A little bit too difficult?

[Bruno]

Is it me, or this game is a little bit difficult and too fast? I can't manage to get orders done correctly and on time. Clients start the rush right at the beginning of the days.

[anonymous316]

I just remapped all the keys so I have my fingers on the letters at all times in a good typing position and before playing I practiced every dish before playing the game. I still make one or two mistakes some days but so far at one star I'm doing pretty good.

[Bruno]

This game plays much better one tablets.

EDIT: after playing it for a little bit longer on a tablet, I changed my mind. It's better on PC.

[Hupailija]

When it comes to difficulty level... 96 Buzz is hilarious (daily, no fat, couple excellent days, just hit to new star level, health inspecter and so on), I mean atleast for me on that buzz level rush hour is more like: "finally I can relax a bit" :)

[Songbird]

As someone who played ONR2 before this, I was actually pretty bored until more menu slots opened up and more expensive foods became available to upgrade because I'd just get all perfects every day and the foods were too simple to prepare. I couldn't stand putting corn dogs on the menu, preparing them in half a second, and then waiting 10 seconds for the next person. If you're on an iphone that's different, but with keyboard controls it's just a matter of memorizing the ingredient letters. Soup is probably the only food where you really need to memorize some recipies to get by, and it helps if you remember to only read every other ingredient for salad that isn't a dressing (which always comes first) or the word "cheese".

Your absolute highest-priority buys early on should be anything that increases patience or decreases the amount of time it takes to do chores, specfically trash (most important) and dishes (can be okay if you mash really fast but will still save seconds). Note that since the toilet and rat traps have no minimum time and are based purely on how fast you hit their inputs, their upgrades aren't important at all and will actually make it harder if you're struggling to get perfect days (those chores using up a slot in rush hour are probably easier than another food).

I bought the game before the Steam release and got up to the final restaraunt tier in the minimum number of days, and I still occasionally get perfect days serving maxed out difficult foods like kebobs and soup (though I've had maxed soup on my menu pretty much every day so I got tons of practice) in a mix with extremely time consuming foods like wine and the very easy to botch lasagna. If I was to do a menu with fish, chicken, lobster, and salad on the same day it would be pretty trivial to get a perfect despite having a ton of hype.

[Rabbit.87]

I found it difficult as a new player. I dont like keybinds so spread apart and I feel that in order to excel at this game, you must use them :/ I kinda wish I hadnt bought it.

[anonymous316]

Just re map the keybinds the way you like it

[SilverWolf]

I dont know what level you are on right now, but for me at a 3 star restaurant Im still having difficulty doing stuff like pizza, soup and pasta because of the variety of ingredients and the shifting through pages. My standard menu is Salad, Beer, Steak, Fish, Lobster, Burgers. my main swaps are chicken, coffee, pizza(trying to learn it) and fried rice. Whenever I run my mains I can do 60x perfect days fairly easy because I'm used to the combos. When I throw in pasta and or pizza I get 3-4 averages and am prone to an occasional bad because of key mashing.

My Advice. Keep your menu simple with pretzels, fish, beer and whatever else early. if you get a perfect day add a more complex item and so on. Try before you buy.

[Cottonmouth]

Originally posted by Mad zoidberg:

This game plays much better one tablets.

EDIT: after playing it for a little bit longer on a tablet, I changed my mind. It's better on PC.

What made you change your mind? I am trying to decide whether to get on tablet or pc. The keybinds on pc tend to tip me towards a tablet purchase but idk..

[Bruno]

Originally posted by LaLuna:

Originally posted by Mad zoidberg:

This game plays much better one tablets.

EDIT: after playing it for a little bit longer on a tablet, I changed my mind. It's better on PC.

What made you change your mind? I am trying to decide whether to get on tablet or pc. The keybinds on pc tend to tip me towards a tablet purchase but idk..

Once you masterized the keybinds on keyboard, you can complete recipes really fast, to a point that cannot be achieved playing on a tablet since you have to touch every buttons on touch screen device. Of course, it implies that you are able to write on a keyboard without looking at it. If you are unable to do that, then you might have a better advantage on tablet.

[Hupailija]

Originally posted by Uncle Leo:

I dont know what level you are on right now, but for me at a 3 star restaurant Im still having difficulty doing stuff like pizza, soup and pasta because of the variety of ingredients and the shifting through pages. My standard menu is Salad, Beer, Steak, Fish, Lobster, Burgers. my main swaps are chicken, coffee, pizza(trying to learn it) and fried rice. Whenever I run my mains I can do 60x perfect days fairly easy because I'm used to the combos. When I throw in pasta and or pizza I get 3-4 averages and am prone to an occasional bad because of key mashing.

My Advice. Keep your menu simple with pretzels, fish, beer and whatever else early. if you get a perfect day add a more complex item and so on. Try before you buy.

I think that your problem is your standard menu.

Try following one:
Coffee (you really can't get easier than that)
Salad (as you probably know it's just wonderful)
Beer / Wine (while Beer is easier Wine nets more money)
Ice Cream (seriously, even if it has multiple ingredients it's one of the probably easiest dishes
and you never see it in rush hours)
Fish / Lobster (rotate)
Soda

Basically those are by far easiest dishes what one can have.

About your advice, I would recommend going pre 1 star with following menu: Beer, Hot Dog, Fish, non upgraded ice cream or soda. Mostly because with those dishes you can have perfect days each time (most requires just 1-2 key presses).

Also as said earlier in this topic IF anyone finds game even bit difficult pre rank 1 upgrade your washing machine / trash system and get everything which makes customers more patient. Basically first 2 cuts amount of keypresses you have to do (when you do those activities) by half and rest gives you way more time.


Also always keep couple cookable dishes in your menu, even if it's non upgraded lasagne (you can bind it so that that dish comes naturally)

[darthrevan4ever]

Its not to dificult, its probably the closest I've played where it feels like a real rush hour in a reastraunt. After a while you get better and better and you really start knowing what kind of food is best.

[anonymous316]

The game is as difficult as you want it to be. You want the game to be hard have a full menu with hard to prep foods, if you want it easy just have a simple menu.

[Axe]

Originally posted by anonymous316:

The game is as difficult as you want it to be. You want the game to be hard have a full menu with hard to prep foods, if you want it easy just have a simple menu.

Also...

Add age, dexterity and brain-agility (at least) to this simplistic reference and you truly have a massive and diverse potential customer base for this game. Anyone can enjoy it.

I accept I (personally) will not be as mentally agile as some but it still remains a great addictive game worthy of a true fun-factor title. The game appears to transcend the usual dividing lines between genre and subject matter and therefore to me hits a sweet spot which I was only vaguely aware of before purchase.

The 'difficulty' curve for me based on my (above post here) even seems totally right even whilst I am admitting I ain't the mentaly sharpest tool in the box LOL.

Great fun :-)

[eagleFMJ]

The first hour or so when I started playing I would have agreed with the OP, however as time went on I started get quicker, binding keys the way I want etc made it even better, although I am still not that far into the game (9 days) every time I play I seem to get quicker.

That said, I like the challenge, making it any easier would suck IMO.

eagle

[anonymous316]

I have my keybinds set up to Q,W,E,R for usual task like Q for ice and W for flavor shot for the drinks and the arrow keys binded to I,J,K,L so my fingers are always in typing position for when I have to do more complex menu items.