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Thanks for the insightful review!
To go point by point...
-Yes, jump pads are relics of v1.x, however, I didn't change the level design of these earlier maps as there was nothing inherently wrong with them and remaking them would've taken time that was better spent making on the new stuff.
- The café shop lets you exchange rare weapons from the fields for the weapon types of your choices and eventually fuse all of them into a stronger weapon. It also has exchanges that act as a pity system for rare drops in hard mode.
Also worth knowing that you can get items to "limit break" weapons from the café which boost their stats closer to the strongest weapons, which lets you keep using the ones you like the Potentials of.
-Inventory space is more of a holdover from how things are in the source material rather than specific consideration being put into it. I don't actually have anything more to add to it but it's maybe something that'll be taken a look at eventually.
-Mission length is intentionally much higher starting with the ver.2 content. Missions before then were very easy to complete without putting much thought into bringing anything, whereas the longer ones means players prepare a bit more and also make use of telepipes every now and then. 7-2 is of course intentionally the longest mission.
-Weapon / Armour element is indeed not explained anywhere and kind of relies on general gaming tropes of "hit weakness for more damage". Every enemy does actually deal elemental damage, the element being the opposite of their main weakness (Fire <-> Ice, Elec <-> Earth, Light <-> Dark), and matching armour element with enemy attacks' will reduce damage.
With that said, I'll look into adding ways to tell which element dealt damage to the player as well as some extra visual flair when hitting enemy weaknesses.
Overall, I'd like to add some tutorial missions to explain both basics and advanced concepts with more numbers at some point but it unfortunately isn't in the cards yet.
- The lack of postgame is something that is being adressed in the next update which will add a new difficulty level to all missions (and new non-story missions) where strong equipment and mechanical skill is *expected* of the player.
Right now, it's true that equipment (especially 10 and 11-star rarity gear) outscales the difficulty curve set by late hard mode.
To go point by point...
-Yes, jump pads are relics of v1.x, however, I didn't change the level design of these earlier maps as there was nothing inherently wrong with them and remaking them would've taken time that was better spent making on the new stuff.
- The café shop lets you exchange rare weapons from the fields for the weapon types of your choices and eventually fuse all of them into a stronger weapon. It also has exchanges that act as a pity system for rare drops in hard mode.
Also worth knowing that you can get items to "limit break" weapons from the café which boost their stats closer to the strongest weapons, which lets you keep using the ones you like the Potentials of.
-Inventory space is more of a holdover from how things are in the source material rather than specific consideration being put into it. I don't actually have anything more to add to it but it's maybe something that'll be taken a look at eventually.
-Mission length is intentionally much higher starting with the ver.2 content. Missions before then were very easy to complete without putting much thought into bringing anything, whereas the longer ones means players prepare a bit more and also make use of telepipes every now and then. 7-2 is of course intentionally the longest mission.
-Weapon / Armour element is indeed not explained anywhere and kind of relies on general gaming tropes of "hit weakness for more damage". Every enemy does actually deal elemental damage, the element being the opposite of their main weakness (Fire <-> Ice, Elec <-> Earth, Light <-> Dark), and matching armour element with enemy attacks' will reduce damage.
With that said, I'll look into adding ways to tell which element dealt damage to the player as well as some extra visual flair when hitting enemy weaknesses.
Overall, I'd like to add some tutorial missions to explain both basics and advanced concepts with more numbers at some point but it unfortunately isn't in the cards yet.
- The lack of postgame is something that is being adressed in the next update which will add a new difficulty level to all missions (and new non-story missions) where strong equipment and mechanical skill is *expected* of the player.
Right now, it's true that equipment (especially 10 and 11-star rarity gear) outscales the difficulty curve set by late hard mode.
hoping this gets an overhaul someday
For what it's worth, Gylir Cannons will stop shooting and enter a cooldown period anytime they take any damage, even a weak shot from a ranged weapon will do the trick, lingering attacks like Quick Gash, Skyfire Salvo and Rabarta are particularly effective, and statuses like burn or poison disable them entirely as they keep ticking damage over time!
Alternatively, the Assassin (an easy to acquire rifle in hard mode) can reliably kill them in a single shot with little investment in ranged attack.
Long story short, there are plenty of options to deal with them!