Corruption Lowering Difficulty Suggestion

[AndrewTilley]

This is already something that’s been discussed during the dev streams and Mike did mention that they do plan to have a way for you to reduce your corruption a lot easier in the future.

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Endgame Updates

Mike talks about small changes possibly coming to the endgame in patch 0.9.1. These may include their plans to more easily reduce, reset, or possibly even lock your corruption.

Q: Is there any plans to adjust/fix Monolith progression in co-op. i.e. Monolith side-quests only completing for one player, both players not getting gaze or corruption progress etc.

Mike: Yeah the gaze and corruption progress is intentionally like that, mostly because you can put yourself – right now anyways – you can put yourself into a situation where you can’t progress in your monoliths properly.

If you’re like getting carried hard by someone else and your version of the monolith progresses corruption really heavily you can end up in a situation where you’re just [screwed]. So until we have a way to adjust that properly, or to reduce your corruption manually without having to do something really challenging it’s go to be – because finding a Shade to lower it over and over again will be impossible for a lot of players. If your character can do like corruption 20 and your corruption 300 because you were in this party with these crazy powerful people for a long time and you’re sitting here going, ‘okay, well now I need to find a Shade that’s close enough to the center to do to lower it’ and you just can’t even get past the center nodes [then you’re just screwed].

So because we couldn’t allow people to get into that situation that’s why it is the way it is. However, we do plan to have a way to reduce your corruption, like reset it, a lot easier.

Source: YouTube Link

Q: Solution is to allow manual lowering of corruption. Then groups can share increases.

Mike: I agree, that is a good solution for it.

Source: YouTube Link

Q: Currently the best way to farm rare Shade drops is to fight an “edge of the web” shade, but this raises your corruption. What if you want to farm rare shade drops but don’t want to raise your corruption (or your corruption is already at the boundary of your capabilities) - you cant farm anymore.

Mike: Yeah, the thing here is to do lower ones in between to balance it out, but I think there needs to be more control on stopping your corruption from going higher and/or just dropping it completely.

Source: YouTube Link