Do you play on Legacy or Merciful?

[Hazmy]

I feel each time I die on Legacy the amount of ... story progression I lose, discourages me more but I really love the game.

I will probably continue on Merciful, I want to experience the latter regions and stories aswell without having to go through ( and inevitably skip ) the same stories and dialogues each time I die.

For me now I just feel that dying and having to restart as a new captain ruins the experience, so I will try it on Merciful.

( I love reading everything and having to skip the stories my previous captain has already done makes me feel bad )

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What difficulty do you play on and how's your progress? :)

[sevrl bats]

legacy, but I eventually started cheating on stats and money just because I was tired of everything taking forever. I might start over here on Merciful and only use speedhacking.

I also noticed that some quests appear to become semi-uncompletable on Legacy, maybe? after I finally delivered the horologist, she no longer appeared in London for me, but the quest to actually finish the clock was also not available over at Port Whatever. I don't know if maybe she's at some other port now, but she's nowhere in the Reach, that's for sure. feels like a bug.

[King Banhammer]

I just finished the game in Legacy mode with the Wealth ambition on my stream tonight (on my dozenth or so captain in the legacy), but I recognize that I'm playing on the hard mode on purpose.

[The Randy Quaid Prinzip]

Legacy. Lost 3 captains in an hour at the beginning, but my curent 4th one is making big strides. I like to tell myself I won't die again. Also I want to complete Ambition : The Truth before any other.

[Rhannas]

Legacy. So far I've played for 5 hours and I'm still on my first captain! I guess my experience with Sunless Sea helps me survive in this game. :D

[Fadi Efendi]

Surprised nobody mentioned it so far, but dying is largely optional in legacy as well. Since the game only autosaves in ports, it possible to exit to title screen, then reload from the last port. The same goes for Sunless Sea btw.

Got lost while exploring? Event took your last supplies? Did the scrive-spinster blow your ship out of the skies? You can exit to title screen then reload.

Still won't help you of you dock at hybras with 0 fuel. But you live and learn. Or die and learn I guess.

[Weary]

引用自 sotos_68：

Surprised nobody mentioned it so far, but dying is largely optional in legacy as well. Since the game only autosaves in ports, it possible to exit to title screen, then reload from the last port. The same goes for Sunless Sea btw.

Got lost while exploring? Event took your last supplies? Did the scrive-spinster blow your ship out of the skies? You can exit to title screen then reload.

Still won't help you of you dock at hybras with 0 fuel. But you live and learn. Or die and learn I guess.

Yeahh, I feel a little bad but I've been Alt-F4ing and loading when the bees etc overwhelm me. I didn't do that in Sunless Seas at first (and loved-hated the punishment of it all) but after a while I just wanted to play the game to completion as much as possible, and thus began the death save scumming. I swore to myself I wouldn't do that on this one, but once you start it's really hard to go back. I kinda wish it auto-saved on death screens tbh.

[KBK]

Played Legacy first and had a good amount of success in my first captain, however once I died after about 10 hours of progress I realised there's no way I could continue with a Legacy save until i know the game a lot better. It's one thing to die in Sunless Sea because it's one map and you obviously have the advantage of getting around relatively fast once you get a good ship and engine, but there's no way to make up for that in Skies and getting around The Reach takes time even once you know where you're going, never mind the later maps.

I can't imagine getting through all the later maps and then dying, I don't know if I could motivate myself to go through that again so soon after dying.

[jather]

引用自 sotos_68：

Surprised nobody mentioned it so far, but dying is largely optional in legacy as well. Since the game only autosaves in ports, it possible to exit to title screen, then reload from the last port. The same goes for Sunless Sea btw.

Got lost while exploring? Event took your last supplies? Did the scrive-spinster blow your ship out of the skies? You can exit to title screen then reload.

Still won't help you of you dock at hybras with 0 fuel. But you live and learn. Or die and learn I guess.

Real question, is there any difference at all with what you're describing and playing in Merciful mode?
(asking as someone who's been playing on Legacy but is considering to switch)

[Professor Brofessor]

Merciful mode. however I have set a rule for myself that my captain only has three lives before I must start a new legacy. Keeps the tension alive somewhat.

[Killer29687]

Sadly you can’t switch. You would have to start a new game I believe. Also some say we have a merciful bank but resetting stories when your almost completed it takes the fun out. Also side note don’t you wish you could store your coins in the bank Incase you die you won’t lose 50percent of it

[K1]

The jury is still on Merciful in 2021?

[Sanctuary]

Merciful. I like to be only one character. I like to play as though this is the sequal story to my Fallen London character.

[InkyInspiration]

Merciful mode. This game is so much bigger and longer than I had ever imagined when I lost my first 4 to Legacy. Now that I am so far in the game I probably wouldn't pick it back up if I lost everything. I would never finish it.

[Dj El Marriachi]

Merciful, because Legacy would test my patience too much.

[Fyre]

Legacy. I think I died once at the ~100 hour mark. Sunless Sea and getting the 'Captain of Your Soul' achievement prepared me for this in spades.

I really, really don't recommend doing legacy unless you're 100% sure it's something you'll enjoy. It adds an incredible amount of tension to the game. You won't forget your first trip to Eleutheria or The Blue Kingdom if you stick with legacy, I'll tell you that.

(Oh and I actually forgot about a recent death while doing Martyr-King's Cup when I almost had it finished. That one hurt a lot.)

Oh and at the guy who said you can just quit the game and the death doesn't stick- this is true because I found it out on my own by accident. I forget exactly when but at some point I died on an insanely long-lived character and alt-F4'd out of pure despondence. When I came back a while later my character was surprisingly still alive.

It means that yeah, Legacy mode doesn't even matter and even the notion that you should do it for anything other than your own enjoyment is ridiculous. This option is weird but I can see the appeal. You can get the rush of playing a nuzlocke but when your starter feints you just pretend like it didn't happen. Whatever floats your boat.