Comment on Sometimes devs intentionally punish players for struggling with the game

dukemirage@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Lembot_0006@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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  • dukemirage@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • Kelly@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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!

    en.wikipedia.org/…/Dynamic_game_difficulty_balanc…

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  • anon5621@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • Lembot_0006@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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      • anon5621@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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

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