Secret Encounters Just Plain Suck.

[Ixziga]

This is NOT a discussion about difficulty. This is literally just saying what I haven't seen anyone else bother to say. Secret Encounters suck. They're not fun. They're esoteric and often confusing. They tend to focus on the worst mechanics in the game, and they screw you for even trying them by not restoring the ammo you use. I don't know why they're in the game the way they are. They should have been like the trials from the first game.

[willy bammy]

The only one that really pissed me off was one that included a marauder, otherwise they aren't that bad. Just cheese the later ones with super weapons

[Nova225]

The only one I struggled with was at the cultist base with the one hidden in the cave. Basically no room to maneuver around the quick snake demons and a mancubus rolling down the only way into the area. On nightmare mancubus shots are like 70 health a shot.

[Outline]

Having a bit of forewarning about what each encounter was going to spawn in and the time you'd be given would make it a lot more enjoyable. Treating them like a puzzle rather than an impromptu battle, picking what weapons would do the quickest amount of damage and executing properly... that looks like what the devs were aiming for, but it all falls flat trying to do the bloody things blind. Oh, yeah, and the marauder one can go bite the back end of a northbound cacodemon.

[Makuren]

I just got to the point where there is a secret encounter with a Marauder involved and my brain was like: NOPE NOPE. ABORT. I will have to do it later.

[AgentSmith]

The marauder one was bad, but it wasn't the worst. I think it actually helped me learn how to better fight them, and now marauders don't scare me at all.

The one I've liked least is the the one with the cocademon, pain elemental, and doom hunter. Mostly because I would be a half second away from killing all of them in time.
I mostly just don't like timed events, so I agree the secret encounters aren't great, but they're not game breaking for me.

[Mallet]

Totally disagree. They were all easy and the only one I didn't complete on the first try was the marauder one. Which I just went back and cheesed with cheats later.

[CaptainLagbeard]

The only map I found the Secret Encounters to be really bad was Taras Nabad... But other than that they've been decently enough done.

The Marauder one was just ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, and on the other one in there I had to go back through the mission select since the Doom Hunter kept jumping into the pool and making it literally unbeatable.

[willy bammy]

Originally posted by Agent Smith2518:

The marauder one was bad, but it wasn't the worst. I think it actually helped me learn how to better fight them, and now marauders don't scare me at all.

The one I've liked least is the the one with the cocademon, pain elemental, and doom hunter. Mostly because I would be a half second away from killing all of them in time.
I mostly just don't like timed events, so I agree the secret encounters aren't great, but they're not game breaking for me.

That also pissed me off, until I remembered I have a BFG

[Ixziga]

I started the discussion with "This is NOT a discussion about difficulty" and everyone is talking about the difficulty.

Guys, the point I'm making is that they just aren't fun. They're basically just esoteric checks to see if you have enough ammo.

[Mallet]

Originally posted by ritianfitchett:

I started the discussion with "This is NOT a discussion about difficulty" and everyone is talking about the difficulty.

Guys, the point I'm making is that they just aren't fun. They're basically just esoteric checks to see if you have enough ammo.

Because the problem you're facing is because they're too difficult for you.

You say they're confusing. But they really just spawn a bunch of enemies which you have to kill fast. Nothing else.

You say they focus on the worst mechanics. What mechanics are that exactly? Only one that does that is the marauder one. All the others literally just spawn a couple of enemies you have to kill quick.

Yes the ammo thing is annoying. But that will really only be a problem for you if managing your ammo is difficult for you or if the encounters are too difficult for you so you have to restart multiple times.

[Blackwolfe]

I'm mostly fine with secret encounters.. except that specific one in Taras Abad with a Marauder. Unloading the chaingun in turret mode helps with most secret encounters so far except that one :P

[goka9696]

Originally posted by ritianfitchett:

I started the discussion with "This is NOT a discussion about difficulty" and everyone is talking about the difficulty.

Guys, the point I'm making is that they just aren't fun. They're basically just esoteric checks to see if you have enough ammo.

I found them fun

[GepardenK]

The secret encounters are puzzles, not dynamic battles like normal encounters. Take them for what they are it's great.

[Mephisto-Luzifer]

The one with the marauder in taras nabad is the easiest overall. Activate the cahellnge and just go where you have to go for progress, jump on the walls, the second should trigger the despawn of the marauder and the challenges counts as completed. You can even chainsaw the two low dudes if you want for ammo too.

[Sad Pug]

Originally posted by Mephisto-Luzifer:

The one with the marauder in taras nabad is the easiest overall.

Agreed, and it's actually one of the best ones, because thanks to it you can practice marauder with no consequences and one on one, so you can understand his mechanics.