Okay, I tend to hate when people start griping about a game right off the bat. So lemme say first off that I've enjoyed Demigod so far. Haven't played online yet, but it's been fun.
Thing is, I'm having a bit of a problem. I played something like a dozen games or so, and was kinda getting the hang of the basics. Easy opponents, of course, but I was sorta figuring it out. I was winning every game and was thinking about adding a couple slightly toughter opponents into the mix.
Then I downloaded the most recent update.
The very first game after the update, I played as Regulus. I don't remember the setup in detail, but of the opponents was the Beast. Late in the game, the Beast became basically undefeatable. He'd kill me in no time flat. I don't mean he had an edge, or that he was a challenge - I mean that it was a given that he was going to kill any demigod he came up against, and kill them quickly, to boot. Once I went against him and when I got down to 50% health, I turned to flee and he stunned me - and I stood there motionless as he proceeded to go through the last 50% of my health in a second or so. This happened repeatedly - the Beast got about 25 kills in a single game. The only reason I won that one was because I had upgraded the reinforcements well enough that they destroyed the enemy citadel while I was getting my ass handed to me.
So, I assumed that some rebalancing had been done and maybe the Beast was a little too powerful now, or maybe I just needed to switch tactics. Easy to check - I played another game as the Beast, and had Regulus as one of the opponents on the other side, easy skill level. I figured maybe if the Beast was that easy to get kills with, I'd find out by playing it.
I got my head handed to me this time. Lost the game, with Regulus on the other team getting more than thirty kills. I died twenty-five times or so. Late in the game, my citadel was being attacked. I was fighting Oak, and I was within range of my crystal. Oak was level 20 and I was level 19. I had upgraded the Beast, of course, but still was scoring virtually no damage and Oak almost managed to kill me, getting me down to the point where I could hear the heartbeat despite my never leaving range of the crystal. Oak didn't have a lot of kills that game, but there were a few times where Regulus killed me in about three seconds, from full health.
Obviously, something has changed.
If it were my first time playing the game, I would just assume that I needed more practice. If it were a case of one demigod or another being rebalanced as a bit tougher, fine. Rebalancing happens. But when I see the developer just granting the computer players the ability to deal damage at a rate that I can never equal, it kinda gets annoying. I had six kills in the last game. My computer partner had four. All this happened right after downloading the patch.
I'm not ready to give the game up, of course, but it does seem ridiculously hard right at the moment. As I said, I haven't played a lot, but had about a dozen or so games under my belt when this happened. What's the reaction going to be from somebody who faces this the very first time they play the game?
