Note: the global enemy count can be viewed in-game by pressing F8. It seems to be less extreme with a supertile active range of 8. Some areas of the game hit 20 simultaneous enemies pretty quickly indeed, such as parts of level 6 with a supertile active range of 9. I'm pretty sure we can safely raise it because the enemy-specific caps will limit the amount of enemies anyway. I believe the global enemy cap (gMa圎nemies = 20) is purely meant to help with performance, as opposed to having any kind of role in gameplay balancing.

Some levels aren't really designed to look good with a long draw distance anyway - I'm thinking of ugly gaps in the terrain in level 2. Perhaps it's worth looking into lowering the supertile active range just a bit it'll relieve some of the pressure on the enemy caps. The code supports values 4 through 9 - any other values will fail to compile. I believe the PPC version had a range of 5 active supertiles or so. This version uses a range of 9 active supertiles, unchanged from the code dump I got from Pangea. To test different draw distances, you can tweak SUPERTILE_ACTIVE_RANGE in terrain.h. Here are some things we can try to tweak: Supertile active range I think we'd need to do some thorough testing to see if it throws off balancing in any way. Wow, great observation! I hadn't noticed this.

Redesigning the HUD, models, textures, levels, etc.

Redesigning the 3C's to make them more palatable to modern tastes than the original tank controls.

Fixing bugs that negatively affect the experienceĮxamples of 'mods' that are currently out of scope:.

don't downscale terrain textures (subtle in Nanosaur, more striking in Bugdom)

Getting rid of purely technical limitations that don't impact gameplay, e.g.

If a change requires redesigning a tangible aspect of the game, such that it could be considered to be a 'mod', then it's out of the scope of this project. For any issue I consider fixing, I ask myself 'would Pangea have fixed this, had they known about it?' - if yes, then I'll do it.Īny other tweaks are intended to make the experience of the game more pleasant, but they cannot alter the spirit of the original. I fix gameplay bugs when I'm confident enough to understand the creator's intent. If shining the best possible light on the game involves fixing bugs and making small tweaks, then so be it. This port intends to provide the best way to experience Nanosaur today while respecting the source material.

You're right, that's unclear that part of the readme was drafted before I had finished the port.

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