y wins” can be removed then (as its redundant).
The maps are huge which is fine if you have lots of players, but not fine for small games. There should be smaller arenas.
Anyway, as this is probably a very early version of the game, I hope it will be improved in future. Bye.
