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how's it feel answering the same question 50 times, man?
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Many people think that the name "Captivity" refers to the heroine in the game, and how she is trapped in the endless experiments. It actually references Gadriel's eternal entrapment in this game's forum.
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As long as it's spaced out enough, it's bearable.
If it happens too many times in a short time span, I can go to the linked comment and retrofit it with instructions, forcing everyone to stare at them on their way and making anyone who STILL has problems safely mockable.
did you figure this out? I dont know what menu the other guy is talking about
Nice game and all but normal difficulty is so hard and there's nothing but cosmetics, no perks to make the game easier.
I know there's an easy mode but I feel like there should've been another option to reduce difficulty like in-game items. The content + graphics is quite limited as well but it could still be appreciated
I know there's an easy mode but I feel like there should've been another option to reduce difficulty like in-game items. The content + graphics is quite limited as well but it could still be appreciated
The game doesn't work for me, when I press the options it's just blank and the game loads forever
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i did get one, using a different cheat menu rn which is this one plus this one has more options
what do you mean by "edit the save with DBBrowser" what is DBBrowser and how do i use it?
Level 2 is terrible and gross, the fly enemy design is terrible its hit box is so small they are tankier then the bigger bosses not even factoring the pistols accuracy, how are you gonna make the basic grunt mob the hardest mob to kill, are you new to game design? Do you understand basic mechanics at all?
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Ah, new AND belligerent. What a wonderful combo.
Let's start off with the basics. BaasB did not make the game, they just uploaded it here. Perveloper made the game.
Next, the obvious. Yes, level 2 is the hardest level... but the Fly is NOT tankier then the biggest bosses. It's pretty frail, just hard to hit.
This game also doesn't use hitboxes. You shoot the character model, you deal damage, that's all there is to it.
Yes, in fact, Perveloper is new to game design. They made this game as a learning experience.
It also used to be so, so much worse. You originally couldn't step on larva, and had to shoot them. Now THAT was a tiny target.
...Play other levels as you gt gud? I think the pistol's accuracy is making you THINK the flies are a lot more dangerous then they really are. Plus, look away and they'll gather up right behind you.
Another thing to note is that Perveloper is not actively working on Captivity any further either, hence the "Completed" label. Honestly, given Perveloper's experience in game development, Captivity is actually pretty well put together despite some balancing issues with certain maps being generally harder than others. I would actually say the issue mainly lies in the fact that the shack map is too simple, leaving the rest to feel unnaturally more challenging by comparison. Enemies on other maps require the player to think more carefully about how to despatch enemies and manage upgrades more intently. Not to mention that aside from the Alien themed map, all of the other feature verticallity rather than linear left-right designs. The shack also has the fewest list of foes at 3, and 2 of them are mechanically copies of one another, and no flying enemies. The simplest fix would have been labeling the shack map as a practice or starter map.
If you are finding the other maps to be a bit much, there are mods that can give you a leg up. The C4C mod gives the player much more generous survival chances by jacking up the number of hearts you start with, among other changes that I can't recall. I'll include a link to a slew of mods gracious;y pulled together by one of the Discord chaps below. Do note that mods are only compatible with each other as long as they do not replace the same file.
If you are finding the other maps to be a bit much, there are mods that can give you a leg up. The C4C mod gives the player much more generous survival chances by jacking up the number of hearts you start with, among other changes that I can't recall. I'll include a link to a slew of mods gracious;y pulled together by one of the Discord chaps below. Do note that mods are only compatible with each other as long as they do not replace the same file.
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I don't really disagree with your overall post, but my man, if in a game you're able to shoot at something and it interacts with the shot (gets damaged/killed), then there's a hitbox.That's literally how you get two entities to interact with each other in games.
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To my knowledge, with Unity you can generate hitboxes based on sprites, but yeah even if almost the same hitboxes are still there as their own thing
Functionally it's still a hitbox. At least I haven't seen other terms used for that particular tool.
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...In 3-D games.
3-D games can't run on 'you shoot the model, you deal damage' because the models have so many polygons that would each individually need to be checked every frame to see if they've been hit. Thus, a simple, invisible box around the character that is much cheaper to monitor for incoming fire.
Plenty of games take this a step further, and have a single massive box around the entire character to simplify hit detection even more.
Don't need to do that here. You shoot the character sprite, you deal damage. Each sprite is just the silhouettes of their parts, which are cheap enough to monitor that you don't need any external hit detection like hitboxes.
Then we just disagree on the definition of what a hitbox is. An invisible shape bounding the model of an entity which is used to determine collision. Whether that shape is a literal box or the sprite itself matters very little to me, I call both a hitbox.
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