This game is literally what I've been looking for for a couple of years. Great job and I can't wait for the full version! In any case, the first mission is literally what happens outside my window every morning.
Hey, thanks for answering ! I have a really old laptop, so usually proton eats up all the performance, but I’ll try. Keep up doing great games anyway !
Hi there! I tried out the game a couple of days ago, and I really enjoyed what I played. I write music, and I do a series called 'Inspired By' where I take a piece of art/gameplay footage (with permission), and compose/produce something inspired by it.
Would it be alright if I used Project Landsword in this series? I can send you the piece that's written before I put it out there, if you prefer.
I was not expecting much when I downloaded it... good shit
speaking of which "donations will go to paying for a proper soundtrack" I so happen to be a producer myself(ie. I smash notes together until I make something that sounds nice), and I would do it for the fair price of nothing... the pay would be practice...
This was an absolute BLAST to play! Loved the artstyle, gameplay and just everything about it. No real complaints at all. This was done super well. One of the best games on this website hands down. (And I been playing games on this site for years now.) You got some real talent sir, if a full game comes out I'm buying this DAY ONE, no joke! Keep it up and I can't wait to see what you do next.🫡
hi, the game is just amazing, i played level 1, but i didn't find how to restore armor, i could just replenish ammo. if there is no health regeneration, please add it and the ability to choose the difficulty level, i have vision problems and i want to see accessibility settings in the game (big interface), and i would be happy to see russian language after release. p.s. i'm going to buy the game on steam when it goes on sale. sorry for bad english
i played level 1, but i didn't find how to restore armor, i could just replenish ammo. if there is no health regeneration, please add it and the ability to choose the difficulty level,
Currently only the fifth mission has health packs. In the future I may have an upgrade that slowly regenerates some of your armor as you play.
i have vision problems and i want to see accessibility settings in the game (big interface)
I'm working on adding some accessibility options including high contrast aim reticules.
and i would be happy to see russian language after release.
Localization into Russian is also planned.
p.s. i'm going to buy the game on steam when it goes on sale. sorry for bad english
Hi! Cool game! A blast to play! control are good and man the graphics are awesome!! My input are elevating terrain and more orderly town or village as now it seems that the enemy are having hard time to navigate while we, the player having no trouble at all. The sounds are great, just need more engine, skids, etc for the FX.
Thank You for creating this great fast action mech game. Keep it up!
My input are elevating terrain and more orderly town or village as now it seems that the enemy are having hard time to navigate while we, the player having no trouble at all
I know the enemies can easily get stuck trying to navigate obstacles at the moment; I'm working on improving the enemy AI and future map designs will probably be a bit more open.
Thank You for creating this great fast action mech game. Keep it up!
Super sick game!! Very excited to see a full version, the style is really cool and gameplay is pretty much what you'd hope for. Kinda wish there was some music, or just more going on audio-wise, but beyond that nitpick this is excellent
A few people wrote that they managed to get it running on the Steam deck via Proton emulator, but I don't own a deck myself so I'm not sure about the steps required to get it running.
Don't have any experiences with Steamdeck, but on GNU/Linux (Fedora) I was able to make the .exe run with Lutris and Wine (using latest GE-Proton as setting).
Wow! Nice! I’m not the best with this stuff and I’m asking a lot but any way you could give a super quick walkthrough? If not totally cool but thx anyways
Thanks for the explanation. At this point, I would say something else to express my gratitude, but I don't know what to say. So, I'll just say thank you and wish you much success in your future projects.
Conceptually this feels like a better focused Brigaddor, in poroduction value, given enough time you could get better than them (but they're pretty good!)
Anyways, take my MCDonald Meal, I really hope you get this game as feature complete as you wish it to be.
Hi, first of i just want to mention how absolutely stunning this game is, no other game (that iv played) has hit me so hard with its beauty, i adore the art style and speedy feel everything has. I want to say more however whenever i click to deploy the game crashes and gives me this error code:
Hello. To fix that error, please download and install this DirectX patch from the Microsoft website. This will fix any shader compile errors you are having.
And the best part about this game for me is that it can be ran on my potato computer.
I'm happy to hear this. I want as many people with low-end computers to be able to play this game as possible, since I too use a very obsolete PC.
