Vecter (tuxdb.com)

Okay seriously enough with the performance improvements they are going to drive me insane. I've stared so much at this stupid graph i'm having full-on nightmares with it. Last night at stupid AM I woke up panicked because I was dreaming about some Update loop hanging for 100ms every minute or so and I jumped to my computer to fix it... that is until I came to my senses, realized it's 3AM and that Unity's not open and I was just having a dream... I'm sick of this graph:
Anyway, I've made a lot of changes since the last update and I'll summarise them here. More updates are still to come to fix bugs and such but I wanted to keep you all in the loop on what I've been doing (and I really wanted to use the Trump Interview Meme format before it dies):

Stats in the stats screen (under the play menu) were not working correctly at all. They have been fixed and enhanced to also show seconds for the total time played for each mode
Music bars have been made less hyperactive
Some extra logging in the log file to easier identify future issues
Youtube View mode now works as intended (the background elements were not disappearing as expected)
Fixed some achievements that were reported to be broken
Vecter only supports a maximum of 100 mp3s now. This is because unlimited songs was causing performance issues
Game no longer hangs when going to the next/previous songs
Framerate limiter has been re-enabled to 110% of you screen's refresh rate. So a 60Hz screen will be locked at 66fps. This has been done to reduce GPU usage on higher-end GPUs
The game no longer freezes the first time you open the play menu (or shouldn't anyway)
Fixed the stencils so you don't get city on top of mountains on top of palm trees anymore
Tutorial text no longer overlaping
Texts no longer shaking on the screen
Cityscape should have less of a performance impact
Massive performance improvement after moving some code around
Hopefully no more hangs of any kind, even when picking up extra lives
Updated to unity 2020.1.1

To drive the point home about all the performance improvements, this is Vecter running on my dev machine. Specs are in the video and the framerate is SOLID: EDIT: Video currently disabled to remove some sound from it. Sorry about that, will be back shortly. [previewyoutube=B-ULNSXj5EQ;full][/previewyoutube]

[ 2020-08-07 14:20:05 CET ] [ Original post ]

Vecter

Taranasus Developer

Taranasus Publisher

2019-11-04 Release

Indie Casual F2P Racing Singleplayer Multiplayer Coop EA Tags

Game News Posts: 52

🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse
🎮 Full Controller Support

Overwhelmingly Positive (2911 reviews)

https://www.vecter.online

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Vecter is a fast-paced runner and shooter game where your goal is to survive by the skin of your teeth and raise hell in your path. You get in your ship, you push the throttle on max and then try to survive for as long as possible by annihilating anything that gets in your way.

There are obstacles, there are enemies, there are power-ups and there will be plenty more to come! I hope you're good at staring contests because you will not have the luxury of blinking!

Compete with your friends and with strangers for the top spot of the daily leaderboard. If you're top dog for that day, you remain top dog for that day on that track forever! It's all you, you did it!

And you don't need to be in-game to show off your position, you can also take it to your friends house and brag about your greatness while everyone is awkwardly ignoring you for boasting about something nobody's even heard about. Here's the link in case you need it

One important thing to note is that Vecter does not have a road-map, or a planed out future. There is a trello board with features that I plan on implementing and the feature request channel on the Vecter discord server.

I'm a one-man dev team, and I'm making this game purely out of passion around all of my other IRL commitments, so development sometimes may be slow. It's a hobby and a damn fun one at that but at this stage it's still just a hobby.

Among other things I'm also making an arcade version of vecter complete with it's own cabinet.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1219990/Vecter__Donation_Pack/

MINIMAL SETUPOS: Manjaro or Ubuntu but it may work on others
Processor: Intel i5 - 2400 or newerMemory: 2 GB RAM
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: Nvidia GT 730 or AMD R7 240. Integrated GPUs are not supported
Storage: 1 GB available space
RECOMMENDED SETUPOS: Manjaro or Ubuntu but it may work on others
Processor: Intel i5 4th generation and aboveMemory: 4 GB RAM
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: GTX 760 will do nicely
Storage: 1 GB available space

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