Too difficult

[Evilworm]

You are hunted by everything while diving, you are hunted by monsters and police while searching for more stuff. If police gets you, its more stars, if the monsters get you, the money is gone. AND we have the smallest oxygen tanks in the universe... might as well use a bottle of Coke instead. On top of that we can carry only one thing in our hands and one in our backpack or whatever.
Come on devs! You can't possibly think you will get more players if you make it too hard for most people? I played with a friend and we had to use all our money just to get rid of 1 star from the police after every dive. There was no tutorial either, so we didn't get it at all in the beginning.

[Rae]

Originally posted by Simple Tora:

Originally posted by Pharma Corps Officer:

Thanks for all the suggestions! We are working on improving balance and making everything clearer to beginners. The game will change a lot after the first big update (19.07), so we hope for more feedback from you when it's released.

I’m all down for more counter play so you aren’t completely screwed without a friend holding your hand but please don’t make it too easy. Pandering to people who have no idea how to play anything properly outside of easy mode is ruining games for those of us who use our heads

*Sigh*

I'm a millennial gamer. I have about 2000 games on steam alone, I have owned just about every console at some point and have played everything from Fall guys to Elden Ring.

This game doesn't need to be harder. I have never, let me repeat this for those hard of seeing and comprehending, I have NEVER come across a multi player game like this, be it Lethal company or Pilgrim or Content Warning etc, where being "too easy" has made a game not fun and pushed players away.

In all my time of playing games and knowing the gaming community, the moment a game becomes too hard to cater to a small subset of rowdy sweats who don't touch grass or who are so narcissistic they think they woke up and were just that skilled at a brand new game the moment their fingers grazed the keyboard, that's when you not only lose a good portion of your audience but you make the game hard to get into for anyone brand new who might have a life outside gaming, be it an adult, an elder or a kiddo just trying to enjoy something with friends.

Casuals are generally where a games larger audience is and more money.

Making Everything in gaming a "skill issue" is making gaming very unwelcoming and toxic and also less fun for the majority of players who are actually casual gamers. More casuals exist than hardcore basement sweats.

There is a place for hard games like Dark souls and competitive games like Valorant but I'm seeing far too many games and gamers making excuses for what should be an otherwise fun gaming romp with friends, into a skills based competition to sweat at and then telling everyone else who might have some difficulty in an area that is either obtuse, vague or just not well functioning and turning it into a skill issue to make themselves feel just That much better than someone else.

Some of us have more experience with games and understand the background mechanics and how things might function because so many other games use the same mechanic. I'm a lot more patient at figuring stuff out than my friend who has only been gaming for 3 years. They get frustrated faster and what seems common sense to me, isn't for them but because I've more overall gaming history and experience to rely on. I think people forget that.

I wonder how this thread would have turned out had the OP been given a more compassionate positive response instead of "git gud" and "skill issue"

[A Normal Guy]

For me, the main draw of this type of game is the difficulty and the stress of running for your life. Is that unwanted by some?

[Capu]

wow the answers here were so despicable...
"lol u suk get better"
"git gud"
please? how is that helpful?
just be nice and provide help if you're willing to, or just don't answer if you're not
is it that hard?

[Treska]

If you respond with skill issue, then you're a hypocrite because you clearly have a skill issue yourself. You seem to be unable to empathize or understand others' perspectives. When given the opportunity to look down on someone, you take it, instead of offering encouragement or advice. Why is it so hard to be nice?

[BluD]

yeah first impressions are important before the skill is built up and its hard to get friends interested in continuing like we did with lethal company.

[One-One]

They added an Easy mode just for you LOL