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Can you please update the version of this game on your site? I run a game site myself and I’m still running a version with strong paladins. I could use this to my advantage and let players know that, but I’d rather have the new version with exp/totalExp however and other fixes. Let me know when you update it, it’s currently still old (I used a firefox add on to grab the version on your site.)

Hey, thanks for having a “Working Stat Rules” pop-up. It’s really helpful.

Revive is not working on my paladin. The console reports:
[HERO] Revive, extra life 1
>>> Player Death!.. has Revive? true
>>> Player revived!!! <<<
>>> Player Death!.. has Revive? false

but I’m not respawning or anything. It hasn’t worked on lvl 5 or 6. I didn’t have it before then.

I quite enjoy your newest game (SkyFyre), but I’ve found a number of issues that make gameplay difficult:
1) Hitbox isn’t centered. I realize it’s explained well ingame, but intuitively hitboxes go in the center, whether they’re large or small. Makes evasion a pain. Also leads to:
2) Hitbox isn’t Aimpoint. Rather, enemies shoot at your center, not at your hitbox.
These, combined with some enemies not dealing contact damage, gives:
3) Hitbox/Aimpoint exploit. Basically, I can sit inside enemies such that my aimpoint is on the left of their firing point, but my hitbox is on the right. Since enemy hitboxes are sized to sprites, and I’m inside them, I can hit them while they shoot away from my hitbox toward my aimpoint.
4) Coins lag at the end of levels. Picking up any item, after the boss is dead, leads to the game hanging for almost a second. Such pickups work fine other times. Not a bug per se, but still annoying and flow-breaking.
5) There is no explained way to keep your completion badges from one game to the next. Again, not exactly a bug, but also annoying. I feel it would make more sense to track it by computer, not filename; would probably also be easier.
6) Formula issues: among other balance concerns, mana regen can’t go above 2%, magic cost cannot go below 25%, magic total is a wholly unnecessary value due to all changes being percent based, STR reduces (?!) crit rate, and:
6b) WIS and AGI are incompatible. Upping Agility negatively impacts both cost and regen of magic, without giving any benefit at all to magic use. Conversely, WIS has a harsh impact on evasion values, making it completely useless for a speed build, as you’ll never be able to fire magic anyway. Either can be paired passably with STR, but a build balanced between all 3 attributes kills itself.
7) Enemies deal ridiculous damage at higher levels, such that even a pure-STR build will have a hard time not being 1-shot-killed.
8) Bullet lagging: enemy bullets, hit by player bullets, may hang for a frame. Unnoticeable in normal gameplay, very noticeable with a ROF of 1 (especially because with 1 bullet/frame, enemy shots can stop for long periods of time, making already challenging evasion even harder from unpredictability).
9) Balance: A build of 7:1 Agi:Strength deals by far the highest dps in the game (nearly 2x a pure STR-build), given its ROF of 1, with excellent crits and evasion to complement it. SHOULD be balanced by getting 1-shotted, but even pure STR-builds tend to get killed just as fast. Additionally, the AGI-builds quick Firing Rate improves effectiveness against swarms and adds large amounts to chains, further increasing its over-poweredness.
10) Smooth values- 1-point stat differences often cause insane changes in power, for better or worse. Compare: 71 AGI/10 STR is literally twice as powerful as 70 AGI/10 STR. Similar jumps occur with magic cost or regen, where a single point difference can mean the difference between 1x and 2x regeneration, or can cast/cannot cast.
10) Balance (2): Pure WIS-builds seem pointless, as a mere 10 points of WIS vs 1 of AGI give near-perfect magic (against the 2%/25% limits), and WIS doesn’t seem to increase magic damage. Thus, it makes more sense to simple put every additional point into strength rather than increase wisdom any further. With an all:1:10 build, damage actually gets pretty decent, health acceptably high, and magic is regularly usable, making this the only other strong build.

Finally, balance: the 2 most effective builds are (S:A:W)the 1x:7x:none AGI and the all:1:10 WIStoSTR build. All dissimilar builds, due to reductions from the formulas in use, are significantly worse. And something’s wrong when perfect stat layout is so important it takes math and graphs to determine a decent build.

Hey I really like your game SkyFyre… But it crashed on lvl 4 when I fought the boss…
TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.
at game.logics::Weapon/shoot()
at game.logics.actors::Enemy/shootWeapon()
at game.logics::Actor/shoot()
at game.logics.actions::Shoot/update()
at game.logics::ActionPattern/update()
at game.logics.actors::Enemy/updateAction()
at game.logics.actors::Enemy/update()
at com.soybeansoft.play.blit::AObjectManager/update()
at game.screens::Play/onUpdate()

I really appreciate how you’re trying to improve Skyfyre. I still think it has problems, like increasing one stat penalizing one ability (Agi penalizes casting costs, Wis penalizes Dodge rate, and Str penalizes Attack Speed).

You explain the formulae in the tooltips now, but it still doesn’t change the fact that those shouldn’t be the formulas…I know it’s hard to come up with a non-game-breaking rule though.