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Quick Questions Thread

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u/Terramagi 3d ago

For Cold Steel 3, when is the difficulty achievement checked? Is it when you beat the final boss, so if you have it on Nightmare you're good, or does it set a flag like "switchedOffNightmare" somewhere in there to screw with you. I'm running SenPatcher, so no issues with it not allowing me to swap back.

Because Nightmare is SUPER easy on foot, but the V sections take like 20 goddamn minutes. And if I happen to get the boss to 10% only for it to decide "I get two turns in a row, instant S-craft, can't interrupt me byyyyyyyye" I might be interested in not having to deal with that.

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u/LtLukoziuz It would be my pleasure! 3d ago

Iirc it has to be one continuous playthrough. Why do you even care for the trophy if you don't want to put in the work?

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u/Terramagi 3d ago

Why do you even care for the trophy if you don't want to put in the work?

I do play on Nightmare. It's really simple for most of it, and in the off chance I do get smoked it takes like maybe 10 seconds for a runback. The issue is that the Valimar sections take so much longer, that even smashing my Ctrl key into the ground for Turbo, it's like 10 minutes for an attempt as it wants me to smack a guy with like 800k HP down 2-4k at a time. So if I get to the end and botch counting delay, or it has a phase shift and suddenly gets three attacks back to back to back, I can go from 100-0.

The reason I ask is because the game, by default, prevents you from turning it back up if you turn it down. But SenPatcher unlocks that. So I if I hit a section that is just obnoxiously tuned, I was hoping to just smooth over that rough edge. As opposed to fighting 2 foot battles, then a 15 minute rock-em-sock-em match that I lose at the end, with like 3 minutes of cutscenes between each phase.