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Poll: which medals can we do without?
Thomas:
--- Quote from: Solarn on April 09, 2013, 15:03 ---The problem I see here is that medals have very variable difficulty. Some are intended to be fairly easy to get and some will only ever be achieved by the top players, while some are simply luck-based. I honestly have no problem with any of them. I know I will likely never get the Hell Arena Pwnage Medal or Thomas' Medal, but that doesn't make me want to get rid of them because they were never intended for me. Similarly, I will probably never have the patience for Gambler's Shield, but that doesn't make it any less valid.
So no, I don't think any medals need to be removed.
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Removing them based on difficulty is silly, yeah, but Iron Skull in particular needs either a large numerical change or removal simply because the only way to get it is to hang around in City of Skulls/Abyssal Plains for a few hours as a Vampyre marine. No skill or even luck involved, you just play for 4-5 hours and you get it.
ZicherCZ:
Voted for Iron Skull and Gambler's Shield.
The reasons for this vote are pretty similar to what everyone else already said.
Iron Skull is a pure grind - you would have to lose and heal all your HP over eight times per level on average (not counting special levels - but even with all of them, it's still almost six times per level). No skill involved, no luck involved, it's simply an achievement for the sake of achievement.
Gambler's Shield is similar. Int1 at least is nearly a must there, cerberus boots or Enviroboots can help a lot here. But even then, it's one lever per level, and there are not that many games in which you can get this many levers generated at first.
The other medals either require some (serious) skill, or some luck, which I consider playable, and I'm fine with them.
Solarn:
--- Quote from: Thomas on April 10, 2013, 01:51 ---Removing them based on difficulty is silly, yeah, but Iron Skull in particular needs either a large numerical change or removal simply because the only way to get it is to hang around in City of Skulls/Abyssal Plains for a few hours as a Vampyre marine. No skill or even luck involved, you just play for 4-5 hours and you get it.
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Okay, that's true. I never even thought about Iron Skull before. That really needs to change.
White Rider:
--- Quote from: Klear on April 09, 2013, 13:14 ---YES!
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I think you just made your point that Fallout Gold Platinum is more fun to get than Gambler's Shield, despite you originally setting out to get Gambler's Shield. ;)
Klear:
Yea, I knew I'll be killing the argument I was supposed to make with that run, but it was so worth it.
Gambler's Shield on my first attempt which didn't get sidetracked by extreme nukage.
http://forum.chaosforge.org/index.php/topic,6328.0.html
It might be that I got lucky, but I don't think GS is nearly as luck-based as it seems.
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