School of Dragons "First impressions" /Review thread

[Jam]

I don't want to start a new thread, so I hope this post with reach anyone from the staff. The game is crashing pretty often, and I figured out why.

In my case, when I log in and start playing, the game starts loading other players. Once a certain number of players is loaded, the game crashes with "fatal content error". I found out that the game ran out of system memory, as it had more than 1.5 GB allocated (or more exactly - the browser in which the Unity web player was running allocated 1.5 GB), and Windows didn't allow it to allocate more. I tried it several times, and every time the game uses more than 1500 MBs, it crashes with the above-mentioned error message. (I have 3 GBs installed in my system, Windows uses roughly 600-700 MB when idle). I do hope the memory management is a bug in the game code and not in the Unity game engine, because when there are too many players playing, the game is often unplayable for me. Even if it isn't a bug, I still think that 1.5 GB of allocated memory is way too much for such a simple game. There aren't thousands of characters online, I guess. Another interesting thing is that the game doesn't load other players every time I enter a place (I often walk around the scenes without seeing anyone, except the NPC characters). I always have to restart the game to get that working.

And I confirm the bug on the Hiccup's quest with the loam.

Anyway, the game looks awesome. Simple and awesome. I hope my slightly more detailed report will be of use. Kudos for using Unity!

Jam

[Tempest]

I am having the same problem, and hope it gets fixed! Also, like other people, I'm having problems with experiments. When I did the quest for where you had to set the rock on fire, when I recorded it in the journal, the rock flipped out and landed on the floor. I was like "FIRE! AHHH!"
The loom quest is also a problem, and the major lag.

[p3t3rsam]

EDIT: Looks like Acanthea beat me to it! Darn! I'll leave this here just in case. Hello KT! The shop actually is open and does sell bait! If you go ingame, In the top right corner of your screen, right next to the coins bar where it shows how many coins you have, there should be a shopping cart. Click on that and there should be a shop menu. Then click on the fishing rod sign on the left hand sign of your screen and then click on "bait" in the bottom of the screen. Bait sells one for three coins. I hope this helps!

[Brynjolf]

Hello everyone, thanks for all your feedback so far. It's great to hear what you love about the game and beneficial for us to hear what issues you are facing in the game. Concerning the Loom and Doom quest bug, our development team is working to pinpoint the error and working on fixing that. We have also told them about the experimentation bug and they are working on fixing that as well. Thanks for playing and keep letting us know how your experience is going!

[Moonclaw]

I didn't see a bug report forum, so I decided to post it here (I hope it's ok)

I was working on the quest where you have to bring the botanist a white and a red flower from the wilderness. I already got the red rose, then as I wanted to pick up the white rose suddenly the some text came like the one as I got the mission. It was something like that (I don't remember all, that's just the main): She wants a pink rose for her husband, but they are rarely found in the wilerness. I'm able to get a pink rose from a red and a white rose, could you get them from me please?

I'm sorry for my bad english, I'm from germany ^^'

[Brynjolf]

Hi, Moonclaw. Thanks for letting us know about this issue you encountered. We apologize for the inconvenience and have notified our development team. Please keep us informed of anything else you experience while you play. Thanks for the feedback and for playing School of Dragons!

[Jam]

Heh, I think I should write a bit more about the impressions from this game. So yeah... The first awesome move you guys did was the flight on Toothless. Everybody knows that every player will want a Night Fury as his dragon right? The flight was short, but awesome.

The overall gameplay is balanced, although I had to walk around a lot when I had a small dragon, which almost got annoying... but that's just me. I do like the scientific research though. That idea is just excellent. I don't think I saw something like this elsewhere. It's creative.

The whole beginning is very interesting, from the moment the player chooses a dragon, and how he grows with him. I think it's very well done, I enjoyed it.

The only issue I have is the broken quest and the "out of memory" thing. Maybe it's my browser though...

EDIT: Oh, one more thing. While flying around Berk, the dragon's animation froze when I pressed spacebar to speed up, or when I stopped to hover over the ground. The Dragon's wings didn't move, neither the tail. Same thing happened to me when I was riding my dragon on ground. The dragon did one walking animation cycle, and didn't repeat it. This does not happen regularly. (I have a Nadder)

EDIT 2: On Berk, after I light a few campfires with my dragon, I just recieve 50 gold and a message: "You got them all". Is it supposed to be like that or is it a bug?

[Brynjolf]

Thanks for your thoughts, jam! We're glad that you enjoy the game so far and thanks for pointing out some issues to us that could use some fixing. We're currently working on that with our development team. Keep posting your thoughts on the game and thanks for playing!

[Acanthea]

I agree with those who already gave a feedback! I also love these little details you've put in: Like the dragons will follow the mouse with their eyes, the shadow a dragon is making when he flies over the place, the dragon noises when you go near the Fire Flenzy (Or however it's called xD ), the details in the environment like grass and the little stones, that your dragon brings you the items you'll have to collect (Like wooden logs), and the amazing light reflexions on the sea if you are in Berk.

Really, I applaud for these awesome details! Now that I#ve completed every quest (except for the Looma dn Doom one) there's nothing to do except for exploring forbidden places

[Brynjolf]

We're glad you enjoy the game, Acanthea! We're so impressed at your exploration abilities and see that you are already earning the reputation as an elite Viking in Berk. Our team is continuing to develop new content for the game so keep checking in for new missions. Thanks!

[Acanthea]

No, I have to thank you for such a great game! It's really enjoyable to fly around everywhere, to see the places from above (Man, it's like a living map if you fly high and move your camera so you're looking down. And then the NOSEDIVE!) I'll keep exploring because it's awesome. I already found this crevice in the wall at the school, where Toothless flu through as well, at the very beginning.

I look forward for the new content! But don't hurry, we don't want you to get exhausted and stressed!

[Tempest]

Is it just me, or the dragons look the same? I just logged on, and all the dragons' colors are according to their species. Is it a bug? I'm guessing it's still loading.

[Jam]

Yep, something weird is going on. I had a white Nadder, now it's blue. My character changed too. I guess something went wrong.

[Acanthea]

Uh Oh, the same happened here. My black Temeraire now looks like Hookfang, and my expensive blue Shirt is gone. Now I'm wearing a shirt I've never bought

[Tempest]

I, personally want to keep my nadder that way. I was trying to make it look like Stormfly.