Good game let down by zero challenge

[SNAKE †]

Got about half way through the game and just got bored from the lack of difficulty and lack of enemy variety, you know your game is too easy when your bosses go down in less than a minute against characters that have weapons with zero upgrades.

What's with all the enemies being the same shambling zombies that you'd find at the start of a fromsoft tutorial area but in this game you still fight them 3-4 hours in.

[Kenjji 吻の男]

when the game was released is was way harder, since the last update its easy as hell... idk why. Also the multiplayer scaling dosent work anymore so in Coop Bosses have the same HP as in SP.

[Rundvelt]

It's now a good "trainer" for people getting into soulslike games.

However, because it's an easier game, the developers should realize what their product is now and remove random PVP, which will simply frustrate the new players they seek to entice.

[OVERWATCH]

If I’m not mistaken you can make this game very hard, there are settings that you can adjust to day one version of this game

[◊ jaco ◊ de]

It's now way easier then before the update.
One part is that the movement and combat is much better with the 2.0.
The main part is that enemies are much weaker now.

It's too easy now. And enemy variety is too low, yes.
But the world is very nice.

The main problem beside less fun is, that I play mostly in Umbral now, because you get more exp and you don't have to check for hidden paths with the lantern doing so.
But in Umbral the world doesn't look as good.
The idear of the game was that you only switch to Umbra after death for a second chance or to check hidden path with more risk.
This concept is undermined now.

[Zeon]

Bosses have such low health me and my friend don't get to see 2nd phases.
It wasn't like this at release. Its like there is no co-op scaling or something.

[CzUSMC]

It is because people complained to the devs that the game was way too hard for months! So they nerfed it in alot of different ways. Play solo for the hardest challenge. I remember at release NG+ was much much harder than NG though. So if you play Co OP with a friend NG+ run would be alot harder unless they nerfed that too not sure. But I remember when the game first released hitting a mob with a maxed out weapon on NG+ and it did next to nothing to the enemy HP lol.

[Asakura Shinichi]

So its a souls like that caters to the casuals? Kinda sad cant seem to find anything new and interesting in the souls like genre that i either did not already play or being so easy that it should not be called souls like in the first place.

[Just Fkin Ryan]

Originally posted by SNAKE †:

Got about half way through the game and just got bored from the lack of difficulty and lack of enemy variety, you know your game is too easy when your bosses go down in less than a minute against characters that have weapons with zero upgrades.

What's with all the enemies being the same shambling zombies that you'd find at the start of a fromsoft tutorial area but in this game you still fight them 3-4 hours in.

make a character and select advanced modifiers, then you can set the enemy placements and such as it was pre nerf.

[◊ jaco ◊ de]

Originally posted by Just Fkin Ryan:

make a character and select advanced modifiers, then you can set the enemy placements and such as it was pre nerf.

I did that. More enemy but it's not harder because they are as weak as without the modifier. I think they mean the nerf from short after the release. Not the nerf from the 2.0 patch.

[DeadJericho]

i think the difficulty it just right for me
i wouldnt have bought it otherwise

[◊ jaco ◊ de]

Originally posted by DeadJericho:

i think the difficulty it just right for me
i wouldnt have bought it otherwise

That's OK. It's not fine for those how enjoyed it how it was beforehand.
I hope they add a modifier with old difficulty so that everyone can have fun again.

[DeadJericho]

Originally posted by ◊ jaco ◊ de:

Originally posted by DeadJericho:

i think the difficulty it just right for me
i wouldnt have bought it otherwise

That's OK. It's not fine for those how enjoyed it how it was beforehand.
I hope they add a modifier with old difficulty so that everyone can have fun again.

i agree
options are always welcome. its one of the building blocks of gaming, on pc in particular.

[Jackson]

How far did you play? I'm playing single player and felt the beginning bordered on too easy, as I beat Pieta second try and the next major boss on the first, but found the challenge to ramp up once I reached Forsaken Fen (the swamp), I feel like it's steadily increasing as I've played so far and have died to enemy encounters on the occasion and some Sinners have womped me a few times. I am only using melee and a crossbow.

[◊ jaco ◊ de]

I'm now coming to the snowy area. Up to this point, it hasn't gotten any harder for me, and I've defeated every boss on my first attempt. Sometimes without healing items. Not only do they seem weaker, they're also more frequently interrupted by player attacks and seem sluggish overall.

I also went quite early in a high level area that you normally don't do until later. Originally, I didn't get very far here, or only with great difficulty. Now, it plays more like the normal-level areas in their release state. A little easier, perhaps.

Out of laziness, I almost only play in Umbral now, so I don't have to use the lantern all the time and so that it's at least a little more difficult.

[Jackson]

While not a perfect solution, as I'm sure you do not necessarily want to restart, when creating a character, on the 'Review' tab, there is a box you can check labeled "Advanced Game Modifiers". You can select as many or few as you want to make the game more difficult, but some of these sound like it would make the experience considerably more difficult, in fact there's only one that makes the game easier. It may be worth investigating if you aren't being challenged and the game hasn't been enjoyable to you.