Just watched a Story streamer and...

[Ratsplat]

How are people actually finding the game hard? He barely takes any damage when being hit, and maybe had a 25% parry rate at most. He ignored the flowers on the Goblu fight, and never went under 80% hp on his characters.

Explain this phenomenon like I am 5. Biggest gaslighting campaign of my life.

[Amritadyne]

ok, what difficulty are they on?

[Ratsplat]

Originally posted by Amritadyne:

ok, what difficulty are they on?

Read the title.

[Haruspex]

Depends on difficulty. Seen people eat five hits from Grosse tete and not even go under 50 percent health. My team dies in one bounce and I have double the hp he has lol

[Ratsplat]

Originally posted by Haruspex:

Depends on difficulty. Seen people eat five hits from Grosse tete and not even go under 50 percent health. My team dies in one bounce and I have double the hp he has lol

Exactly. People just don't know that difficulty can be turned down, and want 100% parry rates.

[Amritadyne]

Originally posted by Ratsplat:

Originally posted by Amritadyne:

ok, what difficulty are they on?

Read the title.

ok, maybe make that a little more clear that that's the selected difficulty and not the kind of streamer it is.

anyway yeah the game is going to be easy when you play it on a difficulty that is literally made for people to power through the game. You don't use story mode difficulty as the benchmark for difficulty, that's what normal/expeditioner is for.

for the record I think this game is only challenging on Expert and only for half of the game.

[Haruspex]

Originally posted by Ratsplat:

Originally posted by Haruspex:

Depends on difficulty. Seen people eat five hits from Grosse tete and not even go under 50 percent health. My team dies in one bounce and I have double the hp he has lol

Exactly. People just don't know that difficulty can be turned down, and want 100% parry rates.

More like people playing on Expert mode BUT I WANT THE STORY and won't lower their ego if they get rolled like being on a ego trip but being a bad player. This game goes out of their way to remind you that you can change the difficulty in settings pretty sure.

[Soulgain]

Yeah, instead of switching to a difficulty that actually fits their level, people resist, because doing that would mean admitting they're not “good enough.” So instead, the difficulty itself has to bend, just so their ego can sleep peacefully at night.

Yes, the Story difficulty has a very low bar. I've also seen a few streamers who play on that specific difficulty, and to me, that looks like an absolutely different experience, after finishing the game on Expert that is, where you most of the time just get wiped, to the degree where I just stopped relying on any sort of defensive pictos, except for the ones that give Shields through some shenanigans.

[Necrolite]

Think there are mods that can make the game easier. People often like to lie and cheat if makes them appear impressive.

[Haruspex]

Originally posted by Soulgain:

Yeah, instead of switching to a difficulty that actually fits their level, people resist, because doing that would mean admitting they're not “good enough.” So instead, the difficulty itself has to bend, just so their ego can sleep peacefully at night.

Yes, the Story difficulty has a very low bar. I've also seen a few streams where people play on that specific difficulty, and to me, that looks like an absolutely different experience, after finishing the game on Expert that is, where you most of the time just get wiped, to the degree where I just stopped relying on any sort of defensive pictos, except for the ones that give Shielding through some shenanigans.

I hope devs don't give in to the whining and be confident in the difficulty they set for the game. The Lies of P devs caved in and made the game overall easy a week or two after launch.

[Ratsplat]

Originally posted by Necrolite:

Think there are mods that can make the game easier. People often like to lie and cheat if makes them appear impressive.

Gotta get that 1 second parry window on Expert :Sunglasses:

[Soulgain]

Originally posted by Haruspex:

Originally posted by Soulgain:

Yeah, instead of switching to a difficulty that actually fits their level, people resist, because doing that would mean admitting they're not “good enough.” So instead, the difficulty itself has to bend, just so their ego can sleep peacefully at night.

Yes, the Story difficulty has a very low bar. I've also seen a few streams where people play on that specific difficulty, and to me, that looks like an absolutely different experience, after finishing the game on Expert that is, where you most of the time just get wiped, to the degree where I just stopped relying on any sort of defensive pictos, except for the ones that give Shielding through some shenanigans.

I hope devs don't give in to the whining and be confident in the difficulty they set for the game. The Lies of P devs caved in and made the game overall easy a week or two after launch.

At first, I thought that maybe there was a problem, but I never actually tried story mode myself. Then, after finishing the game, I finally decided to check some streams, and now I'm absolutely convinced that people are spewing utter ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ about the difficulty of the game being too hard.

Like, please just switch to story mode; it's alright, nobody cares how you play your game. Maybe it's time to learn how to accept reality and tune down your ego. But no, it's better to complain on forums and force their will.

I'm with you, I hope the Devs can see through all of it.

[alt]

gamers come in all different forms. something you find simple could be a mountain for me to climb, and vice versa.

this isn’t a competitive game. if parts of the community want options to make the game easier, why not give it to them? people just love to feel superior and tell others to “git gud!”

[Volk]

Are you upset someone is playing a single player game the way they want to? Do you also get mad when someone orders a burger at a restraunt when you ordered a steak?

[Obtuse Moose]

Wow, the easiest difficulty is actually easy?!?!?!?!?

NO WAI!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Ratsplat]

Originally posted by alt:

gamers come in all different forms. something you find simple could be a mountain for me to climb, and vice versa.

this isn’t a competitive game. if parts of the community want options to make the game easier, why not give it to them? people just love to feel superior and tell others to “git gud!”

Precisely. I'm all for people playing on Story if it is too hard for them. But so many have been complaining about it while playing on Expedition or Expert.