The Mercenary prismatic trial challenge

[Revolver Rez]

Honestly, its just unfair and unfun. The other challenges in this game are reasonable enough given enough playtime, but this one just demands endless repetition and restarting and its frankly the most poorly thought out thing in the game so far. Surely the devs could have put the difficulty of this one in line with the other skill unlock challenges? Or did they want to try and justify having prismatic trials in the first place and just went about it in the worst possible way?

EDIT: Okay, so I actually managed it thanks to the relatively easy seed this time, but I still think the challenge is too much for many players and Hopoo should re-think adding anything else like this to the game.

[Zeddy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5n3Y-aN0NQ

Swarms + Glass + Command this trial, and it drops you a red item immediately. I recommend getting it now, as a trial as easy as this won't come by in weeks.

You PC players have no idea how easy you have it with this challenge.

[sand0r]

Eh, I've pretty much given up on this one. I have an older save file that I used mods on and it was impossible for me there as well so I said, "ef it" and edited my save. Made a new save file to start from scratch, zero mods, I now have everything unlocked except for that damn challenge. Heh, I've accepted I'm too much of a nub :x

[Jimmy Hunter]

Publicado originalmente por Man Door Hand Hook Car Door:

Eh, I've pretty much given up on this one. I have an older save file that I used mods on and it was impossible for me there as well so I said, "ef it" and edited my save. Made a new save file to start from scratch, zero mods, I now have everything unlocked except for that damn challenge. Heh, I've accepted I'm too much of a nub :x

Not like you're missing out on anything. Slicing Winds is a downgrade in pretty much every possible way.

[sand0r]

Oh yeah, as I said, I edited my old save file and it was a whole lot of "meh" when I used it. I was like, "we're supposed to do that for this?!" Heh, I was perplexed.

[MarlyJay]

Publicado originalmente por Arachnid:

The problem is that for the challenge you're not allowed to get hit even once, even with shields since they appear to count as health.If you're hit once, you have to restart. Again, and again.

Shields count as health, but barrier doesn't. If the seed has a topaz broach it makes it much easier.

[Syzygyn]

Publicado originalmente por Arachnid:

Publicado originalmente por Jimmy Hunter:

It's almost like Merc has 2 skills that prevents taking damage...

1, I have to use them sparingly due to the crystal damaging me if I don't save 1 of them
2. They have moderate to long recharge times.
3. Timing them is painful when there's swarms of long range enemies. Oh, and don't fall.

Again, I want statistics on how many people have gotten that achievement. I have nearly every other at this point, but have pretty much given up on this one.

I know this post is basically dead at this point, but I figured if anyone gets this far and is actually curious about this, Steam has a built-in function for global statistics on achievemnts.

Currently, as I am looking at it, the mercenary challenge is technically the hardest to get achievement in the game, but only by .6%. The second hardest skill to get is the REX: Dunked achievement which only 1.3% more players have gotten.

If you really try to do this challenge, it's not only possible, but many people have gotten it. To put this in perspective btw, finishing the trial of frailty is nearly as rare as the mercenary achievement.

[Daxy]

Publicado originalmente por SyzygynZ:

Publicado originalmente por Arachnid:

[...] Again, I want statistics on how many people have gotten that achievement. I have nearly every other at this point, but have pretty much given up on this one.

I know this post is basically dead at this point, but I figured if anyone gets this far and is actually curious about this, Steam has a built-in function for global statistics on achievements. [...]

Meh. The Steam stats say that merely about 5% of players have this achievement.
However, getting this achievement via editing the savefile with notepad still counts and will trigger the Steam achievement.

Keeping both this and the fact that it holds a skill unlock behind it which many people would want to at least check out once, it's not unreasonable to assume the true completion rate is MUCH lower.
Personal estimate based on gut feeling - somewhere between 0.5-1%.
Sadly, it's impossible to know the true statistics for the exact reason mentioned above.

[Jaynoble55]

Publicado originalmente por AyatoEnmado:

Publicado originalmente por Jimmy Hunter:

It's not like you're going to be using the skill you unlock.

Even then, there's nothing anyone can really do for you if you just can't apply and learn from your mistakes.

Even if i'm not gonna use it that much i like it so i would have liked to unlock it. But also then what does that mean "learn from your mistakes" don't give me that, it's just a fast response just to justify the fact that u got it and i didn't. I'm not even saying "change the game coz i want that move" i'm saying that's unfair, this doesn't mean that i want the game to change. I'll try again and again, if i don't get it i'll just give up, but i'll continue playing this game. By the way could you give more friendly responses? it's a bit rude to getting to hear that i don't learn from my mistakes.

But what if that is true? Sometimes the truth is hard to hear. Its still the truth.