challenging or not?

[king_dryad]

Is this game any challenging? i watched a few videos on youtube and as i understand the game is way to easy. Any thought from someone who play it?

[Bilgot the Heartless]

It depends on difficulty. You have normal, hard, impossible and impossible plus mode.

Normal is easy and rather for new players to learn game mechanics
Hard should be called normal imo
Impossible should be called hard

and then impossible plus mode is a impossible difficulty but with many challanging options, for example you start a run with less HP, enemies have more HP. There is many options to set up and for every win your "impossibility" is higher and you can set up more options.

On high difficulties game is not easy. Of course it also depends on player skills.

[Dabor]

If you watched people play the introduction mode, it's set up so enemies do like 25% of the damage they normally would - and Normal difficulty is still about 50-60% of the damage of Impossible alongside many debuffs, deck-trashing and such being nerfed, more void stones and upgrades, etc.

To help counter the game's complexity the lowest difficulty is actually much easier than most entry-level stuff in an RLDB, but it goes up steadily from there. Can't say any veteran RLDB players have complained they don't get enough of a challenge out of the top level stuff (and on the off chance you do, all you ned to do is toggle one thingy in a file to uncap the difficulty mod stacking for yourself, although only one person has done so so far that I know of).

[king_dryad]

Thank you kindly for the provided information. i think i am covered :)

[Vengyr]

This is a great game if you care about mechanical depth and want to make 'big plays'. The difficulty can scale up pretty high, but it rarely feels unfair due to how much information you have.

[BlueberryKing]

Bought the game last week. And let me tell you, hard to beat the game on impossible.

[Bilgot the Heartless]

Originally posted by BlueberryKing:

Bought the game last week. And let me tell you, hard to beat the game on impossible.

Well, looks like it's called impossible for a reason :P

[Yo Homie]

The difficulties should be brought down by one. I had a run on normal where I didn't even get hit once, it should be labeled easy.

[lksdfhj]

It depends on your choice, but it is awesome and worth to play.

[Skythe]

Everything below Impossible is a joke. Impossible is unplayable. Out of 10 runs I finished like 1.

It's frustrating like StS, but for other reasons. StS ♥♥♥♥♥ you with enemies you can't beat with your deck, VotV just scales enemy damage to ridiculous heights. They do 50-80% your hp in one hit. So any bad draw a turn can end your run.

Builds that need time to scale are almost impossible to make work on high difficulties. Shock build or others that deal a trillion dmg with 1 hit work well.

[Nightmyre]

Lol. Builds that need time to scale tend to be the ones that work best at high difficulties, from my experience at I50+ :)

[midori]

just beat i20+ and i'd say its pretty hard in a good way. Not impossible but really rewarding for setting things up. If you're new to the genre it will be really tough.

[Divine Shield]

I've managed to get all 220 achievements and yes, it can be very difficult! i50 is no joke. I would recommend to lookup The_Breakshift on YouTube. He has many great i50+ runs on his channel. I'm looking forward to seeing what else Josh and his Team do with Vault.