Slay the Spire is meant to be a difficult strategy game, balance matters in order to maintain that difficulty. To me it actually does scratch a similar kind of itch as some competitive games. I see the Spire as my opponent, and I want it to put up a strong fight.
At launch, infinites were so easy to obtain that the dominant strategy was to force them on nearly every run. Not only was it too easy, it was repetitively dull. The ease with which you could just keep doing the same thing over and over and get away with it sucked all strategy out of the strategy game.
Even after the nerfs, StS2 is still considered to be much easier than its predecessor, even on max difficulty. Part of the goal of Early Access is to work on refining the game’s balance until it’s as polished as the original, so of course those infinites had to be the first priority to address.
Slay the Spire is meant to be a difficult strategy game, balance matters in order to maintain that difficulty. To me it actually does scratch a similar kind of itch as some competitive games. I see the Spire as my opponent, and I want it to put up a strong fight.
At launch, infinites were so easy to obtain that the dominant strategy was to force them on nearly every run. Not only was it too easy, it was repetitively dull. The ease with which you could just keep doing the same thing over and over and get away with it sucked all strategy out of the strategy game.
Even after the nerfs, StS2 is still considered to be much easier than its predecessor, even on max difficulty. Part of the goal of Early Access is to work on refining the game’s balance until it’s as polished as the original, so of course those infinites had to be the first priority to address.
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