Vaporum Difficulty Poll Results

The developers behind Vaporum have recently asked their players what they thought about the dungeon crawler’s difficulty and which rigs they preferred. The results of that survey are now available on the game’s official website. Overall, it looks like people were mostly satisfied with the difficulty, and Vaporum’s Normal difficulty actually means normal and not exceptionally easy, as is often the case in modern games.

Here are a few sample questions:

Which one is your favorite rig?

• Combat Rig – 38%
• Thauma Rig – 41%
• Heavy Rig – 21%

As expected, the Heavy Rig trails behind the two evenly matched offensive rigs. Understandably, offense is more fun for most people, but some of you out there on the forums claim the Heavy Rig is by far the best of all three, so I guess we’re fine here. Besides, the more options the better, right?

Do you find the difficulty level appropriate for its name?

• Yes, it is more or less accurate – 73%
• No, it should be easier – 19%
• No, it should be harder – 8%

This was our greatest concern prior to release. Will the game be frustratingly hard? Will people drop it after just 30 minutes because they die 10 times in the first level? Turns out, most of you feel the difficulty is okay which gave us a huge relief.

How often did you get into a deadlock situation with little health and no Repair Kits, so you could not continue playing?

• Never – 51%
• Rarely – 23%
• Average – 14%
• Often – 8%
• All the time! – 4%

Due to the harsh design of health management in our game, where when you run out of resources, there are very few ways to regain health, we were getting quite some feedback about you getting stuck out there. We thought this was a major issue, but the survey shows it’s not as big of a deal. Still, we did make some changes in Patch #1 to reduce the likeliness of getting deadlocked.