Is there any way to turn up the difficulty?

[Stryker]

I get that the game is mainly about building, but I would prefer to be challenged when I'm fighting. This one is a bit of a sleeper.

[lilisaur]

No setting but you could wear lesser armor, or give yourself and Malroth lesser weapons. If you want minimal help from Malroth and other NPCs, never upgrade their weapons. Still wouldn't be that hard; battles would just take longer. The problem is AI: most of the superstrongs and bosses until post-game have strong tells they are about to attack so they're reasonably easy to avoid. If careful, you only really get damaged by groups of lesser monsters and the few really dangerous superstrongs (which if you're not upgrading armor or weapons, can generally be avoided)

[Stryker]

Originally posted by lilisaur:

No setting but you could wear lesser armor, or give yourself and Malroth lesser weapons. If you want minimal help from Malroth and other NPCs, never upgrade their weapons. Still wouldn't be that hard; battles would just take longer. The problem is AI: most of the superstrongs and bosses until post-game have strong tells they are about to attack so they're reasonably easy to avoid. If careful, you only really get damaged by groups of lesser monsters and the few really dangerous superstrongs (which if you're not upgrading armor or weapons, can generally be avoided)

Damn. I guess this one just isn't for me then.

Thanks for letting me know.

[lilisaur]

Well the story isn't meant to be too hard. They don't want major roadblocks to being able to access all the free-build stuff. Its a more a matter of time-investment, as its going to take 80ish hours to get through it.

[Honorable_D]

The fighting is really, REALLY not the main draw of this game, haha

Come on man, obviously this is a builder game first and foremost. The combat is just a little side thing that you plow through to get to more building and unlocking of new recipes.

[Stryker]

Originally posted by Honorable_D:

The fighting is really, REALLY not the main draw of this game, haha

Come on man, obviously this is a builder game first and foremost. The combat is just a little side thing that you plow through to get to more building and unlocking of new recipes.

Yep, understood, that's why I said the game really isn't for me. I was hoping there would be some sort of challenge found somewhere, but that's not what this game is about.