Astro Protocol

Astro Protocol

Hard pass after 5 mins of demo
Hard pass because the font is horrific on my eyes. :steamfacepalm:

Either implement font scaling, change to an impairment-friendly font, get rid of the horrid,
blurry blueish white -on- blue, or better yet, all three.
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Zeikko  [developer] 6 Oct, 2025 @ 10:25am 
Thanks a lot trying out the demo and sharing your feedback. I'll see what I can do regarding impairment-friendly font and font scaling.

Could you give me some examples where you do you see blurry blueish white on blue text? Or could you perhaps send a screenshot of this to support@nullvectorstudios.com or share them in our Discord (https://discord.gg/xmKACHEQVA)?
Originally posted by Zeikko:
Thanks a lot trying out the demo and sharing your feedback. I'll see what I can do regarding impairment-friendly font and font scaling.

Could you give me some examples where you do you see blurry blueish white on blue text? Or could you perhaps send a screenshot of this to support@nullvectorstudios.com or share them in our Discord (https://discord.gg/xmKACHEQVA)?

First, I should've noted that I was attempting to play the game on Steam Deck. Its the only gaming platform I have, and in my experience most games work well enough on it even when not directly supported. The white-on-blue, small-fonts issue, however, is an aesthetic Ive seen a number of Scifi games take and the result has always been hard on my eyes, even back when I still had a PC.

I took a pair of screenshots to paste into the next two comments (copypaste is weird and awkward on the deck, tbh. But thats a Valve issue.)
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3582782232

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3582782150

The text here is basically illegible to me. Especially in the first screenshot. The menu isn’t *too* bad, but the tutorial text I need to have the deck essentially right up in my face to even begin to read it.
Last edited by A Big Hairy Monster; 7 Oct, 2025 @ 9:10pm
Zeikko  [developer] 7 Oct, 2025 @ 10:27pm 
Originally posted by A Big Hairy Monster:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3582782232

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3582782150

The text here is basically illegible to me. Especially in the first screenshot. The menu isn’t *too* bad, but the tutorial text I need to have the deck essentially right up in my face to even begin to read it.

Thanks a lot for taking your time to provide the screenshots! Seems like there is some issue with the scaling of the font used in the tutorial. It seems like all of the characters are different sizes from each other and some of the lines are really blurry. I will try to find a way to fix that.

Good to know that you're playing on Steam Deck. I have not been able to test it on Steam Deck but I can imagine the tutorial text might be too small for the screen. I can surely make it bigger but I wonder what other issues there might be with Steam Deck.
Zeikko  [developer] 8 Oct, 2025 @ 5:51am 
Version 0.14.10 which is now available in Steam beta includes bigger button fonts for example in the main menu and bigger fonts in tutorial. I also fixed the issue causing some lines of text to be blurry in the tutorial. The patch will also be available in the default branch soon.

I'm sorry I don't yet have a fix for the white on blue issue. I don't think we will change away from blue at this point but we could make some of the blue backgrounds darker. We just need to identify which backgrounds cause the biggest issues.

I will also look into adding ui or font scaling options later.

Do the improvements in 0.14.10 help? And if they do, how much? Do you find it playable now on Steam Deck or is it still too bad?
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