at some points the game makes you jump down from waterfalls into bodies of water, teaching you that it usually means its safe. But then in this spot you might have a bit of an awkward dead-end, and the water below is too shallow so you usually die if you drop down there. Quite a lot of people got fooled by it and this will probably kill someones’ hardcore run one day
perchance it would be nice if the water down there was made a little deeper
I think that’s kind of a funny bait and switch to be honest, not like dying is really punishing in this game, unless you’ve forgotten to interact with the closest whisper and even then it’s a mild inconvience.
On hardcore runs you really shouldn’t be going into the game’s experience blind, highly likely they would already know this is will cause them to die.
i actually agree that part is interesting, though unfortunately theres hardcore and i think thats a bit beyond “going blind”, specially in multiplayer hardcore that will be a lot more accessible as you can make new characters. someone will likely be perfectly good enough for hardcore and not have memorized every drop or just have never gotten there through that direction.
(In fact to me hardcore sounds way more likely to kill a prepared player from fall damage/geometry jank than any actual combat but thats a topic for another day)
and i assume they might try to give a more real setback for dying later, im assuming durability is not final for example
We don’t exactly know what multiplayer will look like, however most allow some form of revival system for your teammate.
we know that your character just gets downgraded from hardcore to normal if you die, so you cant play in hardcore realms
as far as we know, if youre playing with friends you can more easily just make a new character and get good gear from some chest or whatever. while i assume people in singleplayer wouldnt be as willing to keep going with the old realm rather than starting anew as that would be awkward
Jumped from this exact spot with the same line of reasoning after being Pavlov’ed into thinking waterfall = pool at the bottom for me.
Laughed it off and kept going. I don’t have any interest in HC, I already don’t want my character to die so there’s little/no motivation in doing so but I can see how that’d suck to run into. Playing HC blind is kind of asking for it tho, no?
imagine your buddy paralyzed down below and calling for HALP
upon further inspection, you can actually jump down from that spot, its just unsafe as in some places it will kill you. so someone can totally die to that even after having already done it before and thinking its always safe
