Extreme East Spoiler and Discussion Thread

[Nurator]

Wow I have to hurry up I think, or you will complete the riddles before me oO Damn day job

[shade_of_ox]

Haha, you'll have plenty of time to stay ahead, I'm gonna be a lot more busy the next few days

[The Avatar]

[shade_of_ox]

I actually just took in a warlord because I wanted to blow through it quickly - and luckily found Mystera

So I guess the reason Hobbler's Hold was like that was because the gimmick here is the boss's level, huh? If so, I can see some dungeons that are going to be an absolute nightmare, like the Slime Pit and the Labyrinth. And HH was by no means easy, though of course I had to go in purist - I'm sure preps will help alleviate the difficulty here.

Also, wow! This is an insane amount of content, if every single dungeon is significantly changed by Curious, that means you already doubled the amount of dungeons in the game. That's pretty crazy!

[srid]

[shade_of_ox]

[Nurator]

The changes for curious dungeons are a lot more interesting than just higher boss levels Do you have the first riddle unlocked right now? That is one of the cool new ideas. Simple on paper but gives a completely unique feel to the new version

[shade_of_ox]

[The Avatar]

[shade_of_ox]

I see. That's a good design philosophy, when grinding out money I can see myself throwing Curious in whatever dungeon happens to be burning, or whatever PQI I'm doing

Serves me right for not reading the sign I guess I'll just have to come back a bit better prepared!


Heavy Reading is giving me a bit of a headache at the moment. I'm finding it a lot less straightforward than Grudge Match or even Sextuplets, mostly due to the addition of blackspace which complicates matters quite a bit (especially since you have to use blackspace to reach certain important areas of the map).

My best so far is to kill 4/5 before running out of resources, but the boss itself will still take more resources and I haven't even begun to think of a strategy to take him out yet. I think the main difficulty for me is that unlike Grudge Match (which is pretty similar to regular DD gameplay) and Sextuplets (which, while very challenging, has a pretty obvious set of actions to follow, and the challenge lies in optimizing these actions as much as possible), Heavy Reading is very open-ended and past the first set of actions
there's nothing else that's really screaming to be done. I feel pretty lost in this puzzle to be honest - the solution just isn't jumping out at me the way it was for the other two. I'll post more thoughts once I finish it, I suppose.