I just wanted to ask you that, will you add any types of multiplayer mode.(co-op mode or whatever.
While I can't promise an online multiplayer mode or co-op mode right now, I would like to eventually try to add some basic multiplayer modes where you can fight against other players online or alongside them in an endless survival mode. We'll see what happens.
Thank you for making this great game and I do really hope that you will get a great fame.
That is very kind! Thank you for your comment, I really appreciate it.
Hello there, just wanted to say that I appreciate all the effort and time you've put into the game and I saw you mentioning that you'd have to run a VM in order to compile the game in Linux, is there any way I could help with this? I do have a Linux capable computer with decent specs laying around. Cheers
Hello. Thank you for the offer to help. I'm afraid it's something I'll have to do myself. I recently acquired a second laptop though, so I'll see if I can experiment with a VM to compile a Linux version.
Hey there. I'm starting a new site called Conflex Games that is specifically dedicated to PC games that work well with profiler programs, like JoyToKey. This game doesn't force any controls on gamepads, so it meets the minimum criteria for appearing on the site. Would you be okay with me creating a link to this page?
This game is already compatible with hundreds of controllers - it's just that you a have to run a profiler to make those work. Conflex Games is indeed okay with showcasing games that contain controller impositions, as long as they're specific to Nintendo, PlayStation, and Xbox controllers. Conflex doesn't showcase games that impose controls *generically*. The goal is to avoid games that will force controls on "any kind of D-pad" or "any kind of Button 5".
Amazing. If you plan to publish the full game one day, I am playing on day one!
My feedback: Mech armor/visual customization will be added hopefully :) Seeing enemies is hard sometimes. Maybe it is just me, but in some environments, they blend a bit. UI style is amazing, but if the environment is yellow(ish) and the UI border is also yellow, they blend a bit and hurt my eyes. You could make the opacity darker for UI elements during gameplay maybe? Pixel art mechs are awesome, but I think the game would benefit from very small cutscenes (just still images would do because I know how hard it is to animate).
Pros: great sound design, pixel art/3D pixel art, punchy and satisfying effects, cool gun models, and top-notch environmental destruction. All my feedback is personal, so I hope the game will be enjoyable for everyone who knows about mecha/shoot 'em ups more than I do :)
Mech armor/visual customization will be added hopefully :) Seeing enemies is hard sometimes.
This is planned, though I may end up reworking the whole hangar system since a lot more modules and upgrades would make it a bit hard to manage on that single screen.
Maybe it is just me, but in some environments, they blend a bit.
I'll see if I can improve their readability more.
UI style is amazing, but if the environment is yellow(ish) and the UI border is also yellow, they blend a bit and hurt my eyes. You could make the opacity darker for UI elements during gameplay maybe?
I've actually re-worked the in game UI recently, it should be a lot clearer and easy to read in the next updated.
Pixel art mechs are awesome, but I think the game would benefit from very small cutscenes (just still images would do because I know how hard it is to animate).
I'm on stock windows 11 but when I try to run it from the itch.io manager or as a zip nothing opens. Initially it gave me a windows defender warning but I clicked run anyway but now that doesn't come up. Tried opening the exe as an admin too. In the manager it clearly thinks that the game is open but it never appears anywhere. Existing problem?
DirectX patch is installed at this link from the main page. Directplay is enabled via windows features > legacy features > directplay + restart.
I've tried opening the file from an extracted zip via the exe file and also with 'run as admin' and also through the itch.io launcher including 'enabled sandbox' checked.
For what ever reason, it registers the click, shows loading, 'last played x minutes ago' but does nothing at all. Surely this is a problem with my windows specifically but I can't for the life of me figure out what.
Looked around, came across this Microsoft answers page. The person who made the topic said they managed to get it to run by giving it unrestricted access under properties. I assume Windows 11 is blocking it since it's an old engine and is suspicious of it. Try that and see if it works.
Sadly this did not work. I've tried a few other things and here were my findings.
1. Tried that link and fiddled with compatibility mode trying windows 7, vista and 95.
2. Tried what the forum post says which is to give 'unrestricted access' but there is no option like that in properties, I am the admin and I already have all the access I can see.
No difference noted. I did some more digging and found that when I launch I can see the app open in task manager briefly and then closes. Sometimes it also has another program that opens briefly before it closes called WerFault.exe.
