Is This Difficult For Single Player...?

[Pantherr]

Just wondering how hard this is if playing solo...?

Thanks...

[Bandy]

A good question, I've seen game play reviewers playing it solo. The game seems VERY adjustable for the player, sliders for orc raids: frequency of raids, difficulty, etc...

A related question from other perspective, how good is the co-op play?
It is tough to make a game good for both kinds of play.

[vikingraid3r1]

i played it solo and i enjoyed it, it is difficult but enjoyable at same time. id say dont be discouraged to try solo

[Creepy]

Turn Sliders down/up in Custom settings.

[ToJa]

It's not hard at all if you're ask about making progress in game.

The hard part is, that if you play solo... It's a game without live in it. I mean there's only You (lonley dwarf) and the whole bunch of enemies.

No other NPC that would make you feel like there is a point of rebuilding anything.

I would say that it's more about explore than rebuild.

[Pantherr]

Well thankyou for all the comments, some good points to consider. I didn't know about the sliders.. I'll find some youtube vids and give it a look. Thanks again...

[Creepy]

Originally posted by ToJa:

It's not hard at all if you're ask about making progress in game.

The hard part is, that if you play solo... It's a game without live in it. I mean there's only You (lonley dwarf) and the whole bunch of enemies.

No other NPC that would make you feel like there is a point of rebuilding anything.

I would say that it's more about explore than rebuild.

I agree with building. I built a nice base in lower deeps but once I got to Upper city and Desolation I just dropped hearths and map stones to travel around.

[Bandy]

If anyone thinking and on budget, game is [cough cough] on sale elsewhere, just FYI, no post-flame comments required...

[Mooselager]

Does anyone know if this game is canon with the new TV show? I'd prefer not seeing Galadriel having sex with Orcs.

[Bandy]

Originally posted by Dirty Fart Goblin:

Does anyone know if this game is canon with the new TV show? I'd prefer not seeing Galadriel having sex with Orcs.

I doubt very much you need to worry about that, but is not an 'official' opinion.
There may be elf-dwarf sexual relations, I have no experience or online view of either myself...

[SpookyMulderFBI]

I'm still pretty early game, but I'd say yes it's definitely playable solo. I had been playing solo on normal difficulty and it was pretty do-able except for the base raids. It just took too long to kill that many enemies (12+?), and aggro isn't perfect, so a few would inevitably damage items around my base and it just got exhausting. Changed it to Story difficulty and they're 2-3 hits to kill, speeds raids up a lot and i don't have to rebuild anything but it's still fun to fight a quick mob.

What i'm finding difficult is A) knowing how scarce some resources are in early game (not sure what to hoard so i hoard everything), B) not knowing the overall strategy (am i supposed to build mini bases near important things like the special forges and brewery things? Am I supposed to use fast travel for up/down, and just hoof it around each map layer? kind of ties into not knowing how scarce materials are for fast travel points).

So, definitely do-able solo, but i'm sure co-op is a lot more efficient and rewarding.

[Bandy]

Originally posted by SpookyMulderFBI:

What i'm finding difficult is ....

Simply sounds like any game a player is learning to play for first time (︶^︶)
I do not own it yet, if not obvious...

[hottnova75]

I like solo just fine. This is a great game. Its fun to climb inside and live in Moria for a while. Sometimes the bad guys win, but its nice you can loot your urn and get yer stuff back. Just make two of everything and keep spares hidden in your bases you make. Or do not travel so far away from your spawn point you cannot reach your urn... I am sure this game will sell well on Steam because it is memorable game play that is successful at immersion.

[leech]

I've been playing the campaign; that being said, Solo is fine, when you enter a new area your weapons will pretty much always be the type where you will say 'I need better weapons for this' and the damage numbers are grey. You'll unlock the recipes for the weapons for that area in that area. This might mean there is some running away from enemies for a while, though you can still kill them, it just takes more effort. The one option I have not found is 'don't drop your stuff when you die', which occasionally has made me think 'well, I'm screwed, I died right in the middle of hell...' but somehow I've always managed to be able to make it back to my stuff.

[Athos42]

I set the game to Solo Difficulty, but turned up ressource drop and drop from enemies to maximum and set enemy spawn to high. Works pretty well so far.

[Kaery]

As mentioned, you can make the game as easy or as difficult as you like. I've been playing solo on Normal difficulty, which is apparently meant for a small group. The game is challenging, but not overly difficult on that level, in my opinion.