Snakes and spikes

[Madine]

Snakes take at least 4 knife hits and cant get shot? (wut)

Also hazards in second level don't stand out at all, too hard to see them between all that foliage and the dim color differences; you have to stop and check your sorroundings continuosly if you dont want to get hurt a lot, kind of breaking the pace of the game for me :S

[ZeroAffex]

Yea.. 2-1 was brutal for me as well lol. Snakes, full-sprint enemies that have better weapons/health and hazards like spikes and poisons you can barely see. I want the game to be hard but it felt somewhat unfair/unbalanced to me. Think some tuning is all that is needed and maybe some way to make objects like bomb barrels, loot or traps, easier to spot.

[Retrific]

If you're having a hard time seeing all the dangerous things try enabling the high contrast mode. But you will get used to spotting the traps and enemies after some time. And especially most of the traps are not dealing a lot of damage anyway.

A snake usually only takes two hits tho max, but you probably played with Alice Fox, who is doing very little melee damage. However even she should only need like 3 melee hits. Maybe it was an elite snake or you missed one? You can shoot snakes while they didnt notice you yet tho and there are also weapons that can hit even small animals like the snake.
For example air rifle or the snakeshot pistol.

But yea, the general idea in stage 2 is that you have to be careful and watch where you go.

[Madine]

Originally posted by Retrific:

If you're having a hard time seeing all the dangerous things try enabling the high contrast mode. But you will get used to spotting the traps and enemies after some time. And especially most of the traps are not dealing a lot of damage anyway.

A snake usually only takes two hits tho max, but you probably played with Alice Fox, who is doing very little melee damage. However even she should only need like 3 melee hits. Maybe it was an elite snake or you missed one? You can shoot snakes while they didnt notice you yet tho and there are also weapons that can hit even small animals like the snake.
For example air rifle or the snakeshot pistol.

But yea, the general idea in stage 2 is that you have to be careful and watch where you go.

Yes, I think it could have been an elite one because I was playing with colt and with 4 or 5 stabs the snake didnt die, I guess the strategy is wait for them to attack, evade, then stab till it dies. Also this snake dropped loot.

Didnt notice the high contrast option and I will surely check it out, although its true that after some more runs Im more used to traps and how they look like. But sometimes they are hidden between other trees and cant see them very well (in dense forest zones).

The game is pretty fun and challenging, and I would like to see more things in it with time, like randoms events in stages, a little variety on bosses, and that kind of stuff (be it free updates or future dlc). Variety is king in these kinds of games but I know that its a lot of work to bring that kind of content. (competition is tough in the roguelite spectrum nowadays).

Good work and cheers!

[Madine]

Are there also elite scorpions? Was playing with Alice and stabbed one 7 or 8 times and didnt die... Should I not even try going near them? since you cant shoot them if aware except by carriying a varmint rifle, and melee with her deals apparently around 1 point of damage :S

[Retrific]

Yes there are also elite scorpions and snakes.
If you dont have what it takes to beat them you should probably avoid them.
Dynamite works too tho.