The Mad Wolf of Ogham

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Ulsarek#7159 wrote:

Must be hard equipping the Cold Charm that you literally get for free. There is even a boss that grants you +10% cold resist.

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I(t, N) = [G0 * e^( k * (t - T) )] * [F0 + β * N]

t = total hours awake
T = threshold hours after which grumpiness starts to increase
G0 = baseline grumpiness at the threshold
k = grumpiness growth rate constant
N = number of failed attempts or lack of progress in the game
F0 = baseline frustration when starting to fail
β = frustration increase per failed attempt

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eEridani#1169 wrote:

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Ulsarek#7159 wrote:

Must be hard equipping the Cold Charm that you literally get for free. There is even a boss that grants you +10% cold resist.

Cleared every boss in the Act 1 map multiple times. No boss has offered cold resist effect for me. Perhaps one of my allies picked it up since there is no real loot fairness when in groups (beyond the quest tokens that drop for everyone).

As for the charms, they are one time use. So after the first hit, you are down to zero resist until the charm is recharged. As I recall, the wolf attacks you more than once.

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pigeye#3835 wrote:

Sincere question: What was the design goal for the Count of Ogham boss encounter?

Preamble: I've been trying to get past this boss on a sorceress for a whole evening, and I'm getting nowhere.

As the final boss of Act 1, this is a gateway challenge to harder content.

As such, if you're unable to complete the boss through lack of skill or loadout, you're basically one hundred percent in for a miserable gaming experience, because the only content to "level up" on is trash mobs. In fact the Manor has the highest level mobs, and it's a desolate maze of empty corridors.

I have a plan to reach the next level of node unlocks to I can compete with Geonor, but I need to level up another three times (I'm 17). That's not going to happen, there are better ways to spend my xmas vacation.

I could try different combinations of skills and support ge ... oh, who am I kidding. I have five support gems. I've been farming XP for hours on trash and bosses, and at level 17 I have five support gems. I made poor choices too, but I can't respec them. That's it.


Now, I don't suck at souls games, but they tend to be exquisitely tuned to be fair to the player mechanics and input system.

Adds block and push you around. That circle of frost mist? Does anyone think that's good? Do you really think it makes the encounter enjoyable, to repeatedly force the player to struggle against rigidbodies trying to push them out of the circle, interrupting casting attempts, preventing rolls? Forcing a reset because they just didn't have the right millesecond response time on their controller or they have arthritis? WTF is wrong with this kind of game design thinking? Just because you can doesn't mean it's a good idea. This is the FIRST ACT of the game. You are not FROM Software - don't try to mix wine with milk. The second A in AARPG means something. Action Adventure, not Action Misadventure.

To the falling starts from the sky and the big red spikes from the ground...

So the falling stars are represented by off-screen-height vertical white lines. If you're standing "behind a line" that doesn't mean you're safe, because stars can fall behind stars. It's a 3D thing. Try changing your placement code to not place stars behind stars, it'll make for less cussing.

The big red spikes that come from the ground have HUGE hitboxes. I've not once been able to not die to them, even when not standing anywhere near one. Well I say that but obviously I have scale perception issues - I may have been a small car length away.

Telegraphing:

1. Zoom out. We can't see the visual cues of telegraphing if they're off-screen, and if you get too close, well that strategy isn't for all builds is it.

2. "Listen to the audio cues!" say people who've never designed games. Kind of them to represent all people.

I want to say more, be more constructive, maybe even offer some ideas and such but it's super late and I'm obviously still in a bit of a bummed out mood because, grumpy.


I(t, N) = [G0 * e^( k * (t - T) )] * [F0 + β * N]

t = total hours awake
T = threshold hours after which grumpiness starts to increase
G0 = baseline grumpiness at the threshold
k = grumpiness growth rate constant
N = number of failed attempts or lack of progress in the game
F0 = baseline frustration when starting to fail
β = frustration increase per failed attempt