Summary of what I said in the entire reply for those of you uninterested in reading my examples that demonstrate or lead to my point, because its a long post and I'm afraid I did dodge around a bit:
1. No difficult with loading codes for 3 people, 5 different codes a piece
2. Lower case 'i' looks a bit to much like a 'l' in a screen shot at least when taken over water in game
3. Wondering: Do caps in your account name affect load a code if you saved when the capital letters weren't there?
4. Opinion: Narith ice phase ice block is not noob friendly as the frost zombie fight trains you to think of ice block = stun. Possibly fix by making this clear in his text when he casts? (see paragraph 4 for line i think might work to make it clear) Changing this is mot necessary if figuring it out is part of the challenge of ice phase.
5. Narith lightning and poison phase overly difficult?
6. Not sure why poison was problematic, maybe the orbs, only a chance for them to spawn plague clouds or what?, anything besides orbs of plague cloud to poison phase seems less than the others, possibly because the box has the nasty effect infected wound?
7. Lightning Narith difficult because race against time? If not it may be too difficult in my opinion.
8. Narith channeling something to make sure you don't take too long to kill boxes? If so doesn't appear to be working as I ran back while brother stayed in fight by healing only with minor difficulty from infected wound. Possibly I just beat the clock on running back? Unless intended perhaps don't allow re-entry before complete death of the party?
9. Thank you all for an exciting, challenging, fun, boss and map
It seems that many people keep complaining about the codes :/
You better check save/load system again..
Maybe we've been lucky so far, but me and my brothers have probably successfully loaded at least 5 codes a piece and we haven't found any problem that wasn't user related. No problems with a different version only using the wrong account name or mistaking an i for an l. By the way a lower case 'i' looks A LOT like an l, maybe it was because the screen shot was against the water but we had to zoom in to tell the difference. I don't know if that's really a problem but it can be annoying at least with a blue background.
It just randomly came into mind and I would like to know: Would your ability to load a code be affected if you saved it while on an account like, 'bob_example', and then tried to load it when your account name was capitalized like, 'BOB_EXAMPLE', or any differences in the combination of capitals and lower cases in your account name?
Moving on. (man I feel strange typing these large replies while everyone else only uses a couple lines or maybe a paragraph) I would like to mention that after fighting frost zombie (Can't remember his name) you kind of start thinking of an ice block surrounding your character being an annoying stun. When you move on to fight Narith and have the frost phase this can lead to a bad experience. When he comments on it being too cold for someone and throws the ice block on them you kind of just think its a stun. The ice block repeatedly got us killed as we though we had to get through the phase or something to stop it. Eventually we figured out we needed to kill it but I feel it wasn't very obvious that we had to.
Perhaps you could make it a bit more obvious that it needs to be destroyed by changing the comment to "Looks like you're stuck there, Carl, until your friends save you... If they can!"? Or something else at least to indicate it. I wouldn't say throw it out as I do enjoy the challenges in the fight but I think something should be done to make that a bit more friendly to new players. This is just my opinions however, if figuring that out is part of the intended challenge then so be it. I suppose that might be why its also closest to the door so you might figure that out first, at least after the first attempt as people will probably try and attack the boss first.
I also found the lightning and poison phases to be extraordinarily difficult. I'm guessing lightning is supposed to be a race against time and as well as very deadly if you don't finish it up fast enough. Poison I'm not really sure what was killing us, I'm guessing it was those flying green orbs. Do those only sometimes spawn plague clouds? And is there anything else to poison phase besides the orbs of plague cloud? Or is that all because the poison box has that nasty effect infected wound on its attacks?
I also noticed that supposedly Narith is channeling something while you are killing the boxes. Is he supposed to enter VX mode if you take too long? I died and my brothers beat Narith untill the spirit was forced to leave him. Then they just waited for me to run back. During that time my brother had some difficult keeping himself and my other brother alive because the poison box was alternating infected wound on the two of them. It wasn't too difficult just to wait for me to get back though. Are you supposed to be able to just sit around and wait or did we just manage to beat the clock? I can see that as being rather exploitable.
Well made boss fight, quite challenging and thus enjoyable none the less. (shouldn't have summarized before finishing, typing fragments, arg) Man I feel sorry for making anyone read all this, but I guess that's why I thought i should make a summary up top, thanks for spending the time reading all of it if you have. Well I hope my comments are at least helpful in some way. Once again looking forward to next version, thanks for making the map all of you
