I’ve not seen any of the performance/client issues mentioned in this forum, though I have a top of the line rig which may be muscling past these issues. I’ve been enjoying Demigod so far even in its early state and look forward to the next update. Below is a list of bugs and suggestions, I’ve been recording while playing.

Bugs

·         Healing NPCs often stop pathing after attacking a target

o   I’ve seen all NPC types do this on occasion

·         Enemies on the edge of the fog of war are not drawn, but can be attacked and targeted with the mouse. (Especially noticeable with the Rook PC)

·         AI PCs tend to stand around near a fight but not participate even when they have ranged attacks available

·         Cannot view enemy/friendly PC equipment

·         Attack moves end after coming into range of your first target. You should continue to your attack move to your destination after your target is slain

·         Passive demigod AI will not move to attack enemies just out of range. This forces the player to force attack every enemy not actively within their characters attack range.

·         Passive demigod AI will not move to attack an enemy shooting them from range.

·         AI PCs will attempt to bolder roll across gaps in terrain

·         Passive demigod AI will not retarget away from a tower to attack incoming troops when the tower was never specifically targeted by the player. There seems to be no sense of target priority

·         Defensive towers have no collision

·         NPCs have no collision

·         PCs have no collision

·         Kill tracking / Score keeping does not exist

·         AI PCs tend to sit in the back of their base and wait for the game to end once their final defenses are under assault

·         Cannot view the demigod skill tree while dead

·         Equipment screen is blank while dead

·         Catapults rotate to face targets while frozen

·         Demigods team allegiance can only be discovered by mousing over them. There needs to be an easy way to tell which team a demigod is at a glance.

Suggestions

·         The vision field around both Demigods and NPC armies is very short. I feel as though I’m constantly being attacked by enemies I couldn’t see only a moment before. Suggest extending view distance.

·         AI PCs don’t pay enough attention to their health totals, and don’t tend to retreat to heal as often as they should. Suggest AI adjustments to be more cautious.

·         Health Pot drops from Demigod kills are too rewarding to the player. You are already receiving experience and money in addition to preventing to those your slain enemy for a time. The pots simply allow the player to plow forward at full speed with no slowdown. This is very unbalanced, suggest removing them.

·         Rook Archer tower range is nonexistent, this is just a melee buff in disguise and is fairly disappointing. Suggest making the archer a passive ranged attack

·         CC abilities feel as though they are available too often, suggest reexamining their cool down timers.

·         Power feels as though it is too readily available, and is a non issue when making choices about ability usage. Suggest reexamining power pools and power regeneration rate

·         Tower range feels too short, almost to the point of being useless, suggest doubling tower range

·         Level layout tends to lend itself to easy deactivation of enemy spawn points. NPC armies are not pathed to defend their own spawn points and are thus easily ignored. Suggest reevaluating level design / NPC pathing to improve base coverage.

·         Deactivating a spawn point for even a single wave will more than likely end a game. Suggest removing the ability to deactivate enemy spawns, the advantage of extra troop spawns due to owning more flags is enough of an edge.

·         Torch Bearer needs to be revaluated. Low survivability and long ability cast times force the Torch Bearer to stand in casting animations and die repeatedly. In addition to this the torch bearers abilities seem to do much less damage then the other demigods. This character is only fun until the novelty wears off. Suggest revaluating this demigod across the board

·         Rain of Fire and Rain of Ice damage is very inconsistent. Rain of ice does up to 300 total damage while rain of fire only deals 150. Why would a player want to use/spend points of rain of fire? Suggest rebalancing these abilities.

·         Currently each character seems to have one play style available to them. Suggest improving equipment variety to give characters more diversity and depth with aims to improve replay-ability.