Lords of the Fallen

Nirgon said:

Character creation didn't seem too much different to me? I dunno how to play with all the knobs tho.

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I started a new character to see if they’ve made any changes in the starting area up until the first Pieta boss. I mean, I get that they want to make it more accessible to new players, but I think they went a bit too far. The game is crazy easy now—they’ve reduced monster density even further, the village area feels almost like a ghost town, and Pieta is now reduced to mini-boss difficulty.

kroenen said:

I started a new character to see if they’ve made any changes in the starting area up until the first Pieta boss. I mean, I get that they want to make it more accessible to new players, but I think they went a bit too far. The game is crazy easy now—they’ve reduced monster density even further, the village area feels almost like a ghost town, and Pieta is now reduced to mini-boss difficulty.

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I think Pathfinder WoTR got it right as the "core difficulty" setting and not recommending it to new players.

This game should have that and appropriate achievements (armor dyes per boss too? somethin?)

I didn't think any of it was THAT hard in its initial form tbh after you ran the areas a time or two

Either way, it's fuckin sick and they have the ability to invade individual players so you know those DEI investor types are ripping their fucken hair out over MLG bro dawg invasion gaming

Nirgon said:

I think Pathfinder WoTR got it right as the "core difficulty" setting and not recommending it to new players.

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Agreed. As of now, you have to complete the game to be able to choose the original monster density for your next playthrough. I guess NG+ is the new NG difficulty now.

Nirgon said:

I didn't think any of it was THAT hard in its initial form tbh after you ran the areas a time or two

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It wasn't; it was just fine and should have been left alone.

It gets even worse. I used a low-level character created before 2.0 for this 2.0 test run. I see now that when you create a new character from scratch, they offer you the Advanced Game Modifiers option right from the start. On the upside, that means you can choose to have the original monster density from the beginning—but it's the original launch density.

They also offer the option to automatically fully upgrade every single non-boss weapon when it drops, which is absolutely ridiculous to have on your first playthrough.