HARD MODE NEEDS MORE HEALTH

[Benderew]

First of all, I do not care if you are offended by this post. Every player is entitled to their own opinion. Personally I believe hard mode does not give you enough hearts to even stand a chance of surviving. Ive just played through 3 runs and have not had a single soul heart drop Any health that did drop was just half a red heart. it makes devil deals absolutely pointless since if you don't have the health now because hard mode, you are just dead. Heart drops need to be buffed. Currently its too low and relies way way to much on luck.

[Benderew]

I cant just 'play on normal mode' otherwise you do not get unlocks.

[WitchAmy]

meta has changed.

soul hearts arent that reliable as before and soul heart giving items are more rare.

devil deals also are much weaker.

as an advice, I'd say try going angel rooms. there are a ton of new powerful items there.

[WitchAmy]

Originally posted by Benderew:

I cant just 'play on normal mode' otherwise you do not get unlocks.

you can lol

you can unlock about 95% of the game by playing solely on normal mode (not counting co-op babies)

[Confused Rock]

for what it's worth, health up items actually heal you now. before it was pretty much just <3 that did that, but ironically for all the harder hard is this makes "ultra hard" marginally less difficult.

[11clock]

Originally posted by Benderew:

I cant just 'play on normal mode' otherwise you do not get unlocks.

The vast majority of hard mode unlocks are co-op babies, the few that aren't I personally just don't care for. I don't see how making the game significantly less fun for me is worth a handful of unlocks.

I mean sure, I like being challenged. I like the difficulty that the new alt path provides. What I don't like is being artificially starved of resources and having curses every other floor. Technically it is harder, but not in ways that are engaging.

For a hard mode, I would prefer something more like remixed boss attack patterns, tougher room layouts and enemies, things of that nature.

In the mean time, normal mode is fairly easy but I enjoy playing it, and if I want more of a challenge I just play the alt path.

[ToxicBoo]

Originally posted by Blind, the Bound Demon:

Originally posted by Benderew:

I cant just 'play on normal mode' otherwise you do not get unlocks.

you can lol

you can unlock about 95% of the game by playing solely on normal mode (not counting co-op babies)

To be fair, some of the cooler items are locked behind hard mode completion marks, I've just started doing all my runs on hard to avoid repeat runs.

As for hard mode itself, it doesn't feel all that different from normal besides some enemies having higher shot speed, and there's usually enough health pickups to keep me going, only thing I hate is how much you get cursed in hard mode, pretty annoying being blinded three floors in a row.

[Man of Culture]

Limited soul hearts is good to increase the challenge of playing characters with red hearts so you have less protection and have to actually dodge shots to guarantee devil/angel deals. It also makes playing characters who can only get soul or demon hearts suuuuuuuuck to play because you really have to git gud and not take as many hits.

I will say this though I have seen an abundance of red hearts.

[jztigersfan23]

I know this is an old thread but i seems to be lacking when it comes to red heart pickups, just beat it lives but couldnt beat the next floor because of the lack of health.

[The Renderer]

Originally posted by jztigersfan23:

I know this is an old thread but i seems to be lacking when it comes to red heart pickups, just beat it lives but couldnt beat the next floor because of the lack of health.

So you had one run where you got unlucky and now that means that "it seems to be lacking" red hearts? Come on. Red hearts are the most abundant thing in Isaac.