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The game crashes without error after passing the first Boss behind the first bridge. In the previous version, the game worked without error.

I see that you updated your game and most of my tips are included! Thanks a lot. That made the game better, I’m sure about it.

Hi again. I have some thoughts I like to share with you.

• There’s no window mode. Fullscreen is nice, but not always the best. I like playing in smaller window.
• After enabling CRT shader the blur strenght can be set but it works only on the title screen. Even when I set blur to minimum, it is visible in the game and makes my eyes hurt
• The plane should tilt to left and right when turning, not turn like a car. I’ve seen some early video of the game and you had it there. I don’t know why you changed that but it was better.
• The animation of tank is too slow according to it’s speed when moving on the bridge
• Flat objects made of big pixels looks cool. But I would like to see them more 3D. It could be still made of pixels but in all 3 dimensions. For example, the baloon now is flat “pie” but it could be a pixelated sphere. Especially when I see the heicopters with rotating propeller, it’s in third dimension. Oh, just like you made zeppelins!
• Balloon moves to fast. Check the original River Raid. Balloons are the slowest obstacles.
• Also, the ships are a bit too fast. Maybe it could be faster on the further levels but at the beginning it should be slower.
• Fuel is running out too fast. When I slow down, it’s impossible to fly one level from bridge to bridge without refueling. It was possible on Atari game.
• Your bullet should move left/right along with the plane. It was the Atari mechanics and it should be here.
• Keyboard should be available to redefine. I don’t like shooting with space, rather would like to use ctrl key.
• Whole menu should be controlled by keyboard, not only mouse. I can pause game with escape key, but cannot unpause it with keyboard. When I play with keyboard, I don’t need to use mouse in the same time.
• Changing the camera view is very important, but you should add some more views. The most important is allowing to view the game from the top, giving you the feel and look closer to the original game. Or even an isometric view like in Blue Max game whould be nice.
• Like ‘puzzud’ wrote in an other comment, you should take care of some optimization because the game sometimes has hiccups
• Waves on the river could be more distinct. Water looks like clear blue but it would be a nice effect

This is not complaining. I hope you don’t take it like that. These are some thoughts from me after a short time of playing. I really like your game and would like to see it still developing.

• Extended objects are outstanding idea! I love the mines, shooting ships etc. Still more could be added but it’s great now.
• Also the bosses are great!
• The whole game is made very well and it’s the best RR remake I ever seen. Really good job!

Really nice job. The only thing I don't like is inertia - it's too high.

Great job. Consider enhancing it further. Lots of cool directions you can go while keeping it feeling like River Raid.

Also, preload / cache your 3D models so the client doesn't hiccup when they are loaded for the first time.

I also made a few remakes of old classics from the 8-bit, so this one is very close to my heart. River Raid was one of the first computer games I ever played when I was very young and still play it quite often. I will download it and play it with big pleasure! Congratulations

The slo-mo crash bug is definitely fixed.

I did see a couple of instances of enemies appearing out of place i.e. ships inside central islands and tanks floating in the air.

I think missions should be on by default but also think there should be more fanfare for completing them.

The level generation needs tweaking to ensure that the fuel pads are more evenly distributed both in terms of regularity and position: there's a stretch from bridge 2 where if you go right around the central island there's nothing but fuel pads, but going left there's none. Later on, I hit stretches where it seemed that no fuel was available at all.

And thanks for lowering the fuel pads into the water a little so they have the wave shader :-)

I'm not good enough to have made it to a boss yet :-( Maybe add a boss rush mode?

It doesn't work on my Linux PC unfortunately. I need to alt-tab to see the game screen and then it crashes after I click on the Start button.

Really nice, but keeps crashing on death (app just exits). I'm on Mac.

Looks great! Needs some optimization. A bit jerky when you first start flying down the river, but eventually it smooths out. Also, there is slowdown when you take out a bridge. Not sure if that is intentional. The game crashes to the desktop if I run into a wall in the very narrow part of the river map where you see the first hot air balloon. Hope to see more updates! One of the best 3D implementations of River Raid I've seen.