[2021] I hate those puzzles

Hello, there is no mandatory puzzles in the game they're all skippable

Originally posted by fredingue: hum...i did not try to pass as i feel like cheating doing so...but i will after 20th try

Actually completing the puzzle just award you an additional loot but it's absolutely not mandatory

Originally posted by Homer Morisson: And the fact that the devs added an option to skip them kinda speaks to the fact that they themselves felt this feature wasn't strong enough to make it a mandatory one.

Actually that's not true, Puzzles were mandatory at the beginning but we had a lot of feedbacks that some people doesn't like puzzles and instead of making them mandatory we decided to make it an incentive for powerful gears.

Originally posted by Homer Morisson:

Originally posted by Kaldorei:
Actually that's not true, Puzzles were mandatory at the beginning but we had a lot of feedbacks that some people doesn't like puzzles and instead of making them mandatory we decided to make it an incentive for powerful gears.

Alright, that's fair.
And definitely good on you to listen to such feedback, that is appreciated.

Still, if you could just find a way to make them, at least, feel less disconnected from the rest of the gameplay, that'd be pretty great... maybe get rid of the top-down turn-based "move one square at a time"-concept, because that is what feels the most disconnected from the entire other "exploring the world"-experiences, and put in some actual puzzles?

I know, that's a ♥♥♥♥♥ of a request so close to release, but maybe something to think about for down the line...

I'm no game dev pro by any stretch of the imagination, but my main point is this:

When content makes the players say "I have to do this to get good loot", it's not really good content.

Good content should make the players say:
"I want to do this to get good loot".

Hope that makes sense.

Unfortunately at less than one month from the release we are not very likely to iterate on the puzzles now but we take the feedback if we develop a sequel someday.

That will depend of the sales :P