QUADREMOR (DEMO)

Hi, i finished the demo, as a quake fan I'm interested to see where this project goes, but i also think it has some issues, so I'll give you the main points of feedback  that i think should be adressed:

- Platforming is too tight, in some areas it really feels like you can barely make some jumps (the final area where you have to go from a jump pad to a thin piece of metal sticking out is the biggest offender, it feels like the jump pad  doesn't boost you enough) and sometimes falling means you're automatically dead.

- There are some areas where if you fuck up, you just can't continue at all and have to restart or you just die for what should be forgivable errors, for example, when you cross the underwater toxic area with the toxic protection power up you come out to an area with another toxic protection power up and a button to activate the moving platform, now you have to go back, well the first time i accidentally picked up the second power up before pressing the button which made it run out and made it impossible to go back, essentially making me kill myself to restart. Also that area in general is just pretty annoying, if you fall from the platforms you have very little time to get over something before dying and you can't even "jump" while underwater which makes it hard to know when you can or can't climb a platform

- The weapons feel way too weak (except the smg), i get it that you want to emulate the quake shotgun, which is pretty weak on itself, but it fires quickly and does enough damage to stunlock the fodder enemies like the grunt. In this game the shotgun fires way too slowly for the damage it does. The grinder second attack is absolutely useless and a suicide to try to use and the main attack is also way too slow for the damage it does. It also does not help that the main enemies (those cultists or whatever they are) are hitscan enemies, in quake, the grunts, which are the only hitscan enemies are easily stunnable and have very little health (and even then you can actually dodge them if you move enough since there's a delay in their shooting), here if you fire your shotgun at them they barely flinch which make them annoying to fight because you can't dodge their attacks since they are hitscans and you can't stun them which just feels kinda bad and boring, there's a reason why hitscan enemies are very limited in the retroshooters that are considered good. Also adding muzzle flash, a more impacful shooting animation and a more noticeable "pain" or "stun" animation to enemies would go a long way, right now the weapons are not satisfying to use.

- Please add a save function, the checkpoint system does not really work in this type of game, please. Also not being able to access the option menu from within the game is very bad, i wanted to play around with the pixelation filter and the brightness and i have to quit the game to do it.

-The game is way too dark, you need to either add a flashlight like DUSK did or make the game brighter by default, i had to crank the brightness to the maximum (making me quit to menu in the process since you can't tweak it in-game) to see anything.

I could give more detailed feedback if you wanted, but i think this comment is already long enough, i hope you don't take this the wrong way i'm just interested in the project and would love for it to get better.