Amazing, but tough!

[@willoneill]

Love the game, but the difficulty is no joke! Gonna power through it, but I'm fighting the Mimic right now and this might be where I would bounce off if everything else about the game wasn't so fantastic. Lots of fights before this one have been perilous, but this one is really... It's something.

You guys have a real gem here - in a future update, you might want to consider adding an easier difficulty mode. I think it would make the game accessible to a much broader audience, I worry that a lot of people aren't up for this kind of challenge.

But don't worry! I'll git gud.

[endaris]

Yeah, you'll git gud!
Remember that you have that glorious restart button so you can experiment with a fight a bit and just try things to see how they work with no downside, since restarts aren't penalized at all!
I totally get where you come from though, being a pure melee Itzae feels super weird to handle after Tizo, so the first couple fights including the Mimic can be a struggle because you need to relearn how to manage distances and actively working with interrupts. She's super fun once you get the hang of her though!

[Fayer]

Yeah, my recommendation would be to understand the limit of your and your enemies actions and then try to learn the patterns, there's some randomness to it but it gets easier once you see it.

The worst move is always to end up without magia too close to an enemy, because then it's almost impossible to run away and you'll end up dying fast.

Also, use your items!

[Boggy(theoneandonly)]

My best advice is keep your eye on what the mimic drops! Sometimes it spits out dynamite, which you can pick up and then use to throw back at it. Just focus on avoiding until you can get an opening to attack. You can do it!!

[Sheeppo]

i think the game is easy enough now, i hope they can make another difficulties too

[@willoneill]

Appreciate the feedback and advice from everybody! I also believe the cheevo for this task (beating the Mimic) might be bugged, as globally it currently sits at 0%.

When I do finally win, I definitely want that...!

[Fayer]

Originally posted by @willoneill:

Appreciate the feedback and advice from everybody! I also believe the cheevo for this task (beating the Mimic) might be bugged, as globally it currently sits at 0%.

When I do finally win, I definitely want that...!

noted and already patched, uploading a fix soon!

[cromlech_]

I have the same feeling, loving the game so far but struggling with some of the fights / kinda stuck on the bar fight with the Red Company right now. I would definitelly play on an easier mode if available.

[@willoneill]

Originally posted by Fayer:

Yeah, my recommendation would be to understand the limit of your and your enemies actions and then try to learn the patterns, there's some randomness to it but it gets easier once you see it.

The worst move is always to end up without magia too close to an enemy, because then it's almost impossible to run away and you'll end up dying fast.

Also, use your items!

Having given this a few more tries, I gotta say that I'm not really sure what you mean. With Itzae, I've only got three magia - it costs me two to move in closely for an interrupt, and the next enemy action is basically always an attack that my one remaining magia has no hope of enabling me to escape. There is essentially no way to get close enough to do anything without having either 0 or 1 magia remaining, neither of which enables me to move away.

I've also tried to use an item to give me a one-turn magia boost, but that only helps me the one time - and I need to live long enough to do 15 damage total.

Would also be interested to hear in this thread from anyone who beat this fight and exactly what they did! Thanks!

[Ixzine]

The mimic is a little mean yeah. It took me a few attempts to realize its Damage On Touch move was hurting me even when I used an Interrupt attack from a "safe" distance. I guess it makes sense, because Itzae just punches everything...

I don't think I did anything super tricky to beat it. I just had to use a couple healing items even on my best attempts. By that point I had picked up the cheapest Equipment +1 upgrade so I could carry both types of healing items at once.

I believe I also had the movement speed buff by that point? And used it in the fight as well? But I'm not sure.

[Max]

We're talking about adding an assist mode or two. The idea of rebalancing over 200 encounters for multiple difficulties... it is absolutely not going to happen i'm afraid, haha.

Will - you can get magia upgrades in the skill tree which will definitely make things easier. You can also use the items that the mimic drops to do a lot of damage from range.

[@willoneill]

Originally posted by Max:

We're talking about adding an assist mode or two. The idea of rebalancing over 200 encounters for multiple difficulties... it is absolutely not going to happen i'm afraid, haha.

Will - you can get magia upgrades in the skill tree which will definitely make things easier. You can also use the items that the mimic drops to do a lot of damage from range.

Thanks Max! I did end up managing to beat the fight through sheer luck - just got a fight where the RNG had it jumping around a lot instead of attacking me right after the single stun I could manage to get off.

Magia upgrades would've helped enormously, but Itzae only seems to have a single one in her skill tree - and that was way before I could get to it.

I do have it now, though the fights are definitely getting much more all over the place in terms of difficulty the further I go - either quite easy or impossibly hard. Thankfully, the ones I haven't been able to crack seem like they were optional. Hope you are all able to add some kind of assist mode!

[Max]

She gets so many, main characters have a bottom "just stats" upgrade path for precisely this haha

[@willoneill]

Holy cow, I made it a long way in this game without realizing that - I think I probably missed out on entire tree sections for other characters as well?!

Thanks for letting me know! This is basically what I think happened in case you want to reconsider the default position within that window when it's opened, I think that was my issue: https://imgur.com/a/lMMtCmX

Oh and I'm playing on controller, it just flipped to M/KB when I took the screenshot.

[Majber]

Originally posted by @willoneill:

Holy cow, I made it a long way in this game without realizing that - I think I probably missed out on entire tree sections for other characters as well?!

Thanks for letting me know! This is basically what I think happened in case you want to reconsider the default position within that window when it's opened, I think that was my issue: https://imgur.com/a/lMMtCmX

Oh and I'm playing on controller, it just flipped to M/KB when I took the screenshot.

Yeah it's kind of bad UI design , also you cant scroll out in abilities menu to see all abilities trees

[OrtonSocket]

Originally posted by Majber:

Yeah its kind of bad UI desing , also you cant scroll out in abilities menu to see all abilities

Some of the fights are zoomed out a bit and if you go in the stats screen before the fight it gets zoomed out too.