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[Baalaaxa]

We have such elite players here they make even the Nightmare seem like a cakewalk. So, we obviously need a Hardcore mode. Once you die, you stay dead. Game over, man. Game over.

Brings a whole new level of realism to the game, doesn't it?

Modifié par Baalaaxa, 11 novembre 2009 - 05:11 .

[Chlamydion]

Hmm... How about your char dies, the game is uninstalled, and all your registration codes are invalidated?



It's really easy to claim "I'm playing in Nightmare mode, solo, without any equipment or spells, and keeping my char at first level, and it's still too easy" when there is NO way to be called down on it.



Hey, whatever floats your boat. Those who can, do, and those who can't, brag.

[Gidzen]

Oyclo wrote...

While I'm personally liking the challenge of nightmare, especially on the boss fights, I'm wondering if its perhaps a touch too easy to be really 'nightmare'.  Being this is my first time through with the game and I'm only just now figuring out what spells and such are useful/useless, it should be easier my second time through.



I think for true nightmare mode, more enemy casters might be the way to up the difficulty without making it a hitpoint/armor/damage type of thing.  Its the caster fights which tend to be the difficult ones that
require the most strategy.

If you really want nightmare Flip your monitor 180............try that and brag..

[Mad Method]

Gidzen, that does nothing.

Baalaaxa, I'm on my first playthrough ever, and I'm playing a Mage on Nightmare. I've been rushing Shale (done) and Denerim (cleaning out blood mages). I still haven't had any of my characters drop in combat, especially my main. Rather than upping the penalties for failing combat, you should make combat itself more difficult. Enemies should make more tactical choices, use more abilities, etc.

I could grab the dexterity hotfix to make things harder. Bows get buffed quite a bit with this, which should make enemy archers more dangerous.

Modifié par Mad Method, 11 novembre 2009 - 06:04 .

[KromCossack]

I bounced between easy/normal on my first playthrough warrior.



I didn't have a good grasp of the game so that was hard as heck for me.



On my second which i hope to start soon I will make better use of tactics. Micro manage and play on hard.



But as a mage this time of course



Or archer, not sure yet.

[Oyclo]

Mordaedil wrote...

To be helpful: http://social.biowar...ayerprofile.php

The OP is playing mage, which as a lot of us know, does make the game easier. I think having your main be a rogue is the more challenging part and lets "nightmare" come into its right.

This is not what I'm saying to rob the OP of any true merit however, because he has this:

/images/game2web/achievements/ACH_FEAT_TACTICIAN.png

Heh, I had to look that one up.  I had no idea you could see that sort of thing here.

I agree that playing a mage makes it easier, and I'm almost tempted to restart just to get the spells I want now that I know what I'm diong, but thats always my issue, I reroll and reroll until I get bored and never finish a game.

I guess I shouldn't end my gaming by casting an inferno on my party so often now that I know the stats are universally visble

[tranj84cl]

Tactician is easy to get with Cone of Cold/Shatter. Just saying.

[Oyclo]

tranj84cl wrote...

Tactician is easy to get with Cone of Cold/Shatter. Just saying.

Which are two of the spells I'd take if I reroll.

I'm using the fire line.

But perhaps its a sign of the age of most gamers these days, but I'm not sure why this turns into an epeni thread for some.

I play the game on nightmare, I am thinking I'd like a difficulty level higher.  How this threatens peoples e-egos I'm not sure, or do they gain their self worth from their gaming skills?

Modifié par Oyclo, 12 novembre 2009 - 01:52 .

[specter7237]

tranj84cl wrote...

Tactician is easy to get with Cone of Cold/Shatter. Just saying.

So true, real Nightmare = No Cone of Cold

[Lycid]

Teh real nightmare mode is playing without mages.

[strangeblack]

there is a patch that may fix some dificulty problems on all settings

[Mad Method]

strangeblack wrote...

there is a patch that may fix some dificulty problems on all settings

The patch merely lowers difficulty.

