Great game! I'm excited for the next update, and even though some of the islands can feel a little bland at times (i do miss the old mountain island from the plains), the games still in early access, its to be expected. i do think loops should be more interesting, like giving the players a choice between modifiers that give a buff/debuff that goes through the rest of the game, this would take place on a special island (like the win island), and maybe have one to start as a red modifier (probably a +5), this could make further difficulties more interesting, like diamond and prismatic. I love the game, and i resonate with some negative reviews, but it doesnt deserve most of them, but i gave some advice i think could work; i would love to see your response!
Edit: I checked out the Beta, i honestly didnt like some changes, the poison cannon hasnt been rebalanced yet, personally, i like the current (non-beta) difficulty totem, the parkour needs to be brought back (forgot to mention that before), i dont know about having damage falloff either.
I think trickshot and steady shot should still reduce the damage from the other, i liked having mods/perks that went against eachother. There should be downsides to perks, you shouldnt be able to be strong in all aspects.
It did seem like the elites had more health (and the elite red modifier was fixed to actually double insted of triple elites), but that couldve just been me. if so, thats a good change.
i feel like *some* perk changes were uncalled for, but for balancing sake, it does make sense.
i do think that the loadout randomizer should be moved back to the middle somewhere, or off across from the minigames, (and the randomizer flex modifier should be there). my biggest complaint is the difficulty totem, green modifiers should be a thing, their optional, and cater to weaker players, and there should be a larger difficulty requirement for further difficulties, i liked the non-beta one more.
SO, all in all, great game, most of it is based on the Beta, please dont make it easier to cater to casual players, dark souls is hard, it should be, this game may be hard, keep the harder difficulties hard, make the easier ones easier, balance out catering, not to majority, but to tiers. Noobs, Casuals, and Pros (or more). if they keep complaining, explain to them that it needs to stay balanced, if they dont understand that, it means they'll never stop complaining no matter what you do.
TLDR:Good game, Beta has some problems i wanted to adress, cater to tiers, not majorities or loud minorities, Crab
