My computer isn't the best graphic wise, so most of the time I end up being useless in a public match with actual people, so I've been playing the Bot matches and trying them out. Easy Mode is almost perfect, it's a breeze and pretty simple to get through, and aside from the ally Bots COMPLETELY abandoning you on frequent occasion, it's pretty much a guarantee that even if you stand around and do nothing, you'll still win. So after playing Easy Mode with almost every available hero, I went up to Medium Difficulty...
The power jump was INSANE. My first match I played all the way through as Shiv, and I did decently, but even taking two walkers out by myself and managing to get the team down ONLY by 5k is quickly met with the enemy team making a 12k difference not even 5 minutes later. I don't mind some challenge when trying to get better, but when I played a second time as Haze, I got two kills right off the bat, was able to get a couple items and abilities, and then suddenly the enemy team was 5k Souls more then we were, without ANY kills. It makes it feel impossible to play on anything but Easy Mode if the method of "learn and adapt" is met with "You'll always be less than them".
Maybe the Bots could have the same or similar amount of Souls throughout as the ally team, as Medium mode should should just be a moderate challenge, trying to improve yourself and see where you're at difficulty wise. Instead, it becomes an underdog story every. Single. Match. And surprisingly, the underdog doesn't ALWAYS win.
I'm still gonna keep going at in Medium mode time-to-time, as this game is still really fun and I'm not having any problems gameplay wise, but the scaling and difficulty spike needs to be addressed and reviewed.
The power jump was INSANE. My first match I played all the way through as Shiv, and I did decently, but even taking two walkers out by myself and managing to get the team down ONLY by 5k is quickly met with the enemy team making a 12k difference not even 5 minutes later. I don't mind some challenge when trying to get better, but when I played a second time as Haze, I got two kills right off the bat, was able to get a couple items and abilities, and then suddenly the enemy team was 5k Souls more then we were, without ANY kills. It makes it feel impossible to play on anything but Easy Mode if the method of "learn and adapt" is met with "You'll always be less than them".
Maybe the Bots could have the same or similar amount of Souls throughout as the ally team, as Medium mode should should just be a moderate challenge, trying to improve yourself and see where you're at difficulty wise. Instead, it becomes an underdog story every. Single. Match. And surprisingly, the underdog doesn't ALWAYS win.
I'm still gonna keep going at in Medium mode time-to-time, as this game is still really fun and I'm not having any problems gameplay wise, but the scaling and difficulty spike needs to be addressed and reviewed.
