Need a middle difficulty

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zarakon
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Need a middle difficulty

Postby zarakon » Thu Oct 04, 2012 6:02 pm

Easy is easy enough that I can reliably win 99% of the time. My only actual loss was due to a long string of bad luck (nothing but missile and bomb launchers EVER, ran out of missiles).

Normal can be absolutely brutally hard. I just lost on literally the second fight of sector 1 (Mantis A). I didn't even stand a chance.

It feels like Normal should be called Hard, and there should be another difficulty in between.
Gorlom
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Re: Need a middle difficulty

Postby Gorlom » Thu Oct 04, 2012 6:05 pm

zarakon wrote:Easy is easy enough that I can reliably win 99% of the time. My only actual loss was due to a long string of bad luck (nothing but missile and bomb launchers EVER, ran out of missiles).

Normal can be absolutely brutally hard. I just lost on literally the second fight of sector 1 (Mantis A). I didn't even stand a chance.

It feels like Normal should be called Hard, and there should be another difficulty in between.


yet there are enough that feel normal is too easy and are crying out for a "hard" mode! :P
Derakon
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Re: Need a middle difficulty

Postby Derakon » Thu Oct 04, 2012 6:26 pm

Yeah, this was suggested on the getsatisfaction page -- having sliders for adjusting scrap rewards, strength of enemies, etc. Personally I'd be happy with a difficulty that had Normal-level rewards but Easy-level ships.
HumbleSloth
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Re: Need a middle difficulty

Postby HumbleSloth » Fri Oct 05, 2012 4:11 am

Derakon wrote:Personally I'd be happy with a difficulty that had Normal-level rewards but Easy-level ships.

I like the sound of that too.
Ethaniel
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Re: Need a middle difficulty

Postby Ethaniel » Fri Oct 05, 2012 4:27 am

Sometimes I just want more scrap. I've fought terrible battles, eating up missiles and cursing boarding drones, just to get 8 scrap. And I won 5 times out of 53, only 1 in normal.
jensk74
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Re: Need a middle difficulty

Postby jensk74 » Fri Oct 05, 2012 9:11 am

I really want to second this.

"Normal" feels like a lottery, not like a (mostly skill-based) challenge. The difficulty is all over the place and it taints the victories to know that they were mostly based on pure luck with items and enemy ship configurations, not skill.

I would rather have more options than easier fights though. Like being able to sell missiles/drone parts a bit more often and one or two more slots of hardware at the shops.

Being able to tune those aspects via some settings before starting a game would be perfect.
Moosicorn
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Re: Need a middle difficulty

Postby Moosicorn » Fri Oct 05, 2012 11:05 am

It's a hard game
StarWarsOZ
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Re: Need a middle difficulty

Postby StarWarsOZ » Fri Oct 05, 2012 12:40 pm

I would like to see a 'custom' difficulty, where you could adjust how hard it was, because it would help many new people, and hopefully shut up the people who say this game is too hard.

I personally wouldn't like a difficulty between easy and normal, I can get to the Final Stand about 60% of times I play on normal, so I wouldn't use the other difficulty even if one was created.

I do like that luck does play a part in these games, but yes, it does determine too much, so maybe they could make it more skill based than just luck.
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AzuredreamsXT
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Re: Need a middle difficulty

Postby AzuredreamsXT » Fri Oct 05, 2012 5:27 pm

All this talk of too difficult makes me worry they will make the normal difficulty too easy. I agree there should be a new normal setting that is easier, and they could just rename the current normal to hard.
Gorlom
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Re: Need a middle difficulty

Postby Gorlom » Fri Oct 05, 2012 6:26 pm

I think they should make an "impossible" difficulty where you start off with the basic kestrel Type A against the rebel mother ship.

And you need to play this at least 10 times before you unlock easy and normal difficulty. :twisted:

This should teach everyone that "you will die in this game, better learn to enjoy it." ;)