Quoting: rustybroomhandle

Quoting: M@GOidGamepad support is broken on the demo. Seriously guys, is 2019. People don't play 2D games on keyboard anymore (except some stubborn weirdos).

With that said, it looks like my kind of game. I hope they can fix gamepad support before the launch, so I can buy it. I learned in the hard way NOT to expect important fixes after the launch of a game.

I'm a stubborn weirdo. Keys are more responsive than analogue sticks.

You can always use the digital pad on a controller. Heck, I even passed the 3rd stage of NES Battletoads with the left touchpad of the Steam Controller as a D-Pad, it was not even that difficult.

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Gamepad support is broken on the demo. Seriously guys, is 2019. People don't play 2D games on keyboard anymore (except some stubborn weirdos).

With that said, it looks like my kind of game. I hope they can fix gamepad support before the launch, so I can buy it. I learned in the hard way NOT to expect important fixes after the launch of a game.

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I still wished they upgraded that APU a bit. I played a lot of indie games on a AMD A8 APU and several run poorly, because they where made expecting that the user have a Core i3 or better as a CPU.

AMD have a embedded Ryzen that is 4c/8t and have a base/boost 2.0/3.6 GHz that would the perfect for this machine, the V1605B. Although I would stick with the V1807B at 3.2/3.8 GHz and a better GPU.

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I gave it a look but gamepad support (both DS4 and SC) are bugged right now.

Not wanting to be a ass but, it always amazes me how some developers neglect gamepads on modern PC games. I understand some people are hardcore mouse/keyboard devotees, but this is a racing game...

As of the gameplay, it is basically a drift game, not like the forgiving gameplay of Micro Machines. If you are not a fan of drifting, better not downloading this one.

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QuoteThe left side of the stick is noticeably worn out and the right side of the stick has a dip in it of material missing.

I like my peripherals clean, so I clean them with hand cleaning alcohol from time to time. Unfortunately, that started dissolving the rubber on the stick, to the point I choose to scrap it to bare plastic.

So a week ago I bought a couple replacement sticks for the Xbox One controller, thinking it would be a drop-in solution. It is not. After some surgery with a Dremel tool (on the replacement stick, obviously) I made it fit, but is too tall and feels strange.

I will look at your solution for this problem. Hopefully it will be better than mine.

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I tested the Steam Controller on a couple Unity games, now they have rumble. But in American Truck Simulator, a game with finicky gamepad support, it does not rumble.

As Swingswindle said above, the rumble can be annoying. In Bro Force is very noisy. And that is a flaw in the Steam Controller force feedback hardware, since it was clearly a after thought, as it did not have the rumble weights, maybe to reduce fatigue on a already heavy gamepad. Maybe they can introduce it on a second version, together with a analog pad on the place of the left touchpad.

I also tested with a Dualshock4 gamepad, and the games that already have rumble retained it, but at last in Left 4 Dead 2, it does not introduced rumble on the DS4. Which is as shame, since this game have the best rumble support I have seem on the Steam Controller.

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Quoting: M@GOidThis is a game, together with Left 4 Dead 2, that once I installed it, never was uninstalled. It is that good (at last to me).

Managed to get the S+ score on all stages and the boss challenge (Boss Rush), and let me tell you, it wasn't easy. Too bad my ranking dropped from 9th to over 30 by now.

Looks like they fixed the problem with double input on Steam configured controllers (PS4 in my case), so the must have updated the Unity engine versions used in the game. That must had bring other improvements too.

I hope their team get together again for a second game, or some good DLC content. It is a game that deserves more attention than it have.

Yeah, new Unity is one of the things that this version has. Should also fix intermittent crashes when moving the window around in windowed mode on Nvidia drivers.


It's something very different from Cactus (which is great - nobody wants to get boxed into making the same stuff, right?), but Witch Beam's next game is Unpacking. The presskit doesn't currently mention it, but it'll be shipping on Linux as well :)

If you keep an eye on Tim's Twitter acccount, you can also see some of the side projects and experiments he's messing with from time to time.

Nart's also fiddling with some ideas, but I'm not sure if any of that's been shared anywhere.

Nice to see they are still active. There is something in AAC that makes it very attractive to me. The gameplay is tight, the music and sound effects are spot on, the whole game looks it was made by a large developer, not by a tiny team. It is by far the better and most solid game that I bought on Steam's Early Access, one of a couple that I didn't regret to buy before final release.

In fact, it was the poster child that I used to bash Might Number 9 when it came out.

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This is a game, together with Left 4 Dead 2, that once I installed it, never was uninstalled. It is that good (at last to me).

Managed to get the S+ score on all stages and the boss challenge (Boss Rush), and let me tell you, it wasn't easy. Too bad my ranking dropped from 9th to over 30 by now.

Looks like they fixed the problem with double input on Steam configured controllers (PS4 in my case), so the must have updated the Unity engine versions used in the game. That must had bring other improvements too.

I hope their team get together again for a second game, or some good DLC content. It is a game that deserves more attention than it have.

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I'm still disappointed over their CPU choice. Like I said many months ago, indie games are a lot heavier than you think. Obviously some of that is developer's fault, but not always. They should have choose at last a quad-core CPU with HT. When the ports they will eventually get fail to hit a stable 60 fps, will be too late to justify to their consumers why a PC with off the shelf parts at similar price, have better performance on the same games.

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This have Ninja Ryukenden all over it!!! Unless it launches as a bugged mess, instant buy for me, full price and all.

I loved the NES games, unfortunately never managed to finish the first one on the console, but still, one of the greatest franchises of all time.

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