Ontwikkelaar maakt LORT makkelijker na feedback spelers

In het geval van LORT was dat in ieder geval niet het geval, daar de community duidelijk liet horen de game juist te moeilijk te vinden. En die geluiden werden dermate luid, dat ontwikkelaar Big Distraction zich noodgedwongen zag erop te reageren:

''We hebben feedback van sommige spelers gehoord dat de game in zijn geheel te moeilijk is en te moeilijk is om solo te voltooien. LORT is een roguelite en is niet bedoeld om heel makkelijk te zijn. Het is de bedoeling dat je sterft en leert hoe je de uitdaging van nieuw level, nieuwe vijand en nieuwe baas moet overwinnen. We baseren onze game eerst op solo-spelers met de wetenschap dat het vermoedelijk makkelijker wordt in multiplayer. Maar we willen het ook niet te makkelijk maken om er snel in te springen en plezier te hebben.

Een groot deel van LORT is leren van een goede build is en hoe sterk te worden. In deze update hebben we wat vijanden aangepast en de manier om sterker te worden, attribute upgrades, versterkt.''

Deze nieuwe balancering is een onderdeel van patch 0.5.2, waarvan je de patch notes hieronder kan vinden:

Update Notes - v0.5.2

• Adjusted Attribute spawn rate in camps from 70% -> 90% with a weighting towards more stat combinations at higher tier camps.
  
  • There is still a 10% chance you can get powerup drops from camps.
• Added a new player tutorial prompt reinforcing the importance of attributes.
• Adjusted Goblin Lobbers (the little fire guys)
  
  • Reduced radius of fire patches from 300 -> 250
  • Slowed attack speed or ranged throw from 1.5x -> 1.2x
  • Added more lead in to jump throw to make it clearer when the attack is coming
  • Added more time between jumping up and throwing the projectile

Known Issue

• We are aware of a rare chance for account progression to get corrupted and lose progress. We are actively working on a fix and hope to have an update out in the coming days to fix
  
  • We are very sorry this bug occurred. Definitely feelsbadman. But thank you to those who reported this issue and provided us log files so we work on fixing this quickly.

Progression

We’ve seen some confusion around how account progression works. All challenge progress and any Rune Juice unlocks you purchase are saved to your account and persist across runs.

Some players have noticed that after finishing a multiplayer session, when they host a run for the first time, they are asked to complete the first-time user tutorial (the flask setup). This is expected behavior, not a bug - each player needs to complete this tutorial once when hosting for the first time.

Multiplayer

We've also seen a lot of discussion around multiplayer and wanting to be able to play with other people easier. We are actively working on a solution here and should have more to share soon. We think you'll like it.

Thanks again for a really surreal launch. We are a team of 10 who worked on this game for 2 years. We're all gamers here and appreciate the passion you have all expressed for LORT. Here's to many more updates in the future.