Dungeon Defenders Suggestions & Patch Details

Control scheme needs more customization!

 

Why does this game require iOS 4.2?

 

Please make it playable on iOS 4.1.

 

1) VoiceOver volume slider as well as sfx and music
2) the buttons don't deselect if the finger slides away whilst still pressing down, if I click on delete, start game, options etc, it should allow me to unpress the button.
3) option to set transparency/opaque level of GUI
4) smaller GUI features on pad so the action isn't obscured
5) swipe camera controls

 

4.1 compatibility is already bolded.

(Release it nowww! I'm pretty sure you'll double your sales with that one "feature"!)

Also, I'm reading complaints on a drastic slow down, especially with 4th gen devices?

And tap the tutorial to close it imo.

 

If you put in a respec option, it should cost mana to do so. Don't let people have a free ride for respecs.

When it comes to selling looted equipment, the dialog boxes cover up other dialog boxes. Maybe instead of 4 items per screen, reduce the amount or make the pictures smaller? The way I had to get through the screen was memorize the placement of each button. Thank goodness there is a confirmation box for selling items.

 

Great game but they really need to fix this on the iPad. It gets really jerky after a while and crashes a lot even after a reboot. I have an iPhone 4 but it's definitely much easier to play on an iPad. It's unfortunate the iPad has 1/2 the memory of an iPhone 4. Please optimize the iPad version so it's more stable.

Some suggestions

- Buttons: Move the store in bank and equip away from each other. Sometimes I want to store the item and press equip which is really bad if I equip a really bad piece of item! Maybe make a default where if the item is equal or thumbs down automatically store and if it's a thumbs up automatically equip.

- Separate buttons for repair so I can repair right away. When it goes into the repair mode and the view changes to zoom in I can't see which one I want to repair. The same goes for upgrade. All TD games lets you click on your tower and click upgrade. It makes no sense having to go to a menu to select upgrade and then click on your target tower. Make it so that you click on your tower -> pop up options to upgrade, repair and possibly sell (with confirm)

- Move the jump button farther away from the attack button

- I really hate how the wall changes your angle. Can you make it so that the angle is always the same but when it comes to walls make it transparent so you always keep the angle?

- a menu that shows the current people in your online game with the ability to add them to your GC friends list.

- Also fix the item menu. It's always so hard to look at the items because they block each other. Separate the items into categories or something and when you select an item put the current item you are wearing in a separate window so it doesn't block the view of the other items. Maybe change the item icon to be much smaller until I select it.

- Skip the loading movie if I have already seen it. It just wastes precious memory which can be used for the game on the iPad

- Listen to my own music playlist

-ability to rejoin a game I dc'ed from either due to connection issues or the game crashing if the spot is still open.

- when upgrading items show me what attributes can be upgraded since not all attributes can be upgraded.

- I would LOVE to play this on my iPhone 4 too but I don't want to start over my characters. If there was a way to sync my iPhone and iPad accounts that would be AWESOME!!!

 

Yeah also what framerate are u guys at?

 

What about the Hero Info screen .. how it automatically shifts and locks to portrait mode (and sometimes upside down).

Anyway to make it work in widescreen so I don't have to turn my phone ever?

 

I bolded what I care about most/have had most difficulty with. Thanks for being active on here PMasher! I'm loving the game

 

It keeps on crashing on my ipod touch 3G, I cant play it at all. Please fix.

 

As already mentioned, I'd also like to put my vote in for a way to respec. It's too much to expect players to play through another 60 levels just because they want to try a slightly different spec or move a few points around.

I'd like to suggest the removal of the pick-up + equip button. Honestly, it wouldn't kill people to just wait until the game is finished to equip their new gear. As it currently is, it's stupidly easy to accidentally swap out your gear for some junk on the ground, leaving it available for anyone else to grab. Also, as we can tell from many of the current complaints, screen real estate is very precious on the iDevices. On a computer, adding an extra command would be as simple as binding a key, but here, we have to give up space in order to have that command. A side benefit of this would be freeing up some extra screen space to reduce the clutter, while also removing an unnecessary action.

Banking your mana could be streamlined a lot. It's really inconvenient to have to run to the forge just to bank your mana. I know this would change the game mechanics a little, but what if any mana you gained past the max was auto-banked, and at the end of the game, all of your remaining mana was auto-banked as well? I don't have a better solution in mind at the moment, but I do think it would help speed up the game.

Lastly, while I don't have a good solution for this, I wouldn't mind seeing the time between waves sped up in some manner. As it currently is, during the build phase, we have to run around and grab chests that are spread out all over the map, and then if we're in a multiplayer game, we often have to wait for the one guy who doesn't activate the crystal, forcing us to sit around until the wave auto-starts. The chests seem really unnecessary to me. Maybe just auto-awarding the mana to the players would be better. As for the second issue, maybe the wave could be started when half the players are ready, or at least reduce the countdown.

