ACT ADV Ci-En Active [Inui] Hounds of the Meteor

[Baboon]

This whole project just feels like a lackluster reskin of HotB so far.

Hopefully it's just Unity growing pains... but the level of progress is a complete joke at this point.

 

[Arakokra]

Hopefully it's just Unity growing pains... but the level of progress is a complete joke at this point.

Honestly if he's STILL only going to be doing 2d side scrolling and not things in 3d (ie an x y and z plane), I'm surprised he really switched. GMS2 is bad for 3d... In ACTUAL 3d, but this is 3d sprites in a 2d plane which GMS2 is fantastic at.
Though the switch still shouldn't be too bad. I've looked at Unity's C# and it's really similar to GML.

 

[gavincreeper]

Honestly if he's STILL only going to be doing 2d side scrolling and not things in 3d (ie an x y and z plane), I'm surprised he really switched. GMS2 is bad for 3d... In ACTUAL 3d, but this is 3d sprites in a 2d plane which GMS2 is fantastic at.
Though the switch still shouldn't be too bad. I've looked at Unity's C# and it's really similar to GML.

He did try to do something not 2D side scrolling, but a lot of his feedback was people wanting it to be more like HoTB, so that's what he did.

Am I the only one who would prefer this game being more like point and click adventure with choices? I actually like the parts where you wonder around the city more. Even the scenes and her normal model seems better.

Honestly, same. That seems to be a thing he wants to expand on more in this game compared to HoTB.

 

[MrMe]

It was still a 2d game though, but top down

 

[KiWolfGirl]

Honestly if he's STILL only going to be doing 2d side scrolling and not things in 3d (ie an x y and z plane), I'm surprised he really switched. GMS2 is bad for 3d... In ACTUAL 3d, but this is 3d sprites in a 2d plane which GMS2 is fantastic at.
Though the switch still shouldn't be too bad. I've looked at Unity's C# and it's really similar to GML.

He switched to Unity because GMS had an issue that he was maxing out the resources and couldn't add anything new. Also he wanted to be able to have more control for adding things so going to Unity to make his own engine was a long-term decision for future proofing. Also there was the problem that a lot of people were having issues running it, that windows 8 gamepad issue. He still wanted to make the same style of game but have better ways to expand it.

As for the game itself I have finally gotten a chance to try it and now I understand the problem a lot of people are having with controls. The new PC feels really clunky compared to the HotB one, not having any kind of weapon and the hitboxes being really tight to her animations makes it really frustrating and not having as many movement options with dash being so limited.

 

[Fenril]

Don't forget how so many people couldn't even play HotB because of Windows 8. I think HotB started back with WinXP and stuck around for years, yet Windows 8 broke the game for a lot of people because Microsoft slimmed down a lot of DLLs which came with the system.

 

[Omega9111]

Well it's suppose to be the set up for the whole story. Basically her original combat suit would have started out incredibly op. It gave a somewhat decent reason to de-buff her essentially and gives you an idea why if her suit loses power you're essentially fucked. At least they give you a chance to struggle and win, instead of say making her be raped in the storyline. I would like it if she could've de-powered the suit and then she fought in her regular clothes (since she did say she could've taken them but the suit is what made it difficult) but that'd probably make him have to make more assets and such. I do like how instead of being able to heal infinitely you actually have to plan ahead and if things get dicey, have to exit the level to rest or use items. I'm assuming their will be little rest spots where you can use items to fix your suit and heal yourself as well.

Tl;DR every single game where they use some reason to de-power you so you don't just kick ass right from the start, and also shows why the suit should never become in a weak state.

Wait a minute, will you implement an option to fight in the normal suit but it's difficult, isn't it? since on the page that did a survey that he liked the normal suit or its transformation, but he won the normal suit by difference but did not understand what is the idea of that survey

 

[finale00]

As for the game itself I have finally gotten a chance to try it and now I understand the problem a lot of people are having with controls. The new PC feels really clunky compared to the HotB one, not having any kind of weapon and the hitboxes being really tight to her animations makes it really frustrating and not having as many movement options with dash being so limited.

