E3 Demo Feedback for the developer's team

Quick Mesg; Installed it on Win10 i7 with Nvidia GTX 660i, played it completely without any slow down, or any problem and it was awesome - I ooh, I ahhh'd, I laughed, I was surprised, pleased, impressed, it got me so much more excited for the final product!

The only 2 things I would suggest were;

1 ) Movement speed - I found myself backdashing through the demo to move more quickly

2 ) Boss Damage Reaction - I found myself wanting more confirmation than little floating numbers that a hit had landed. Either a classic flash (easy) or a hit anim. Especially when being kicked in the teeth.


But seriously, thanks so much for the care & effort to capture the feel of IGAVANIA!

have to say, the different death animations for morte based on what you attack him with are pretty cool ^_^

also, to sort of address the texture blur, this is a byproduct of loading, the first time any texture or picture is loaded into memory, it will be blurry cause youre essentially seeing the thumbnail or lod version of it (if youve ever done an image search and the picture youre viewing is low res and blurry, itll often be named th.jpg if you try to save it instead of the actual image name), throughout development the code will go through various optimizations to reduce load times where possible, make textures preload so they are ready by the time theyre needed, that sort of thing, so a blurry texture that happens once isnt a bug or a glitch, its a texture loading into memory right as its needed

as for frame and input drops, to better assist the devs try to add
how youre playing the game (k/m, controller [xinput,steam, 360,snes,thrustmaster], guitar hero controller, ddr pad)
roughly the level of processor (core 2 duo, 486, i3, i7, screaming banshee, potato)
graphics card (nvidia 660m 2gb, amd polaris 10, Intel 80486)
and try to replicate what you were doing a few times to see if it is replicable or if it was the computer going "SQUIRREL!" (computers are like kids with a really high functioning form of adhd, sometimes stutters happen because it poked messenger, internet explorer, the 25 processes windows has open to keep breathing, checked if the internet has porn of it, and the 4 processes steam uses to make sure they were still running and forgot to check on the 12 inputs you just made in that one frame)
the more info the devs have without going into wall of text on what youre doing will make the data much easier to collate, and granted this is a demo but this will be extra important to remember once the beta starts that the team will have to sift through all of this and pinpoint the source of the issues to be able to fix them, and any way we can make that job a bit easier will help ^_^

Copy pasting what I posted on reddit.

"Game needs support for other aspect ratios and resolutions. The game currently does not support 4:3, 16:10, or 21:9 aspect ratios. It also doesn't have 4k support.

Game doesn't really need this, but I would really like to see it. Support for high framerates. Some people, like me, have 144hz screens, which means I can play games in framerates up to 144 fps. Higher framerates look much smoother, even in games like bloodstained.

Game needs a controls menu to change your controls. This will almost definitely happen for keyboard controls, but this should happen for controllers as well. I haven't seen too many games that allow you to change your controls on a controller, but it's very good to be given the option to do so.

I didn't try the demo on a ps3/ps4 controller, but from what I've heard they don't have native support, and you need to use software to emulate an xbox controller to use them. The game should have native playstation controller support.

Anti aliasing options would be great to see later. Jaggies were really visible around miriam and just about everywhere else because the first level is constantly moving(it's a boat)."

Excellent demo! I especially like the fact that the model changes depending on your equipments. The enemies, especially when dying, are a bit loud though.

Curious to see what the two weapons thing will look like.

I have to agree with these two points from earlier:

Please add support for non 16:9 resolutions on PC! Thank you!

Yay! Some love for 21:9!

maybe, its also possible that is a space for weapon modifiers or ammo based on the icons in the menu and the sort categories, but there are categories for 2 handed weapons within the demo, as for whether this list is finalized ill say probably not because demo, we may see some additions, some categories may get streamlined, overall im pretty excited about the possibilities they already have in place

I know it's not a big deal, but personally I think making the damage number that displays when you get hit a different color than when you deal damage would be nice.  She reacts well enough that I know I get hit, but when I get hit at the same time I deal damage, it would be nice to be able to immediately distinguish who did which damage.

I am pleased with what I'm seeing. I've got a system that meets the recommended specs save my video card which is under spec'ed. I love the way the game moves and the controls. Sound is perfect. I've ran into a few issues, but I would say that most of that is due to my graphics card being underspec'ed...

The back dash is fine as it is. I like having that option. I really prefer the shard method of magic when comparing it to SotN. In SotN the spells were either over powered or underwhelming and you had access to them from the start and thus it made the game a bit unbalanced once you knew what you were doing. I didn't use the magic in SotN that often because of the unbalanced nature. I found myself using the magic in Bloodstained a lot more.

Miriam looks a little bright in the cut scenes, actually the cell shading looks a bit bright as a whole in the cut scenes for my preference. Other than that, I am very happy with what I'm seeing thus far. Keep up the good work team!