Allan here, the lead developer of Soulstone Survivors! As we have discussed before, we want to be more transparent with the community and we thought it would be a good idea to share a little bit about what are the most requested features, and a bit about our plans on how we are working to address them.
To that end, we’ve prepared a video where we go through many improvement points to the game and even some sneak peeks about the next Soulstone Survivors update!
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Here is a list of the topics we talk about in more detail on the video, going through each one of them and talking a bit about what steps we are taking to address them:
GAME PROBLEMS
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[*] Game is too hard/dodge fest:
The most requested change in the game, where the end game has way too many enemy attacks and how it limits the way you can play the game;
[*] Endless Balance:
How runs can become stale, where you are either immortal or instantly killed without being able to react;
[*] Game Visibility:
How the game can be very hard to navigate with the spam of skills, how some skills are very intrusive causing visibility problems even early in the game;
[*] Power Up Infos:
How the information displayed on the Level Up screen and Power Up list can be hard to navigate or incomplete, leading to confusion;
[*] Struggle with Ascension:
How some ascensions can be hard to interact, how this is linked with the issues above and what are our goals with ascensions;
[*] Rune Balance and Limitations:
How you might feel like you cannot experiment as much as you would like due to how they are structured and the limitations they have;
[*] General UI improvements:
How there are constantly more and more ways to improve usability in the game, and how even small changes can end up compounding to make big improvements to the game;
[*] Sneaky Void Presence:
How the Void Presence can sneak up on you under the chaos of the game and ruin a run in a way that feel unfair;
[*] Entering the home portal by accident:
How you can accidentally end a great run by entering portals at the wrong time and how frustrating that can be;
[*] Overall Skill Balance and Chaos revamp:
How there are many underpowered skills that never get used, while others become mandatory, and a note about the upcoming change to how Chaos skills work and why.[/olist]
GAME FEATURES
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[*] Endless Resource Sink:
Being able to spend extra resources into a system that offers interesting choices (unfortunately we did not go into much detail about this one in the video, but it is definitely in our plans!);
[*] More Bosses:
Something will definitely do and already have some cool plans in this regard;
[*] In-game Wiki:
A way to view details about the game, its functionalities and so on, basically a way to understand how the game works in more detail;
[*] Better UI customization:
Being able to scale the UI, disable and enable elements, make it your own;
[*] Trade Materials:
A way to exchange resources you have for resources you need, and how that could improve the experience.[/olist]
If you would like to see more videos like this, as regular updates to where the game is going, what we are addressing and how, please do let us know!
In the meantime we hope that this video will shed some light on these topics and of course, if you have other concerns with the game, other changes you would like implemented or doesnt agree with what was said in the video, don't hesitate to leave a comment below, or on Discord, or YouTube, or Email, or the forums!
Thank you very much for all the feedback, support and patience! =)
~ Soulstone Team
