That was a neat test run.
I'm not sure if some other people might have thought this or if it was just me but when you said backwards, I thought you meant the texture on the model was backwards, not backwards as in the playertype was backwards when you were the playertype. I just thought it was funny that I didn't fully understand what you meant by that.
The wip playertype looked better in game than in the in game pic imo. I would like to test out a blockish styled version of the playertype just so there can be a comparison between the two.
Hopefully you will be able to get the bugs fixed out at some point.
Keep up the good work, I'm hoping to see this get done sometime!