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Learning Curve is Fatal

  • wltr3565
  • 12/02/2013 03:42 PM
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As people play this game, not a small number of them stuck while fighting the first boar... Particularly not the weakest, but I do think that I made the boar a bit too strong. A single charge of his depleted 2/3 of Lyka's HP! Guess what? I expected the players to use either guarding or moving at that point, 2 very peculiar mechanics of Cruna Aktrid, especially when guarding is really underrated...


No one will guard at their first battles. Mind you.

This is my fault too. I should've expected that the players don't know about the game's deeper basics like guarding and moving. I forced them to use it in the first place! Players expect that in RPGs, they only need to attack and heal to survive and win! Cruna Aktrid's basic of survival lies in guarding and moving too, but none of the players will notice this in their first time. I've scared them away by forcing them learn that they have to move to another panel to survive their first, maiden battle.

The latest patch has fixed the enemies' difficulty especially the boars' power. I hope the scared players can patch their game and delve in again... I'll never force them to learn the most peculiar basic in their maiden battle, ever again :(

Thanks for reading my rant here, and I hope you guys learn from this mistake as well.

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shayoko
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no im not new to rpgs so i already understood this much.
but the thing is i did not actually see a warning on screen suggesting that the boss was going to do a uber powerful attack.

maybe making the text bigger,more colorful or moving it would help
or having a combat log if you dont already

and even then i still died at full life while guarding lol
and more so using move did not move both your characters b4 the bosses move went off so it was pretty useless.
The combat log exists, commenting every actions happened. And I think alphboar's visual cue is enough.

And by timing, if you move different characters in a row, they do it almost simultaneously. The charge should be evadeable.
edchuy
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Yeah, if I remember correctly once you had gotten hit by the powerful attack, you knew what to look for the next time around. I think I made to beat it with just Lyka, since Ashen was lost for the rest of the fight.
I don't mind that the first battle is already challenging if it actually explains the player what to do. Like telling him in the face "The boar is preparing a hard attack, it seems to be a good idea to guard the next turn!"

Games should be challenging from start to end, but at the same time the "rules and tricks" need to be very accessible.
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