[Entmellon]

Even though i saw some funny posts, I am going to be serious and claim that nightmare difficulty is easy. It is my first playthrough of the game on nigthtmare and i expected something more of a challenge.



I have played Baldurs gate 2 and that was really epic.



One reason why it is easy in dragon ages is the fact that after a battle all your mana are replenished which was the main problem in baldurs gate. After Killing all the small enemies, you were left with only a few spells, your health is low and there you are at your final battle wounded and half dead.



in the final battle, you had to play turn by turn, your enemies could be 2 mages ,2 clerics and more which could bring daemons that brought hell to the battlefield. So strategy there was important cos you had to interrupt the mage (or else you would have to deal with the Daemon.) and$ protect your mages by putting your fighters in front them so noone could pass their shields.





I am playing nightmare and so far i dont need cataplasmes(healing potions (its in french)). I will probably need them when i ll try to kill a dragon or a boss but i will use them because I would be lazy finding a very good strategy, and not a neccesity.



Maybe it is easy for me cos i use 2 mages and use cone of cold to freeze the enemies, but nonetheless this game doesnt promote strategy.

[Zibon]

Baalaaxa wrote...

We have such elite players here they make even the Nightmare seem like a cakewalk. So, we obviously need a Hardcore mode. Once you die, you stay dead. Game over, man. Game over.

Brings a whole new level of realism to the game, doesn't it?

Well, considering you don't die and only go unconscious...

[Malevolence65]

Oyclo wrote...

While I'm personally liking the challenge of nightmare, especially on the boss fights, I'm wondering if its perhaps a touch too easy to be really 'nightmare'.  Being this is my first time through with the game and I'm only just now figuring out what spells and such are useful/useless, it should be easier my second time through.



I think for true nightmare mode, more enemy casters might be the way to up the difficulty without making it a hitpoint/armor/damage type of thing.  Its the caster fights which tend to be the difficult ones that
require the most strategy.

2/10

[Khashi.M]

Proper builds eat through nightmare (and I don't think the solution is more mages, but enemies with higher hit-rate and damage).



I played a Mage and a Rogue through DAO. My rogue soloed redcliff (on nightmare), and I started Awakening with the mage, and so far, I've soloed all Bosses. The problem seems to be that, while enemies have higher HP and defenses, their to-hit and damage don't scale as well, so, after I run out of mana, I turn on combat casting, and find myself slowly whittling their health away.

[ncknck]

imho nightmare is fine. Not because its too hard(its easy, try BG2tactics for difficult). But that it hits the limit of Party AI. Making the game more difficult would just make encounters a frustrating battle with AI's stupidity, unable to handle combat. Like it was in NWN1. Like triggering traps, ignoring DoT and incoming AoE.



More difficult encounters w/o AI being able to handle it = pointless.

[GwaR9292]

Nigthmare is to easy. i finished it on nigthmare and diden't die a single time the achievement "i'm kind of a big deal"

[ninja0809]

i find easy too nightmare-ish

[Scepth]

I wouldn't say too easy, I'd say its surprisingly-not hard.. o.O

Right now I'm doing a play through with a 2Hander warrior Dalish elf. And he's doing an ok job soloing mobs with little to no help from the party. I always put the rest of them on Hold position somewhere far away coz I don't like it when they mess up the party damage contribution stats >.<.. I'm trying to finish the game with atleast a 90% contribution to damage. So my elf is doing all the work. I don't send the other party members back to camp coz I like to keep them for dialogues and conversations. And a couple of buffs don't hurt either.

Modifié par Scepth, 25 juillet 2010 - 11:50 .

[flixerflax]

I recommend the nightmare plus mod. You'll probably have to kick it back down to 'hard' in the beginning levels though.

http://www.dragonage.../file.php?id=16

Modifié par flixerflax, 26 juillet 2010 - 02:02 .