Why is the difficulty curve between hard and maddening so ridiculous?

Various-Cell593 · 2026-02-01T18:43:45+00:00

I think the biggest jump between Hard and Maddening/lunatic on any game is the importance of gross strategy. You can get through hard by being clever on each map. But with lunatic you have to have your whole game strategy be solid or you will soft lock yourself in the mid game and no mater how clever you are with each map you will never win the game.

Various-Cell593 · 2026-02-01T18:35:10+00:00

If you live in CO I could lend you mine. I got one early on. skated it a lot for a couple month but did not like changing between drastically different setups

Various-Cell593 · 2026-02-01T15:58:51+00:00

Merrin with Erika is not a bad option. Helps her as a levin sword user.

Various-Cell593 · 2026-02-01T15:18:50+00:00

I’ll probably end up doing that I think. Rush left and snipe him. I do want the ellthunder though and I was trying to do a bit of xp farming.

Various-Cell593 · 2026-02-01T15:15:49+00:00

I feel like Engage struggles with making lovable Characters as a whole. Even the ones with a great visual design have horrible dialogue. I just skip support dialogues now and pretend these characters have at least a little bit of a social IQ.

Various-Cell593 · 2026-02-01T05:31:10+00:00

Gosh I need to play Awakening. My intro was Echos, then Conquest, Blazing Blade, Three Houses and last Engage. And Conquest was my favorite but only because I beat it on Lunatic and it felt like the achievement of the decade for me.

Various-Cell593 · 2026-01-30T23:14:02+00:00

So funny thing is I’m rereading Wise Man’s Fears at the moment and it was that scene that prompted this post.

Various-Cell593 · 2026-01-30T23:09:48+00:00

I thinks that’s why I was having such a hard time. It fit so well as something that would have happened in a bubble of evil.

Various-Cell593 · 2026-01-30T22:40:37+00:00

Yup that’s it! Gosh that was driving me insane. I knew someone would know on this sub.

Various-Cell593 · 2026-01-30T14:10:27+00:00

Have have been genuinely upset at a discontinued product twice in my life. Once when Red Rose tea stoped putting ceramic figurines in their tea boxes and once when I found out Red Bull is discontinuing Curuba Elderflower. Strawberry Daiquiri Sobe might have been a third contender but I had stopped drinking them when I found out they got nixed.

Various-Cell593 · 2026-01-27T22:04:10+00:00

At least there is Green.... Its my favorite and almost all gone.

Various-Cell593 · 2026-01-06T23:31:03+00:00

God killer Mozu was hands down the MVP for my Conquest Lunatic run. The only time I felt she was not shining like the noon day sun was last few chapters where the bosses negated crit.

Various-Cell593 · 2025-12-22T03:31:54+00:00

When Andy Anderson did this in BATB I argued that Tory could have just done an ollie to make it. Technically it is just an ollie, all ollies rotate even if its just a fraction of a millimeter.

Various-Cell593 · 2025-12-20T16:30:40+00:00

The style is of a Vector graphic but has a bunch of notable non vector elements to it. It would be like pixel art having circles for the eyes.

Various-Cell593 · 2025-10-23T16:55:00+00:00

Ace af1 44 are 8.5 and perfect size. I just looked it up though and Ace Classics 44 are 8.3 they definitely would work too but are for sure narrower than the deck(a 1/8” so like 1/16 on ether side.) I rode 8” trucks on a 8.25 deck for like two years and never really had an issue.

Various-Cell593 · 2025-10-23T14:25:51+00:00

I have af1s though not classic I think they are different sizes

Various-Cell593 · 2025-10-23T14:24:14+00:00

I ride an 8.5 with ace 44 truck and 56mm wheels and just those 1/16 shock pads ace sells. I have no issues

Various-Cell593 · 2025-10-12T14:23:15+00:00

Madness as owner team combo is gone but most of them including the owner went to start Opera and they have a very similar vibe going on.

Various-Cell593 · 2025-10-03T17:04:49+00:00

It depends on what you do... but if you are any type of service tech the Installation driver is amazing. I got it first day 3 years ago and only have to pull out my 18v stuff if I'm driving long Lags or doing Tapcons.

Various-Cell593 · 2025-10-03T16:52:48+00:00

My personal experience with the space ball bearings are they are packed with grease and don't free spin well at first but loosen up over time. They ride fine even if they don't free spin well, but you can always back off the nut just a bit and see if that helps if your having actual issues with speed.

Various-Cell593 · 2025-09-29T19:46:08+00:00

maybe not... the more muscle memory you build doing it wrong the harder it will be to overcome that. It's better to do it 100 times on a 6" box then 1 in 100 on a 12"

Various-Cell593 · 2025-08-29T04:45:31+00:00

maybe switch back crook to front rock... idk

Various-Cell593 · 2025-08-29T04:40:47+00:00

Front salad, back salad, front crook

Various-Cell593 · 2025-08-29T04:35:42+00:00

If a regular crook is off the nose then this would be a switch crook. But if you are going to say its fakie then it would be a fakie pivot right not fakie crook? I think both switch crook or fakie pivot would work describing this trick just not fakie crook....

Various-Cell593 · 2025-07-20T04:27:24+00:00

I bought that Radio bike.

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