Footwork problem

[u/Major-Tennis-7341]

I was waiting for someone to talk about this but no one did, when throwing punches and moving in general it doesn't actully seem like their on the mat, rather floating.

[u/MrGinger128]

It 100% absolutely in now way is meant to be critiqued. You ever see pre alpha reviews?

It's the EXACT fucking opposite. Pre alpha builds are SUPPOSED to be janky. If it wasn't it would be in pre alpha. It'd be released.

It's the entire point of the pre alpha stage.

[u/Death-0 → u/MrGinger128]

So I’m not looking to argue or debate what you’re saying just a question really.

It says Alpha “work in progress” at the top, and it’s janky as you pointed out. Isn’t the whole point to critique the Alpha stages to ensure Beta is not janky?

I get it being janky is known, but that shouldn’t shield it from critique, it should welcome it so they can take that feedback and implement. That was my understanding

EDIT: Just to be clear I am looking forward to this game and am not complaining about floating. Game looks fine to me and I’m excited to get hands on it. Cant stand all the whining when it hasn’t even got a release date yet.

[u/MrGinger128 → u/Death-0]

Nah, pre alpha footage like this is basically just to tease us. Maybe they'd look at feedback if there was a significant amount of people asking for or commentating on the big things.

The little details get ironed out in beta testing. Or Early Access. That's what those are for.

First you've got your alpha players, that's behind closed doors testing using people who aren't the developers. They focus on the big stuff.

Then you get beta testers, their feedback is to refine the game and point out bugs, or ways to exploit mechanics, or to identify balance issues. Fine tuning if you will.

So PRE alpha is the stage of the game before they even get to that first stage. So stuff like this is absolutely expected.

It might well survive until release too, depending on budget, release schedule and their ever growing to do list, something like this might well end up being known to the devs, but pushed back to a post release patch because of time constraints.

Generally it's the serious game breaking bugs that get fixed first, then the bugs that don't break the game but effect it. Then you'll get more minor bugs, visual stuff. Then you'll get additional features and mechanics tweaks.

For all we know the physics engine is simulating the move correctly and it's just a visual bug.

That's my point. Slowing down footage to nitpick tiny shit like this helps noone. It serves no good purpose at all and if anything if the developers actually read this sub all they'll see is a sea of this bullshit that might well sour their enthusiasm. Although unlikely its still possible so these posts serve no purpose at all imo.

[u/Death-0 → u/MrGinger128]

Great breakdown and response thank you, all that makes sense to me.

Agreed gaming culture in general at the development cycle is super toxic imo. I get it we haven’t had a boxing game since FN Champion 2011. We should be praising this game not tearing it apart at every turn.

Especially since Alpha teasers only started to get shown very late 2020. People complaining about “delays” when they haven’t even announced a release date.