Official Feudalife CHALLENGE feedback Thread

[Narga95]

Sometimes there are too few hoeing tiles, shouldn't there at least be around 55?

 

[Zoliv]

Sometimes there are too few hoeing tiles, shouldn't there at least be around 55?

I usually have shitty maps, but this one is a winner.

 

[Chii-chan]

I need some big help. I've read through most of this thread and i tried checking help forum, but I can't find it. Someone must have already asked.

I wanted to review my gameplay giveaway keys and write them down to be better organized, because I missed some in the big list.
After indiegala changed it to now have an arrow > and be split into pages, at around 4th page from either side, it goes blank. The keys in the "middle" of the GG list are inaccessible, I can't generate links or see anything to click because it disappears. Is there any way to get the links, I don't see them in my emails, or any way to display all of them instead of these limited tabs? I hope I am explaining well.

 

[FreaKill]

After indiegala changed it to now have an arrow > and be split into pages, at around 4th page from either side, it goes blank. The keys in the "middle" of the GG list are inaccessible, I can't generate links or see anything to click because it disappears. Is there any way to get the links, I don't see them in my emails, or any way to display all of them instead of these limited tabs? I hope I am explaining well.

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Just checked my library - it does that for me sometimes as well (seems like going through pages quickly makes it more likely to stop showing the list), you just need to give it some time to finally load the list. If that doesn't work for you, trying to get in touch with support so that they fix it, is your only choice, at least I don't know any other way to get the actual links. Maybe the Indiegala client? I haven't felt the need to try it yet, so I'm not sure if G.Giveaways section is available there.
Also, if the dates are important for organizing your key list, it seems everybody's libraries glitched around April 27-28, so everything you won before that day, except for the very oldest wins in my case, is marked with time of one of your wins from that day (cheerie132's post about the bug and some discussion). The dates inside the links are fine, but the list is actually in a bit of chaos.

 

[Chii-chan]

Thank you so much. I kind of wish we could delete them, or hide the used.

 

[GrayFolkloreWhispers]

Right now I am receiving a "Your Gameplay Giveaways list is actually empty" message. Anyone else having that issue?

 

[MadLibrarian]

Yes, same here.

Showcase section on my profile is also empty. And if I go to the Showcase page of Indiegala and click on any of the games there it throws a 404 error message.

Edit: It seems everything is back to normal now here.

 

[Necromancer]

Your Gameplay Giveaways list is actually empty.

 

[GrayFolkloreWhispers]

Edit: It seems everything is back to normal now here.

Yes, I just jumped on and found everything returned.

 

[darkStar_]

I won 2 keys and 0.04$ from chopping trees today.

 

[FreaKill]

So I finally got around to uploading a playlist of my cleanest plays: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYyIdVamzZPngkRj9HKyrBU99Nais4xCL unfortunately Youtube butchered video quality and made it 30 FPS.
Does anyone know an easy free way to up-scale a video, so when I upload it Youtube handles it like 1080p60 and doesnt turn it into a blurry slow mess?
EDIT: OK, I think I mostly figured it out, HD versions are coming up as soon as YT finishes processing. Still a tiny bit blurrier than I'd prefer, but way better than before and most importantly 60FPS.

 

[街溜子]

@co2no (Replying to message on Winnable Games in Feudalife)
Well it really depends on the map layout. For instance yesterday when I played I had only 50 tiles that were "yellow" (don't know how to describe). So basically at the end I had 20 seconds left and got around 66/60 tiles as my final round. You can do a lot of shortcuts, as you may have seen that someone gave a link to a video. The person in the video had a super great map layout, filled with sand tiles easy to hoe. However, there are many points where he could took shortcuts to fasten the pace. For example at 0:04 after hoeing the 4th tile he hoed, instead of moving up-left he could've easily turned down without even moving and hoed the tile much faster. Also at 0:30 there is a pile of 5 sand tiles horizontally, after hoeing the 3rd tile he could have easily moved down instead of continuing hoeing right. It is actually 2x faster. (Sorry for broken English), -- For that map I could've easily made 70/60. Link: In a post from FreeKill

I can try to make a video of me doing the challenge today, but I am unsure how to send here.. and if I'm allowed/supposed to send a video file. For watering challenge you need to water the plants after a certain time have passed (around half a second), so you can't spam press LMB and the "A" and "D" button in WASD. I don't do archers ever since they made the challenge harder but there is no need to either way. Also I play on just a MacBook Air, nothing special. I don't even have access to Google Chrome which is the optimal browser to play it.