I really appreciate the devs taking the time to listen to the players' inputs. You've created an amazing game, and I'm sure with a few tweaks, there is no doubt in my mind that this will easily be one of the best multiplayer games on the iOS. (The best in my opinion, but everyone is entitled to their own.) Thank you very much.

 

I agree/ second the following:
Swipe Camera instead of button based
Respec Option
Less Crowded UI dyscode
Ability to close/hide tutorial text
Pinch Zoom
Enemy icons instead of minimap
Crashing at loading screen while connecting to GC
Scrolling UI Item Box
Smaller iPad UI
Custom UI
Bubble pop ups with arrows instead of semi transparent boxs in Tutorial
Semi Transparent menus in tutorial are hard to read
Scaled down UI with smaller buttons

But the MOST important is the UI craze, the CRAZY LAG during boss, smaller buttons, and of course the crashing on iPad while starting up the game

 

I agree with everything Daza said about.

This game needs more streamlining.

 

I can almost guarantee that re-speccing will never be a feature in Dungeon Defenders. We'll think about it though.

Having a mana cap is an essential part to how the game is balanced, so auto-banking mana past your cap is also something that will most likely never happen.. Sorry hehe!

The time in between wave speed up... Well, let me ask you, have you played on insane yet? Maybe you should try! You might be surprised!

 

Thanks for listening to us and putting up this thread! I think if you had to fix one thing, it would have to be the fancy auto rotating camera... It really gets in the way. I tried showing some of my friends the game and they couldn't play it because of it.

I would also like to see the ability the customize those buttons on the left side of the screen. Say, if I wanted a Repair button instead of Mana Bomb since I tend to use that a lot more. Most action RPGs let you assign buttons this way. Also these buttons can be a lot smaller.

Editjavahawk: Why not respec?!! I don't understand. Why would you want the players to grind up all the way just to test a build?

 

Cool to open up a thread about it and try taking care. About this point I have changed my mind now I have play about 15h of the game.

Unlike minigore the action isn't totally centered on character player, which means that what is very cool in minigore would be pointless for DD if not a nuisance.

Ho and a quote, stunning game thanks for all the sweat and imagination and talent put in it.

 

Here a few more quotes of what I would wish, not sure any could fit even a later fix/update but if not, look at it as suggestion for DD 2 or DD first addon pack.

• An in game encyclopedia (or help) to provide the tutorial information through an option that you can check during pause.
• Allow select a tower and then see its range, at least during the time between waves but if possible during waves too, for example through a double touch.
• When a tower is out of range to repair and you try repair I quote once the same icon is shown than if you attempt repair a tower with full health, that can be confusing.
• When my finger release the tower to be build often there's a small movement shifting last position I choose, this should not happen, many game use similar controls and don't have this problem.
• Don't block a tower building because it's too close to the character player, it's ok for other characters but not the the player character.
• Show the place free where you can place the tower to build.
• Manage multi touch when a tower is drag to a place ie ignore other touch until the drag started is finished/released.
• Advanced pause in single player:
  • Pause when map is shown until the character moves.
  • An option to pause when you position a tower for building (not repair not during building time), or allow position a build during pause.
  • Allow check all towers health level during pause.
  • Allow a fly through the map during pause.

Some comments about some points already listed:

• About the smaller gui information I agree but please without to make texts too tiny and unreadable for old eyes.
• About the swipe and pinch for camera control, that's fine but please let an option to still use the current button, don't know why but like it.

 

The game is a lot of fun but in drastic need of a patch. Thanks for listening to the community and keeping us updated! I'm sure the game will be even better when a patch comes out.

I'm playing it on my iPad and I agree with everything on that list. If you did all those things the game could be perfect.

- My biggest issues are that the UI on the ipad is pretty bad. The buttons are huge and take up a lot of valuable screen space when they could be a lot smaller. To me it seems like the iPad version is just the iPhone version running at 2x, which is not how it should be. The UI needs to be streamlined, menus need to be uniform and buttons need to be smaller.

- Framerate is another big one. Its just so slow and jerky. I would prefer toned down graphics if it meant a faster framerate.

- And a new request. I would like the ability to zoom the camera out even more and have a more top-down view. I'm sure the game runs fine with those camera angles on the PC, but the game is difficult to wield on the iPad with such a zoomed in view. I never know what's around me.

- One other thing is could you include some options for the minimap? It'd like it on screen all the time but a lot smaller, perhaps in the top corner. Just so i can see where all the enemies are and what they are attacking, it doesn't need to be big at all.