I feel the ultimate skill - Rekindle is quite underwhelming, considering that it costs 3000 Ether. It seems to be just an alteration version of the basic attack as both regain 10% mana, trading all the physical damage for a low chance to regain mana again. I hope you may consider making this skill more powerful and rewarding.
Short answer: I agree, and have considered buffing it for this stage of the game. However, I know how effective it will be at later stages of the game.
Long Answer: Rekindle is the premiere one turn zero cost mana regen. Boost Effect stat has a chance to trigger an additional time when passing 100%. Max 300% Boost Effect guarantees triple proc, so it has pretty good scaling percentages (no Boost Effect pathway as of yet!). Combined with the Recharge stat, which boosts all mana gain by (+X%), you can readily generate a large amount of mana. At 160% Boost Effect and 300% Recharge it would return 90 mana, and at 260% Boost Effect and 200% Recharge it would return 80 - making it the premiere mana regen option for some builds that want heavy investment in both of those stats.
Unfortunately, all of that is theoretical right now, and I understand that the move feel like a let down as of right now. I've considered disabling it as a reward but decided against it. Moreso, it speaks to the problems with the current trainer system - Not being able to preview what you're unlocking isn't fun!
I will record this feedback and consider how to approach a solution that fits.
I don't know if this consider a bug as it should be related to the engine, but you can be defeated twice if surrender just before getting beat to death and deduc the essence twice.
It appears that if you enter the menu, there is absolutely no way to return to the game without restarting or loading a save. You cannot simply exit the menu. Is this intentional?
The main menu could use work - mainly a continue button. Entering the menu does not end your session, and using load game or options in the main menu will bring you back to the settings tab of your currently active game.
I'm concerned that I might not have the minimum requirements for this game. You mention that it should be played on a gaming PC -- which this technically is, but also quite an old one, so certainly not up to modern gaming standards. When I try to run the UE prerequisite installer, the bar doesn't visibly move at all. It may just be taking a long time -- it doesn't appear frozen, since I can click the cancel button with no issue -- but if this is an indicator of how the game would run, I might not be able to run it effectively. Do you have an idea of what the minimum system requirements would be?
The 'gaming PC' caution is me erring on the side of doubt as to warn that this game might be unoptimized. I unfortunately don't have minimum specs on hand, but I think even a 'dated' PC has a chance to run it. First loads of the application also tend to halt for a moment, from what I've experienced. Worst case scenario is that it doesn't deploy at all or crashes out on you. Alternate strategy might be trying to run the executable as administrator, by right clicking the 'Aftersoul' application and hitting 'run as administrator'.
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I feel the ultimate skill - Rekindle is quite underwhelming, considering that it costs 3000 Ether. It seems to be just an alteration version of the basic attack as both regain 10% mana, trading all the physical damage for a low chance to regain mana again. I hope you may consider making this skill more powerful and rewarding.
Short answer: I agree, and have considered buffing it for this stage of the game. However, I know how effective it will be at later stages of the game.
Long Answer: Rekindle is the premiere one turn zero cost mana regen. Boost Effect stat has a chance to trigger an additional time when passing 100%. Max 300% Boost Effect guarantees triple proc, so it has pretty good scaling percentages (no Boost Effect pathway as of yet!). Combined with the Recharge stat, which boosts all mana gain by (+X%), you can readily generate a large amount of mana. At 160% Boost Effect and 300% Recharge it would return 90 mana, and at 260% Boost Effect and 200% Recharge it would return 80 - making it the premiere mana regen option for some builds that want heavy investment in both of those stats.
Unfortunately, all of that is theoretical right now, and I understand that the move feel like a let down as of right now. I've considered disabling it as a reward but decided against it. Moreso, it speaks to the problems with the current trainer system - Not being able to preview what you're unlocking isn't fun!
I will record this feedback and consider how to approach a solution that fits.
Oh I see, similar to your comic, values will show compound growth. (by now it just 2% per level, it kind of hard to imagine having 300% boost)
Great start, really loved what's here and am looking forward to more.
I don't know if this consider a bug as it should be related to the engine, but you can be defeated twice if surrender just before getting beat to death and deduc the essence twice.
thank you for the find - will look into a solution
solution found - will be available in next release.
It appears that if you enter the menu, there is absolutely no way to return to the game without restarting or loading a save. You cannot simply exit the menu. Is this intentional?
The main menu could use work - mainly a continue button. Entering the menu does not end your session, and using load game or options in the main menu will bring you back to the settings tab of your currently active game.
The bar on the right, the first one is the game text. The Back on the menu is equal to Exit/Main Menu in other game.
I'm concerned that I might not have the minimum requirements for this game. You mention that it should be played on a gaming PC -- which this technically is, but also quite an old one, so certainly not up to modern gaming standards. When I try to run the UE prerequisite installer, the bar doesn't visibly move at all. It may just be taking a long time -- it doesn't appear frozen, since I can click the cancel button with no issue -- but if this is an indicator of how the game would run, I might not be able to run it effectively. Do you have an idea of what the minimum system requirements would be?
The 'gaming PC' caution is me erring on the side of doubt as to warn that this game might be unoptimized. I unfortunately don't have minimum specs on hand, but I think even a 'dated' PC has a chance to run it. First loads of the application also tend to halt for a moment, from what I've experienced. Worst case scenario is that it doesn't deploy at all or crashes out on you. Alternate strategy might be trying to run the executable as administrator, by right clicking the 'Aftersoul' application and hitting 'run as administrator'.
Hm, well it did successfully install this time, though it then said I need to restart my computer for it to take effect. Is this normal?