There was already going to be an Easy Mode

[Shihong]

Apparently there are hidden settings in the game that can be re-enabled that halve the damage enemies inflict on the player.

https://www.nexusmods.com/liesofp/mods/39?tab=description

I'm wondering why this was ultimately removed. I think having this in the base game as an Easy Mode or even just an optional accessibility feature would have been a good compromise that would diminish the need to apply blanket nerfs to bosses and enemies.

[Piggums]

Originally posted by Shihong:

I suppose the big difference is that an opt-in approach to difficulty is always going to be better than simply reducing the challenge for everyone (though the QoL features like the gold coin fruit respec should be for everyone). It'd be nice if I could replay the game at the same difficulty I beat it at without reverting to an earlier patch, is all.

Honestly, removing some of the clunkiness would help immensely, I love heavy weapons but the lack of poise + slow speed means I'm using the spear mode for Holy Ark purely because it's the difference between landing a hit to quickly perfect guarding and getting staggered like an idiot out of my slow swing

[mayhem523]

Originally posted by kconvey1:

Originally posted by Crypto Gamer:

I wonder if a souls like game gets an easy mode then its kills the sales or not.......

Most souls likes already have optional easy difficulty.

eg.summon lvl 600 friend,mimic tear

In lies of P easy mode is likely:
summoning a specter healing him from cube and throwing bunch of throwables from a safe distance.

Mimic tear got nerfed to useless, and not everyone has "let me solo her guy" on discord, neither is a great solution for the average struggling player.

Mimic tear is never useless and there's usually 2 or 3 bargain bin lmsh with signs down at her door since tons of people can solo her now. I was doing it for a while when I got bored with the game. I didn't even mean to, I made my name "let her solo me" as a joke, people took me up on it, and I pulled it off so I kept doing it. She really isn't very hard, she has one move to learn with multiple ways to deal with it.

[MostlyPanda]

Inetersting, checked out the comments on this mod:

Martinlaw21
25 September 2023, 6:29PM
I'm still getting my ass handed to me...

Ste3lfish
26 September 2023, 10:22PM
Thank you so much for this mod. Now i can enjoy this beautiful game but without the frustration. I am just not good enough for the regular game. So thank you for this mod!

HeadBangingDead
26 September 2023, 12:41PM
So awesome for this man! I felt scummy having to download the neverending items mod just to beat a boss. It felt scummy that i felt forced to cheat just because some of these bosses were way too ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hard lol. It definitely felt unbalanced in some areas.

UnitedStatesFBI
28 September 2023, 4:09PM
I’m getting cooked on easy. Please release a “very very easy” file :D

And my personal favorite:

GutsBerkman
25 September 2023, 6:43PM
You can create a character in slot 2 and check at the train station. Without the mod, the puppet kills you in 5-6 hits, with the mod the character can withstand 10 or more hits.

This is the target audience for a soulslike? this is what the game gets balanced around?

Cheaters, players who have nothing to do with the genre. Way to butcher the game

[Kleerex]

Originally posted by Pink Eye:

Fascinating. I can see why'd they drop it from fear of getting yelled at by the sweaties. I mean look at the responses they got from just changing a few HP values here and there.

Dark Souls 3 Xbox One "early release" also was singnificantly easier than retail version (so called "NG-1"). Fromsoftware announced that it was intended for game journalists to make sure that they don't get stuck on a boss.

To be honest, I suspect that Bloodborne was originally supposed to be released this way, but devs bumped it to NG+ before release. It might be the reason why Bloodborne had 6 incremental NG cycles instead of 7.

[RadRanger]

Well ♥♥♥♥ I didn't know there is a easy mode. Now I'm thinking of getting the game now. Heh heh heh.

[Poyzo]

Sekiro and Dark Souls are probably the only real "souls-like" games with a challenge. Elden Ring and Lies of P are super easy because developers cave to the casual, bad player group.

Sold out to the casuals so they could earn more money in their pockets.

[gungadin22000]

Some soulsy games are harder than others.

They are all difficult.

You're just a nerd.

[Senki]

Originally posted by Poyzo:

Sekiro and Dark Souls are probably the only real "souls-like" games with a challenge. Elden Ring and Lies of P are super easy because developers cave to the casual, bad player group.

Sold out to the casuals so they could earn more money in their pockets.

I agree with sekiro but I stomped the dark souls franchise without too much effort. It's not harder than ER at all.

Dark souls has to be the most overrated franchise ever when it comes to difficulty. Granted I played them after I played Nioh 2 so it was like going from being in a real war to playing with toy soldiers

In the end it's pretty subjective based on everyone's experience with other games before they start playing dark souls and how fast they can adapt