Alternative game modes need some love
Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2026 11:58 am
I tried doing the tight spot challenges again after thousands of hours of gameplay, both modded and vanilla and the experience is abysmal.
You can't Alt+D and remove a bunch of walls, ghosts don't get built, so you can't copy and paste anything without having to later build it manually anyway. I realize that these limitations stem from the mode depending on some sort of variation of direct building as if the player character was there, but it's just jarring.
Also, the bug that was apparently already looked at here: 126242 still occurs (I'm on the experimental branch); if you go to remote view and start the level, it crashes.
So my gentle suggestion is to do some playtesting and polishing of the alternative game modes.
You can't Alt+D and remove a bunch of walls, ghosts don't get built, so you can't copy and paste anything without having to later build it manually anyway. I realize that these limitations stem from the mode depending on some sort of variation of direct building as if the player character was there, but it's just jarring.
Also, the bug that was apparently already looked at here: 126242 still occurs (I'm on the experimental branch); if you go to remote view and start the level, it crashes.
So my gentle suggestion is to do some playtesting and polishing of the alternative game modes.