Public Commander Keen Forum

Stealthy71088 · Vortininja Joined: 01 Nov 2007 Posts: 153

So I was thinking. I was looking through some of the previews on the website, and I saw that you have a hard mode for keen 1 2 and 3. I think it might be interesting to have a no raygun difficulty, or perhaps a no pogo difficulty (for keen 1 at least, maybe leaving in the pogo for lv 16 only?) I think making slight changes like that might make the game a lot more exciting. Granted you would need the raygun for keen 2 and 3 to shoot the sparks.... maybe the enemies could be invincible??? I don't know, but anyway its an idea.

MOM4Evr · Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 21:57 Post subject:

In hard mode in Keen1 in CG, the pogo stick level is replaced with another. Freaked me out first time I tried going in there! Of course, since you need the pogo in the last level, I'm assuming that the pogo in the last level is still there...

BlueGasMask · Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 10:11 Post subject:

these features should not be added as levels but as extra options.
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gerstrong · Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2010 17:04 Post subject:

Well, what do you wish then in our hard and easy modes? I have some ideas here:

Easy Mode:
- Vorticons have half the hit points
- You get the double of shots for every raygun you collect
- Keen jumps higher with pogo than in normal mode

Hard mode:
- Vorticons and other foes have double the hit points
- You get less bullets maybe the half when collecting rayguns
- It is harder to get extra lifes. You need more points than normal

What do you think. I'm aldo thinking about removed those swapped levels in Episode when playing hard. Not sure if I should do that. What do you think?
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matonen · Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2010 17:41 Post subject:

Don't affect the jump height in easy, that could break the game and make it actually more challenging in some levels.

shikadi · Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2010 17:59 Post subject:

change the jump height on hard. =p
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tulip · Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2010 20:21 Post subject:

I'm pretty sure that for the original 3 episodes a 1 tile higher pogo jump shouldn't break anything, but it would make things easier (a particular level in keen2 comes to mind), exactly what it should. I'm concerned about mods too, that's why I say no difficulty modes for mods, at least not now.

I wouldn't go as far as double the ammo count, but like galaxy 8 shots on easy. And 1 hp more/less for for enemies with more than one hp.
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DHeadshot · Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2010 20:31 Post subject:

gerstrong · Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2010 20:53 Post subject:

I think in Episode 1 yes.

In the other Episode it might be really really hard.
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tulip · Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2010 16:41 Post subject:

What do you guys think about the features that are partially in, like faster moving enemies on hard?
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pizza2004 · Vortininja Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 266

I think we should do our best to match the differences in difficulties of Vorticons to the differences in difficulties of Galaxy. In things thaisn'tt possible in, we can improvise.