Current Events > Is Remnant from the Ashes doable solo?

(+) Yeah! (+)

I've heard it can be quite challenging, especially with the bosses summoning minions, but it looks pretty cool and I'm itching for a new 3rd person shooter

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On normal, yes.

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viewmaster_pi posted...

On normal, yes.

Do you find it to be an enjoyable experience?

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Ummmm... thinking back... no, lol. The levels look great and are fun to explore, but the meat of the game comes from grinding runs over and over like a roguelite. If you can get it on sale, maybe check it out if you just want to do the story mode, but alone I think it might not be worth the headache.

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It's doable solo even on hard, though you're not supposed to start on hard. You're supposed to start on normal, and then increase it after 2 or so refreshes.

It's a fairly challenging game regardless, but becomes easier as you progress due to unlocking traits that increase your damage, critical damage, etc. You obtain traits via story progression or by getting lucky and getting a world spawn. Last I played it, even hard was a bit easy. Though they keep radically changing things, or least did.

It can be satisfying for what it is, but there's some absurdly difficult fights depending on your gear. Speaking of gear, don't go upgrading 1 thing pointlessly. Upgrade your preferred weapons and armor as evenly as possible, as an easy mistake is to raise your weapon to +8 asap for example, but your armor is +1. It causes enemies to force scale up and your armor becomes worthless.

Also tossing this in. It can be enjoyable, but gets a bit repetitive/predictable. The first few runs are interesting, especially when you regenerate the world and see how its layout changes.

viewmaster_pi posted...

Ummmm... thinking back... no, lol. The levels look great and are fun to explore, but the meat of the game comes from grinding runs over and over like a roguelite. If you can get it on sale, maybe check it out if you just want to do the story mode, but alone I think it might not be worth the headache.

Purple_Cheetah posted...

It's doable solo even on hard, though you're not supposed to start on hard. You're supposed to start on normal, and then increase it after 2 or so refreshes.

It's a fairly challenging game regardless, but becomes easier as you progress due to unlocking traits that increase your damage, critical damage, etc. You obtain traits via story progression or by getting lucky and getting a world spawn. Last I played it, even hard was a bit easy. Though they keep radically changing things, or least did.

It can be satisfying for what it is, but there's some absurdly difficult fights depending on your gear. Speaking of gear, don't go upgrading 1 thing pointlessly. Upgrade your preferred weapons and armor as evenly as possible, as an easy mistake is to raise your weapon to +8 asap for example, but your armor is +1. It causes enemies to force scale up and your armor becomes worthless.

Also tossing this in. It can be enjoyable, but gets a bit repetitive/predictable. The first few runs are interesting, especially when you regenerate the world and see how its layout changes.

Hmmm...maybe I'll wait. It's only on sale for 30 ATM

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Very doable solo and an excellent game. Well worth it for 30 dollars. But yeah, it will be a lacking experience if your only goal is to simply finish the game. You won't get to every bit of content just going through the campaign once.

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GeneralKenobi85 posted...

Very doable solo and an excellent game. Well worth it for 30 dollars. But yeah, it will be a lacking experience if your only goal is to simply finish the game. You won't get to every bit of content just going through the campaign once.

Cool. How long does the campaign take? Also, I heard this is Souls like...do you lose anything when you die and are there checkpoint saves?

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yeah i've solo'd it on almost the highest difficulty, amazing game. i also did it on Hardcore solo.

and with my two best friends as of late. it was fucking amazing.

250+ hours into that game and I Will probbaly play it on and off with them over the years as a lazy rainy weekend treat when we want to get new characters stacked and etc. and the sequel if they make one.

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Another one for doable solo.

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indica posted...

Cool. How long does the campaign take? Also, I heard this is Souls like...do you lose anything when you die and are there checkpoint saves?

I don't remember how long it took me, but I think it was probably in the 20-30 hour range to run through the campaign. And most of my hours after that were spent in Adventure mode, which takes a single area from the campaign and condenses it down to only a few dungeons. This is designed to be the mode where you search for encounters and items you did not get in the campaign.

It has some similarities to Dark Souls, but punishment upon death is not one of them. You lose nothing when you die and checkpoints are placed very generously. You will always have one before a boss fight or an encounter at the end of a dungeon.

