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Sequence |OT| Rhythm, Role-Playing, and Ronald Jenkees
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RoadHazard
Gold Member
I had been having some trouble hitting stuff involving both [^] and [v] (either simultaneously or in rapid succession) - them being on different lanes in the game but in the same horizontal position on my keyboard (one above the other) kind of threw me off - so I thought I'd try mapping the keys to four keys in a row instead (such as [H] [J] [K] [L]), corresponding to the order of the lanes, and this works much better for me! The default key bindings work well, but hitting keys based on where the gems are rather than what the arrows on them say feels more natural to me.
Not saying everyone will feel the same (it makes the game feel more like playing a GH/RB game, and not everyone might want that), but I recommend trying it out if you've been having similar problems (and you're playing on a keyboard).
Actually, the difficulty reset happened to me too, and I never got the tutorial crash. I set the game to Hard right away, but after having played for a while I noticed how easy it kept being. So I tried setting it to Hard again, and realized I had never been playing on Hard after all (the increase in difficulty was immense).
Not saying everyone will feel the same (it makes the game feel more like playing a GH/RB game, and not everyone might want that), but I recommend trying it out if you've been having similar problems (and you're playing on a keyboard).
Feep said:
Actually, the difficulty reset happened to me too, and I never got the tutorial crash. I set the game to Hard right away, but after having played for a while I noticed how easy it kept being. So I tried setting it to Hard again, and realized I had never been playing on Hard after all (the increase in difficulty was immense).
Aside from the known twitchy window issue and some other problems with the graphics freezing when the window lost focus, I've played up through a bit of floor one on (I think) hard difficulty.
The main thing that throws me off is me trying to divide arrows between WASD and arrow keys, which is presumably to get around the issue of scancodes/keyboards/whatever not working properly with certain key combinations. I know that's almost certainly not a game problem.
The music is cool, and the only thing that really annoys me about the game (which I already told Feep about in PM) is that the pure white fullscreen flash for certain spells and battle victories bothers me even when the lights are on in my room. I mean, I presumably won't have a seizure from it but it definitely bothers me.
The concept of the battles and items and progression is very clever. Godo job.
The main thing that throws me off is me trying to divide arrows between WASD and arrow keys, which is presumably to get around the issue of scancodes/keyboards/whatever not working properly with certain key combinations. I know that's almost certainly not a game problem.
The music is cool, and the only thing that really annoys me about the game (which I already told Feep about in PM) is that the pure white fullscreen flash for certain spells and battle victories bothers me even when the lights are on in my room. I mean, I presumably won't have a seizure from it but it definitely bothers me.
The concept of the battles and items and progression is very clever. Godo job.
RoadHazard
Gold Member
Blizzard said:
You don't have to do that. It works perfectly fine to just use the arrow keys or just WASD (or set them to something else completely, like I've found I prefer).
I've gotten up to Floor the 6th on Spasmodic with the default mappings just fine... arrow keys for all of the rhythm stuff while my left hand uses Q and E to swap and can easily access the number keys. I was thinking of trying to come up with an Xpadder mapping to get my IIDX controller to work with the game, but I thought that would be excessive, heh.
What spells are you all using? Aside from direct damage stuff, I'm a fan of Trigger Boost + Miasma (damage over time), the HP -> MP spell, and siphon spells if I really need HP. No pure healing/defense spells here!
What spells are you all using? Aside from direct damage stuff, I'm a fan of Trigger Boost + Miasma (damage over time), the HP -> MP spell, and siphon spells if I really need HP. No pure healing/defense spells here!
RoadHazard
Gold Member
Regarding the guardian effect on the 5th floor (not gonna spoil it for those who aren't there yet):
I like it! Sure, it gives you less time to see gems before you have to hit them, but at the same time I think it makes it easier to judge the timing between gems. It's like hyperspeed/breakneck speed in GH/RB. I actually wouldn't mind an option to permanently keep the scroll speed like this.
MatthewB92
Member
Just got to the fourth floor.
That dude from the 7th room sounds fun.....
Experience so far:
"Hey, this game is pretty cool and fun! Starting to get the hang of it, maybe I'm good with rhyth - OMG FLOOR FIVE OH MAN SO HARD ARRGH"
I think I'm actually getting addicted to this. I think having an arcade mode would be good - sometimes I just want to play tracks without having to go through the story, but its amazingly fresh and the soundtrack is awesome. Amazing job, Feep.
"Hey, this game is pretty cool and fun! Starting to get the hang of it, maybe I'm good with rhyth - OMG FLOOR FIVE OH MAN SO HARD ARRGH"
I think I'm actually getting addicted to this. I think having an arcade mode would be good - sometimes I just want to play tracks without having to go through the story, but its amazingly fresh and the soundtrack is awesome. Amazing job, Feep.
