The slowdown thing was more that it seemed to be exhibiting some weird behaviour (like forgetting to draw aliens?!?).
In one instance I entered a room with about 15 aliens and things start to *REALLY* slow down to like 1 update per second. While the slowdown itself is okay, the logic ought to be able to catch up. The aliens headed straight for me and surrounded me, I fired a grenade, I heard it blow up, but no aliens seemed to die. And even before I fired the grenade, on one render, the aliens had vanished! Once all aliens had been killed, the game then took about 5 seconds to get back to normal. So it is likely to be the aliens in some way...
At some point I'll take a look myself, I'm just saying that I suspect that something in the frame limiting / speed / logic / drawing isn't quite getting called / slowed / sped up right.
Definitely like the flamethrower. Guided missiles might be cool too...
In one instance I entered a room with about 15 aliens and things start to *REALLY* slow down to like 1 update per second. While the slowdown itself is okay, the logic ought to be able to catch up. The aliens headed straight for me and surrounded me, I fired a grenade, I heard it blow up, but no aliens seemed to die. And even before I fired the grenade, on one render, the aliens had vanished! Once all aliens had been killed, the game then took about 5 seconds to get back to normal. So it is likely to be the aliens in some way...
At some point I'll take a look myself, I'm just saying that I suspect that something in the frame limiting / speed / logic / drawing isn't quite getting called / slowed / sped up right.
Definitely like the flamethrower. Guided missiles might be cool too...