Master Rounds

[Digital Collective]

You're near the end of a boss fight and you haven't been hit once yet. just before you land the last couple of bullets needed to end the fight a stray bullet barely grazes your foot and now you don't get the master round. A lot of people just restart the game at this point unless they are decently far into the game.

I think it would be nice if once you get hit during a boss fight you get a 2-3 second timer. If you don't manage to finish the boss off within that time frame you forfeit the master round for that boss. If you got hit again during that timer it would instantly forfeit the opportunity as well, thus only providing a second or two gap to finish.

I know there are many of you out there that are strictly against any form of providing leniency to the player at this point in the game, but I feel that this would really smooth over runs for not just new players but also skilled player alike. Lets face it, almost everybody has been hit before by one single bullet during a boss fight near the end of the fight. The game as a whole is rather easy imo but there are some things that could be changed to reduce unecessary stress from playing the game.

Let me know what you guys think.

[srsface]

Nope. Fine as is. Getting hit with a second left is still getting hit.

I've died to bosses in Dark Souls where they literally had a hit left remaining. Not getting a bonus item because I screwed up even though the fight was almost over is fine.

Removing all stress from the game would be a bad thing. Even the minor annoyances like this one.

[w00se]

While I think there is a bit of weirdness with the positive feedback loop that is if you can perfect a boss the game is more lenient on you going forward, I don't think that do perfectly until the last few seconds makes any sense at all. Either your did it flawlessly or you didn't. There isn't exactly a middle ground there. Don't get overzealous just because their hp is low, play safe till the end.

[Pantera]

lets make the bosses so you can get hit 100 times and it still counts as flawless.
what do you guys think?

[80s_Jacket]

That seems a little cheap to me. Don't get me wrong, I've had a few boss fights end up like that, but in those times, I knew it was because I made the mistake of zigging when I should have zagged. I don't think the game should take the hit because I occasionally make a bad call.

Then again, I personally think that there shouldn't be a penalty if the boss hits only my armor and no HP. But that'd make it too much like Binding of Isaac.

[Digital Collective]

Originally posted by Pantera:

lets make the bosses so you can get hit 100 times and it still counts as flawless.
what do you guys think?

We get it, you don't want leniency in the game. Notice how others are providing constructive criticism? That's what this should be about.

[Digital Collective]

Keep em coming, the more people share their opinions, the better picture of the state in which boss fights are in currently. So far it's looking like you guys feel no change is needed.

[RickyPrickle-san]

Some of these ideas are just so bad, deal with it, you got hit, move on. Some people want this game to be so forgiving it might as well just be another faceroll like BoI.

[DarkAlkaiser]

It sucks to get hit at the last second, happens painfully often, but it's a reward for perfection, no shortcuts to perfection.

[Nist048]

Honestly I wouldn't mind if they changed it to don't take red heart damage instead of don't get hit period. As it stands there are a lot of bosses that just ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ you with bullets and the only way to reliably ensure you don't get hit is to either have the fightsaber or an insane number of blanks.

[Jeffdev]

This recently happened to me with Ammoconda, about to beat him and he rams into me ;-; but I think its fine the way it is, although I think that if you get hit with a shield on you should still get the master round, but that does seem a bit op

[Tom]

If you have 2 or less blanks might as well use em even when you dont think youll need it since you'll get 2 the next floor anyways.

[Carrier Pidgeons]

Originally posted by Tom:

If you have 2 or less blanks might as well use em even when you dont think youll need it since you'll get 2 the next floor anyways.

Use extras to look for secret rooms. Easy money.

[Flytrap]

Originally posted by Mr. Meeseeks:

Some of these ideas are just so bad, deal with it, you got hit, move on. Some people want this game to be so forgiving it might as well just be another faceroll like BoI.

You dont know fun do you? Is nigh-impossible games like VVVVVVV and super hexagon are what you like? ♥♥♥♥ off. I want to have fun without sweating blood of trying hard, you ♥♥♥♥♥♥ tryhard

[Reverendo Bizarro]

Originally posted by Magyarharcos:

Originally posted by Mr. Meeseeks:

Some of these ideas are just so bad, deal with it, you got hit, move on. Some people want this game to be so forgiving it might as well just be another faceroll like BoI.

You dont know fun do you? Is nigh-impossible games like VVVVVVV and super hexagon are what you like? ♥♥♥♥ off. I want to have fun without sweating blood of trying hard, you ♥♥♥♥♥♥ tryhard

"Fun" is a subjetive term. What is fun to you might not be fun to someone else and viceversa.

EtG's main selling points are 1) the amount of guns and stuff and 2) the very high difficulty. If you don't enjoy difficult games, you might as well admit this game is not for you and move on.

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And about the topic at hand, yes, it is frustrating to get hit at the last second, but no, you should not get the extra reward if you do.

[jamesgriffiths]

i think armour hits shouldn't count as hits in boss fights, it would make armour more useful and even make me buy it in the shop instead of buying keys and nothing else. like what happens every game