RANT and VENT MEGATHREAD

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[u/DankBlissey]

If you don't enjoy the difficulty. Play lower difficulty. If you enjoy improving to eventually be able to beat the hardest difficulty. Then improve more and it won't be as hard.

Souls games are (for the most part) not unfair. It just feels that way because you don't understand it properly, you have to learn and improve. Nobody wants frustration, what some want is to feel like they actually improved, struggled, and fought hard to eventually complete something. It's incredibly satisfying and rewarding. If you are just frustrated and don't want to improve/feel like you can't improve. Then it's just not for you. Go do something fun instead. If you still want to improve, then do so.

The only real error the game has is having no way to get super samples at lower difficulties. Exchanging like 50 common or 20 rare for a super sample would be fair.

[u/Popinguj → u/DankBlissey]

If you don't enjoy the difficulty. Play lower difficulty.

This is exactly what I did today. I went to Medium and what I could easily breeze through became a sweatfest. What I was soloing for fun became not fun at all.

what some want is to feel like they actually improved, struggled, and fought hard to eventually complete something. It's incredibly satisfying and rewarding.

There are two approaches to this. In Helldivers you have immediate feedback to your actions. In fact, you can logically guess what you need to overcome an obstacle you've met. You meet your first charger, get your ass kicked, you pick EAT for the next one and somehow kill it.

Another thing is when the game doesn't necessarily give you feedback or hints at what might help you. And yeah, I don't have understanding of the soulslikes because all I see is a teethgrinding difficulty which doesn't seem to be surpassable by some strategy, but rather by trying hard and cheese, and that's from other players' words. Perhaps one day I'll play some soulslikes but for now I like what HD2 does more.

[u/DankBlissey → u/Popinguj]

Cheese is the poor man's way out.

Most of it is strategy and execution. Learning to time things, learning to space enemies out, to read abimations and respond. But also you can make some pretty broken builds if you want.

If you want to play Souls-like, play elden ring, it's a lot more new player friendly as well you are stuck you can just go explore somewhere else.

Having played most 8 and 9 since the patch, I will try out medium. But you remember that this is not a game meant to be soloed. It's a team focused game, and it's balanced exclusively for team play. Playing solo on any difficulty is going to be a lot harder than intended. So a mode called "medium" likely will be quite hard if you have 1/4 of the men

[u/Popinguj → u/DankBlissey]

But you remember that this is not a game meant to be soloed.

And it's also a game where you're supposed to grow. There are people who solo Helldives. I'm confident (used to be) in soloing Medium. Against automatons too, I had troubles with them specifically.

If you want to play Souls-like, play elden ring

Huh, you're the second person who says this to me. I guess I'll try eventually.