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Nightmare! difficulty not Accessible to slow players

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Radagast:
Yesterday I learned the "hard way", that I should have never tried to play nightmare.

No I'm not talking about the difficulty which yes it is absurd, but I'm talking about the fact that you can't even save your game and come back to it later. What's up with that? How come?

You do realize you block players completely with this... Some of us enjoy this game playing at our own leisure and we also have work in the mornings/noons and can rarely play consecutively for more than 1 or 2 hours. It's pretty obvious a nightmare run is impossible in such a short time length.

My experience in this game is mainly from HMP and UV games. Some of you here have seen few mortems I've posted recently, I take my time in my games, that's how I enjoy doomrl, so I usually do 5 to 10 hours for each normal run, entering as many special levels as I can and playing carefully, it's just my style I can't play faster really, it's a tactical game after all.

But I made the mistake of thinking that I could give a try to nightmare too. With all that corpse resurrection and gibbing and thinking you must do just to "survive" and not die, how the hell am I to finish any run (I know I can't with my current skills, but even if I could) if I can never even save my game? ... I just cannot understand the logic behind it...

It's probably the only real complaint I have, for an otherwise great and free community game.

PS: For the record I had to quit the game before the arena due to a RL reason...

Klear:
See this thread.

Basically, saving on n! is not going to happen, it seems.

LuckyDee:
I agree with Radagast (and others) that however rediculous N! is in its own right, the inability to save is just one bridge too far.
The slow pace of playing is something that should be conquerable though, given time.

However, since I'm still stuck on HNTR, I don't see myself in a position to actually argue for either side of the discussion.

thelaptop:
N! is not supposed to be fair and is designed for people seeking a challenge.

No compromises on this one.

Klear:
Personally, I rarely save even UV games, and when I try n!, I never play for that long. Well, except for when I was attempting Ao100. I had to leave my computer running a couple of times there, despite barely making it to half of the game.

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