Ideas about balancing waves, bosses and weapon upgrades

This levels are not hard :rofl: You need more skills. I face this levels and reached it with only 2 lives lost. You wanted it hard now IA give you hard. The bosses need buff and new atacks.

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But that literally proves what he said: “usually impossible to beat without dying or using superweapons.”.

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He can buy shockwave capacitor to block enemy atacks. Its like defend mini bomb.

“which is usually impossible to beat without dying or using superweapons.

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Which is using superweapons…

Either way, they’re annoying. It’s possible to design a difficult and challenging wave without just throwing the toughest enemies at the player in large quantities.

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I dont know about you guys. For me this levels are very good and hard, they make me laugh so much!

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They are hard,but not good,considering the amount of RNG some of them require.

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Look, @anon27929001 and @GgWw1175, I don’t know about you guys, but when I play games I ſometimes want a challenge. The way the game is ſet up, you can chooſe not to do miſſions you don’t like. If you quite during the firſt wave, you can even change your mind. At the end of the day, there are plenty of eaſiër miſſions if prefer flyïng miſſions that you can ſurvive. I think that, if anything, an additional (harder) level ſhould be added, but I don’t ſee why the miſſions ſhould all become eaſiër.

Please don’t ask them to nerf waves or we will we get another kid friendly chicken invaders 5 like game with no challenge at all. @Nikito is right, it’s fun this way.

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Unfortunately, the only factor that currently determines whether a wave is hard or not is RNG. It’s not skill that decides if you can beat the mission, it’s luck.
As much as it would take more effort, I’d argue that adding new more complex waves or more complex variants of existing waves would be better than just letting the RNG do whatever it wants.
Hell, add some more dangerous enemies. Just don’t spam them all over the place.

For whatever reason you think that I want all the missions to be made easy. Frankly, I just want them to be fair.
If I die, I want to be sure that it was my fault and my fault only. Not RNG’s.

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RNG decides the difficulty of a miſſion, but then you have forewarning that the miſſion is difficult via the nice little indicators that accompany the name of the miſſion in the galaxy view. At that point you can chooſe whether to fly the difficult miſſion or not. If you chooſe to fly, it is moſtly your skill that determines what happens as you reſpond to the RNG that controls eggs &c.

Exactly! That’s the bad part! The fact that the RNG decides the difficulty!

If I wanted to be firing at dozens of bullet sponges while dodging dozens of projectiles I’d be playing bullet hell games and not this, but that’s besides the point.
I’d like to point out that those waves are literally the only difficult ones in the game. So at this point there are no “difficult missions” to speak of, because all that makes them “difficult” is a chance to get screwed over by the RNG.

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It decides it BEFORE you decide to go on the miſſion! It’s very ſimple: if you don’t want a hard miſſion, don’t go on it.
And @GgWw1175, if you had perfect play, your argument would have a lot more value, but as you’re not as far as a know, from my point of view, it ſeems like you’re blaming your miſtakes on RNG.

Juſt to make ſure we’re on the ſame page, the orange bar on the miſſion deſcription is the difficulty, the green is the length, and the aſterisk means that you haven’t flown that miſſion before. If you want ſhort and eaſy, pick “Denſe Efficiency”. If you want longer and harder, chooſe “Amuſed Adſorption”.

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I do want a hard mission,but not an RNG-based one. Sometimes,I enter a hard mission,and I don’t really get anything too bad. Other times,I get shape shifter with egg-ship chickens or chicken roulette with chick gatling guns. And that’s certainly not something I can predict before a mission. The whole point is,it shouldn’t require too much RNG. You’re literally just letting the game to decide your fate. Sure,you can see how much the difficulty bar is filled,but you can’t know whether or not luck is going to be on your side.

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Argh! There’s a bug in the mission generation code that will create missions up to 40% harder than it should. This pushes the difficulty outside the normal bounds, and the RNG is doing its best to make things more difficult by spamming mini-bosses.

The missions on the screenshots are pure deathtraps – it’s a wonder people are still trying to politely suggest that perhaps difficulty is a tad too much and don’t instead pick up their pitchforks and try to kill me in my sleep. :laughing:

And I find it even more amazing that there are players out there that take this in their stride, like it’s no big thing, eh, we’ll manage. You guys are heroes!

Anyway, in the next update the difficulty will indeed be scaled back to fit inside its expected operating range. HOWEVER you difficulty freaks should not despair, because skills are being reworked and will probably change from controlling enemy health to boosting mission difficulty. So it will still be possible to boost difficulties past their limits and get these types of insane missions (you’ll just need to void your warranty by explicitly choosing it).

More details here:

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I got the chicken roulette with Gatling guns too! That was awſome!

So the epic waves were just a bug all along? Blimey! Glad to hear that wasn’t intentional.

When I bump into a hard wave, I often talk to myself “I’ve beat all of the bosses but 2 in Cuphead, this would not be that hard”