Seal the Deal DLC for free?

[Tsuna]

I just bought the game but I'm unable to download the DLC for free. It says in the Steam frontpage that the DLC is free for grabs until tomorrow for those who own the base game but even so, I'm unable to get it.

Can someone help? Much appreciated.

[GrandmaMoses]

The DLC is free only for the day it came out.

[Tsuna]

Yeah man, I JUST noticed that. awww =( ... thanks anyway

[Rezilia]

Like I seriously had no idea it was free when I first got the game a few days ago. I just had it in my settings to automatically install DLCs, so it installed with it. I was super lucky.

[Elzquiem]

Originally posted by Tsunnen:

I just bought the game but I'm unable to download the DLC for free. It says in the Steam frontpage that the DLC is free for grabs until tomorrow for those who own the base game but even so, I'm unable to get it.

Can someone help? Much appreciated.

As said, it was only for the day it was released.

Now, should you really buy this DLC ? You should check evaluations to make your opinion : 75% of it is about Deathwish challenges...

- You want to play with a friend or a relative in local co-op : EDIT : no, don't buy it, the coop mode was released for free but the communication about it on the store is confusing ;

- You are an extreme hardcore tryharder and you like unfair, RNG challenges with artificial difficulties : Yes, buy it ;

- You don't care if the developers, or some players here, are paying off your head : yes, you can buy it ;

- You want to play only casually and discover more things the game has to offer, like the new chapiter or goodies : no, don't buy it, it's short and the contents are locked by the deathwish mode. And I have the serious feeling that half of the new timerifts are only in deathwish mode...

- You want to buy this to play with your children : please, certainly don't do that.

I had the chance to get it for free, but if I had the choice, I would have taken the Soundtrack Side B instead...

[Tsuna]

I was gonna wait for another sale or something to see if the game could get cheaper but I thought that "well, its on sale now and the DLC will be free too so whatever" but lol, I read it wrong and got confused and you already know the rest.

thanks for your input about the DLC tho

[GrandmaMoses]

Originally posted by Elzquiem:

Originally posted by Tsunnen:

I just bought the game but I'm unable to download the DLC for free. It says in the Steam frontpage that the DLC is free for grabs until tomorrow for those who own the base game but even so, I'm unable to get it.

Can someone help? Much appreciated.

As said, it was only for the day it was released.

Now, should you really buy this DLC ? You should check evaluations to make your opinion : 75% of it is about Deathwish challenges...

- You want to play with a friend or a relative in local co-op : yes, buy it ;

- You are an extreme hardcore tryharder and you like unfair, RNG challenges with artificial difficulties : Yes, buy it ;

- You don't care if the developers, or some players here, are paying off your head : yes, you can buy it ;

- You want to play only casually and discover more things the game has to offer, like the new chapiter or goodies : no, don't buy it, it's short and the contents are locked by the deathwish mode. And I have the serious feeling that half of the new timerifts are only in deathwish mode...

- You want to buy this to play with your children : please, certainly don't do that.

I had the chance to get it for free, but if I had the choice, I would have taken the Soundtrack Side B instead...

The coop isnt part of the DLC. It was added for free as part of the update. The DLC is only five dollars for a good amount of content.
P.S. There is a reason its called death wish.

[Elzquiem]

Originally posted by Grandma Moses:

P.S. There is a reason its called death wish.

Yes, of course, as much as there's a reason that this kind of video exists. (Watch the channel, it's a good one)

What I reproach on deathwish are the unequal and dumb difficulty for each one, the frustrating issue of QoL (fast restart, etc.) and the communication about it and the "EZ" mode (Watch the video in the link above, Mark Brown explain it better than me). Most of contracts are hard just for the sake of being hard, instead of being a challenge : that's why we call "bad game design" in the industry. There is no middle ground here : it's either hard as heck or "ez pz" with 0 challenge.

I only wanted to warn the OP about what this DLC is really. All the goodies described in the store page are locked by the deathwish mode after all.

