How difficult are the challenge islands compared to each other?

[OmarTheInsomniac]

I just started playing the challenge islands for the first time yesterday and have only played and beaten skull island so far(I got the cursed crown for it). How difficult are the other challenge islands compared to skull island? are they around the same level of difficulty or are some of them harder? Also in skull island it gives me the option to attempt it using the norselands setting but is it even a viable option for challenge islands? None of the stones of power or hermits available in norselands are present and since there is no catapult in norselands that means your only options for damage are archers and berserkers, which i don't think will be enough. The blood moon waves near the beginning of winter and final counterattacks on skull island become so powerful that even a catapult fully loaded with fire barrels is barely enough to keep you from getting overrun, so how will it be even possible to survive, let alone win, using the norselands setting especially since you can't make fire towers and the walls are weaker than in the other settings?

[Sapador]

Messaggio originale di OmarTheInsomniac:

How difficult are the challenge islands compared to each other? (...) Are they around the same level of difficulty or are some of them harder?

This has varied A LOT throughout the years and the patches, especially the Plague Island, that was released as impossible, was patched to be ridiculously easy, then to freaking hard, and now it's just difficult, as it should be. But considering only the current patch, it still might vary from person to person, so here's my personal rank for the current version of the game:

Dire > Plague > Skull > Lost = Trade

Lost Islands and Trade Routes are equaly easy to me, but, while Trade has a very different start, that may be tricky if you go there without spoilers, Lost can make you uncomfortable if go there on a day that will give you only unlockables that you're not used to. Plague has some hard choking points, and is tiresome surviving so many days. Dire Island for me is complex, and extreeeemly boring, so I have only tried it a couple of times when it was released and got the silver or gold crown, never to go back there again.

[teleshoes]

maybe im still having pre-hotfix flashbacks, but i think plague is still the hardest.
here's my vote:
plague > skull > dire > trade > lost

[De.Facto]

Messaggio originale di Sapador:

Messaggio originale di OmarTheInsomniac:

How difficult are the challenge islands compared to each other? (...) Are they around the same level of difficulty or are some of them harder?

This has varied A LOT throughout the years and the patches, especially the Plague Island, that was released as impossible, was patched to be ridiculously easy, then to freaking hard, and now it's just difficult, as it should be. But considering only the current patch, it still might vary from person to person, so here's my personal rank for the current version of the game:

Dire > Plague > Skull > Lost = Trade

Lost Islands and Trade Routes are equaly easy to me, but, while Trade has a very different start, that may be tricky if you go there without spoilers, Lost can make you uncomfortable if go there on a day that will give you only unlockables that you're not used to. Plague has some hard choking points, and is tiresome surviving so many days. Dire Island for me is complex, and extreeeemly boring, so I have only tried it a couple of times when it was released and got the silver or gold crown, never to go back there again.

It's far still too easy for two players...