I started a new run of Baldur’s Gate II to see if I can actually be good at it this time.
Of more recent releases, I’ve also been going through Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector and The Alters, both being very good resource management games in space.
Putting my final touches into my STALKER: Anomaly modlist and creating the last couple of compatibility patches. I think I’ll end up at 400 mods which is a nice round number. Hope I’ll get to start my playthrough this weekend.
Will also try to get through another chapter of Alan Wake 2, I was on a replay of it when I got derailed but I do want to finish it and finally start the DLCs.
Thanks for that. It’s reassuring to know there are some safe places.
Is the main lobby area of the station excluded from this? I went down to the typewriter there and while i was saving he snuck up on me clocked poor Leon in the face.
Ah. Okay. That makes sense. I looked it up on online and saw the same thing and just assumed it was something limited to the original game since the lobby doesn’t seem to protect him. It’s reassuring though to know there’s places for me to catch my breath
Have yet to play the remake. Played the original on PC in 99 or so. It was a very novel experience at that time (I had mostly played cRPGs, RTSs, city-builder/tycoons etc.). A lot of the puzzles were challenging for young brain though.
That “Big Grey Guy” is one of the major reason I haven’t tried the game. And well the fact that I don’t like horror, but I am going to blame the Big Grey Guy!
I feel that lol. He really is a terrifying threat. I’m not used to my horror games basically throwing a big invincible enemy at me, especially for such a long period of time
Those adventure games are fun. Scratches an itch every once and while.
Attempting wrath of the righteous again. Always dip out at act 2 start. Got bubble buffs working on Linux. Need something all consuming. Hoping it’s the right time.
I gave it a run on the ROG ally yesterday. The right trigger is your main button to chop, combat, etc. The only way it worked was to spam the button which was not great. I did some research and seems that with some settings this can be fixed. None the less the game does look cool. Indies are where it’s at!
I prefer to use mods that make the game far more difficult, like Fargo’s Masochist mode or the Infernum mode mod. Sometimes I’ll just use vanilla’s Legendary mode if a mod has support for that. I’ll usually pick one of those three and then I’ll sprinkle in a larger compatible mod like The Stars Above along with a ton of QoL mods. I rarely mix more than one or two large mods, as they don’t really tend to play well together generally.
Currently though, I’m playing through an ultra-modded modpack I found recently called “Infernal Eclipse of Ragnarok”, which is very different from what I normally do. It’s a mod made to allow Calamity (plus add-ons like Wrath of the Gods and Catalyst), Thorium, Secrets of the Shadows, & Consolaria to all work work together with Infernum mode. It rebalances bosses and items, adds in new content, and just about anything else you would need to play the mods together without Calamity greatly overshadowing the others in difficulty. Several of these mods add their own version of the thrower class, so they’re all merged into one unified class. And Thorium’s bard & healer classes have new content added for post-thorium content so they can stay relevant too.
Technically I’m playing an add-on to the modpack called “Homeward Ragnarok”, which additionally adds support for Fargo’s Souls and Homeward Journey, but I wouldn’t recommend it over the base modpack. Homeward Journey isn’t really balanced well yet and doesn’t have any Infernum mode boss AI, so they all end up being very easy to kill compared to the rest of the bosses. And the sheer amount of content has made the game lag a ton, where my frames drop to below 40 any time I fight a boss anywhere but space (which I have to do a lot of the time).
Still, it’s been a lot of fun so far. I beat my first superboss, Astrageldon, yesterday after getting my butt handed to me like 30 times in a row. It’s a very well designed boss, and learning its patterns were a lot of fun. I’ve also been making a bit of a trophy platform, where I’m collecting all the relics and trophies and such for each boss.
Wow, this is an amazing post, thank you very much!
I played through Calamity on Revengeance during covid (took me a week to just kill Calamitas?), then tried a Infernum run with and without friends last year, and I got beat hard. I love Terraria so much, was so happy to discover Calamity, as the content added is top notch, but if there’s modpack for even more content, I’ll definitely find some time to try it.
But dying just 30 times to a boss? Took me about 170 attempts to kill King Slime in Infernum, after reworking my arena multiple times. I’m very bad at the game.
