Before I put Rogue Alley to bed for a few months, I wanted to get some feedback on it.  It's a different feature than we've really had before, so I know it won't land right with everyone, but rest assured the game is not turning into an FPS, it was just a way to be able to bring the equivilant of Lounge's Rogue into the game at a slower pace that people can participate in without having to be on lounge, and have fast reaction times.

There are two small things I am going to wrap up with it before its fully brought live and under feature-freeze until after the new version launches:

1) Voting period at the end of the month, where the 10(?) best maps get carried over to the next month, everything else is retired, and 10(?) new maps come in.  So every month you retain 10 of your favorites as survivors, and get 10 new ones.  Keeping the map inventory at 20 (and then some special event/holiday maps).

2) I turned on and retroactively applied achievements, and should have the wack gains verified and retroed in mid weekish.

3) Almost a mirror of this, but as the Shooting Range in the game.

So, long story short, I would love some feedback/first impressions.  What you say here will carry a lot of weight in what will be brewing in the back of my mind while I focus bring the new version online.

Sooo hit me with whatever you think, I most definitely will appreciate it.

sometimes there is a hard time distinguishing what is and isnt a target in the alley as well

This one is actually kind of intentional.  Right now its difficult because we are flighting like 200 maps, but, once its down to "10 get voted in + 10 new) cycle every month, then experience will kick in.

Win or lose, you'll see and become familiar with which are the actual 6 targets of the map.  Anyone who does it regularly will have a huge advantage over those who don't - and the 10 new maps will act as an equalizer until you get experienced with those too.

The early maps were pretty much "we laid out 6 things in front of you.. pick", this was intentional to ease players into it.  You can tell the harder later maps are ones where it's not as simple as the 6 biggest things standing right there looking like some artsy album cover.

These will be the more common maps that will give those experienced with them a leg up.

As far as the lounge part goes, I hear you and 100% understand.

Like, after the round is over, show your tracers?  Or like, make your live bullet holes ..red or something?

Soseki that goes live once I turn on the wack results aspect (as of now it records and logs, but its pending review before I turn it on live and process all of the back data)

When that goes live, you'll get the notifications (as well as the previous ones)