Keep on it and in a week or two you'll tell us that it's easy.
Keep on it and in a week or two you'll tell us that it's easy.
I've only got to Skellige, but I found that to be the hardest bit of the game!
And where is the suprise factor there, it 100% predictable!
Also aside from very rare high G planets ED space is aslyium room where you can't hurt yourself, the most safe enviroment in gaming history!
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I agree with all of these points.
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I'll try it. I need to remap some keys to make the layout optimal.
Back on-topic though
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I was gonna clean my room, until I got high.
Very high G planets become routine with thrusters mapped to an analogue control (down thrust in particular). There is a significant risk which can be mitigated with practice, just as with other aspects of the game. I do not complain that landing on high-G worlds is easy (I don't complain at all, I just accepted the challenge was optional).
I hate to do this to you, but... you can breeze through WIII on death march just by spamming sidestep against mobs, and roll against big enemies :/
What significant risk? Splatting full speed into a planet will take out your shield and that's about it. High G or not only increases the likelyhood you will mess up, but since the worst case scenario is not all that dangerous to begin with...
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The worst case scenario is that you see the rebuy screen & lose the ship. You can play Ironman rules if you like, but not everyone would. Personally I try not to lose ships, another self imposed rule I suppose. If you are some distance from your respawn point you will be more careful than if you are just experimenting on the planet next door.
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Yes. But that needn't involve making things harder for beginners.
Most veterans have got involved in hundreds of political conflicts, made - or should have made - lots of powerful enemies, and then keep doing more of the same. A wing of high-end NPCs showing up to try to kill a Triple Elite commander should be "Tuesday" for them, because so many people will have motivation.
A new player in their Sidewinder will not attract that sort of attention.
The game tries to simulate this with the scaling of certain opposition types to your rank ... the problem is that the high end ones still aren't that dangerous (or, more precisely, have easily exploitable weaknesses that someone with that level of experience will know about)
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I figured. Spamming them works in normal mode. I'll give it another try.
Global difficulty is bad....mmm kay. Everyone has different skill levels and the game should not be aimed at the top few% of skilled players. But FD should give that top% some things to do to stretch their gaming muscles...just don't bring everyone into it.
80's games were so hard because without the dificulty it would take people an hour (or less) to complete they were so small. Difficulty was the only tool devs had to pad the game length out. I don't want a return to the that. What I do want is intelligent difficulty scaling PER PLAYER. Failing that a simple link to rewards and difficulty could work despite Elite being an MMO hybrid. I cannot see why 100% difficulty get's 100% rewards and 50% difficulty gets 50% rewards. Better players get more rewards but less skilled players are not forced into no win situations.
There's NO one size fit's all for challenge.
80's games were so hard because without the dificulty it would take people an hour (or less) to complete they were so small. Difficulty was the only tool devs had to pad the game length out. I don't want a return to the that. What I do want is intelligent difficulty scaling PER PLAYER. Failing that a simple link to rewards and difficulty could work despite Elite being an MMO hybrid. I cannot see why 100% difficulty get's 100% rewards and 50% difficulty gets 50% rewards. Better players get more rewards but less skilled players are not forced into no win situations.
There's NO one size fit's all for challenge.
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It takes several instances of full speed collisions to destroy a ship.
What do you expect? The carebears won. Fdev caved.
I used to be careful to do my dirty work in anarchy or unpopulated systems (eg wait for an NPC to jump before attacking them). On the occasions where I gained a local bounty I would go exploring for a week or whatever until the heat died down, then return & pay off the fine. I was laying low. Others used the suicidewinder exploit.
In 3.0 the suicidewinder exploit was closed, but I no longer go exploring, I just pop over to the interstellar factor to pay it off, a minor inconvenience. Now people just complain that they have to play the game somewhere else for a few hours before their notoriety cools off.
Spaceships are even better protection from disease transmission than condoms and dental dams, so this shouldn't be surprising!
Plausible consequences won't reduce the open-worldness of a game.
Insurance is too generous.
And this is the crux of many of the game's problems. Too much is optional and people expect the environment to cater to them, rather than have to adapt to it.
Everything about travel and exploration. These have always been low-risk tasks in a low-risk game, but they've become nearly automatic as the game has progressed.
Reducing collision damage by 3/5ths was one of the biggest balance mistakes Frontier ever made.
As for smuggling, the game was originally built with 20km drop-out distances and an 500m/s maximum relative velocities in mind. So much potential was thrown out the window when they cut that distance in half, all to accommodate players who were adverse to actual gameplay and wanted instant and guaranteed gratification.
They even crapped up the ability to manually drop out at specific distances, though likely inadvertently. If you wanted to skip that 20km flight in normal space, it used to be possible to finely control one's manual drop out distance, at the risk of colliding with the starport. I remember being able to reliably drop out at ~3km. Can't do this now because the latency jitter to the servers is so extreme that pressing disengage at the same moment could result in being 20-30km off target.
The problem is the way in which challenges are optional.
Having to avoid high-g planets, or refrain from carrying high value cargo, until one's abilities were up to snuff, would be the good way to implement optional challenge.
Requiring one to build a ship with anemic shielding and thrusters to even be at risk while landing on a high-G world, or deliberately fly a deathtrap while hauling that expensive cargo, is the bad way.
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Listen people... combat difficult is not the only kind of difficulty.
There are a lot of ways that this game could offer the player risk and challenge, and chooses not to. It is simply poor game design, one in which the "game" was designed to just let the player win all the time.
This game should "challenge" us to win every time we login. Whether that be by surviving, making money, gaining and losing reputations, running from 5-0, etc.
Only if you are playing on easy mode with massive shields. The game allows this, just as IRL you could drive to the local shops instead of walking. I will try to land carefully regardless of the local gravity. As already stated with analogue thruster control local gravity isn't much more than an interesting statistic. I do not understate the difficulty just because I have learned how to mitigate the risk.
It may be that Atmospheric landings will introduce new risks, I look forward to learning how to deal with those (and possibly finding my, or my ships limitations) too.
But I won't be complaining that it's too easy just because I'm flying a maxed out ship & have learned all the things.
I remember watching a vid of 16 players popping a Thargoid together then a bunch of comments that it was easy. Well of course it was easy, there were 16 of them & they knew what they were doing, they mitigated the risk.
ANY challenge I'm not just talking about combat, it's poor game design to have ONE difficulty for everyone unless that game's raison d'etre is it's difficulty and I avoid crap like that like the plague.
My bold....there is no "us"....what one person finds easy another finds challenging, I don't play Elite 24/7 like some do (or did) I divide my time amongst I whole load of things. I can hit the wrong button for a whole multitude of reasons and that makes the gaem hard enough TYFM!! I also play Elite to relax and don't want sudden deathly situations to crop up in a contrived way to give the top 5% a challenge. If the difficulty makes sense and can be avoided in a way that also makes sense I'm all for it. But arbitrarily increasing difficulty for a certain % of players is not the way to go.