But dying just 30 times to a boss? Took me about 170 attempts to kill King Slime in Infernum, after reworking my arena multiple times. I’m very bad at the game.
I get that completely lol. I’ve definitely fought bosses before that put me in the hundreds. Hell, I remember when Terraria 1.4 first came out with the “for the worthy” secret seed and I tried that out on master mode. I must have died well over 100 times to the brain of cthulhu in that seed, which is crazy because it’s usually one of the easiest bosses imo. For the first time in my life I had to set up a damn vicious mushroom farm because I was shredding through those spawners. And I was playing vanilla! The wall of flesh was equally challenging and annoying to get spawners for. I was using melee, and this was before the huge melee buff that came in 1.4.4.
Funny enough, my current playthrough is a bit easier than it should be thanks to the lag I mentioned. My options are either turn frame skip to subtle, and have my game move at like 66% of it’s normal speed (allowing me to react easier), or set it to on and watch as bosses use insane attacks without warning because the telegraph frames got skipped. Bit unfortunate, but I can’t really experience some bosses fully, and I can’t really do anything about it. That’s the main reason I’d recommend using Infernal Eclipse of Ragnarok over Homeward Ragnarok.
I will never forget even Yahron, much less Calamitas on Revengeance in 2020. Played ranger. But it literally took me a week of constant battles to beat Calamitas once. (After that, even with post-Calamitas equip and with duping, I still had trouble killing it.)
But Infernum Queen Slime? Lol, we beat it in team only thanks to respawn items. Infernum bosses are on the top level of crack, and I love it so much. Those battles are so much fun, yet so stressful. Also visually stunning.
Never tried any special vanilla seeds. Are they difficult compared to Infernum? Or if you once start owning Infernum, vanilla is a piece of cake?
Playing with lag sounds awful, and it’s sad it prevents the true experience. So thank you so much for your advice, much appreciated.
For The Worthy and Get Fixed Boi (which is just all the vanilla seeds including FTW combined) are both difficult in a different way from something like Infernum. While Infernum completely reworks boss fights, often feeling like a completely different fight all together, FTW is more like Vanilla+. Like, many of the bosses just attack faster and more often, summoning more minions and doing more damage. At most a boss might get a new attack or two, like skeletron summoning dark casters to shoot at you throughout the fight and the brain of cthulhu flipping you upside-down during its second phase. I should stress though, it’s not easy by any means. Dark casters interrupting your flow during an already sped-up and beefed-up skeletron fight is surprisingly difficult. It’s kinda similar to Infernum mode King Slime, where you need to dodge the slime, crystal, and ninja simultaneously by the third phase (though maybe not quite as hard).
Get Fixed Boi especially is a pretty interesting experience. Unlike most mods, it’s got a kinda anti-QoL vibe, making your life more difficult throughout the entire game rather than just during boss fights. Darkness kills you, bunnies explode, you spawn in the underworld, the entire surface is corrupted with spawn rates cranked up, the dungeon is underground, among other things. I’d recommend giving it a shot at some point.
I know Calamity has support for both seeds. It actually has support for FTW + Rev/Death Mode, and additional content for Legendary mode (i.e. Master + FTW) + Rev/Death. I don’t know if Infernum supports them, but I’d be willing to bet Legendary Death mode would be pretty similar in difficulty to Infernum, though I haven’t tried it myself just yet.
All those anti-QoL things are just an inconvenience to me. I get it might help with immersion, so I don’t diss them, but most of those things sound like they can be worked around easily, just very time-consumingly. I think I saw some get fixed gameplay, where people died by flying to space? So you just build a space wall and you’re in vanilla with extra steps. And I hate doing the preps.
Way back in the 2012 maybe I collected every vanilla item, and since then I just enjoy fighting bosses. The rest is hard meh. Slapping extra HP is also just lame.
Calamity did everything correctly, specially the post-ML content, and Infernum changed bosses so well that passing them feels like a real achievement.
One of the hardest things in vanilla now is to accept that those bosses are so much more simple, but so are my options.
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