Seriously, they take up a major armor slot which is really lame. Just give us a legit hard mode if that’s something you want in the game. Why hide it and make it terrible? Also where the hell are the steam achievements? This is 2024. I know this is an indie team but come on.
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I’d love an ARPG that is hard. I think that’s what made the “Souls games” so popular. I don’t mind having to AoE down a load a mobs every now and then but I’m a firm believer that having a horde of mobs swarm you less regularly would make it more impactful as it would take you by surprise. It would ofc mean a lot less screen clutter a lot more often, if you play those builds ofc. I think gaming is in a strange state at the moment and we’re going to see big shifts in genres and the way games are played. PoE2 and No Rest for the Wicked are 2 such games ARPGs that will be a bit more tactical in gameplay. We also don’t know what to expect from the seasons in Last Epoch. There may be some exciting new things here also. I’d like weapon abilities if possible, so that you could perhaps feel like you’re merging classes to a lesser degree. Maybe even have a more 3D style area within the game like they do in Lost Ark? We will have to wait and see. 
No rest for the wicked is an awful game. The art style makes scenes hard to view and the fixed camera angle (perspective) makes multiple target combat confusing and unreliable at best. It is still in early access but I was generally disappointed in how hard it is to manage that game’s systems.
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It has the same effect as the old masochist mode but it’s harder because you can’t use boots.
Would you rather steam achievements or actual content you can play?
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People bring up the least relevant things imaginable 
I won’t take anyone’s right away to define their priorities, but this is at least the third time this week that I wonder about those. The other were story conclusion and visual character face editor.
Maybe I should demand dyable shoe laces 
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Its just different player archetypes.
The majority of diablo players for instance really enjoy that stuff. its what makes diablo so brand name and played by quote unquote “normal” people. Plenty of people just boot up an arpg play one character to max level and go “I beat the game”
or hunt the achievements then are done with the game. Which is fine, those players do add value to cater towards, its just more sales.
As for the topic at hand, I do kinda feel like it was weird that they said “masochist mode does not fit with the game, its unbalanced and was put in on a whim, we would like to rework it perhaps before bringing it back” then they brought it back, not really reworked, and instead now it takes up a boot.
I really do feel for the people who want a hard mode, they kinda had it, then got shafted, then got memed on with its reintroduction.
Personally would love to see the boot replaced with maybe a consumable item that grants you the debuff, that can still be toggled off in the settings just like character found etc.
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Yes. In that kind of game i enjoy loot equipment item, craft it, put it and change it. Why did the devs locked an item slot like this !?
We want the same game but harder, no restrictions on the game mechanics (like sacrificing a slot)
And run the entire game with the veteran’s boots is not rewarded by achievment, score, ladder, badge or anything else. Anybody can claim he had played the “hard mode”, but removed the boots anytime he feels in danger
I’d love a legitimate Hard Mode for the campaign.
A friend gifted me this game, and I’m sad how easy the campaign is so far. I’ve already played for a couple hours on my first character and can’t get to the place the boots are.
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Least relevant to you != irrelevant to someone else.
I know people that advocated for fishing in perfectly fine games that don’t need this boring crap. I hate this stuff, they like it, fair game and equaly unimportant what I or they think if not a certain threshold is met to make devs move.
Look at mastery respecc and how EHG caved in. Many weren’t pleased, many are happy, most don’t even got the message yet because they want to play the game and don’t read patch notes or watch videos.
BTW now I want to take a closer look if there are any shoelaces to begin with ingame 
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You can also goes to a 10000 of corruption instead of asking for game more hard.
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Does that work for the campaign? Or normal monos?
I intend to interpret all these aRPG, the campaign mode is a extension to “how to learn he game”.
For this reason, I believe the campaign mode have to be this way.
For players new to the genre, yes, but if you’ve ever played an arpg before then LE’s campaign is too easy. Geim Dawn did it well with the Veteran mode for a slightly harder start.
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I disagree, for the old player they have the final content. That is a really challenging.
By the way, the difficult in last epoch scales in geometry progression when you take the corruption maps.
I’ve playing last epoch for a 3 years and the easy campaign mode don’t bother me. I can see exactly if my build is good by the time I kill them.
Fair enough, but as I mentioned, that doesn’t affect the campaign.
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Sorry, pass through this question.
You have a good point, a painful equipment you use that only affects you.
I really don’t know what talking about it.
Normally in aRPG (mainly because of Poe), we’re all looking for a speed. “Everything it’s about clear speed, dps en running”
Maybe you’re right, some players want a different point of view, about running and how beat the campaign mode.
Maybe, should be some statistics from the devs on the game, with players with that equipment, like a painful running. 
Should be fun.
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Yeah, it was a really sloppy and half-arsed way of implementing a “hard mode”. Comes with many problems like:
a) people don’t know about it
b) covers an item slot that could be key to your build (with certain uniques, item-specific affixes, etc)
c) no seperate league with its own ladder which a hard mode would bring. And a big part of people wanting a hard mode is so they can show off how good they are at it.
why are you guys not playing poe2? poe2 is hard.
i actually like poe2 but i just find the loots are too stingy. also i m tired of poe leagues.
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It’s not, it’s just not as fully fledged as you want but was significantly quicker & less resource intensive than reworking the entire game to enable a hardmode.