Hello everyone!
A few weeks have passed since the release of the Bullet Casters' Demo, and in this period we received a lot of helpful feedback and suggestions to improve the game.
In this devlog I want to share with you what feature we are going to change or add based on your input!
Challenge Mode
Our goal is to make Challenge Mode overall more accessible, while keeping the raw challenge there for those who desire it.
- The difficulty curve will be smoothed.
- Time limits will be made generally less strict.
- We will add an "Assist Mode" to make it easier for player who are new to the genre to experience the game.
General
- The different characters of Bullet Casters play in significantly different ways, especially when it comes to special attacks. We want to make it easier to understand how they work without necessarily having to read their description.
- Visual feedback when hitting enemies will be increased.
- Visual and Audio feedback when collecting Mana (in Duel Mode) will be increased.
QoL
- Favill's bullets speed and visuals will be adjusted to improve visual clarity.
- The time limits to get an extra star in the challenges will be made more clear and visible during the challenge itself.
- The default option at the end of a challenge will be changed from "Retry" to "Continue".
Hotfixes
These changes are already available after the last update
- New waves of enemies no longer spawn automatically if the player takes too long to complete the previous ones.
- The overall difficulty of the challenge "Ancient Guardians" has been slightly decreased.
- The duration of the endurance challenge "Maze of Darkness" has been reduced drastically, while the amount of bullets shot by enemies increased.
- Increased the size of Pick Ups in the Challenge Mode boss fights.
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These are some of the points we are going to tackle first in the near future, but of course we have much more in store and there are a lot of intriguing suggestions we are currently evaluating.
I remind you that if you want to send us your thoughts about the game or report a bug you can do so either from directly inside the game (using the "send feedback" button) or by joining the Bullet Casters Discord.
That is all for this devlog, take care!