Will Squadron 42 have any difficulty settings for people like me who quite frankly suck at dogfighting, but still want to check out the story?asked by Col. Shaggy
TL;DRSquadron 42 will probably have difficulty settings, but he hasn't worked out the details and doesn't want it too easy, wanting players to complete missions to progress.
I'm pretty sure that we're going to have some level of difficulty setting. The usual easy, hard, insane kinda stuff. To be honest with you, I haven't really figured out the variations of the mode but they usually normally revolve around, quite how accurate or how tough the AI are. So, we'll have an easier mode although I don't want to make it too easy because I sorta feel like modern games have gotten away from what made games in the old days sorta work, cause if nothing's a challenge to achieve then there's no satisfaction from finishing it. So, that's one of the things I sorta appreciated with Demon's Souls when I played it quite a few years ago. I was like, 'Oh, I remember this' because I had been playing all these games that were sort of the typical first person or the cover shooters and you die, you respawn within 2 seconds of where you died. There was no penalty for messing up or not doing stuff right and Demon's Souls there definitely was a penalty, very frustrating at times, but it kept me playing. When I finished a level and killed the boss, I was very proud of myself and that's one of the few games I played to completion and then again, that's saying a lot for me. I definitely put a lot of time into it so I'm not necessarily saying it will be as hard as Demon's Souls but I definitely want it to be like the Wing Commanders where you have to complete your mission before you went on, you couldn't sort of go save every two steps which you can in some of the modern games. I kinda feel like you don't want it to be a fully nanny state where you're always going to take care of people so you need to run this balance between not being too frustrating but also be challenging enough that you're happy and satisfied when you do it. So, we'll probably have a mode to make things easier but you'll still have to finish things to move on, progress to the next level. So, there you go.