Thoughts and musings on the game:
I miss the sounds of destruction (as mentioned in another thread.) I also miss the text at the beginning of each level tell you what to do. (At the moment I'm just guessing what to do based on what parts are available.) And for a game which is now selling for ฮ, 15 levels seems to be not many. (Granted I *did* get it for the pre-release price and I know the community will provide itself with ample entertainment in this arena but I feel a little like I've bought an engine with some example levels rather than a game.)
Minor thing.. It would be nice, when running in window mode, to allow the mouse out of the pontifex window. I don't know how other people use window mode, but I life to have a couple of things running (a game, messenger, browser) and multitask. It's difficult when the game won't let go of the cursor.
And for those having performance problems... As long as I stay _well_ away from shadow mode, PFX2 runs great for me in a 640x480 window on my PIII500. (I know. I so need a PC upgrade it's not even funny.)
Oh well.. Happy bridge building, or for those who've already finished the game, happy level building!
Anyways. I've had a few situations where the desk sections at the split point of the bridge haven't separated correctly and the bridge has pulled itself apart. The problem can usually be solved by partly or completely rebuilding the bridge, (somehow I think that the order the links are placed effects it. So far I can't consistently recreate a bridge which does this but I'll keep trying.) I was wondering if this was another known issue and if anyone else had been playing around with pnumatic links enough to spot this one.
This has already been reported to CL and they'll hopefully fix it in the next version.
I miss the sounds of destruction... I also miss the text at the beginning of each level tell you what to do. And for a game which is now selling for ฮ, 15 levels seems to be not many... I feel a little like I've bought an engine with some example levels rather than a game.)
That's it exactly - the game is not yet 100% complete, the final version will have more levels, more sounds, a config screen, etc. - you didn't really think development is over now, did you?
Minor thing.. It would be nice, when running in window mode, to allow the mouse out of the pontifex window.
This annoys many other people, too, but I think this is necessary to allow simple mouse scrolling... could be made an option tho'...
I love you Chronic Logic... <hands then a wedding ring>
*ahem*
Anyways. Moving swiftly on.. amdkt7.. It is possible to zoom by moving the mouse to the top or bottom of the play area while the left mouse button is depresed. (Tell it that it has no friends and the right mouse button talks about it behind it's back.)
hope this helps