Official Feedback - Number of Waves [Implemented]

[Kip]

To be honestly with you on normal if you just take out the first few super easy waves then I think normal would be a lot better. You don't lose any real difficulty just shorten the time it takes to complete a run.

That pretty much matches my thinking about Normal.

But when it comes to Hard and ragnork I think taking away the total number of runs could damage the difficulty of it all, during those runs its a fight to survive each wave, so by taking away a few waves you ultimately just save us from possible death for a few waves.

I did not think about the perspective that fewer waves means fewer chances to die. An interesting point.

My perspective is that difficulty and speed are not the same thing. To take it to an extreme, you can have one wave of super difficult Nords which is nearly impossible to kill be more difficult that 20 waves of average Nords. The 20 waves just takes longer without challenging you. I would definitely want to look at ways of challenging players more in Ragnarok to compensate if we cut some waves. (And just to emphasize, it is not truly cutting the waves, just moving them to alternates or merging duplicates.)

Definitely interested in the continued feedback on duration vs difficulty.