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Panel Attack is a free modern puzzle game inspired by popular games such as Tetris Attack and Pokemon Puzzle League while still maintaining authentic mechanics. Arrange colored panels in rows and columns of three or more to match matches that clear. Panels then fall from gravity and can make chains that give bonuses or attack the other player.
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Consider allowing swapping panels under freshly hovering panels that came from garbage #385

Open JamesVanBoxtel opened 11 months ago

JamesVanBoxtel commented 11 months ago

Typically you can't swap panels under hovering panels as this would allow inserting panels into a 1 height clear and other really lenient things.

However when garbage has just cleared it also makes hovering panels. Due to game data those hovers can for a really long time on lower levels and it can feel pretty broken that you can't swap something during those frames even though you could right before and nothing has changed but their color.

Should we allow swapping under hovered panels if they just came from garbage?

To be evaluated if this is a good change for players of all skill levels or if it makes things too "easy" especially on level 10.

Endaris commented 6 months ago

The first step to alleviate the issue without changing the engine is to have hovering panels use a different visual appearance than normal panels. That way, even if annoying on occasion, at least it is transparent to the player what is happening other than feeling like the game injustly ate your input.