Situation: Game. Typical horror. You know the rules: “no weapons, hiding under the tables, occasional puzzles”. But the game was nice enough for me to play it. Until the final boss. Many horrors/adventures still have bosses, but the fight is more puzzlish than just shooting and running. In this case I should lure the boss in the electrified puddle and manipulate with it; and repeat it 3-4 times.

After dying 3-4 times, I started to look for cutting-corners-way. I have found the developer console and it had some options that should make things easier. And you know what? After I increased my health, the boss became literally unkillable. Next time I added a few “medkits” to my inventory, the boss just started avoiding electrified puddles at all.

All experiments led to the situation becoming even worse. I believe that developers made it intentionally. Just for the sake of “fuck you, shit”

What could I do? Uninstall.

  • dukemirage@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Fiddling with the script engine can lead to unexpected results. And which game was it?

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      1 day ago

      Fiddling with the script engine can lead to unexpected results.

      I am a programmer myself and have an overall understanding of what can happen unintentionally. I don’t see how adding a few medkits in the inventory could lead to the boss to jump over the puddles :)

      And which game was it?

      “Fear the spotlight.”

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        7 hours ago

        I don’t see how adding a few medkits in the inventory could lead to the boss to jump over the puddles :)

        They could be using player character state as a proxy for player skill.

        A player who successfully navigated earlier changes with such competence that they have an excess of health items might appreciate a more challenging final boss.

        You may have inadvertently put it into hard mode!

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_game_difficulty_balancing

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        18 hours ago

        As a programmer you should know that wonky single-purpose software like a game engine may react chaotically to state changes. I wishlisted the game though.

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        1 day ago

        Other idea increase ur health using not game console but with using cheat engine ,find pointer to ur health

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          1 day ago

          The game has red-yellow-green health scale, not 0-100%. It would have taken too much effort to experiment while looking for the correct value.

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            1 day ago

            Value if u know how much damage to boss with exact value it can be filtered much faster ,or u can find own health and freeze it