Looked into WerFault.exe and found indications to look into the reliability monitor on windows where I can see windows is logging errors when ever it's tried to open. Followed that down and the suggestions were to run sfc, disable windows defender (a common suggestion) and more.
I tried running SFC, disabled windows defender as much as windows will allow me to and tried all the above again (compability mode etc). No dice. I also looked at the printout of the reli monitor to see if the web had anything but no dice.
I think that I'm stuck and also scratching my head. I'm really not certain as to why it simply won't open as I have not seen this on other apps or itch.io games.
For now I'm out of ideas and have nothing else to try and it's probably not a priority given I've seen no one else having this issue. However if you decide you wish to investigate then let me know and I can provide any diagnostic material you want.
I'm really sorry to hear that. I'm not sure if there's any other people here using Windows 11 who could offer help, but I'm going to look into it a bit further and see if I can find a solution.
The only thing I can think of right now is to maybe try and redownload the game and then maybe unzip the folder with a program like 7zip assuming you did it using the regular Windows unzip function? I know the chances are slim, but there really shouldn't be anything wrong with the game itself. One other person did say redownloading it fixed some strange crashes.
And I have some suggestions: 1. The screen shakes too much when the crosshair moves, which can cause dizziness; 2. The crosshair color is not distinct against the background. Could we have the option to customize the crosshair color? 3. I hope there will be corresponding changes on the model when switching weapons.
The screen shakes too much when the crosshair moves, which can cause dizziness;
There is a screenshake option in the settings, but eventually I plan on also having the option to disable all camera smoothing/lerp movement for maximum precision.
The crosshair color is not distinct against the background. Could we have the option to customize the crosshair color?
This is planned, you'll be able to set it to high contrast black and white.
3. I hope there will be corresponding changes on the model when switching weapons.
So... about a week ago I played this and I was so amazed that I couldn't help but do a mini review on my channel. Thank you MezzSoft for delivering such a work of art, please keep it up you're doing really great!!.
Thank you so much for playing and making a review! That's some really high effort editing, very nicely done. No worries about it being in Spanish, I watched it with the auto-translated subtitles. It's great <3
The amount of effort you put into your game is such that it took me 6 minutes just to scratch the surface of your work. Thank you so much and again, keep up the good work because you have passion MezzSoft.
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This game is literally what I've been looking for for a couple of years. Great job and I can't wait for the full version! In any case, the first mission is literally what happens outside my window every morning.
Thank you for playing!
I'm sorry to hear that...
Hey, looks amazing ! Any plans for a linux build ?
Eventually! Sorry there's nothing available right now. I heard it runs quite well under Proton emulation though.
Hey, thanks for answering ! I have a really old laptop, so usually proton eats up all the performance, but I’ll try. Keep up doing great games anyway !
Я не знаю как, но именно эта игра меня очень впечатлила.
Ты обязан зделать полную версию .
Спасибо, что сыграли в мою игру. Сейчас я работаю над ее завершением.
Нет, это вам спасибо за впечатления которые я получил от демо-версии!
Нет, это вам спасибо за впечатления которые я получил от демо-версиии!
Hi there! I tried out the game a couple of days ago, and I really enjoyed what I played. I write music, and I do a series called 'Inspired By' where I take a piece of art/gameplay footage (with permission), and compose/produce something inspired by it.
Would it be alright if I used Project Landsword in this series? I can send you the piece that's written before I put it out there, if you prefer.
Hey, thanks for playing. Sure thing! I'm fine with that.
This game is gorgeous!!))))) really.
Thank you!
I was not expecting much when I downloaded it... good shit
speaking of which "donations will go to paying for a proper soundtrack" I so happen to be a producer myself(ie. I smash notes together until I make something that sounds nice), and I would do it for the fair price of nothing... the pay would be practice...
Thanks for playing!
I appreciate the offer, but at the moment I'm looking around for a professional/paid soundtrack for it. Thanks anyway.
Thank you for your kind words and making a video!
hi, the game is just amazing, i played level 1, but i didn't find how to restore armor, i could just replenish ammo. if there is no health regeneration, please add it and the ability to choose the difficulty level, i have vision problems and i want to see accessibility settings in the game (big interface), and i would be happy to see russian language after release. p.s. i'm going to buy the game on steam when it goes on sale. sorry for bad english
Hello. Thank you for playing my game.
