In the original, the Player is given a lot of time to explore some areas of the Prison before threats are introduced.
There may be a few things that you think “hmm, that’s not what happened before” but please remember that it may have been changed (temporarily) because I’m missing story or cutscenes that explain what happened. Since I got this feedback, I have been making some improvements and some slight changes – as throwing the player into a map with no context as to where they are, what they are supposed to do is bound to be confusing in any game. It would be great to see a new fan play the demo and then go check out what a great mod it is. To help with this, I want to ensure that the demo is accessible to new and existing players. It left the player confused and frustrated and gave a bad first impression and I don’t want to sour the name of the original mod by releasing a cheap knock off that offends all who worked hard on the original game. It was a real eye opener as to how many little things I’d either overlooked or thought “Players will know what to do” – which at the time seemed perfectly innocent.
I managed to find someone who had never played the Original Underhell mod and had them play the demo.
I still have a huge list of things to do but now I at least have something to talk about (unlike the last dev blog) I’ve had a lot of time these last two weeks or so to really continue development on Underhell and it’s going great.
