Penitence Mode without Permadeath?

[Impos!]

I think this has been brought up before- but is there any way to play with the features of Penitence mode (Survival aspects, food and sleep) but without permadeath?

I love the game and completed it on hard mode already, but I'm not THAT confident. I just want my survival aspects.

And if possible the intro cut scene.

[Massive_CM]

There is not unfortunately! Thank you for your feedback though, noted :)

[Impos!]

Originally posted by Massive_CM:

There is not unfortunately! Thank you for your feedback though, noted :)

Ahhh alrighty- is there likely to be an option to play with the survival aspects alone in the future?

Also, in Ratau's introduction to penitence mode, it sort of sounded like only hunger and sleep related deaths would kill you for good? Are combat based deaths exempt? Because that seems more approachable.

[Remnant Melody]

Well, it's Don't Starve inspired. If you die by any means, even combat, its permanent. Though, there should be at least 1 or 2 revives you could access as you can in even the first game of Don't Starve. Reviving is incredibly rare in that game if you're lucky to find the ritual stone/site. I suppose allowing you to use them outside of that mode would defeat the purpose of the crossover, and perhaps they can't even do that by contract.

However, CotL could use a custom game mode option and allow you to pick and choose certain mechanics. I could see that being a future thing later when they are wrapping up with it..

I hear ya though. I'm pretty good, but definitely not that confident. I'll probably mess with it in a off-chance way of just goofing around, but not taking it seriously to full game.

[Impos!]

I've played a lot of Don't Starve actually. The permadeath works better in that game then it would in this- which is why the majority of Cult of the Lamb isn't permadeath.

It just seems odd to chain mechanics from one concept to another concept simply for the cause of a tribute.

[Batabii • Suikoden I&II HD]

They give you an absurd number of chances to sleep or eat when you're running out of time. And dying on a crusade isn't permanent anyways so it's not really a big deal. I'm just annoyed that you can't seem to get any hearts of the heretic

[Impos!]

Originally posted by Batabii • Palia:

They give you an absurd number of chances to sleep or eat when you're running out of time. And dying on a crusade isn't permanent anyways so it's not really a big deal. I'm just annoyed that you can't seem to get any hearts of the heretic

Oh- dying on a crusade DOESN'T permanently kill you? Interesting, I might give it a closer look then. Does seem a bit annoying you can't get all of the heretic abilities, yeah. Though I suppose the eating one would be redundant, and was another a time skip one? I guess that's a bit like sleeping?

[Batabii • Suikoden I&II HD]

Originally posted by Impos!:

Originally posted by Batabii • Palia:

They give you an absurd number of chances to sleep or eat when you're running out of time. And dying on a crusade isn't permanent anyways so it's not really a big deal. I'm just annoyed that you can't seem to get any hearts of the heretic

Oh- dying on a crusade DOESN'T permanently kill you? Interesting, I might give it a closer look then.

Nope. And technically, EVERY mode has permadeath if you run out of cult members. They give you a few days to get more, and if you don't, it erases your save file.

The way the system in Penitence mode works is that when a gauge runs low, first, the lamb will move much more slowly, except when rolling, and not less slowly during a crusade (And have a sad expression), then when the gauge is empty, a ring timer will appear with three icons. When the timer hits zero, one icon is crossed out and the timer resets, so you have three chances to eat or sleep. Not only that, but it pauses during boss battles, and resets when you escape to your cult (or beat a boss, I think?) Only after all three icons are crossed out do you ACTUALLY lose your save file, which takes a surprisingly long time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1M_xj8k0wk

Does seem a bit annoying you can't get all of the heretic abilities, yeah. Though I suppose the eating one would be redundant, and was another a time skip one? I guess that's a bit like sleeping?

I can see how the eating would conflict, and you already start with Omnipresence by default, but the lack of Resurrection is particularly annoying, and Darkness Within is still useful.