 

[ココ奈⁉]

@co2no (Replying to message on Winnable Games in Feudalife)
Well it really depends on the map layout. For instance yesterday when I played I had only 50 tiles that were "yellow" (don't know how to describe). So basically at the end I had 20 seconds left and got around 66/60 tiles as my final round. You can do a lot of shortcuts, as you may have seen that someone gave a link to a video. The person in the video had a super great map layout, filled with sand tiles easy to hoe. However, there are many points where he could took shortcuts to fasten the pace. For example at 0:04 after hoeing the 4th tile he hoed, instead of moving up-left he could've easily turned down without even moving and hoed the tile much faster. Also at 0:30 there is a pile of 5 sand tiles horizontally, after hoeing the 3rd tile he could have easily moved down instead of continuing hoeing right. It is actually 2x faster. (Sorry for broken English), -- For that map I could've easily made 70/60. Link: In a post from FreeKill

I can try to make a video of me doing the challenge today, but I am unsure how to send here.. and if I'm allowed/supposed to send a video file. For watering challenge you need to water the plants after a certain time have passed (around half a second), so you can't spam press LMB and the "A" and "D" button in WASD. I don't do archers ever since they made the challenge harder but there is no need to either way. Also I play on just a MacBook Air, nothing special. I don't even have access to Google Chrome which is the optimal browser to play it.

Perfectly understandable English! I have to read your analysis thrice to get the gist of it. Very in depth indeed! Usually videos are uploaded to YouTube and link is shared here. But I would feel bad imposing the hassle on you. I shall pour through your analysis again and compare notes with FreaKill's video.

 

[FreaKill]

Good points about optimising the movement, 彪悍. Let's look at them in more detail:

at 0:04 after hoeing the 4th tile he hoed, instead of moving up-left he could've easily turned down without even moving and hoed the tile much faster.

You're right, I could've turned to hoe tile 1 without moving too far down and then I'd still be in position to go up-left and hoe tile 2. It wouldn't have interfered with my movement in that region later so that's a definite improvement to the strategy.

at 0:30 there is a pile of 5 sand tiles horizontally, after hoeing the 3rd tile he could have easily moved down instead of continuing hoeing right.

Not so sure about this one. Here I'm at the last frame of hitting that tile and it's possible to go down-right to immediately hoe tile 4 (and then proceed to tiles 1 or 3), but it would be targeted only for a split second so it's a tricky hit to make.
Or do you mean go straight down to hit tile 5, then 4 and continue into the top-right corner from there? I could do it, but I find it more difficult to move out of corners precisely, if I approach them diagonally, rather than horizontally or vertically. Though I guess I could see going 5-4-3-1-2 and being in position to hit down and the down-right from tile 3 without too much trouble. So I guess you're right, I could do this section better even without taking into account that I did 1-2-4-3 instead of 1-2-3-4 that I intended. I was really messy in that corner.

What I consider the biggest mistake in this run is this:

Leaving the tiles in bottom center for later, when I was near them before and then blocking myself from immediately reaching them later. It could have ruined the whole run, if I had more mistakes or false hits along the way. I really should've taken care of those around 00:23 and then moved on to clearing the right corners.

For that map I could've easily made 70/60.

In 44 seconds? I really want to see this, I can go up to 80 without malus and over 70 in 52 seconds, but in 44? I think 66 is my record with current difficulty.

I can try to make a video of me doing the challenge today, but I am unsure how to send here.. and if I'm allowed/supposed to send a video file.

Please do, there are no limits on who's allowed to link videos as far as I know. If you don't want to use youtube, you can upload to Upload Video - Streamable without registering. AFFIRMATIVE and I did so in the past and the clips seem to still be there.

 

[ココ奈⁉]

Wow all these are seriously mind boggling!
I was thinking FreaKill's tactics were already very pinpoint and makes winning extra keys very possible yet there are still places that can see improvement.
No nonsense analysis approach to improve our game for a chance at more keys at higher malus? I'm shift my chair here to follow on the updates

PS. This needs to be kept from the privy eyes (and ears) from the devs least they start nuking/nerfing challenges again

 

[Chii-chan]

PS. This needs to be kept from the privy eyes (and ears) from the devs least they start nuking/nerfing challenges again

Challenges are down again. Coincidence?

I'm also running into problems seeing the won keys again. It was working up to page 6, now i can't even load page 2. Comes and goes.

