Restarting from Checkpoint feels wrong

[Chocos Ramabotti]

I can only recommend people to not restart from checkpoint unless they unlock an supply point before the boss. To me the game feels very easy and the mission overall unexciting since the game spams you with checkpoints that replenish your ressources on top.

I've never played the previous games, but i'm pretty sure that wasn't the case there. Although FromSoft is known for to make hardcore games, it looks like the whole difficulty about their games recently focusses solely on the bosses, everything else is just formality, with that amount of checkpoints during a mission it's pretty much not possible to struggle on anything that isn't a boss, which makes it kinda plain and boring at times, unless you restart the whole mission when you die before you reached the boss of an mission.

So to make the game more spicy I can only recommend this self-imposed challenge for your first time playthrough (in a frickin FromSoft game. xd)

- Restart the mission once it's failed
- if you reach a supply point that actually replenishes your repair-kits in a logical way (not because the devs play the "pity pal") then you reach the TRUE checkpoints, therefore you can restart from this checkpoint from now on.

Not sure if there are missions with several supply points later in the game if yes, well... then probably this doesn't work anymore. Unless they don't emerge consecutively.

[Chocos Ramabotti]

Originally posted by DeuceBane:

Trying to make it more accessible. You cant get S rank if you use a checkpoint. go S every mission and report back

But first you have to replay the missions which is super dumb. I want to my s-rank the first I play it, since I already deny the checkpoints. Also it's pretty easy to s-rank earlier missions with an overpowered mech.

[Chocos Ramabotti]

Originally posted by The Dess 2023 GOTY Edition:

I welcome the checkpoints, it allows me to focus on fighting an annoying boss. If I want to flagellate myself I can restart from the beginning, but perhaps after I finished the game and understand roughly how each boss fights. No point frustrating players beyond their limit if it can be avoided.

But yeah, it's my first AC game, you AC vets can just restart missions from the start and claim bragging rights all you want. More power to yas, but us newcomers appreciate checkpoints for what they give us: the opportunity to git guud; eventually. :D

As I told already checkpoints before bosses are valid and reasonable, but these countless within a mission which are short nontheless aren't.

[Bureda]

Then don't use restart check point.

You didn't have to make this thread, but its okay, we all feel lonely and want attention sometimes. You'll be all right Mr. Big Skill gamer.

[Wintermute]

wait until you hear about the debt system of the older titles.

[Dad]

I think if you crash and burn in this game, you should get into a car (If you own one) or if you don't because you're a poor casual at life (climb into a painted cardboard box) and drive yourself or throw yourself into a collision. Otherwise you won't get the full experience.

[Lahoo Eckbert]

would refund if there was no checkpoint restart. I recently discovered that if you quit the game, it also abandons the mission, kinda mkaes the checkpoint system redundant. That alone is a consideration for a refund imo.

[Mu'Ammar of Carthus]

I always do self imposed challenges, most of the time subconsciously.
I'm not about to restart missions in this game, though. No sir.
Maybe for subsequent playthroughs.

[Striker]

Originally posted by Metal Izanagi:

How about...people just play how they want? Yeah, let's do that instead. :)

Well we can't do that now can we :)

[Takiro]

Oh no, it's the whole "don't use Stakes of Marika" all over again.

[Chocos Ramabotti]

Jeez i'm not even judgemental here, way to go if your ego gets hurt about a simple recommendation.

You don't need to find excuses to play the game the way it was shipped, but the fact that some here leash out, make it looks like I kinda hit a weak spot.

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Originally posted by Wintermute:

wait until you hear about the debt system of the older titles.

Now EVERYONE is Human Plus!

[Projekti koordinaattori]

Originally posted by Chocos Ramabotti:

You exactly proof the slippery slope here and why "moare people" and "moar inclusion" isn't necessarily good for a franchise you love.

People fell in love with FromSoft Games because they were pretty much the only company who dared to produce large difficult games, unlike 99% of the rest of the industry, that is pretty much the appeal, that's where they found their target group.
And now they slowly fall into the same patterns every other modern company goes, each successive game will be easier and more mainstream until nothing is left than a hollow shell what FromSoft once was.

I think restarting at all feels cheating and like the easy way. If you die, you delete the game and never play it again. Only then can we measure who's an actually good pilot who made it through Rubicon and who was a scrub who died. If you cannot defeat the game without getting yourself killed, I don't think you deserve to experience it.

If you are not true hardcore like me, you are ruining the game and the company.

[Codester]

Are you trying to gate keep other people into playing a specific way? Lol. Truly truly sad.

[Nope]

There’s no reason to gate keep this, it’s stupid
Because if you want to S rank the stage later, you gonna need to stop dying

[Ahriman]

yeah we know you never played the previous games