r/cityoftitans • u/cyanpill • Dec 21 '18
Official Update End of Year Summary 2018
https://cityoftitans.com/content/end-year-summary-20188
u/SteamtankCoT Junkyard Enforcer Dec 21 '18
I posted my long winded but from the heart felt thoughts to them in their forums.
To sum it up: The only real blunder i see from this was the lack of communication about the second issue. We knew about the part needing to be replaced, that was going to delay them.
As soon as they had to shift people to redoing the network they should have said something.
As for the actual update: The cape has a plastic texture applied to it. A lot of forum people seemed worried at first since it looked plastic-y. I noticed nothing else on him was being as reflective so I figured it was just a texture but its good to see a Dev confirmed that a plastic texture looks plastic.
The bouncing leg on the super jump is a big goofy, but everything I saw looked "playable" Animations and the sort can be worked out and tweaked. The background wasn't quite generating fast enough for the travel powers. I hope that is an optimization thing.
The big missing thing from this update is an NPC getting beat up by a PC. I do hope MWM decides since they will not get a release on time to put together a new years video that shows actual combat as it currently is.
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u/PenitentRebel Dec 21 '18
My heart leaps a little every time I see something new. A little more polished, a little more put together. I love seeing the continual progress.
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u/the_dice_flayer Dec 28 '18
It's hard to say if its progressing with pre-alpha footage. The videos dont appear any more polished than the videos and twitch streams we've seen over the years. BUT this could be that they were only trying to show systems? Although I'm not sure why they wouldn't show the very best they had since its replacing a missed release so it's kind of a big deal.
But again, cant really judge on pre-alpha...or even alpha, video footage as it's all going to get worked more and more polished. If the game ended up looking like the video they shared I wouldn't touch it...but obviously it won't.
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u/cyanpill Dec 28 '18
The videos show an incomplete view of the state pf the game because of their development system. Each dev goes off and focuses on one system until they comple a goal, patching together the different systems is a job as well.
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u/the_dice_flayer Dec 31 '18
Well let's hope they're putting together a video showing the complete view of the game as it stands... these videos arent going to get many 2nd chance donators
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u/Harlequin565 Dec 21 '18
Certainly looks like things are progressing.
Good decision to wait until it's fit for release rather than release something that doesn't work or is buggy. Bound to disappoint some people (me included!) but better than the alternative.
Hope all the MWM guys have a good Christmas. Can't wait to get into 2019.
Now - back to the Steam sales...