21-01-2012, 01:25 PM
The hard mode did bring its lot of balance issues, the biggest one being that split the community in two feeling, like it's been said, there's no real point for a high lvl player to play in Normal mode now, and no point at all for a "lowbie" to stick around the hard mode.
The problem, imho, being that the normal mode still accept high level players and hard still accept low level ones. So the normal mode is still sort of designed for a reasonable number of high level players to be present to be beaten, but since there's barely any now then you won't see the prince anytime soon. A solution would be to specifically design the waves difficulty given the average level of the players in the server or by simply restricting the normal servers to players who got past a certain level and redesign the wave's difficulties accordingly. Anyhow, like OneEye said, it has to be addressed, somehow.
Is it me or is there less players enjoying NI since the hardmode? I feel there's way less players online since the patch.
The problem, imho, being that the normal mode still accept high level players and hard still accept low level ones. So the normal mode is still sort of designed for a reasonable number of high level players to be present to be beaten, but since there's barely any now then you won't see the prince anytime soon. A solution would be to specifically design the waves difficulty given the average level of the players in the server or by simply restricting the normal servers to players who got past a certain level and redesign the wave's difficulties accordingly. Anyhow, like OneEye said, it has to be addressed, somehow.
Is it me or is there less players enjoying NI since the hardmode? I feel there's way less players online since the patch.