Are There Insane Difficulty Spikes In World Tour, Or...

[Something]

Are there insane difficulty spikes in world tour, or do I just suck? Everything I fight chunks my health away, but I only barely do any damage to anything at level 30. I've been upgrading my gear to the best that I can. Everything I have on is +5 so far but it's like everything hits me for 700-1,000 damage and I'm only doing like 250-300. Fighting that stupid onion bro for the second time and he is just straight mercing me. And that trust fall kick stand thing he does like counters every move I have it seems like. I've burned through all of my consumables and all of my retries.

Is there a way to respec your skill point choices? Because I chose things in the beginning that gave more rewards for fights and stuff and skipped over the items that gave straight health or power, and now I feel like I've gimped myself.

[Samvega]

Yes, you can respec from the skill tree.

The Bao Bao Bro can be beaten, use spacing to keep away from his kick flip thing. Drive Impact might also work to beat it, maybe.

[Miranda ~]

I was doing pretty fine, everything was chill, and then Rudra... A mandatory win battle that for some reason was 10 times harder than everything else, must be there a way to quit and come back later but i couldn't figure out how... I was cornered throwing hadoukens like a coward until i won, every single hit of him took 3/5 of my health. I'm not an very nice player, but i manage to deal with real players quite well and have been playing fighting games for more than a decade by now... But this "boss" fight was probably the worst experience i've ever had in video games. Yes, i don't do well against Dhalsim, but the difficulty spike there just made it a ton worse.

[Terribad]

That part with Bao definitely felt like the moment I suddenly started HAVING to use items mid battle to not die. Every fight after that i feel like I hit like a wet noodle and get crushed like one. Got the best gear I can afford and it's kind of miserable. I hear it gets worse from here too so I've kind of stopped because I do not want to grind jobs to pay for all that ♥♥♥♥.

[IPlayGamesOnPC]

Yeah. World Tour is easy mode for 90% of the game and then you have to grind to get your stats up. You should also have at least one master maxed so you have their SA3.

[Something]

The enemies light attacks are hitting harder than my heavy attacks. Like the ♥♥♥♥? How am I supposed to hold my own against fools fools with like 3 health bars and crap? My gear is all capped at 7.

[have at thee knave]

make sure to buy the permanent buff items from all of the vendors that you've met.

[SirFuzzWuzz]

It's got a few stat hikes, the enemies don't get much smarter however.

[Something]

Is there an easy way to farm miles? I stupidly used up all mine during the novice tournament before knowing what all they were used for and now I can't respec. Just running around finding enemies that give miles for win conditions seems suuper slow.

[Killance]

The final tournament is bull. Plenty aren't finishing the story due to it.

[Orange Brutus]

Wear better gear, and go to every shop in the world and buy the stat boosting consumable. Also, most of the AI's have a "thing" they continuously do, so figure out how to cheese it.

[テレビダンサー]

Originally posted by Chub-Zero:

Is there an easy way to farm miles? I stupidly used up all mine during the novice tournament before knowing what all they were used for and now I can't respec. Just running around finding enemies that give miles for win conditions seems suuper slow.

No joke here. There's an Emote that you get from a Master that allows you to dance in place, and it gives you Miles every few seconds. If you use a consumable that boost the Miles, you can stack them really quick.

If you dance in front of people, they start cheering you, some will dance around you as well.

I never used this to get Miles tho since I noticed this emote very late in game (even tho you get the Master very early).

[ryu600RR]

hack the money
buy 50,000 redbulls
????
profit

the most fun part is when you have infinite ancient elixir, call your partner and they stay out forever, that's how i cheese the level 90 fights

[Something]

Originally posted by ryu600RR:

hack the money
buy 50,000 redbulls
????
profit

the most fun part is when you have infinite ancient elixir, call your partner and they stay out forever, that's how i cheese the level 90 fights

Not everybody likes cheating though.

[Kryomaani]

Originally posted by Chub-Zero:

Not everybody likes cheating though.

You can make a quick buck with some mindless button mashing in the scrap heap minigames, which makes the energy drink strategy viable without having to cheat.

But yeah, the difficulty is a bit all over the place. Looking at the difficulty of the fights towards the end, the game clearly expects you to grind a lot of random fights between the story missions. If you try to just run through the story without grinding, it will eventually stonewall you with some boss with insane stats that will just chunk you dead in a couple of hits.

The levels displayed for enemies are not always a great indication of when you'll be ready to fight them. Normal street chumps of level equal to yours wont pose much of a problem but any story important fights will have stats that are more in line with a fighter 5-10 levels above what is displayed. Looking purely at the levels of opponents you see you might think the final tournament and ending sequence are aimed at characters around level 50, but in reality you have a far better shot at it around level 60 with a fully completed perk tree (and armed with a mountain of energy drinks, of course). It'll still be hard, though.

Abuse the items to your hearts content. You'll probably have a nice stock of some energy drinks and health regen pellets halfway into the game and it's fairly easy to get more. It might be a bit anticlimactic to beat your rivals by chugging a truckload of energy drinks, but hey, if it works...

[SJFox]

Better gear
Enhance gear
Consume perma boosts
Max a master