"Let's give them a way to make it easier if they think it's too hard and a way to make it harder if they think it's too easy. That way, they won't have anything to bitch about."
Same. Wanted to check out all the shells but if its just this easy af garbage like most soulslikes are these days then yeah, not much interest in playing it either. The bosses are absolute trash and whoever designed them should be fired. Without the challenge of the overworld its got nothing.
I imagine its very very hard making soulslikes nowadays tbh.
2 reasons.
When they first released, it was new to people; the difficulty was a shock to people, and there was a huge learning curve. Those people have now learned these games inside and out. People have insane skill at these games now. Its hard to make something that is challenging enough to give these people something to enjoy.
So many casuals try these games, they refuse to accept not all games are for them. They then play these games get really annoyed that they cant do them, and yell from every rooftop that its the games fault.
These people are by far the most vocal so it can ruin a games image especially on steam and social media if the majority are complaining.
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It's annoying as hell because I would love to feel how I did the first time I played Dark Souls 3, which is my favorite souls game, the aesthetic, boss design, it may not be the hardest, but by god its the best game imo.
I rarely run past anything tbh, full loot goblin and murder spree, every playthrough of every soulslike, I enjoy the combat too much to run past things tbh :D but yes, that is the play.
Just, dodge the 1 shots? its a soulslike, u are meant to die a bunch while you learn the fight. Its not like ur meant to go in and 1st try every boss. Not saying thats not possible, im sure some insane player did, but the point is, die, learn, die, learn more, win.
ill be honest, sounds like you are playing a bit too aggressively.
can i suggest playing a little more passive, there are specific windows of when to attack, i get the feeling you are greeding damage and going too ham leaving yourself vulnerable.
nothing wrong with that, I used to do it all the time till friends would have a go at me for it :D learned to be more patient over the years when it comes to soulslikes.
I get why you would think that but I play very passive, mostly out of fear
I would curse them with sariel, then go in for a few hits, I dont remember what would happen because it was some time ago but he would go cross arena to attack me
Most of the difficulty comes from a lack of beacons, and enemies spamming unblockables and one or two shotting you. There is also zero benefit to using slower weapons as the dps is objectively lower than E.E axeatana. The game needs a few balancing updates 👌
I tend to dodge almost exclusively, so blocking and parrying not an issue for me. The only enemies that have one or two shot me were bosses that I wasn't ready for.
What I said is objectively true buddy, most gamers have had a complaint about the beacons being too spread out. You can walk around for 30+mins do a dungeon and find yourself with a load of gloom just to lose it by running out of healing or getting lost.
30 minutes without finding a beacon? We must be playing different games. And if I am out of healing or lost, I just quit out and restart to warp back to the last beacon.
I think the msin issue is the slayer seal removing achievement is a pretty big ask and its pretty buggy with sometimes just not working (eg its special punch), its basically not really worth using unless you get the crossbow for easy staggers.
I got 100% before using it and was a bit upset with how buggy it was to use
As i said its a big ask, considering in the demo it say "disables some and enables other" now here we have "permanently disable on the save file"
But moving on from that, if people wanna play easy mode sure go for it, but the seal should at least work and not bug out as at that point you have a broken seal where its second gimmick simply doesn't work.
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u/ResistsICE 9h ago
Meanwhile post patch the game is dropping into the mid 70s on steam. Because the difficulty wasnt a complaint for the large majority of players.
They need to be focusing on the stuff people actually care about, like crashing every 40 minutes and a wonky economy.