Gameplay Statistics Are Cool
So, I'm sure the big question that you just can't get out of your head is: "How much did the last update affect/improve Ballhalla's balance?". Do not despair! The game tracks the average amount of respawns players need to finish each trial. Note that it's only tracking the first time players finish a trial and not their best run, as I wanted to compare the initial difficulty of each trial.
Here we go:
The difficulty curve is now much smoother than before and has less spikes. Especially 1-2, 3-3 and 4-5 had way more respawns than other trials in their chapter and therefore saw the biggest change. 3-3 (teleporters suck) is still a bit high (as it's the only trial that focuses more on precision than rhythm) and 4-3 (time travel) is surprisingly low (maybe I should change that :>), but besides that I'm happy with the results.
As far as I can tell, you're having more fun with the game now (and this was the whole point of it): all of the over 40 Steam reviews since the update were positive and some of the negative ones even have been changed to positive!
Just for fun, here are the stats from the beta test a year ago (though keep in mind this data is only from about 100 players and not several thousands like in the stats above):
Yeah, right?
(The high amount of respawns in 2-2 actually came from players trying to bruteforce the hidden pathways because they didn't understand the hints.)
Happy rollin'!
Here we go:
The difficulty curve is now much smoother than before and has less spikes. Especially 1-2, 3-3 and 4-5 had way more respawns than other trials in their chapter and therefore saw the biggest change. 3-3 (teleporters suck) is still a bit high (as it's the only trial that focuses more on precision than rhythm) and 4-3 (time travel) is surprisingly low (maybe I should change that :>), but besides that I'm happy with the results.
As far as I can tell, you're having more fun with the game now (and this was the whole point of it): all of the over 40 Steam reviews since the update were positive and some of the negative ones even have been changed to positive!
Just for fun, here are the stats from the beta test a year ago (though keep in mind this data is only from about 100 players and not several thousands like in the stats above):
Yeah, right?
(The high amount of respawns in 2-2 actually came from players trying to bruteforce the hidden pathways because they didn't understand the hints.)
Happy rollin'!