Cheating is the latest run-ending problem, where eventually on tower runs, Algos doesn't take any damage except from your alt-fire weapon, and there's no way to survive the battle long enough to fight with only your alt-fire weapon. Cheating is when you can't leave a room because the map shows there's an enemy left, but searching high and low doesn't uncover the enemy at all. Three examples of the many, many times the game is downright cheap to the player.Ĭheating are the times when you face Algos, the end boss for each phase, and after beating him the teleporter to transport you to the next phase doesn't activate. Cheap is when the game spawns you into a room where broken Automatons crowd you becoming immediately triggered by your proximity to them and explode, insta-killing you. Cheap is when a Malformed enemy blasts you off the ledge, and each time the game repositions you back after your fall, that same enemy blasts you again off the ledge, ad naseum until your're dead. All that being said, you will eventually hit an artificial ceiling out of your own control and ability to improve because the game is regularly cheap or downright cheating.Ĭheap are the times when you're at full integrity, full protection, shielded and fully lubed up and then you get one-shotted 3 hours into your run. It's a fun, adrenaline-packed jolt of gaming that can actually help set the tempo for the day because the experience of practicing and improving is a flow state activity. Knowing that, I still tend to practice daily because I find the journey of getting better, not necessarily the destination, to be enjoyable. I'd probably need hundreds, if not thousands of hours to now go from top 700 to top 100. The Pareto Principle is applicable here: you can get 80% proficient at this game in a few months or so, but the last 20% to mastery could take up to ten times longer. 200 hours later now I'm in the top 700 players (of 36,000) for the Tower of Sisyphus mode. I was absolutely terrible starting out, and spent probably 30 hours just struggling to overcome the first Biome. Let me give some background and context first. And the reasons for this is there are so many ways the game is cheap and cheats the player, which eventually no amount of skill will overcome that I hesitate to recommend it to others. But right now you're looking at my time played, me not recommending it, and thinking I'm full of it. This is actually a great game with a killer gameplay loop.
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