Currently only the fifth mission has health packs. In the future I may have an upgrade that slowly regenerates some of your armor as you play.
I'm working on adding some accessibility options including high contrast aim reticules.
Localization into Russian is also planned.
Cheers!
She Project on my Land 'til I Sword.
Thanks for playing and making a video!
My pleasure! It's a super cool game already, I can't wait to see where it goes. ;{D
Wow
Hi! Cool game! A blast to play! control are good and man the graphics are awesome!! My input are elevating terrain and more orderly town or village as now it seems that the enemy are having hard time to navigate while we, the player having no trouble at all. The sounds are great, just need more engine, skids, etc for the FX.
Thank You for creating this great fast action mech game. Keep it up!
Thank you for playing!
I know the enemies can easily get stuck trying to navigate obstacles at the moment; I'm working on improving the enemy AI and future map designs will probably be a bit more open.
Cheers!
Hi! The game looks amazing. I'd love to talk with you privately, I’ve sent you a DM on Twitter!
Hey,I'm interested in translating this game to Brazilian Portuguese. Contact me please
Hello. Thank you for the offer. Localization will be done when the game is finished so the full script can be translated.
Super sick game!! Very excited to see a full version, the style is really cool and gameplay is pretty much what you'd hope for. Kinda wish there was some music, or just more going on audio-wise, but beyond that nitpick this is excellent
Thank you for playing it! I'm working on getting some music done for the levels, I know things can get a bit quiet right now.
Gave it a try! The controls are very tight. Reminds me of Ghost in the Shell.
Thanks for playing it! GITS is a light inspiration as well.
any discord to join? would love to follow progress, etc.:)
No Discord for now, but I'll be putting up a devlog showing some of the progress hopefully in the near future.
any way to play this on Steamdeck? Is there a Linux compatible version coming out?
A few people wrote that they managed to get it running on the Steam deck via Proton emulator, but I don't own a deck myself so I'm not sure about the steps required to get it running.
Don't have any experiences with Steamdeck, but on GNU/Linux (Fedora) I was able to make the .exe run with Lutris and Wine (using latest GE-Proton as setting).
Wow! Nice! I’m not the best with this stuff and I’m asking a lot but any way you could give a super quick walkthrough? If not totally cool but thx anyways
Very quick:
- Install latest Wine-Version
- Install Lutris
- Download Project Landsword
- Extract the ZIP-File
- In Lutris add a new game from local files
- Choose Wine as starter (Info-Tab)
- Choose the extracted .exe as executable (Settings-Tab)
- Choose your extracted folder as Working Directory (Settings-Tab)
- Choose "GE-Proton (latest)" as Wine-Version (Options-Tab)
- Save and Have Fun!
It's possible that you have to start and cancel it twice or more. But after that it should run with one try.
When I installed the game and tried to play it, I got an error, what is it? or what is it due to?
Does it occur when you try to start a mission? If so, download and install the DirectX patch in the description above. That'll fix it.
Thanks for the explanation. At this point, I would say something else to express my gratitude, but I don't know what to say. So, I'll just say thank you and wish you much success in your future projects.
I haven't found the DirectX patch, could you give me more details?
https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=35
Download this, run it and install it. See if the game works after you do that.
looking forward to buy the game at full release. awesome work so far! (ingame ambient soundtrack would be nice) :) <3
Thanks for playing! An in-game soundtrack is coming, I know things can get kind of quiet right now.
Conceptually this feels like a better focused Brigaddor, in poroduction value, given enough time you could get better than them (but they're pretty good!)
Anyways, take my MCDonald Meal, I really hope you get this game as feature complete as you wish it to be.
Yes also customary brrrrrrt.
Thanks for playing and the kind words! I doubt I'll be able to match the quality of them, but it's very kind of you to say.
Cheers for the support as well! It's much appreciated.
BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT!!!
