tainted character unlocks on normal

[OsidianPT]

can i unlock their stuff on normal or do i have to do hard ?

[Nymy]

Only on hard

[dwinters62]

There is no point to ever normal. There are hard mode completion rewards for doing it all on hard so why bother doing anything on normal?

[JellyPuff]

Originally posted by dwinters62:

There is no point to ever normal. There are hard mode completion rewards for doing it all on hard so why bother doing anything on normal?

Because difficulty is subjective. Compared to pre-rep, hardmode is significantly harder now (a lot of the rooms generating on normal alone make it much easier), so getting more experience on normal mode first and move to hardmode, once you have no trouble to do consistent wins is a legit way to play.

And it's not like you're under any pressure to do any of the unlocks asap. Plus, only a small percentage of players actually go for 100% achievements anyways.

[Confused Rock]

Because you're playing the game to have fun? not everyone plays this game to slap an achievement on their steam profile that shows they spent 500 hours playing the naked baby poop game instead of contributing to society. Wolfindex is the first person I've heard of saying you can only unlock them on hard, and I don't see why it'd be the case. unless an unlock is specifically only on hard (godhead etc) I think you're good. the unlock for getting everything on every character requires that to be on hard, but if you don't care about that, you're good. it's just an item.

[11clock]

Originally posted by Wolfindex:

Only on hard

Incorrect. The tainted characters follow similar unlock conditions as the main characters, other than a few unlocks being grouped under certain completion marks. I believe that the only exception is that you have to do greedier mode instead of greed mode for an unlock.

Originally posted by dwinters62:

There is no point to ever normal. There are hard mode completion rewards for doing it all on hard so why bother doing anything on normal?

Because you are playing on an incredibly less fun (imo) game mode just for the sake of a bunch of co-op babies and like 4 or so actual items, and tainting your character select screen with a bit of red?

I like being challenged, but hard mode makes the game more challenging in incredibly annoying manners (curses every other floor, arbitrarily limiting resource drops, etc.). I consider the alt path added in Repentance to be a proper "hard mode" that is actually challenging in fun ways (tougher enemies and bosses).

Why should I make my playthrough of the game significantly less enjoyable to me just for the sake of a small selection of unlockable items?

EDIT: Also, the vast majority of the criticisms I have seen towards Repentance have been at changes that are exclusive to hard mode. That's all the more reason to not play hard mode and stick with normal mode.

[WithTheRainbow]

You can do it on normal, but just like the normal characters there is an unlock (just a multiplayer baby I think) for getting all their hard mode completion marks. There is also an unlock (an actual item) for getting *every* hard mode completion mark.