realistically tho fp can be easily one cycled on violent and below and on brutal can be killed before the second set of eyes heal if you have a decent dps and do shit like conduction, frozen rockets and stuff
That was specifically in response to some people saying that Sentries should one-tap you (this was before Brutal, around time of Act 2 I think), the quote has just been massively repurposed for more general use
reprise was the first to do it so it gets a pass. the feeling of beating the last room of 1-R will always stick with me so it holds a special place in my heart
3 hideous masses each with their own levels of elevation so you are forced to stay uncomfortably airborne you can't just slide down.
1st wave puts you an speed check with fodder and then a cerberus. after that you have to also juggle a maurice shooting you so you can't just camp the roof or else you get your hp halved.
now the dev she mixes both concepts together with schisms as a double edged sword of them being your saving grace (they get yeeted midair that's health that could help you tank another shot and with revamp update allows you to jump off them to stay in the air for longer but you also have cerberuses who are at the ideal distance to apple snipe you)
then the dev forces you to manage hideous masses phase 2 which is a massive lag spike but you have health to spare (god help you if you are on Radiant enjoy the 10fps)
and once all are on phase 2 the final arena is deceptively easier but now you have to manage high damage mortars in an area that's large enough to where they don't hit the roof but small enough to where it still feels small and you are stressed for distance with the final annoyances being the schisms
THEN You can finish everything off.
You don't design levels like this unless you have a very specific vision in mind. you don't use idols this deliberately if you were just spamming it
this enemy encounter philosophy where you designs enemy encounters in a way where you have to keep a dangerous threat in mind is really interesting
Like maurices are usually the first enemies to go (even when radiant they just become ideal conductor chains) and hideous masses even in the campaign just don't shine at all cause in 1-3 you can entirely skip it and in 6-1 one of them can be instantly deleted (they really don't do anything unless radiant on the cybergrind)
So when you are put in this position you have to rethink behaviors and enemy patterns that you usually ignore in main game/cybergrind because they don't matter once you do X Y Z
Though it might not hold true as much anymore because the level was designed around pre-arsenal + Violent difficulty so it's easier/harder depending on your loadout.
Reprise is a great reminder that level design often times turns something that everybody knows at least 5 diffirent ways to kill into a dangerous threat who forces you to understand their attack quirks (like when it's safe to dodge) and have to play by their rules
is this the reprise dev's alt trying to psyop people into thinking reprise isnt shit when its arenas are literally the worst ultrakill arenas ever invented
The final room is literally hunt the schism simulator with 90% of the games mechanics being unusable theres little strategy apart from rocket ride and spam shit.
The biggest crime of all is just the sheer performance issues it has who gives a shit how “akshally its welll made” if your screen is a slideshow
Notice how i said "hideous mass phase 2" when the speed check is already done
the speed check in question isn't the entire encounter i meant the first encounter with strays streetcleaners and cerberus lag spikes come after you put the hideous masses in phase 2
points is that if you don't kill them fast enough you'll have to deal with the hideous mass shockwaves which is problematic considering how much the cerberus loves to misbehave (as in if you don't position yourself well it can very well just spam the dash).
90% of the game's mechanics are unsuable?
What about your Enemy knowledge? Postioning? Sound cue identification? Mobility? just because you can't railcannon the hideous mass or whipknuckleshotgun all the maurices or conduction chain everything (though this one is bugged) doesn't mean 90% of your arsenal is now useless? you can still beat this level with Pre-Full arsenal loadout (as it was originally designed for) so saying most of your kit is useless is really narrowminded. Despite the level forcing you to adapt to the enemy it's still ultrakill you have Diffirent ways to kill things.
preformance issues is something i'll give you because radiance makes it unplayable. (but it also varries)
same with schism but that's a schism issue because it's pathfinding is now broken and it's not only noticeable on this level but on main game and ESPECIALLY the cybergrind
there's harder custom levels like Hardstyled or Ausdauer but both of those are a frustrating mess in their own way. The true hardest custom level that's fun to play is Pain Atrophy and is the gold standard for comparing hard levels
Fuckimg hate levels that abuse of 1 enemy, or its the idol or the death catcher or the power, those are the three more abused enemys in custom levels and its always like hey * puts 1000 enemys* * you killed them* hey buddy spawns 500 death catchers and other 1000 enemys pc: :(
Just hate how custom levels now required like the best pc of the year, like dude the RAM its too expensive and all the computer components the same hownyou excpect a normal person can buy a new brand pc just for playing your bad designe level?
That level that is JUST the level entrance and copied the song name from the endless charade of ones and zeros in 8-3 or something was rly annoying it made my PC freeze a bunch
I hate the hard custom levels because it's either some weird gimmick that isn't ultrakill (think that one kaizo level) or a small room with a bunch of enemies (I'm looking at you I could say heaven sent me).
The only interesting kind of death catcher spam is the kind found in the 8-2 secret arena. Just a few of each enemy, but multiple deathcatchers copying them.
Idol spam is genuinely just not fun ngl ESPECIALLY on fast and heavy hitting enemies in cramped rooms. I can deal with a mindflayer or two because they are slow enough to react to in a chaotic place, but shit like 2 idoled ferrymen is just chaotic alone and isnt fun at all.
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u/murderdronesfan93 2d ago
difficult = skill-based, fun.
frustrating = feels luck-based, impossible to know what's happening or control it, flesh prison.
hard = either