Couple of bugs

[jrista]

I just thought I would report a couple of bugs I've frequently encountered with Shipwrecked. These have occurred often enough I think they should get some priority fixes, because at times they prevent me from playing the game at all, or make it difficult to play.

 

The first is the controls bug. I've started the game a few times today, and most of the time it's started in some kind of alternate input mode, as if it was expecting a joystick or gamepad. When I tried to use my keyboard and mouse to move things, the character would indicate they couldn't. For example, I couldn't just click an item in my inventory and click in some other empty slot to move it...then I noticed that the actions available were totally different than I was normally used to. The right button and left button did different things. I had no option to move things around at all. I'd just created a backpack, and was unable to move items into it. Anything I picked up would go into the pack automatically, but even picking items up was different, I couldn't just click...I now had to right click. 

 

After exiting and restarting the game a couple of times, things went back to normal. But that has occurred several times now, and there isn't any easy way of fixing the issue.

 

The other issue has been much more persistent. Shipwrecked REALLY wants to keep me zoomed way in. I like a big picture overview of this game...I don't like being zommed in on my character, and particularly don't like my character filling up most of the screen. Whenever I unzoom, however, the game immediately bounces me right back into a narrower field of view, and I've recently been noticing that it seems to keep zooming in, very slowly, over time, until I'm looking at just my character's giant head. I then zoom out, but it resists, and starts zooming right back in again. This is occurring before I ever even reach the clouds, and god forbid I do, because when I do, then it is significantly more aggressive in zomming me right back in.

 

This has been extremely frustrated since I first started playing shipwrecked about a month or so ago. I really, really don't like being zommed in so much I'm cramped and can't see the darn world. I want a wide view of things, most of the time, and very rarely want a zoomed in view...but this game seems to have other ideas. 

 

Finally, there is a bug with the walls and hail. Something about hail, I guess because the hail pieces are constantly being blown against them, is resulting in significant degradation within seconds. A sandbag or wood wall doesn't last more than a few seconds if it is in the direct path of hail being blown along the ground by wind. Walls that are in line with the direction of wind will last a little longer, but a few direct hail hits and they are down. When the wind changes direction, an entire bases worth of walls can be wiped out in a few minutes within the first storm of hurricane season. This really makes the game difficult to play, and removes a LOT of the enjoyment, because it becomes more about resource management and wall repair than enjoying the more entertaining challenges of surviving in the greater environment of the world. 

[Kror]

Whenever I unzoom, however, the game immediately bounces me right back into a narrower field of view, and I've recently been noticing that it seems to keep zooming in, very slowly, over time, until I'm looking at just my character's giant head. I then zoom out, but it resists, and starts zooming right back in again. This is occurring before I ever even reach the clouds, and god forbid I do, because when I do, then it is significantly more aggressive in zomming me right back in.

 

A piece of code has been added in SW exactly for this, but the behaviour seems buggy. Yes, the games zooms in very much, but you also have a very small piece of exploration radius on the map. It's ~half the area you see. The zoom seems inconsistent too. Sometimes you've got normal zoom, sometimes it zoomed way in. (and sometimes it zooms in further than you can even zoom in manually and never stops).

 

 

To the controls I would also add, that the hammer action does not work with the normal action key anymore. Default "space" does not work. You have to click the target.

[jrista]

This zooming issue also seems to drop the cloud level over time as well. I've gotten stuck in a situation where I can't zoom out because the clouds are right there, and I'm already zoomed way in. Even the maximum zoomed out state is not as zoomed out as RotG is. Very annoying, almost makes me feel claustrophobic playing the game now as your just CRAMPED into this tiny view of JUST your character...all the time.