surreal surge
Time Limit Set: 13:00
Round Count: 3
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Map: Any but I playtested on city of Ry'uul
I wanted to have a crack at making a level as hard as I could while still being able to beat it without the bfc or spamming the rocket launcher. Please let me know what you think!
broken bolt
This encounter is quite tough, finally cleared it on 150% speed after a bunch of hours. Was a fun but frustrating time.
My 2 criticisms:
Round 2 is really a "gotcha" and feels insanely RNG-ish, a high % of the time I just get instakilled by the cosmic + hell knight cc spam with 0 counterplay. Sure, if I can survive the first 15 seconds and get 2 cosmics down early I typically win the encounter. But because round 1 is a long encounter and 2 is like that, I feel as if round 2 and 1 should be swapped so I don't have to keep doing 1 over again just to get "gotcha'd".
Round 3: hardest round for sure, you can hit me with "skill issue" if you like, but I think it's just slightly overtuned to the point where it feels unfair. I think there's two ways to make this slighty better: | a. turn the revenants into regular instead of leaders | b. remove the acolyte | Personally I think b is the better option, that acolyte is ungodly levels of unfun and a ton of attempts that made it to that round were won or lost simply because of whether or not I spawned next to him and could delete him before summoning the clone.
All and all though, super fun and well designed! Loved it
surreal surge
hey thanks for the feedback I'm impressed you even pulled it off at max speed like that, I agree with your take on switching the first 2 rounds I always found the second round to be the shortest as well. I want to keep wave 3 as it is I went though a lot of iterations and I'm happy with how hard it is
broken bolt
All things considered wave 3 is a very very fun challenge, when I changed the ripatorium to only be round 3 I could only beat it like 10% of the time or so. Then again, I hadn't tried using rocket launcher at all so perhaps if I tried that I might have better luck
so I just played it again now, default nightmare, 150% speed, brink of death hard, died to (now swapped) round 1 a few times, but first time I made it past that I cleared this time around. Encounter was SO much fun. Didn't have to use RL round 3 even with the acolyte out there, maybe I'm just playing better today or something lol
10/10 encounter!!! Everything gels together so well
Took me 5:02 to clear