HiddenAway
Member
Feep said:
Thanks for the advice. I did see the settings pane but I still can't find it comfortable. I'll have a look at the MotionJoy options instead
Also, congratulations!
Feep said:
if I may give some feedback here, I think the whole wager xp for synthing is silly, the purpose of risk reward is to get people invested, they know there is a lot at stake so they try thier hardest.
but when its just based on some random number, there is no player input, a failure is just frustrating because there is nothing that could have been done to prevent it.
I would have removed that system all together, or make it so there is a mini game of sorts.
bobs...onGaf
Member
How long do Damage over time spells like Fallout last? Which do people prefer, Siphon spells or Damage over time spells?
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Feep said:
T-Mobile Germany was giving out free MS points. The promotion got abused, many people here got 10,000 MS points or around there. A lot of people in the thread were suggesting they'd use some of their free points to buy Sequence on XBI.
I really like Damage Over Time spells - not sure about Fallout specifically, but Miasma (the next step up) lasts ~30 seconds and hits about 12 times I've found. Trigger Boost + Miasma = too good.bobs99 ... said:
IMO Siphon spells are good in a pinch if your HP is getting low or you need one last attack to finish off the enemy and your Direct Damage spells are in cooldown, but otherwise I don't really cast 'em much since their MP cost is pretty high. There are much more efficient healing spells or damage spells, so I find their usage pretty specific.
PixyJunket
Member
Why is the "Yo Dawg" achievement icon a Steam screenshot?
someguyinahat
Member
PixyJunket said:
Because it's a Steam inside your Steam, so you can steam while you steam?
PixyJunket
Member
Eh, Steam's Top Sellers usually shows the exact same stuff that sells on Xbox/PS3, sports, murder games, comic book games, etc.Gaspode_T said:
Reposting from the free copy thread:
Feep, I just wanted to say this game is amazing and you guys have done great work. I've spent all Thursday and Friday evening on this game and felt bad about getting this free of charge so I gifted it to various steam friends. Best regards to your team for this project and any project onwards.
Haven't read through the thread, but is their any plans for a soundtrack? Need more disorganized fun in my life
Feep, I just wanted to say this game is amazing and you guys have done great work. I've spent all Thursday and Friday evening on this game and felt bad about getting this free of charge so I gifted it to various steam friends. Best regards to your team for this project and any project onwards.
Haven't read through the thread, but is their any plans for a soundtrack? Need more disorganized fun in my life
Bought the game on steam, played about 3 hours so far (at 5th floor), and it's pretty damn nice!
Was planning to do a bunch of stuff today, but it looks like I'll just be playing this instead.
Feep: Looking forward to your next game.
(Also, the pun in the item description of Polish Remover is great)
Was planning to do a bunch of stuff today, but it looks like I'll just be playing this instead.
Feep: Looking forward to your next game.
(Also, the pun in the item description of Polish Remover is great)
narcosis219
Member
Game has been unavailable for me since last night.
I did do the -beta naiaky thing, but I've removed it since. Any way to fix? Should I reinstall?
I did do the -beta naiaky thing, but I've removed it since. Any way to fix? Should I reinstall?
Man, some of these problems are so weird. How do I go about debugging something like that? It's actually probably on Steam; they were doing some weird stuff this morning with my update. I'd recommend a reboot...
As for the savefile, yeah, it's local as well. steam/userdata/somenumber/200910/remote/steamsave.sav.
As for the savefile, yeah, it's local as well. steam/userdata/somenumber/200910/remote/steamsave.sav.
Haven't tried it since the most recent patch, but if the window flickering is still there, I tried putting it to fullscreen and back to windowed and it stopped it. Dunno what to do if your monitor doesn't support that resolution in fullscreen though (mine just stretches it to hell).
Also want to chime in that this game is amazing and I've been playing far too much of it over the past few days. Still on Floor the Seventh
Very humorous
Also very pleased to find that Trigger Boosts
EDIT: looks like I could have found out by looking at the achievements
Very humorous
Also very pleased to find that Trigger Boosts
stack :O
So... ran into a weird bug. I just unlocked the achievement "Meant For Each Other" even though I didn't beat the game.
Floor 7 spoilers:
Floor 7 spoilers:
I failed to beat Mir a couple of times (this fight is so hard on Spasmodic, argghhhh) so I decided to go back and grind Floor 7 monsters to level up a bit before tackling him again. After completing a battle with one, I got the achievement.
What about the game crashing after alt-tabbing? It doesn't happen in the main menu, but when I chose to continue and then alt tabbed, it froze.
Edit:
Ok, a temporary solution is to press escape to get into the menu every time one wants to alt tab.
Edit2:
Um, nope.
Edit:
Ok, a temporary solution is to press escape to get into the menu every time one wants to alt tab.
Edit2:
Um, nope.