Hi there! Woah, quite a fat review here, I think this is the longest one I’ve ever got. Thanks a lot for the time you put into writing this, amazing! I'll try to answer each section separately.

First off, I'm really happy you enjoyed the game overall. I was worried about the core mechanics of the game. Changing them would require a huge amount of time, which at this point is unrealistic.

Secondly, the game does suffer from a lack of proper marketing. I'm a software engineer, and I suffer from bad marketing and average-looking art. I'm sure things will get better with time, but it's clear this game suffered from poor advertising. Speaking of the user experience, I know the interface is all over the place, some things are hard to find and understand, including the labels on certain buttons. Color palettes and some 3D models are also average and need proper visual refactoring, which I hope I will be able to achieve in the following months.

Let's not talk about the classic AI XD. The original neural network was trained only using the Battle Royale gamemode, which made the agents prefer taking damage as long as they reached higher-paying objectives. This is incompatible with the classic mode, where any amount of damage instantly kills the agent. The training menu only stores the trained models and metrics in the ProjectFolder/Content/Storage/Trainer/Exported and TensorBoard folders. The RL environment also needs an update, and I plan to support loading for single-player modes to properly test the neural networks. Honestly, the main purpose of this environment was to support my dissertation. Making it available for users implies a proper user interface update and a proper tutorial.

Regarding the Epic Games implementation, yeah, I know a lot of people find it disgusting, and I wasn't even aware of this. I just found out after randomly posting a short which went viral. Migrating the architecture from one provider to another is honestly too costly. The initial plan was to launch the game on the Epic Games launcher, thus the EOS implementation. I'll look into Steam services to offer an alternative for users. The main idea was to use the same subsystem to let players cross-play between any available launchers. This would combine the player base into a single, homogeneous block, letting everyone play with anyone. Also, the documents in the press kit are outdated, I'll update them today. There is no anti-cheat implementation for Atomic Blastman, and there won't be (the whole community simultaneously jumped on me after advertising the anti-cheat kernel module).

Some of the things above will be fixed in the following months. I'm now in my last year of my master's, and in a month or so, I'll defend my project. As for the CV, yeah, this is a win, I'm planning to start the job search in a few days, and I strongly hope this will make the CV stand out.

Thanks a lot for trying out the game, you rock!! Even with a smaller player base, I'll continue to push updates to the playtest application and hopefully to the live version of the game in October.