BurntWitsMar 11

Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?

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Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? - sh.itjust.works

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Show threadkibiz0r

Dragon Quest Builders 2, inspired by FOMO over Pokopia.

Also continuing Horizon Zero Dawn for the third time. Just hard mode, but I kinda feel like I could do very hard.

Mar 11 at 4:02pmWeb
Show threadQuetzalcutlassMar 11
I just started my first playthrough of Horizon and a few hours in I’m finding it pretty easy on Hard. Does it get harder later, or should I just crank up the difficulty?
Show threadkibiz0rMar 11

Honestly, the difficulty curve on HZD feels like a sine wave sometimes.

Cuz:

  • You do simply get stronger over time
  • You also improve your use of tactics over time
  • You also gain access to new tactics
  • But they introduce much stronger machines too
  • But a lot of a machine’s strength can be mitigated by approaching it with the right tactics
  • But they also deliberately put you in situations where you can’t use the easy tactics
  • But they also put you in situations where you can use the easy tactics, against a ton of very strong machines

So depending on how quickly you hit the skill ceiling on using your available tactics, how much you like to grind, how reliable your multi-tasking is, and your basic “twitch skills”, you might get a skewed perspective at any point along the way.

I don’t think there’s any harm in changing the difficulty back and forth (not sure). So maybe just go with whatever feels comfy at the moment?