M76
[H]F Junkie
- Joined
- Jun 12, 2012
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So you didn't have to collect herbs for half an hour after every damn encounter? I'm level 46, all my skills are maxed out except the forager branch, and the game is no easier than it was on level 1, sometimes it's borderline impossible. I had to reduce difficulty to story a few times otherwise I felt I'd either break the controller into a thousand pieces or throw out the ps4 trough the closed window. Especially in the frozen wilds. The game is really unbalanced. I started on normal difficulty and done about a third of it that way, it wasn't easy but wasn't impossible either. But it's just all over the place difficulty wise, one encounter feels too easy, then a next one is like: WTF how the hell am I supposed to do that? The biggest problem to me is that some machines are impervious to all type of attacks except for one specific elemental, and if you don't have enough of that type of ammo, or none at all, then you're basically fucked. Like when it sends not one, but two daemonic frostclaws at you. After I used up all my health potions, all my ammo for any and all weapon I was carrying, including their crafting materials, and they still had more than half their hp, and on easy difficulty no less. Well then I say the game is fucked up badly balance wise.It's so weird how different an experience we had...I didn't feel it was grindy at all. If you try to just power through the main storyline I could see how you might hit a wall eventually, but doing all of the side quests and whatnot I never felt that underpowered, nor did I feel like I had to grind for XP or anything.
And no, I wasn't just doing the main quest, quite the opposite in fact, I was doing almost all sidequests and errands, except for most of the collection quests like collecting pigment for the painter, or the figurines.
And we seem to have a different concept of a grind. A game is not just grindy when you repeat a task to acquire xp. It is grindy when it makes you repeat tasks all over during quests already, without any particular reward. If it had 40:60 exploration and fighting it would be great. But the parts with exploration are just a few main quests missions while in between you do the boring go here fight off 12 machines then go back here get a stupid lootbox quests sometimes for 4-5 hours without any real reward.