Did they do something to make the game harder?

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Last time I played prior to full release was the major update beforehand and I had beaten the entire game (that was available then) on the maximum "Heroes" difficulty. Now I can't even beat a run on Standard. Was something done between then and 1.0 to amp up the difficulty or something?

[Pro_Pancake_sniffer]

yea the game is easily 2x harder now, not sure exactly what went into it but yea i used to do melee only runs on heores +5 and now standard feels around heroes 2 or 3 i think, im ok with it to be honest

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Originally posted by Pro_Pancake_sniffer:

yea the game is easily 2x harder now, not sure exactly what went into it but yea i used to do melee only runs on heores +5 and now standard feels around heroes 2 or 3 i think, im ok with it to be honest

yeah i was less complaining and more curious if anyone else noticed it

[tommy_beast]

This is sad. Yeah, the enemies become really spongy and do tons of damage on later levels. Easy difficulty is too easy and Standard is too hard. Standard really needs some nerf.

[Mr. No_Effs_Given]

Originally posted by tommy_beast:

This is sad. Yeah, the enemies become really spongy and do tons of damage on later levels. Easy difficulty is too easy and Standard is too hard. Standard really needs some nerf.

Standard and hard are basically the same ♥♥♥♥, having beating both, and on my way to Guardian II, I fell standard needs some balancing or hard needs to be harder, no point in playing standard whatsoever.

[Supa]

There is unlock that lets you do more damage at the cost of having less health and it's something most people run I think.

[Maximus Absol]

Hard difficulty is not too easy but neither too hard for me as someone who likes a bit of a challenge. I think it is good as it is. Even the tutorial suggested for me that I start with hard which I was fine with. The real challenge starts when you unlock Guardian difficulties at least in my opinion.

[Nyuu]

yep normal is a little hard when you dont have 3 or 4 row of workshop bonus unlocked, starting on easy is a good idea

[LargeDudePicksLocks]

0.9 I think is the build where the difficulty actually turned up, it's just most of us still had our workshop upgrades full. Starting from scratch in 1.0 you could feel how much harder it is at base than it used to be. Elites made a huge impact.

[Pekmez Pita]

Originally posted by LargeDudePicksLocks:

0.9 I think is the build where the difficulty actually turned up, it's just most of us still had our workshop upgrades full. Starting from scratch in 1.0 you could feel how much harder it is at base than it used to be. Elites made a huge impact.

That may be true but then it should have gone through another balancing pass because the enemies not only feel spongier but they're clearly dishing out more damage even on Easy difficulty now.

The overall flow of the combat just doesn't feel as satisfying as it was during earlier builds.

Maybe it will get better with more unlocks but yeah. It's not nearly as fun to me as it used to be.

And with still no save feature between zones? It's starting to feel more of a chore to play.

Suffice to say. I am not a fan of the 1.0 build in terms of balancing.

[NeonBaron]

Originally posted by scringy bingy:

Last time I played prior to full release was the major update beforehand and I had beaten the entire game (that was available then) on the maximum "Heroes" difficulty. Now I can't even beat a run on Standard. Was something done between then and 1.0 to amp up the difficulty or something?

Could it be the new final stage and boss? especially before you have collected everything that stage can be hell with the arenas

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The only big difference I noticed was having to start over without all the unlocks. Decided to drop the difficulty to normal to complete everything, because it was taking too long on hard.

Now that I've unlocked all the upgrades etc., it feels about the same as during late EA.