For the Worthy has Tiny Golem. I don't think it's really meant to be a replacement for it, more like an actual joke. Kind of odd that an actual joke had more effort put into it than an official difficulty meant to draw in players both old and new alike, don't you think?
It happened while i was distracted fighting the mechanic boss, near the arena there was a jungle bait farm.
That... doesn't really help your point. Enemies shouldn't even spawn during a boss anyway, as that is also unfair (this is a problem unrelated to Master Mode though). What other good game have you heard of that does this?
I said I had fun with the master mode, and you said that only healthy players didn't have fun.
I meant it was my fault, I could have fought away from the area with the jungle or used methods to reduce spawning monsters.
Not really. You were playing in night time, visibility is very low. I wouldn't have spotted any tortoises on my screen because it has a hard time processing darkness for some reason.
I had seen the turtle a long time before, I avoided several attacks of it thinking that I could focus on the boss the whole fight, if the turtle hit me it was just to heal with the nurse with the return potion, I just didn't know that the turtle was going kill me with one stroke, and she doing it in the end is what it should be, master mode must be "ultra hard" the way it already is.
The master mode is for those who are used to expert mode in 1.3 and those looking for a bigger challenge, this is a game that has rewards for the player who plays in the most difficult difficulty, it offers additional content in expert mode and a little more in master mode, the difference in playing in a more challenging mode is not only the challenge itself, the player also gains additional content, I played in normal mode only once, when I first met the game in 1.3, after that I can't imagine playing out from master mode (or out of expert mode in 1.3).
How can we make you understand that just simply raising health and damage does not make a gamemode difficult?
Heavier punishment only creates fake difficulty and frustrates the players trying the gamemode out. How are you going to make people appreciate the game if enemies are clearly bullet sponges that can kill you in under 2 hits?
Because clearly it is my fault for thinking Master mode wasn't going to be a steaming pile of crap on release, and not Re-Logic's for introducing such a terrible gamemode. "Boo hoo let's call this guy hyped for the final update of Terraria an idiot because he doesn't like a terrible feature that should have never been introduced to the game" What I was trying to say is they had well over 5 months to >maybe< think that just raising stat changes wasn't going to please everyone. Not making you think I'm an idiot because you clearly don't have anything else to add. TVTropes has an article describing artificial difficulty, you can draw a lot of parallels with Expert and Master mode. Expert encouraged you heavily to use different optimized strats. Master forces you to always rely on these strats, otherwise you are going to die in less than 2 hits. Stat changes is the absolute laziest feature you can implement to a game to increase difficulty.I could say (and have said) the exact same thing about Expert Mode. Which is my point: "fake difficulty" is an opinion.
You consider the stat changes to Master Mode to be "fake difficulty". But you do not consider the stat changes to Expert Mode to be "fake difficulty". Maybe you excuse them because they also came with some AI changes, as if the two were inseparable rather than being separate design choices. Maybe you're fine with them because the stat changes are not extreme enough to cross some line for you.
Regardless of the reason why you accept it in one area and not another, what matters is that where that line gets drawn is ultimately an opinion. If someone else draws their line farther away and finds Master Mode's difficulty to not be "fake difficulty", that's their right. You can discuss where that line should be and why you feel Master Mode goes too far.
But you cannot simply state that your line is right and theirs is wrong as if it were an immutable fact.
You should take this as a lesson to pay more attention to what a feature is than how it is marketed.
Am i really reading this? The world of games is full of games that prove that yes, it increases the difficulty.
Actually, you couldn't have, because Expert actually changes the AI of enemies in addition to giving them higher numbers, which is honestly far less lazy to do.
But those games aren't always considered very good, and usually have at least something else to the difficulty other than stat changes. Look at Axiom Verge, which makes bosses have more attack speed in addition to making the player take more damage and deal less of it (made by one person, by the way), or Monolith, which has over 50 different difficulty settings, none of which give anything higher numbers and effect every single enemy in the game differently (Monolith was made by a FAR smaller studio than Terraria, by the way. I'm pretty sure D-13 has literally three people in it total.)
But the focus in question is whether it increases the difficulty or not, enemies doing more damage are more dangerous, enemies resisting more attacks cost more of your time which also increases the danger they cause.
But that doesn't mean you will suddenly make mistakes you didn't before. That is my entire point. Difficulty is supposed to create more mistakes from the player, and increasing health is a flimsy way to do this that doesn't even test the people it was meant for. Raising numbers doesn't increase mistakes unless you're doing it to dungeon guardian levels of tankiness.
I think they increase your chance of error, if a monster has more HP it costs more time to be defeated normally, and this increases the player's chance of error because the fight time is longer and therefore he must have more correct actions in the fight.