Insane Difficulty: Beta Testing - Feedback - Insane Difficulty

Alright, I'll have the updated patch next week then. Yeah, this hack seems to be coming along well. Worst part about those formations, I see what's going on with them, I really do, but that stuff is like Post Game level stuff honestly. It'd be a great challenge for endgame.

A bit late on this one, at first I forgot to update. But now I have it.



Here's what I think: the formations are TONS better this time around. Just enough challenge to be kinda annoying (in a good way), but not so much that they feel unplayable. This time I got heat shield and derped (didn't read that you have to LEVEL to use shield now in MMBN3 in general), but overall, it's still a blast to play. The gears are kinda annoying everywhere, but that's just a Yoka thing isn't it?

The only one I'm not fine with I mention in the video why I'm not fine with it.

Bubbleman: Is really, really easy. No joke. Maybe Slashman made me fear what the bosses would be, but he is by no means hard. I didn't even switch from Heatstyle to win.

The economy: I can already feel it I believe you made enemies drop more now? At the very least, some of the drops and the enemies were making it easier to get things this time around.

In general: I still hate Press. This isn't your fault. It's a fault of the game. It caused me to forget about Undersht, and more specifically, it's just damned annoying.

Yeah, I'm making most of the NC programs a tad smaller, including Press, because there's no point in making it 3 blocks, except for a bit of added difficulty, which I'm not interested.

Glad to hear about the formations and the economy! I'll be taking a look at the vid shortly. As you might have seen from the lack of updates, I'm taking a small break on BN3 to simply vent and cure the burn out, which was critical a few days ago tbh.

Really enjoying this so far. I reached the post-endgame yesterday, so will start progressing through Secret Area soon. Flashman and Beastman seemed like legit changes due to moving a lot faster and behaving differently, but the other bosses feel more or less unchanged aside from having higher HP. Is that deliberate?

Well, I say that, but Drillman is an even bigger asshole now.

I highlighted my first attempt of Bass/Alpha here: http://www.twitch.tv...o_dan/c/6627462

Hey Drakodan, thanks for the feedback.

The thing about the AI is that I have enhanced it a bit, but I didn't go overboard with it. Do you think they could use a larger boost? (At least for versions alpha and beyond).

This certainly makes me wanna work on this a lot more. I've been taking a breather from it, but I need to mod this to its trie potential. I have planned battles against multiple navis and whatnot for the post-game.

...How did you like that Alpha AI? I'm in love with it.

Wait, did you update it again? I thought the hack stopped at Bubbleman for now?

Augestein, on 10 May 2015 - 04:19 PM, said:

I didn't update, no. The AI is modified in all of the game already (though it needs to be properly tested and polish, since most bosses from BubbleMan onwards are still too easy). Alpha however is pretty much perfect as it is for now, and I'm very glad about how it turned out.

I know you talked about the codes at the item shop, personally I think they're a waste of time and you should just remove them. Also the chip trader, it's very tedious. Don't know how much it's needed in your hack but if you can work it out so it's not needed, the game would be better without it.

Yes, those are pretty much my thoughts on the matter. But I don't really want to simply remove it, because it can be a good way to distribute some of the rewards (key work being 'some'). So, what I have in mind is to only keep these objects in the lotto machine: SpinRed, SpinBlue, SpinGrn, SpinWht and Wristband.

I started playing WotU, it's also my first time playing a MMBN game. I'm enjoying it a lot so far.

So, here's my progress so far.


Day 1:



Day 2:



Day 3:



As for my strategy, i'm foccusing on having a lot HP right now (have 300 counting the +100HP costumization), and my folder is a combination of health recovery, swords, long range and guts man, roll cards.

Day 4:


Day 5:


By far this mod is a 10/10

You sure got the difficulty curve right, even for a total newbie on a BN game.

The economy is also quite balanced, most of the time i didn't bother on buying on shops since i got a lot of good drops from randoms and mistery data, but when i bough things, nothing was expensive enough to do exesive grind for it.

I haven't found a particular exploit, while antdmg is quite powerfull, it got almost unreliable soon, only usable for certain situations.

The formations and enemies are well balanced and not hard enough to make them impossible, just enough to make them annoying sometimes.

This was for sure a great experience. Now, let's patiently wait for the next update, that's surely going to be more challenging and satisfactory.

Oh.. by the way. Is there something else i can do to help (aside of testing the next update you release)?

It's excellent to hear that a blind player is able to beat the first days of the mod (with a bit of struggling, of course. This is a difficulty mod, after all). And it's even better to hear from a blind palyer that the economy doens't feel too much out of place.

There is one particular exploit that I have already fixed but not yet released (Plasma chips on bosses). Do you feel a particular area was harder than the rest? (An area in genera, like Yoka, Zoo, ACDC, SciLab, etc).

Thanks for the feedback. I need to take a closer look at the extra folders. I designed them to be like what you've experienced (the first one being good for the moment you get it, but not game breaking), but I've heard from other players that some of them might be *too* good. I'm looking at N1-D here. <.<

Well, if i could beat this without struggle being a blind player, the only way someone would belive me is being Anima or have recorded it.

Originally, mentioning the economy didn't cross my head, someone mentioned it being very balanced, or that you put a lot of effort on it, or something like that, in a post on the forum (can't find it right now...) so, why not check it myself?
And that user was right, the economy is really balanced while i haven't bough and tested a 1/8 of the chips to buy, since you get good enough chips with randoms and mistery data, and those i bough i think i never actually used them.
So, back to the economy, i think the chip prices are quite reasonable, the only expensive one i have seen is antdmg, but that thing can be quite op on the right situation, and the money you get on randoms and mistery data is also reasonable.

Right now the only hard thing that comes to me is those shield like things that spam gredon and most of the time force you to get damaged, it can be specially annoying if the battle grid has gears (Yoka), another that i think may be on the same area, are certain combinatons with those ground-breaking targeted missiles, but that migh be just my mistake while fighting. Might have to check again just in case, i forget this kind of things quite easily.

About extra folders, personally i don't really want to relay on those, maybe screw around with one on randoms and test some chips i don't have but that folder has, or as the last option on a boss. Relying too much on one of those would mean i accept that my folder is bad.

Also, you can get infinite SneakRun, got 5 consecutive so i assume you can get up to the game limit, for the NaviCust, not really gamebreaking, and it's quite useless to have something you need only once to use, unless in the late game something like NaviCust thieves appear, and if that were to be the case, i don't think i will ever use this chip, for now. I also found where is the BugFrag trader. And got wood guts up to level 2, getting a chip way to big that i can't use (square pattern, not enough space to avoid the line), the one that nulifies knockback, so i assume you get a bigger navicust later in the game.

By the way...

Si un dia nos llegaramos a encontrar en persona, algo que seguramente no va a suceder, en ves de hablar en español, a este paso, vamos a hablarnos en inglés

Edit: just realized that SprArmor didn't have a square pattern....

This post has been edited by jm_00: 30 May 2015 - 08:27 PM

So, i got two bugs on certain formations:







Edit:

Is this project still going on?

It is. I'm just taking a good breather. I need to make a bunch of ASM hacks to customize the AI the way I want. After I do that, the modding should be easy-ish to do.

But updates won't be heard of, at least for 2 months or so.