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Bugs / Combat mode, stealth, and Snipe feat

« on: August 27, 2012, 11:55:03 am »

As the title says - if you turn on stealth, then engage combat mode, you cannot use the Snipe feat. Which is incredibly tedious, because aiming with it takes so much time, many creatures dissappear somewhere in darkness while you're pressing F, choosing, and then trying to catch it with the cursor. And then the aiming timer.

Bug, or working as intended?

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Bugs / Blue flash on saving

« on: August 27, 2012, 01:58:42 am »

I haven't seen anyone reporting this.
As the title says, when I press F5, after HUD dissappears, and just before "Saving..." popup appears, there is a brief moment when screen flashes with blue color.

Playing on fullscreen, 1920x1080 resolution, Windows 7.

Anyone else experiencing this?

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General / First impressions, suggestions.

« on: August 23, 2012, 02:17:31 pm »

Overall, I'm stunned by the level of polish that this game presents, even in the state of alpha. The music does quite good job at creating the atmosphere, and it very much reminds me of days of Fallout 1.

The art style and graphics are also good, although I hope there will be some more variation in color schemes, because after some time I got little fed up of "station-style" theme.

Skills are good, I'm already divided which ones to choose as my main, so that's definitely a good thing

Attributes, nothing bad here, except that I don't think you should have Agility and Dexterity. I understand the difference between them, but that just doesn't make them differ enough for role-playing purposes. I'd rather just have Agility, without Dexterity. Everything else is fine.

Game perfomance is perfect, I was afraid that running it in 1920x1080 on 1.65 GHz (dual-core though) processor may cause a few hiccups, but I was happily surprised with constant 60 FPS (that's how it looks like, since there is no direct FPS counter, and I wasn't using FRAPS or any other FPS-showing software).

Minor problems:
- IMHO, space key should close all open windows, such as statistics, inventory, et cetera. It's just very convenient way of doing this, so that you don't have to close each individual window with different keys.

- the in-game log should not prevent you from scrolling the map. Right now, if you move your mouse to the egde of the screen where the log is, the map will not scroll. I think the best solution is to block scrolling while log is open, and unblock it when the log is closed. Also it'd be very convenient if the log would display the last message, even when closed. I want to see if'd hit this monster, but I don't want to see all the messages.

- quest with shooting range is a little bit confusing. You have to shoot ten shots at one session, and you have limited ammo. I actually did the shots before I initiated the right dialog option with Gorsky, so my quest didn't advance, and I actually run of of ammo, trying to complete it. I had to buy some, and try it again, to make it work.

That's all for now, I will definitely do more extensive testing (I only got to the caves yet) tonight.

Looking great though!

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Bugs / Cannot start new game.

« on: August 23, 2012, 12:55:15 pm »

As in title - just downloaded UR, installed w/o problems, started the application, and after clicking "New Game", nothing happens. The button is still orange, the music is still playing, but cursor dissappears, and there is no disk or CPU activity. Window doesn't react to any keyboard or mouse activity i.e. nothing changes. Happens every time, regardless of resolution (first I changed it to 1920x1080, then stayed with the default, it didn't seem to save).

Specs:
Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit
AMD E-450 APU
4 GB DDR3 RAM
Radeon 6320 324 MB VRAM

I couldn't find a log file, is there any?

EDIT: Also, after around a minute or two, window goes into "Not responding" state, that's after trying to use keyboard or mouse (Esc, enter, space, mouse buttons, etc.).

EDIT2: It seems like running it with administrative rights makes it work. Do you create save file when you create a new character? If so, that's a file access rights problem for 100%. Maybe write saves in %APPDATA% ?