Thank you for your positive feedback! As a developer, this is very encouraging to hear :))

I agree the grappler controls can be improved. It always feels like you can do a lot of crazy stuff with it, like jump and climb around sharp edges. But more often than not, Clonk getting stuck somewhere between clinging to the rope and the surface gets in the way. Maybe it would help if you could press direction+click on the rope to let go and jump in a specified direction at the same time, so you can jump away from the surface and around corners without getting stuck.

Just wondering: Were you using the shadered landscape renderer? Is that even readily accessible to people right now?

Well, I've been playing a bit more now that I have gotten a few friends of mine interested in the game.  I would like to give some more feedback on the game and feel as if it would be a waste of space to create a new thread when this one is still on the first page.

Our favorite type of gameplay is the pvp arenas, particularly the last man standing ones.  The king-of-the-hill matches never seemed to end, and usually we would have to quit before finishing.  My friends found Scorched Gardens fun, I didn't find it near as fun though, as I am still struggling to get my head around how exactly the electric arm thingies work.  While fighting we found that the change between weapon and shield is not very smooth, if you swing your sword you still have to wait a short period before using your shield again.  The shield appears to be used in the direction your cursor is pointed, but if your cursor is pointed to the left and you move right your shield will be pointed right, which gets annoying when you want to retreat while being shot.  It seems even if you lost movement speed it would be entirely possible to walk backwards with the shield.

I also played the tutorials, in the games I have played online I have not found use of the cannon, multiple clonks, and computer clonks in any of the non-tutorial maps.  The tutorials did not cover the weird electric arm device used in Scorched Gardens, the bottle of air, or spells.  I played the ranged tutorial and I really enjoyed dashing through a map breaking all the targets fast as possibe.

I would enjoy having a wider variety of maps rather than all parkour, pvp, and king of the hill, with the exception of guardian of the windmills.   I personally would enjoy more ranged levels :P  But in a more general sense, I would rather like to see maps combine more elements rather than keeping it to one.  Currently parkour maps tend to keep the basic of grapples, rockets, and bottles of air, I would find it much more interesting if you were to add in the occasional computer clonk throwing a couple arrows at you!  Or maybe a rocket flying down on you from the middle of nowhere!  The biggest thing I have noticed is the potential of this game, I have seen the tools weapons and many other items that awesome things could be done with, but the maps are, on most occasions, too focused and not broad enough to involve more dynamic gameplay.

I would also like to ask, how are the maps developed?  Is there an editor for the common player, or is it a more complex method of generating maps?

Thanks for your time,
~Heyub, C.S.

As requested I played the new scenarios with a friend and have come to leave some feedback.

We couldn't figure out how to beat Skylands, we kept falling to our death or becoming no longer able to go back to the original skyland.  We played gold rush after giving up on Skylands, the first time playing Gold Rush after an hour of trying to find which buildings we needed we found that we didn't have enough stone to build a tool shop and neither of us had a pickaxe so we had to restart.  The second time we did much better and beat it in 10 minutes, goes to show how much knowing what to build helps :P!  After that we spent two hours on Iron Peak, we found the goal a bit ridiculous, so we just toyed around with buildings to see what we could do.  We felt that in order to beat Iron Peak we would need to be able to save our progress somehow so we could pick it up later, in two hours we had 50 iron mined out of the 348 needed.  Neither of us had interests in playing non-stop until we achieved that goal.  Unfortunately Crash Landing crashed (Oh the irony) on load.  I should have taken the time to write down the error but I didn't, if you need it I can at a later time launch it again and get the error.  Crash Landing only crashes in multiplayer, however if I launch it in single player it runs fine.

At first we found one life a bit brutal, especially on Skylands, as we played more staying alive became easier.  However, we would appreciate if there was more ways to heal than just the mushrooms on Iron Peek since most of our deaths happen as our clonks gradually lose health over time with nothing to replenish.  Our inventories were quite small and often annoying to start, I would like to suggest adding a "chest" which the player can build using multiple wood recources, allowing us to store those items instead of throwing them on the surface until we need them once we get our buildings built.

We ran into a few issues while playing;
1. Crash Landing crashes on launch when in multiplayer EDIT: Hey uh I see now there is a folder called "NetWork" are we suppose to use the scenarios in that instead of "beyond the rocks" for network?
2. Little "specks" or "pixels" of material sometimes got left when we mined and as a result clonk does weird things trying to grab/climb on it, and in a few cases getting clonk stuck.  Then you must go get another clonk to somehow remove the "speck" and free the strangled clonk.
3. We experienced that sometimes when our clonks rolled they rolled into place that they could not get out of, and had to dig them out with our other clonks.
4. A tree grows even when you cut it (observed in Gold Rush) also along the same lines; tees can grow underwater which is a nuisance trying to cut! (occurs also in Gold Rush)
5. If a tree grows where a sawmill is the sawmill runs continually (it does not use energy, just spins and makes noise) until the tree is chopped down.
6. I placed a lorry  next to my sawmill so the logs would fall in the lorry, I checked on the lorry and it had 30 logs, I had picked up a log that didnt quite land in the lorry, when I tried to place it in the lorry, an error said the lorry was full; the sawmill merrily cut logs and before we quit the lorry had 68 logs in it.
7. I'm not sure if this is as much as an "issue" as the rest but...  On Iron Peek I saw the snow getting blown in the cave indicating very strong winds, I had the idea of putting a windmill there, once I built it the windmill didn't even move.

Over all, we enjoyed the scenarios we played very much :)

On a side note; we found that while chatting shift-enter types in /team removing whatever you typed in previously, this created an issue when we typed out messages ending with capitals (such as faces :D, exlemations !, and quotes ") which got very annoying.  Also, alt + a number seems to be a hot key in windows 7 which produces an error sound. (Only just noticed because I normally play without sound, alt + number still works for changing right hand.)