Hi, first of i just want to mention how absolutely stunning this game is, no other game (that iv played) has hit me so hard with its beauty, i adore the art style and speedy feel everything has. I want to say more however whenever i click to deploy the game crashes and gives me this error code:
___________________________________________
############################################################################################
FATAL ERROR in Vertex Shader compilation
ShaderName: shd_outline_old
D3DXCompile failed - result
at gml_Object_o_player_Draw_0
############################################################################################
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
stack frame is
gml_Object_o_player_Draw_0 (line -1)
This is probably an error from my end but do you have any ideas to why the game wont deploy? the game opens well and i can use the hanger as well.
Hello. To fix that error, please download and install this DirectX patch from the Microsoft website. This will fix any shader compile errors you are having.
i need help when i run the game it said error code then there's no way to get out
Does the error happen when you try to start a mission, or the moment you run the game?
when i start a mission
Download the DirectX patch in the description above.
where
https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=35
Greetings from Japan.
Sorry for my bad English.
I really love this game.
And the best part about this game for me is that it can be ran on my potato computer.
I enjoyed it very much and hoping to buy it when it will be released, but I have a question.
I just wanted to ask you that, will you add any types of multiplayer mode.(co-op mode or whatever.
Thank you for making this great game and I do really hope that you will get a great fame.
Hello. Thank you for playing my game!
Don't worry, your English is just fine.
I'm happy to hear this. I want as many people with low-end computers to be able to play this game as possible, since I too use a very obsolete PC.
While I can't promise an online multiplayer mode or co-op mode right now, I would like to eventually try to add some basic multiplayer modes where you can fight against other players online or alongside them in an endless survival mode. We'll see what happens.
That is very kind! Thank you for your comment, I really appreciate it.
Thank you for answering
how much will the game cost when its out?
Less than sixty dollars
This game is so much fun i completed all areas so far and i cant wait for more keep up the great work. its hard as nails though ha ha
Thank you for playing! Kudos for completing all areas too.
This is what the kids call "Hype AF"
Cheers!
very very fun game
Appreciate it!
BEST. GAME. EVER
Forklift certified!!
dude this is actually the coolest thing I have ever played
Cheers!
eu gravei uma game play pra mostra ´pra alguns amigo //pt-br// é claro, eu realmente gostei, estou ansioso pra mais (:
Obrigado por jogarem o meu jogo (:
Hello there, just wanted to say that I appreciate all the effort and time you've put into the game and I saw you mentioning that you'd have to run a VM in order to compile the game in Linux, is there any way I could help with this? I do have a Linux capable computer with decent specs laying around. Cheers
Hello. Thank you for the offer to help. I'm afraid it's something I'll have to do myself. I recently acquired a second laptop though, so I'll see if I can experiment with a VM to compile a Linux version.
Alright then, thank you for your time and best of luck on your endeavor as an indie dev.
The game is beautiful! Will there be support for controllers? Twin stick would bring it all together perfectly!
I'm glad you liked it! Twin-stick gamepad support is coming, I know it'd really fit with the gameplay style.
Hey there. I'm starting a new site called Conflex Games that is specifically dedicated to PC games that work well with profiler programs, like JoyToKey.
This game doesn't force any controls on gamepads, so it meets the minimum criteria for appearing on the site. Would you be okay with me creating a link to this page?
Hello. Controller/gamepad support for it is planned. Is your website just for games that can use a profiler system?
This game is already compatible with hundreds of controllers - it's just that you a have to run a profiler to make those work. Conflex Games is indeed okay with showcasing games that contain controller impositions, as long as they're specific to Nintendo, PlayStation, and Xbox controllers. Conflex doesn't showcase games that impose controls *generically*. The goal is to avoid games that will force controls on "any kind of D-pad" or "any kind of Button 5".
Wow! Well done :) I'm gonna play this soon!
Hope you like it!
Amazing. If you plan to publish the full game one day, I am playing on day one!
My feedback: Mech armor/visual customization will be added hopefully :) Seeing enemies is hard sometimes. Maybe it is just me, but in some environments, they blend a bit. UI style is amazing, but if the environment is yellow(ish) and the UI border is also yellow, they blend a bit and hurt my eyes. You could make the opacity darker for UI elements during gameplay maybe? Pixel art mechs are awesome, but I think the game would benefit from very small cutscenes (just still images would do because I know how hard it is to animate).
