Can we PLEASE get a "no combat" mode?

[Thagomizer]

The combat in this game is SO bad, and SO unnecessary. I would play through this game over and over if I could just walk through this world and keep experiencing the art. But the combat is so awful that it destroys any enjoyment I could get.

PLEASE give us a combat toggle.

[rats in 4k]

if you hide/run from enemies they crawl back into holes in the wall

[Thagomizer]

Originally posted by rats:

if you hide/run from enemies they crawl back into holes in the wall

Not all the time. There are plenty of places where you get ambushed by multiple enemies with no option but to fight.

[WanderingArtist]

Use cheats and become invisible to enemies or get unlimited health/ammo

[rats in 4k]

Originally posted by Thagomizer:

Originally posted by rats:

if you hide/run from enemies they crawl back into holes in the wall

Not all the time. There are plenty of places where you get ambushed by multiple enemies with no option but to fight.

I only got through the middle of the game so far, but when I picked up the pistol and got ambushed by enemies, I ran back to the elevator and the enemies just went on with their business and crawled into their burrows. You don't always have to fight, running away is a good option sometimes

[WanderingArtist]

Originally posted by rats:

if you hide/run from enemies they crawl back into holes in the wall

Yup keeping social distance works with two of them but that bulky dog, I had issues with him.

[Thagomizer]

Okay, I get that you can hide to avoid combat. But what I'm asking for is NO COMBAT, since the solution to the combat quality is "stand in one place for a while so that you don't have to do it".

[Helium]

Originally posted by WanderingArtist:

Use cheats and become invisible to enemies or get unlimited health/ammo

What's the point of playing a game if you cheat ?

[Malidictus]

Originally posted by Helium:

What's the point of playing a game if you cheat?

It's not like there's much of a game here, anyway. Look at most the comments from most people who enjoy Scorn, and you'll notice a pattern. The vast majority of at least the ones here on this forum seem more interested in an interactive movie than a video game. There's really no downside to giving them one. Just disabling monster spawners and weapons would be enough. The only complication is the last boss and the few consoles where you have to use the Jackhammer.

[mamrobaki]

Originally posted by Thagomizer:

Originally posted by rats:

if you hide/run from enemies they crawl back into holes in the wall

Not all the time. There are plenty of places where you get ambushed by multiple enemies with no option but to fight.

I had only two situation like this. In the first one, I just ran away (when I went back, all creatures were gone). In the second one, I had a shotgun, so I killed the bull-like creature and run away from the second one.

[Darkdrifter]

Originally posted by Malidictus:

Originally posted by Helium:

What's the point of playing a game if you cheat?

It's not like there's much of a game here, anyway. Look at most the comments from most people who enjoy Scorn, and you'll notice a pattern. The vast majority of at least the ones here on this forum seem more interested in an interactive movie than a video game. There's really no downside to giving them one. Just disabling monster spawners and weapons would be enough. The only complication is the last boss and the few consoles where you have to use the Jackhammer.

according to the forums here, if you expected a videogame, youre a "baby" and if you expected an art gallery youre a sophisticated supernatural being who trasncends over humankind because of their wisdom...

[Shimmers]

the times you actually have to fight in this game are so few most of the time you can just walk right past the enemies and keep going

[DoopForces]

> hard combat is.... bad!

[Phoenix]

Originally posted by ItsOkToBeWhite:

> hard combat is.... bad!

Bad combat is bad, and the combat in-game is one if the worst systems I've seen in recent memory. The system is clunky as hell and distracts more than it actually adds to the game. Couple with a non-existent save system and it's no wonder people are calling this trainwreck.

Either make a walking simulator or a survival-shooter. This neither, but it has the worst parts of both. Like slapping a shotgun onto Myst but taking away any of the story elements. The combat adds nothing to the game, and in my oppinion the game would actually benefit from it you'd simply removed the guns and made it so the player had to avoid enemies. Not withstanding that the enemies are for more "A" than "I".

[BuffyFan2001]

I totally agree. In fact, I think acts 3 and 4 should've been cut in order to focus on the other two levels that were cut, the Blasted Labyrinth and Tower, as well as the content cut from the Polis. All that looks much more interesting than the painful combat levels we got. Acts 3 and 4 feel like they were added only to have combat and avoid accusations of being a walking simulator.

[illgib]

Originally posted by Phoenix:

Originally posted by ItsOkToBeWhite:

> hard combat is.... bad!

Bad combat is bad, and the combat in-game is one if the worst systems I've seen in recent memory. The system is clunky as hell and distracts more than it actually adds to the game. Couple with a non-existent save system and it's no wonder people are calling this trainwreck.

Either make a walking simulator or a survival-shooter. This neither, but it has the worst parts of both. Like slapping a shotgun onto Myst but taking away any of the story elements. The combat adds nothing to the game, and in my oppinion the game would actually benefit from it you'd simply removed the guns and made it so the player had to avoid enemies. Not withstanding that the enemies are for more "A" than "I".

Trigger compulsion? If combat suck that much, don't use it and avoid enemies like a regular survival.
You're not forced to use brute force.
You have a single mandatory fight and it's pretty quick if you know what to do, then you're deprived of any weapons.
You're just beating a dead horse.
Nothing is forced on you other than walk and reach the end.