Lord of the Wilds

Game is somewhat okay with basic rts mechanic (Playable) I would argue this game is in early concept prototyping stage. as long AuroraDawnGames continue develop it and add touch up with sensible art style than within years the game can be finished as complete product. Main issues are box selection algorithm, UI, camera, inconsistent unit movement speed and voxel art limitation. a) Box Selection Algorithm Box selection algorithm now heavily favor building due to bigger hitbox (Unreal Engine Voxel Art Limitation). So whenever you box select / manual select units near building, algorithm will always select building. Dev will need to make building selection algorithm more tight and better feel. b) UI Maybe because of UE default menu blueprint template, resource tabs are in the build menu (when building cant see resource). Location of build menu is at top right which is awkward, I suggest AuroraDawnGames to separate resource icon to top screen and move build menu to bottom right (at bottom right like traditional rts). c) Camera Another issue will be camera angle, speed and movement control I understand to make voxel art look good, camera need to be tilted or in angle. However the current camera angle make it hard to see terrain (whether is it a slope or flat land), unit and enemy. (24-05-2025 added) Suggest adjust camera angle to top down view like traditional rts (with slight tilt / ortho view whatever they call) For camera speed, I suggest dev to fine tune camera speed setting from straight slope to higher speed bump. (camera should move fast but with slight speed bump at the end, something like a tilted F shape) Currently, there is no drag pan in the game and the current edge pan is too sensitive. (I believe drag pan and custom setting can be easily added to setting menu in the UE engine) Also please make camera higher. (current camera is even smaller than old warcraft 3 zoom out when released) d) Inconsistent Unit Novement Speed Unit movement speed is inconsistent. / weird movement logic. Dev need to tweak the game engine movement logic. currently all units appear to be floating and slight speed boast when select movement towards buildings or attacking. When order unit to attack, unit will move around despite in range to attack. (for example, archer & crossbow will strafe left and right despite enemy standing in front hitting them. e) Voxel Art Limitation / optimization From the setting, I can see that AuroraDawnGames understand UE engine render data storage limitation for Voxel Art (character limit set to 1000). As expected, when I reach mid game with 800+ units, game become a bit laggy and sfx/effect no longer display properly in lowest setting. I will argue some of the later level enemy units have too much details and can be further simplified (if voxel art is the final art style). I am not art person but I believe there must be way to optimize the voxel art data storage limitation just like how other games with similar voxel art can do (more than 400k+ without any post processing) Also please don't introduce any shader or post processing effect in near future (or allow player to completely disable them). Late game will be unplayable if any shader is introduced for this type of game.