Pros: great sound design, pixel art/3D pixel art, punchy and satisfying effects, cool gun models, and top-notch environmental destruction. All my feedback is personal, so I hope the game will be enjoyable for everyone who knows about mecha/shoot 'em ups more than I do :)
Good luck
Thank you for playing and the feedback!
This is planned, though I may end up reworking the whole hangar system since a lot more modules and upgrades would make it a bit hard to manage on that single screen.
I'll see if I can improve their readability more.
I've actually re-worked the in game UI recently, it should be a lot clearer and easy to read in the next updated.
Those are planned!
Thank you!
I'm on stock windows 11 but when I try to run it from the itch.io manager or as a zip nothing opens. Initially it gave me a windows defender warning but I clicked run anyway but now that doesn't come up. Tried opening the exe as an admin too.
In the manager it clearly thinks that the game is open but it never appears anywhere. Existing problem?
Do you have DirectPlay and the DirectX patch installed?
DirectX patch is installed at this link from the main page.
Directplay is enabled via windows features > legacy features > directplay + restart.
I've tried opening the file from an extracted zip via the exe file and also with 'run as admin' and also through the itch.io launcher including 'enabled sandbox' checked.
For what ever reason, it registers the click, shows loading, 'last played x minutes ago' but does nothing at all. Surely this is a problem with my windows specifically but I can't for the life of me figure out what.
Looked around, came across this Microsoft answers page. The person who made the topic said they managed to get it to run by giving it unrestricted access under properties. I assume Windows 11 is blocking it since it's an old engine and is suspicious of it. Try that and see if it works.
Sadly this did not work. I've tried a few other things and here were my findings.
1. Tried that link and fiddled with compatibility mode trying windows 7, vista and 95.
2. Tried what the forum post says which is to give 'unrestricted access' but there is no option like that in properties, I am the admin and I already have all the access I can see.
No difference noted. I did some more digging and found that when I launch I can see the app open in task manager briefly and then closes. Sometimes it also has another program that opens briefly before it closes called WerFault.exe.
Looked into WerFault.exe and found indications to look into the reliability monitor on windows where I can see windows is logging errors when ever it's tried to open. Followed that down and the suggestions were to run sfc, disable windows defender (a common suggestion) and more.
I tried running SFC, disabled windows defender as much as windows will allow me to and tried all the above again (compability mode etc). No dice. I also looked at the printout of the reli monitor to see if the web had anything but no dice.
I think that I'm stuck and also scratching my head. I'm really not certain as to why it simply won't open as I have not seen this on other apps or itch.io games.
For now I'm out of ideas and have nothing else to try and it's probably not a priority given I've seen no one else having this issue. However if you decide you wish to investigate then let me know and I can provide any diagnostic material you want.
I'm really sorry to hear that. I'm not sure if there's any other people here using Windows 11 who could offer help, but I'm going to look into it a bit further and see if I can find a solution.
The only thing I can think of right now is to maybe try and redownload the game and then maybe unzip the folder with a program like 7zip assuming you did it using the regular Windows unzip function? I know the chances are slim, but there really shouldn't be anything wrong with the game itself. One other person did say redownloading it fixed some strange crashes.
si lo sacas para linux lo compro
Eventualmente
The game style is great,I love it！
And I have some suggestions: 1. The screen shakes too much when the crosshair moves, which can cause dizziness; 2. The crosshair color is not distinct against the background. Could we have the option to customize the crosshair color? 3. I hope there will be corresponding changes on the model when switching weapons.
I really like this game，have a good day，bro！
Thank you for playing!
There is a screenshake option in the settings, but eventually I plan on also having the option to disable all camera smoothing/lerp movement for maximum precision.
This is planned, you'll be able to set it to high contrast black and white.
Maybe!
Glad you liked it!
So... about a week ago I played this and I was so amazed that I couldn't help but do a mini review on my channel. Thank you MezzSoft for delivering such a work of art, please keep it up you're doing really great!!.
btw the video is in Spanish lol
Thank you so much for playing and making a review! That's some really high effort editing, very nicely done. No worries about it being in Spanish, I watched it with the auto-translated subtitles. It's great <3
The amount of effort you put into your game is such that it took me 6 minutes just to scratch the surface of your work. Thank you so much and again, keep up the good work because you have passion MezzSoft.
♥
You're too kind, thank you!