Can someone explain what I'm supposed to do in Downwell? Should I be shooting enemies? Missing them? Hitting them in the head?
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Regarding JC3...
You know, I'm finally experiencing some slowdown on JC3 on the big island.
But you know what? I'm in a chopper, throwing down 10+ missiles in the air at all times [small + heavy], getting fired on by tanks and helis and soldiers... and when I hit things, they not only have physics toppling them, but there are chain explosions... heck, based on my missile fire plus chain explosions there can be a ton of stuff just blowing up at any given time.
So... yea, there is slow down. But in a way? That's kind of what I want. I'd rather that then they slowed down my fire rate, or reduced enemies, or reduced explosions, or got rid of topple physics, or got rid of chain explosions. Or reduce missile distance [they go far!], or reduce the number of things that blow up in any given area X.... doing stuff like that would reduce the load, and remove the chance of slowdown.... but I don't think I want that.
I -want- my sandbox games like this to let me push the envelope. And I'll take occasional slowdown over them reducing my ability to destroy things.
At some point, devs have to choose when to 'call it' in terms of how many things are going on at once. They reduce enemies on screen, they reduce draw distance, explosions... but none of that makes sense in JC3, a game which is basically a ridiculous over the top blow-it-up sandbox.
So... yeah. I'm okay with slowdown. In fact, I kind of want it -- or better put, I don't want them to play it safe, and reduce every parameter until there is no chance of slow down. I want them to have giant excavators falling in the distance as I set off a bunch of explosives and tether across the sky. I want them to let me push the game into slowdown, because if they aren't letting me do that, then they didn't add enough stuff [or, took too much away].
So yeah. That's my rant. For a sandbox game like this where there's little limiting how much destruction I can cause at once, slowdown is aok in my book.