DO NOT PLAY HARD MODE!!!

[h2od]

It just makes everything more tedious, not harder.

Everything is a bullet sponge. You are weak. You die in 2 hits by almost everything (1 hit for shield, 1 hit for 100% of your hp). There is no compensation for this increase in difficulty.

I'd say it's almost a good setting for long-term servers that want to slow your progression, but if you're solo just do normal mode.

*edit* Getting a bunch of sarcastic comments basically saying that I shouldn't be surprised that hard mode is hard. Except it isn't hard, it's boring and imbalanced. Dying in 2 hits was not the point of my argument, the hard mode experience invalidates a lot of the game mechanics.

For example:
-armor is useless and expensive to repair. you die in 2 hits against anything your level so you don't even have to wear any.
-incubation times are literal days and they don't tick down when you're offline.

Games are meant to be fun. They aren't work. Every gamer in the world complains when increased difficulty just amounts to mobs having more HP. Nobody likes this. It's lazy and unintelligent design.

What should hard mode have?
- better AI.
- more emphasis on status effects bolstering capture rate, and a lower rate for no status effects.
- a bigger difference in elemental resists for opposite attributes.
- not useless armor, probably?

And then optionally, a reward for this challenge:
- more shiny pal spawns.
- increase in jewelry drop rate

[VladmirFox]

Have you been BREEDING pals to get 4 stars and better stats?

[TheShadowHatter]

İlk olarak h2od tarafından gönderildi:

I doubt even half of the people making fun of the post even know what the hard mode settings are.

wdym? the world settings are clear as day. the reason you're getting clowned is because obviously it's going to be hard that's the point of it being hard mode. I understand what you're trying to say, but it's just silly is all because you can just change the world settings to tailor the game to your specific playstyle.

[Topkek]

I play on hard custom. I die from 1-2 hits yes. But that is fun for me... Don't tell me how to play please. Just because you're bad at I-frames, don't judge the rest of us. You know you can dodge right?

[⇧⇨⇩⇩⇩]

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İlk olarak VladmirFox tarafından gönderildi:

treat it like a Souls game and DODGE

You can safely assume that I did know I have to dodge incoming attacks judging by the mentioning of hit box, hit detection and souls games.

But since it come to this, I will just confirm that I know I have to dodge. :D

Knowing you haveto do it but sucking at doing it are not mutually exclusive. ^^

[moogobbler1]

Been playing in hard since release. Already killed 99% of the bosses lol. Learn dodge it changed my life in game haha

[Disarray]

Been playing custom rates on hardmode (even lower rates than standard hard difficulty) with 0.1% exp, damage recieved is x5 harder and only hit at 30% as opposed to hard modes 50%. Feels better to play the game at a slower and more careful pace

[Blanch Warren]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWgsdexkv18

[Markus Reese]

İlk olarak Disarray tarafından gönderildi:

Been playing custom rates on hardmode (even lower rates than standard hard difficulty) with 0.1% exp, damage recieved is x5 harder and only hit at 30% as opposed to hard modes 50%. Feels better to play the game at a slower and more careful pace

Until you hit level 30 and get raids that have suicide nukes that can wipe out all your pals in one blast....

[Valhalla Awaits]

Horrible advice... The game was stupidly easy on normal difficulty. I was WAY overleveled by the time I reached any boss, often twice the level. Hard is mandatory for anyone even remotely experienced with survival games.

[Dr. Faustus]

I just play tje easiest relax mode. Its best mode.
Very casual and relaxing. Love it.

[Soren]

Hardmode isn't actually that hard. Sure the egg hatching timer is kind of bad for single player. But you're wrong about armour. It works plenty fine, metal armour for example extends your health by about 3-4x in level 20-30 areas. Problem is maybe you didn't also invest into HP?

edit: and while player damage is often much lower than your pals. It also makes it easier being in hardmode to not kill enemies. It's bad enough yours weapons or pal attacks sometimes do 2x or 3x damage because they hit more times than normally possible. If you played on easy mode, you'd probably just kill most things by breathing in their general direction.

[marionettethree]

Why not just play custom difficulty and tweak those thing to suit your interest?

[xearthxgears]

Sounds like Souls-like Fans favorite thing.

[Xaelon]

İlk olarak marionettethree tarafından gönderildi:

Why not just play custom difficulty and tweak those thing to suit your interest?

Yeah pretty much. Go into your world settings and tweak things to be more to your liking.

There isn't a slider for everything yet, but there's probably something you can change to make the game more enjoyable.

[thablond]

the only maybe tedious thing is after 20 hours i stil havent beat the tutorial yet that is what makes the game more fun