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When does it stop being antimatter dimensions with a bigger font?
developer response: I am planning on going in a different direction than AD once the first major update comes out. But for now, the game will stay somewhat the same compared to AD, but i am looking for play feedback to improve the early stages of the game, so if you don't mind, what could be improved?
If you click the dimensional expanse button without the prerequisite, it resets you (with animation) for no reward and gives you the achievement.
I've made it to 5 stars but still seem a fair bit away from collapse. Noticed a few bugs and a few balance concerns.
Bug: Slowdown after running the game a while, a few other people mentioned this already but I have no idea of the cause.
Bug: Expanse bonus for 10 is the same as the one at 5. This could be intentional but it feels like a bug. I was super disappointed to grind all the way to Expansion 10 and get nothing new.
Balance: Odd Bonus is MUCH better than Even bonus (except at Expanse 1). With Odd working out to x128 vs Even x16 its rough. And if it was just that alone it could maybe be forgiven as part of an odd/even mechanic thats useful at some other stage. But the way that Even boosts atoms directly makes it extra useless. It gets no benefit from energy exponent. If you wanted to keep similar but close the gap you could change Even to boosting Energy Dimension 1, that way it can take advantage of the exponent while still being the 'short term gain' boost.
Balance: Energy stars aren't impactful at the start of a run. These boosts are pretty great once you get your energy numbers up but until you do that they hardly matter. Which means every time its a slow trek through Expansion 1-4 until you get to the point the numbers matter. I'm not sure how many stars its intended to get but considering the exponent only seems to be going up 0.02 per star at this stage it may be a few more.
Overall its pretty decent. I actually like the varying bonuses they just need to not be so heavily weighted in favor of Odd being so much better than even. The end result of the dimensions being a generator itself is fun too. It just doesn't seem to be worth the prolonged grind for stars that seem to be required at this point to continue.
developer response: The issue with the game slowdown has been indentified (Suprisingly, by Hevipelle himself). The expanse bonus at 10 is just slightly stronger than the one at 5, but it is really hard to balance since the buy 10 multipier gets stronger as multipliers increase, so increasing it by too much will cause sudden inflation. The odd bonus of expanse actually gets stronger after 10 expanses (see the advanced tab in stats) To balance it, but i will certainly slightly boost it to compensate for the early game. You are right, the even boost should boost energy instead of atoms. The energy stars will absolutely be buffed in the next patch or update (Btw, to beat the game at this point in time you need about 6-7 stars. That is alot, i know). So in conclusion, i will definitely consider your points and completely rebalance the early game. Thank you for your feedback!
Having played some more, it's definitely painful that the even/multiple of 5 resets don't have any of the odd reset's bonus.
Even gives a slight atom boost and is permanently outshone by an odd bonus of the same level because it directly boosts atoms rather than energy generated, meaning the ^raise boost doesn't affect it. Right now it's just a slight jumpstart with essentially no true boost to growth rate.
The multiple of 5 resets have nothing to boost the start, making it take a long time before it feels effective.
And the odd boosts are good from the beginning. They outshine the other two quite noticeably.
If there's a reset layer comparable to infinities, I haven't reached that yet. Hopefully there's an upgrade that allows for something like having the other boosts work at partial power. The even boost definitely needs it.
The game keeps getting slower and slower over time, after a couple hours the visible atoms gain was ~4x slower than the rate shown (with 1 atom/sec right after reset it took the game about 4 seconds to accumulate one atom). After an overnight run the game took seconds to buy a dimension. Have to reload the page regularly to get it back in shape.
developer response: Thanks for your observation! The game should be running more smoothly now.
isn't it supposed to be 3rd and not 3th
developer response: Maybe?
please never fix the achievement text that says "Go collapsal" if it was an accident
this game would be a gem if you kept your expanse bonuses. but what you get is incredibly unbalanced leading to too many timewalls. after 2 days of playing i got to the 7th expanse and thought i was finally getting somewhere only to be bricked back in the face by a time wall at the 8th expanse. looks like the 9th will be a little faster, but im dreading the 10th, if its anything like the 5th. resetting for stars also seems useless, and sets me back more than it helps anything. you start at ^1.40, i reset EVERYTHING and i only got to ^1.46? i figured maybe its needs a second upgrade to really be useful. no. ^1.50
this seems to be a good game, but its taking too long to scale, never feeling like youre ahead of the curve.
average antimatter dimensions fangame
also ah yes 3th
i clicked the expand button the second time when i didn't have enough and it took me straight to endgame
i missed a science lesson about energy producing atoms
developer response: That's totally how it works!
Dimensional expanse 5 is just such a scam. the 4th one gives you a 65k multi, you trade that for a 0.16 multi what a joke, tf kind of balance is this shit?
developer response: The expanse gives a +0.32 increase to the buy 10 mutiplier, which is actually an exponentially rising boost as the ED multpliers get larger. So while this will make the start of the expanse slower, it will allow you to reach higher atom amounts later into the expanse. Hope that clears it up!
It's an alright game, not too good, not too bad. Although the design could be improved.
developer response: If you may, what could be improved?
is it possible to complete all of the secret achievements at the start of the game or do you need to progress a certain amount to complete them?
developer response: For now, you need to be around halfway through the game to get them all
Can definitely echo the sentiments of the previous comment, there's almost certainly a memory leak going on somewhere in here.
this is actually a solid game - not for everyone (like any game), but I love the slower incrementals.
I'm still in the very early game (2-3 energy stars), but I'm excited to see where you take this game's content in the future.
5 stars from me.
developer response: Thanks!
it's a nice fangame of AD, but it is a bit slower. I do find the difference funny, and keep up the good work!
wdym 5 is not odd :sob:
developer response: me not good with numbers
The game seems to have a memory leak or smth. I have to refresh the window at some point or it starts slowing down more and more. As if you were regularly recreating DOM elements without properly removing / nulling the old elements or something alike.
developer response: There certainly was, since i was updating the textContent of (pretty much) all elements 40 times a second, which, atleast i think so, did not allow the GC to do it's work.
FYI your ach_tick function keeps adding event listeners, which causes the game to have a bit of a memory leak and performance issue.
developer response: Oh! I never noticed that... Thanks!