Topic: Immortals Fenyx Rising: Some of the vaults are excessively hard

There's a balance. Make it too easy and the player gets bored or feels patronised. Make it harder so the player feels challenged. Make it too hard, however, and it starts to seem more like tormenting the player. These are marked as 'Hard' but there are limits.

Issue 1: task that has hazards (lasers, void death, spikes, etc) that allow such a narrow band of success that the margin for error is near to non-existent. The player is not an AI.

Issue 2: multiple near-impossible tasks prior to save points, so if the player passes one they fail the second and have to start over, and over, and over...

The result is the gameplay gets aggravating and repetitive as the player has to repeatedly negotiate the same path as they fail at various points time and time again.

@Bluefield You’re probably missing an ability that would stop it from being near impossible. Come back later when you’ve upgraded your character.

I'm fully skilled up, there's nothing left to unlock. Like I'm supposed to somehow push a wooden ball and simultaneously shoot a target and then somehow get the ball up a ramp all within seconds with zero room for the slightest miscalculation. After repeatedly trying I got pissed off.

Basically it gets to the point that if a vault is Hard level it's probably not worth bothering about because it's nigh unpassable.

I'm not sure how difficulty settings affect these (if at all) but I didn't have a lot of trouble with the vaults, save for the optional chest in Messenger's Path (was that the name), which is the hardest one to even get to in the first place.

Anyway, everyone enjoys different things in games so that's totally fine, but if you're not enjoying these more demanding vaults, you should probably skip the "A New God" DLC.

@Voltan I don't have any DLCs just base game.

@Bluefield All I'm saying is that if you were thinking about getting the DLC, the 1st one is probably not for you. It's almost exclusively vaults and a lot of them are harder than the base game.

OK, thanks for the warning. Think I'll skip on the DLCs, I got the base game on deal (PlayStation Store).