The only deathwish I got is towards the game designers and it's not a pleasant feeling to get from the game you felt for its cuteness and relaxing pace. So I got it, I either need to "git gud" (don't wanna, i'm good enough on games that were designed for that) or to "experience tranquility", like Zenyatta. But lesson learned, I'll stop rooting now for the game and studio future and do something else.

[DarthVitrial]

Originally posted by Elzquiem:

Originally posted by Grandma Moses:

P.S. There is a reason its called death wish.

Yes, of course, as much as there's a reason that this kind of video exists. (Watch the channel, it's a good one)

What I reproach on deathwish are the unequal and dumb difficulty for each one, the frustrating issue of QoL (fast restart, etc.) and the communication about it and the "EZ" mode (Watch the video in the link above, Mark Brown explain it better than me). Most of contracts are hard just for the sake of being hard, instead of being a challenge : that's why we call "bad game design" in the industry. There is no middle ground here : it's either hard as heck or "ez pz" with 0 challenge.

I only wanted to warn the OP about what this DLC is really. All the goodies described in the store page are locked by the deathwish mode after all.

The only deathwish I got is towards the game designers and it's not a pleasant feeling to get from the game you felt for its cuteness and relaxing pace. So I got it, I either need to "git gud" (don't wanna, i'm good enough on games that were designed for that) or to "experience tranquility", like Zenyatta. But lesson learned, I'll stop rooting now for the game and studio future and do something else.

You basically summed up my opinion on this entire dlc. Got it for free and still feel massively ripped off. :/ I'm still holding out some hope that the second dlc will be decent, but there's no way I'm paying for anything else from these devs right now. This dlc convinced me that they just got lucky with the vanilla game. Maybe the second dlc will change my mind.

[GrandmaMoses]

If dark souls was a story based game then id be inclined to agree with the guy in the video but dark souls is a game meant to be difficult. It's for those who like to master a game and like "bragging rights". If anyone could beat dark souls no one would like it.

Back on track anyways the death wish mode was not created for casuals. It was for the fans who wanted more difficult levels and found the normal easy going levels too easy. I prefer the casual levels since i play this game with my three year old sister.

[GrandmaMoses]

Also feeling ripped off about a dlc you got for free is the most entitled thing I've read in a while. Five dollars for five missions is a good deal and so far the cruise has been enjoyable.

[Elzquiem]

Originally posted by Grandma Moses:

If dark souls was a story based game then id be inclined to agree with the guy in the video but dark souls is a game meant to be difficult. It's for those who like to master a game and like "bragging rights". If anyone could beat dark souls no one would like it.

I see what you are saying here but you missed the point of the video. Did you really watched it? It was not about dark souls, but about communicating on how the game was designed and meant to be played, without taking players for lumps. Dark Souls is meant to be hard, since it was designed that way in order to feel accomplishment.

I understand that deathwish was made to be difficult, but there is a difference between something designed to be difficult, like Darkest Dungeon, and something that is ridiculously difficult just to brand "IM UNFAIRLY HARD LIKE MARIO CAT ! YOU CAN PLAY ME !".

Maybe it's what it was needed to bring hardcore players into the game, but I don't think the majority of the playerbase bought the base game for that in the first place. Well, whatever. Everyone's different, companies included.

[Dr. Gooner]

Originally posted by Grandma Moses:

Back on track anyways the death wish mode was not created for casuals. It was for the fans who wanted more difficult levels and found the normal easy going levels too easy.

in that case you'd get better challenge from some of the workshop levels is the problem, there are plenty of unfair and unfun challenges in death wish (invisible timers, a large number of timer missions, only a small number of actual remixed levels (there's like 1 per chapter), and the remixed bosses have a lot of unavoidable damage if you get bad rng, especially mafia boss)

[GrandmaMoses]

I didn't watch the entire video but i watched the first two minutes and put it in my watch later since i didn't have the time for a twenty minute video.

[Dr. Gooner]

Originally posted by Grandma Moses:

I didn't watch the entire video but i watched the first two minutes and put it in my watch later since i didn't have the time for a twenty minute video.

better than joseph andersen and his feature length videos on why a game isn't actually perfect