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i fucking love Remnant so much and hope it becomes a cult classic

it got my buddy who is normally only a CoD gamer into Souls

it is a bridge for players into Souls and I love that

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GeneralKenobi85 posted...

I don't remember how long it took me, but I think it was probably in the 20-30 hour range to run through the campaign. And most of my hours after that were spent in Adventure mode, which takes a single area from the campaign and condenses it down to only a few dungeons. This is designed to be the mode where you search for encounters and items you did not get in the campaign.

It has some similarities to Dark Souls, but punishment upon death is not one of them. You lose nothing when you die and checkpoints are placed very generously. You will always have one before a boss fight or an encounter at the end of a dungeon.

Awesome. I think I'll check it out. Do you have to complete the campaign to open adventure mode?

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indica posted...

Awesome. I think I'll check out. Do you have to complete the campaign to open adventure mode?

Nope. It's completely separate from the campaign, which means you can roll an Adventure at any point in the campaign and it won't interfere at all with your campaign progress. You can freely switch back and forth between them. You may need to actually reach an area in the campaign for the first time before being able to roll an Adventure for it though.

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GeneralKenobi85 posted...

Nope. It's completely separate from the campaign, which means you can roll an Adventure at any point in the campaign and it won't interfere at all with your campaign progress. You may need to actually reach an area in the campaign for the first time before being able to roll an Adventure for it though.

Oh, so does progress from one mode not carry over to the other? Like exp or traits?

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ProfessorKukui posted...

Get it for way less than 30$ & it is an ok game.

So you don't think it's even worth 30? What cons do you have with the game?

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indica posted...

Oh, so does progress from one mode not carry over to the other? Like exp or traits?

Progress is tied to your character for the most part. So once you obtain a weapon, piece of equipment, or trait, your character will have that permanently. Doesn't matter what mode you obtained it in.

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GeneralKenobi85 posted...

Progress is tied to your character for the most part. So once you obtain a weapon, piece of equipment, or trait, your character will have that permanently. Doesn't matter what mode you obtained it in.

Nice!

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indica posted...

So you don't think it's even worth 30? What cons do you have with the game?

It's a trap. I made the mistake at looking up what kinds of items are available. Been farming the first world in adventure mode for like 20 hours trying to get a ring to spawn. Don't even think it is better than what I'm wearing, but damnit, I know it exists and I want it.

But for an honest con, I'm not sure how I feel about the enemy leveling. It is based on the highest piece of equipment you own. Didn't realize the boss weapons counted like twice as much as regular gear. So I made my melee weapon +5, along with my other stuff. But since it was a boss weapon, I was severely gimped when rolling a new adventure. Needed to up my other stuff to +10 to be on the proper level of what was there.

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Very doable on normal, but you will have a difficult time on hard if you tackle it head on first without completing the game on normal. It's very fun with multiplayer though.

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loafy013 posted...

It's a trap. I made the mistake at looking up what kinds of items are available. Been farming the first world in adventure mode for like 20 hours trying to get a ring to spawn. Don't even think it is better than what I'm wearing, but damnit, I know it exists and I want it.

But for an honest con, I'm not sure how I feel about the enemy leveling. It is based on the highest piece of equipment you own. Didn't realize the boss weapons counted like twice as much as regular gear. So I made my melee weapon +5, along with my other stuff. But since it was a boss weapon, I was severely gimped when rolling a new adventure. Needed to up my other stuff to +10 to be on the proper level of what was there.

So, enemies scale with your highest equipment piece, armor or weapon? That's good to know, so I'll want to try and keep all my equipment at the same level and maybe even unequip a much higher item? And boss items count as twice as much...damn

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indica posted...

So, enemies scale with your highest equipment piece, armor or weapon? That's good to know, so I'll want to try and keep all my equipment at the same level and maybe even unequip a much higher item? And boss items count as twice as much...damn

I don't believe unequipping the item would help because it still scales to whatever your highest leveled equipment is. So just upgrade your main items fairly evenly and you should be fine. And definitely do upgrade them since each world has a minimum enemy level anyway. Boss weapons shouldn't be too big a deal either since their upgrade requirements are much more costly than standard weapons.

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dude i will gift it to you if you are on the fence

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pure_temper posted...

dude i will gift it to you if you are on the fence

Well, I definitely wouldn't refuse a gift

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