playing and you’ll see them going
“That’s impossible - nobody can get
out of those” but it’s not impossible
actually. It’s totally possible it’s just
that you’re terrible. But you can
get better though, you can learn,
better save my dodges and don’t
use them early. The cool thing is
when you watch a player who has
played through these multiple
and playing with it. I thinks it’s a
veteran versions are pretty difficult.
times, it’s highly impressive because
rewarding experience in the end.
You earn the title of veteran if you
you think “damn, this guy knows
Also go to people’s housing plots. We
get a gold on those things. In my
what he is doing” so to me that is a
have a feature that allows you to go
opinion those things are absolutely
testament to balance and stuff like
to neighbours or just randomly tour
brutal. The regular dungeons
that but there are always going to
through some random dude’s house
are still difficult but they are not
be people that will complain and
so you can start chatting them up
insurmountable. I think a majority
say that they’re too hard or they’re
and talking with them. That’s great.
of people that go through those
too difficult and we kind of don’t
things understand what’s happening,
care. There’s loads of other content
it’s just a matter of amassing the
for you to do in the game. It would
about people rage quitting.
skills that you are given in WildStar.
be one thing if we said that “ok -
Obviously that is more down to
Everybody has the tools to survive
dungeons are the only way that you
the actual player rather than the
the leveling dungeons. Everybody.
can level” then that means we’re
game being too difficult, but what
By the time you get to level 20 and
cutting out a huge chunk of our
sort of challenges did you face
you’re playing through Stormtalon
player base and saying good luck,
when you were trying to balance
or Kel Voreth whether it is dodging,
have fun. But we’re not doing that
the difficulty in the dungeons?
double jumping, interrupting or
here. Dungeons are opt in - you don’t
In particular so that they are
group interrupting you are given
have to do dungeons. I think our PVE
not ridiculously easy for the pro
those mechanics. It’s a question of
content is completely doable by the
players but then not ridiculously
can you effectively use them. What’s
average gamer. We can make those
hard for the new players?
funny is that we watch streams all
things difficult because it’s opt in so
Stephan: Well I think we did it
the time, we always say that the devs
that’s how we balance plus it’s more
in a couple of ways. One of those
are always listening on all our videos
fun when you beat it. You feel like
ways was we made veteran versions
and it’s absolutely true. We watch
you have actually earned something
and we made regular versions. The
through the live streams of people
as opposed to just being handed this.
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