Is it that bad? I just knee strike my way through everything which mows down targets in my path and flinches them so that I can either follow up with another knee strikes for evasion or a one-two punch.

The player's hit box is also a bit larger than the sprite itself so for example in the fight with the thugs, you can walk forward to trigger their knife stabs which completely miss, while you do a counter-punch.

It's not as convenient as having a gun or a sword and requires you to get up close to land hits but I personally feel it's quite fluid. If more attacks and combos can be unlocked later on, that might make her a pretty fun bare-armed fighter.

 

[super_slicer]

I dunno, sliding on the ground constantly is pretty annoying. I mean, I just sunk my fist into that dude, shouldn't at least the majority of my momentum have been transferred into the blow that doesn't leave a hole in him so you can't say I went right through him?

 

[Tenma]

Yeah the fighting feels slippery as all hell. You dash across the screen like flying banshee. When you land you slide like the grounds ice while throwing punches while your enemies are anchored in place like they've got twice the gravity on them. So you end on the other side of them throwing punches at the air like a punch drunk boxer while the enemies pull a clean 180 to shove their fists up your exposed ass.

Overall the combat system doesn't feel too good at all. It's like your on the surface of the moon while your opponents are turret emplacements you need to march to without getting too close to.

 

[MajorKagami]

john carter of mars! the game points out she is an earthling being rare to see so that could explain the crappy combat from her.....I mean I'd tell it that way if I couldn't fix the coding.

 

[MrMe]

Lol, so I wanted to see if there was any lose scene in the intro
The first problem is you have a lot of health so it takes a lot of hits to get you down, but then you recover you get a load of health restored, so you can't lose that way
You also can't lose your clothes in the intro
But because I'd corralled all the enemies into one blog what I found is if I stay at the edge and got them into knife range and blocked their attacks your energy bar depletes, slowly...
You need all the enemies attacking you at once to overpower your energy regen, but once that goes to zero you can be defeated and give up

But I guess the dev never expected anyone to go through all this effort, because the game softlocks on a grey screen

 

[HFalx]

CG for next update, I suppose:

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Looking promising. Finally another proper scenario with human enemies, maybe even of the potential GameOver-variety.
One thing the new protag has over Aya is how nice she looks with an angry glare and tied up.

 

[MrMe]

Aya had nicer tits though, not too big not too small - just right, plus nice pink ginger nipples

 

[HFalx]

Aya had nicer tits though, not too big not too small - just right, plus nice pink ginger nipples

Full agreement there. New girl's tits are oversized torpedo-blobs. And she also got an ugly outfit and hair half the time.

 

[analogman]

Full agreement there. New girl's tits are oversized torpedo-blobs. And she also got an ugly outfit and hair half the time.

hahahahahahahaahah
I like new the girl, but aya is still better.

 

[Alkizon]

We talked about this 3 years ago... (she did kind of change some stuff in appearance since that time) but I still don’t like either energy suit itself or mechanics of its “damage”/bypass by enemies.

 

[Omega9111]

Anyone want to tell me what was the reason for the vote between Rena in the normal outfit and after the transformation? Is it true that you can wear the normal outfit at the same time as the transformation?

 

[T95GMC]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1269603759568478208

 

[Mr.Noname]

Well, the "updated" trial for the rats and bats got released for the Free tier and i just have to say, as people from this thread said....

It's not really good at all

The rats and bats (mostly the bats) are just those annoying enemies bothering you when they get everyone clumped up, these 2 "new" enemies are simply something the dev though they might be fine on the game and are just not as good as their predecesors on HotB. This ones are just fans of the MC's vagina and that's it, no more animation, no give up, the other ones don't suck on her nipples, etc...

Aside from everything of that, the fact that the suit break is RNG is dumb too, the waist suit can easily break, but the "boob armor" is so hard that i have wasted the energy and suit bars and still didn't break at all (Also items are useless in this game atm)