Questions about Brutal difficulty for new players

[A1 Steaksauce]

I have only faced the first few bosses on Brutal and they were pretty tough with the new moves, though once I got the hang of it I could handle them alright. I've never gotten past the first half of Act 3 in Normal or otherwise so I have no idea how hard the rest of the bosses are. I'm trying to get a game going with three other friends who have never played. I've seen opinions on Brutal ranging from "it's the quintessential V Rising experience" to "this boss almost made me punch my monitor" so I'm on the fence about it. One of my friends is not the most finesse at difficult games like this and usually leans towards more casual gaming, and another can be pretty good and likes a challenge but gets incredibly frustrated if he doesn't do too well. I can sometimes, too, but I also love this game and want to experience it to it's fullest. The other friend just likes to find ways to cheese things, though I don't know how much cheese can be done in V Rising. How bad is the scaling with 4 people fighting one boss? Would Normal difficulty be more our speed?

[IBOT]

Hard to tell honestly especially since the scaling is kinda weird in v rising.
You can cheese some bosses but mostly as solo player. and the more you are the harder some bosses are. if you play with resets. someone runs out and heals when he is low and the rest keeps fighting you can beaty nearly everything though, except dracula

[derw4tz]

difficulty curve is strange, i played brutal coop and solo and found it to be very intresting beat in both modes everythign but the final boss;

the difficulty always has ups and downs and some bosses i also skipped for much later generally i found the game to get more easier till the end until the final two bosses

[RdRStar]

the last few bosses are gonna be really hard to keep casual players on board for on brutal. you can look up videos to help, but im not sure your friends are really gonna be down for that kind of thing.

[Tanyon]

I'm on brutal with my friends.. we have 5 bosses left.. there were only 3 bosses we had to try more than once because we just had to see their new moves.. Maja, Geomancer and Styx every other boss was a one shot and usually extremely easy with 0 prep work.

I have never bear Dracula on even normal because his difficulty is completely stupid compared to the rest of the bosses so I likely won't beat him on brutal and that's ok. I expect ATOM to be the only other real challenge..

You can abuse unholy spells in a lot of cases to give you a huge advantage.. 3 or 4 people popping army of dead one after the other can take a boss down quickly or help mitigate adds, then having bone explosion and the shield.. you will have skeleton allies pretty much up all the time if you are good.

Once I get Void I switch to all chaos I get so much self healing back from that it's crazy.

[seraph[rus] (Wild Pony)]

On the version 1.0, the hard game mode has been changed and strengthened. Now there are almost no easy bosses on it, although some can still be killed on the first try.

I've been playing on normal and hard modes from the game started in the spring of 2022: I played at the start, I played after the new biome has been added, and after the release. Now almost all bosses on the hard mode get additional attacks, which often requires a personal approach to each of them. In some cases, I was able to kill the boss only after 10-15 attempts. And that's for me, I've got 1500+ hours in V Rising.

So I recommend newbies to play on normal for the first time, and only then play on hard. It's really hard :)

[Tanyon]

Originally posted by seraphrus (Wild Pony):

On the version 1.0, the hard game mode has been changed and strengthened. Now there are almost no easy bosses on it, although some can still be killed on the first try.

I've been playing on normal and hard modes from the game started in the spring of 2022: I played at the start, I played after the new biome has been added, and after the release. Now almost all bosses on the hard mode get additional attacks, which often requires a personal approach to each of them. In some cases, I was able to kill the boss only after 10-15 attempts. And that's for me, I've got 1500+ hours in V Rising.

So I recommend newbies to play on normal for the first time, and only then play on hard. It's really hard :)

Are you playing solo? because that makes all the difference.. and this game on hard mode/brutal is still extremely easy.. not sure how you can think these bosses are hard with 1500 hours in this game unless you are playing solo which I agree is a lot harder.

[Mercurial]

Most bosses are slightly easier as a team, some are much easier, slightly harder, or much harder. It varies based on their mechanics because boss mechanics also significantly vary.

On Normal, the game is an average God of War type difficulty up to about the last three bosses, which might feel more like a Fromsoft difficulty.

On Brutal, the game is a challenging Dark Souls type difficulty up to about the last three bosses, which might feel more like a "the hard bosses from Dark Souls" level of difficulty.

If you have friends that are easily frustrated or demoralized, I don't recommend playing on brutal first, particularly for the last three bosses.

If your friends are sweaty gamers that like to overcome a challenge, the last three bosses on brutal are exactly what they're looking for.

As general notes:

- No mechanic in any boss is unfair. Some may pressure you to play certain ways, but they all have learnable solutions.
- The last boss is one of the bosses that is "significantly harder" in any kind of group. If trying to beat him as a team, it's actually easier to beat him solo first.

[seraph[rus] (Wild Pony)]

Originally posted by Tanyon:

Originally posted by seraphrus (Wild Pony):

On the version 1.0, the hard game mode has been changed and strengthened. Now there are almost no easy bosses on it, although some can still be killed on the first try.

I've been playing on normal and hard modes from the game started in the spring of 2022: I played at the start, I played after the new biome has been added, and after the release. Now almost all bosses on the hard mode get additional attacks, which often requires a personal approach to each of them. In some cases, I was able to kill the boss only after 10-15 attempts. And that's for me, I've got 1500+ hours in V Rising.

So I recommend newbies to play on normal for the first time, and only then play on hard. It's really hard :)

Are you playing solo? because that makes all the difference.. and this game on hard mode/brutal is still extremely easy.. not sure how you can think these bosses are hard with 1500 hours in this game unless you are playing solo which I agree is a lot harder.

Most of the time I'm playing solo, very rarely together with a beginner (on normal).
I completely agree with Mercurial: some bosses are easier to beat solo, some are easier to beat in a team. But Quincey and Tera on v.1.0 brutal became my Malenia for me now