 

[街溜子]

Didn't have time to play this challenge past 2 days so I just played it now. I tried recording it on my laptop, didn't really necessary get the best score haha but I will try to show it to you if this video file can upload on here. You are right for the 5 sand tiles horizontally I meant to turn at 4th one not 3. Well, everyday I do this challenge at 46 seconds with 14 malus, meaning my 3rd challenge, not 44 seconds. But I believe I could still get around 65 with 44 seconds even. I tried to upload my video on streamable but unsure if this will actually work: feudalife

I made 3 mistakes when playing,,
- first one at 0:12 when trying hitting "W", trying to go up I hit it a little too early, causing me to hoe the same tile twice.
- second one (biggest one) at 0:38 I had 2 choices to make: first one was the one I did which was to hoe the last block in the column first and then mine the 2nd to last tiles on the one left from it. For some reason I press "A" too long and accidentally skipped one tile. I don't usually make this mistake, then I was like screw it mine the tile right-below the one I just hoed, somehow I held the "S" button long as well, so it was like a double fail. The other choice I could have make was to hoe left-below the 3rd tile on the most right column. Which I thought wouldn't work as well but that would've probably been the best option.
- third one didn't really matter as I was already over 60 but I didn't hold "W" long enough so I hoed same tile twice again. Normally I would make this mistake only once every gameplay, or 0, somehow I made it 3 times this one. My final score was 66/60 (almost 67) but without the mistakes it would've been at 70 and the map layout wasn't the best.

 

[ココ奈⁉]

Challenges are down again. Coincidence?

I'm also running into problems seeing the won keys again. It was working up to page 6, now i can't even load page 2. Comes and goes.

Sometimes the server seems to get overloaded and responded very slowly to load the next page. Thus that is why I keep every key of mine that I can't activate (either DLCs or game already in library) in a separate excel sheet. That way I never have to bear with the slow load times when trying to view my older won keys.

...but without the mistakes it would've been at 70 and the map layout wasn't the best.

Perfectly viewable for your video!

Wow. I noticed that both you and FreaKill had very fluid movements across the map. I tried doing the diagonal tile hoe but usually either end up too far off or just go left or down instead of where I wanted my character to go (which is left-down). I guess I have to make much more practice then.

Very good breakdown of your mistakes here btw (a very common one I always make!) I can learn a thing or two from the mistakes and your analysis to it. Hopefully it ups my hoeing game further everyday.

Thank you for making mistakes today else I can probably not learn

 

[街溜子]

Sometimes the server seems to get overloaded and responded very slowly to load the next page. Thus that is why I keep every key of mine that I can't activate (either DLCs or game already in library) in a separate excel sheet. That way I never have to bear with the slow load times when trying to view my older won keys.


Perfectly viewable for your video!

Wow. I noticed that both you and FreaKill had very fluid movements across the map. I tried doing the diagonal tile hoe but usually either end up too far off or just go left or down instead of where I wanted my character to go (which is left-down). I guess I have to make much more practice then.

Very good breakdown of your mistakes here btw (a very common one I always make!) I can learn a thing or two from the mistakes and your analysis to it. Hopefully it ups my hoeing game further everyday.

Thank you for making mistakes today else I can probably not learn

Yep, I can always try to make better ones where I make no mistakes, I believe highest I've gotten was just a little over 75 (for 46 seconds), and that was cause of a super well map layout. How long have you been playing this challenge? You will always get better the more you practice Also, I am interested in viewing Freakill's video, since I could not find it anywhere haha. Maybe I didn't look harder enough, whelp time for new challenges (I don't normally play this time) but let's see how I do Also my pleasure,

 

[ココ奈⁉]

Yep, I can always try to make better ones where I make no mistakes, I believe highest I've gotten was just a little over 75 (for 46 seconds), and that was cause of a super well map layout. How long have you been playing this challenge? You will always get better the more you practice Also, I am interested in viewing Freakill's video, since I could not find it anywhere haha. Maybe I didn't look harder enough, whelp time for new challenges (I don't normally play this time) but let's see how I do Also my pleasure,

75 in 46 seconds is something I can only dream of for now. Even at 12 malus I am still having issues with completing let alone 14 or 16 malus. I have been playing the challenge from mid-Apr this year so still need to improve on a lot with the hoeing (the only challenge now that I have difficulties winning keys at higher malus).

But back during the 1st week of play I'm getting only 1 key each day to later 2 and now 3 (or 4 with giveaways) keys 75% of the time. I'd say I thought was near the best I could do already. But you guys prove it otherwise so I will have to keep improving on my hoeing precision (which I am still pretty bad at) to try win 5 keys with giveaway.

How about yourself? How long did it take you to be so precise at the hoeing challenge?