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Would you rather stop playing a game than lower the difficulty? The First Berserker: Khazan devs reckon you would | Eurogamer (www.eurogamer.net)
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[–] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'd definitely lower the difficulty first.

A game that comes to mind for me is Frostpunk. It has easy, medium, hard, and extreme. Naturally I selected normal at first.

Normal difficulty Frostpunk is not for beginners. I learned that very quickly. That game was basically the dark souls of city builders. It was a super fun game though, and probably near the top of my list of best games I've played.

They changed the difficulty names in FP2 to citizen, officer, steward, and captain. I believe the default is citizen there. I guess even they realized there is nothing easy about that game. FP2, while a drastically different game, was also hard.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    In my experience, the really difficult part of frost punk is initially just understanding the shape of the situation the player is in.

    Like, like most will fail on normal because they just don’t know what options are available to them and what pressures they’ll be put under over time.

    After one successful play through I found the game a lot easier just because I knew what I was up against and what resources I had at my disposal to deal with it.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Yeah. Like... Uh. Major spoiler. Don't open if you haven't finished.

    Frost Punk 1 spoilerThe sheer length of the end game freeze was crazy. Of course, if you knew just how long and how intense it would be then it wouldn't really be fun to encounter. The fun of that is the surprise of how long and intense it is, even with the game telling you that you need tons of food it's still crazy.

    But even apart from that, there are times when you make decisions based on limited information only to realize there is something that gives you more options soon after, and if you'd pursued that other thing you wouldn't have needed the first thing. These was a bit of that in FP1 and FP2. I liked 1, didn't finish 2 but I still liked it. My main complaints about 2 were the UI being wonky and a few mechanics not being very clear.

    I appreciate the devs of FP1 making it so buildings didn't need to be smushed. There used to be this way you could trick the game into shoving more buildings in than it typically allowed, but they just made that happen by default. Changes like this deserve praise. Pointless micromanagement should always be eliminated.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    this was my experience as well. took me like 6 tries to do the first mission on normal. then all the others i did first try (although not exactly optimal).
    a few months later i did the first mission on hard - first try.
    its almost a bit dissappointing, because FP is a lot of fun, but once you "get it", it kinda feels like a lot of the challenge you feel early on is gone.

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