Clarification and Reminder on Inappropriate Workshop Content in Tower Unite

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@nat

another thing i see is the community is already talking about a new main menu concept again. why change the main menu anyway? this game is a beta, there’s no reason to waste time in this cuz you’ll change it again anyway, as seen in virus. it got three HUDs (can’t look at the third one, unplayable horrible for my eyes) so far, man, game developers do this stuff at last. bug fixing is more important.

The main menu is an important part of the game, as it is the first thing a new user will see when they boot up the game. Over time, we’ve prototyped menus to try to make the experience as easy as possible to navigate. It’s going to be something that evolves over time.

@nat

here’s my main menu concept: the hell with it. boot the game → starts in your condo. the game asks you at opening the entrance/exit door where do you wanna go?

This has been talked about internally, but for a new user who knows nothing about the game, throwing the user into a condo without any explanation isn’t very helpful. We have tutorials planned, but again, as the game is still being developed, those are going to change over time and we’ve been waiting a bit while more systems are refined and finished.

That being said, there’s always also been the idea of a toggle allowing users to just determine where they want the game to boot, either to the Main Menu, or to a populated lobby, or their condo.

@nat

the matchmaking part is terrible. this shouldn’t even be a thing with separate servers, it should be built in the pause menu. i don’t know why they build extra areas for this. if this is seriously not possible then this is the wrong engine, i mean they’re able to create a global chat, why can’t they ping themselves “hi im looking for a virus game too” via the global chat invisible for matchmaking and send a notification “you found other guys, get ready”.

We have plans on a better matchmaking system, these things take time and aren’t as simple as making a chat system.

@nat

i miss lobby 2. lobby 2 is more eyecandy, fresh, bright, smaller, cool looking train station, had stairs, (standing on a different height level is always cool) and could have been more. lobby 3 is soo ya, store location is better, the tower looks better and worse but i also miss the hallway to the exit in the lobby 2 train station and the rest is worse to me.since lobby 3 release nothing interesting or good came out for me, the game died for me but this announcement is very evil and i really do not tolerate this dependent stuff anymore.

One of the biggest issues with Lobby 2 was that everything that was an activity was located the furthest away from the Tower, and new players were unaware of what was back there. Everyone on the team, including the main architects of Lobby 2 @Johanna and @Lifeless agree that Lobby 3 is infinitely better than Lobby 2, both in layout and performance, as they were able to integrate new techniques learned over time with the engine, and rework the layout to bring the activities to the forefront for new players to find.

@nat

so, this game is mac’s dark shadow.

I really take offense to this statement, and I wouldn’t normally comment on something like this, but it’s something I want to get off my chest.

Tower Unite was not and is not created by just one person. There’s an incredible team of people who work on this game, each with their unique skills and ideas, who come to work each day to improve it and make it the best game and experience that it can be. Every decision on where to go forward with the game, we talk about every Monday at our meetings, we make decisions collectively.

Development takes time, a bunch of time, and while some features take longer than we’d like them to, whether it’s running into engine bugs, or having to rewrite older legacy systems to make those features happen, or what have you, I have always been impressed with what this small team has been able to accomplish.