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If the goal of Challenge Mode was to drive me insane, mission accomplished. Might be willing to worship the Old Ones if they'd give me a had with my draws here.
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I crunched some numbers, and I'm getting a 17% chance of the opponent _not_ being able to kill you on the first turn in challenge 15
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Since Challenge Mode doesn't require any player skill other than luck, i guess this is the easiest impossible badge. Indeed a maddening game. But Chtulhu Mythos is supposed to be like this.
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This game perfetly captures the meaning of Lovecraft's stories: You have no control, you are the pawn of outer beings. The randomness is just a way to drive you insane, because you are not in complete control.
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basically challenges 15-17 are luck - think of it as trying to roll 6 6's on dice or something -- one interesting note, i have never gotten value from 'city of r'yleh' the one where opp goes insane because his very next card kills me -- its almost as if its programmed that way
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I'm actually surprised...I've gone from liking this..to hating it..to having it grow on me like moss. The challenges suck..they do.. But, the computer gaining a rank..really isn't that big of an issue. The main game...I'm amazed at how fun, exiting, tense things get. When you're both low on health..both insane..it gets your blood flowing.
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Fun game, i quite enjoyed it. However, some of the challenges left the realm of "game" entirely and just became entirely random events where you either get incredibly lucky or instantly lose.
Challenge 15 was the worst. 10 of the 36 available cards can insta-kill you in that challenge, and the PC gets to draw 5. I played that challenge 116 times. 115 losses, with 72 of those coming on the very first card the PC played.
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WOW real situation! I have 2 life and 2 taint, no creatures on the board, my opponent has 11 elder defense and 3 life, and i have no arcane. The only card that could possible give me the win and did was blast 'em
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Core game is fun, but Challenge Mode is a joke. Trying to claim "challenge" in a random-draw system is just pseudo-difficulty. It isn't actually hard, it's just a matter of trying enough times to get the right cards.
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I saw the comment from someone who took 116 tries to beat Challenge 15. So I decided to get that one out of the way before attempting the others. I got lucky on my third try. ^_^;
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Don't you hate it when your opponent has just ONE health point left, and everyone of your cards are "dispels" and "Blackmails"?
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don't you just love it when you use blessing of hastur to remove taint and then the very next turn the opponent uses blessing of hastur and the taint comes right back to you...
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funny i got the achievement for completing the game by unlocking all 30 ranks and the game said i completed it and yet im only rank 27...
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challenge 15 never, never the oppent had so many attacks = or + 5 like in this challenge!! For us starting with a blackmail card is giving little bit more chances..
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Challenge 15 really is pathethically based only on luck. No strategy at all. Dear devs, at least you could put an instant retry button to it to shorter the time of it.
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The Impossible badge is meant to be extremely hard or very time consuming. In this case it was just time consuming eventually you will get it, just the probability is like 1/300 that is if you know the right card to play in every situation.
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Miles, you have played the challenges right? Story mode is perfectly easy, sometimes too easy, but the challenge mode, a lot of them are absolutely ridiculous. And I've figured the major issue for a lot of them (especially challenge 13 and 15) is the fact that you have so little health, literally every single attack card except one will kill you in one go. The only way you could have possibly done good for challenge 15 is starting with a lucky hand and the AI deciding to be an idiot. This game is great, the challenges are not.
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I have to say, even though at times the challenges can drive you I-N-S-A-N-E, the process of getting the impossible badge is actually really fun (especially when luck is finally on your side!) and it's achievable in about 3 hours once you get the hang of the game. This is no doubt one of my most favorite games on this site.
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Never really enjoyed Lovecrafts work simply because he was way too wordy for me, but this game is fun. Challenge mode is frustrating though.
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Dear Cthulu,
Please stop giving my opponent Hound of Tindalos on his first turn.
Sincerely, guy trying to get the Impossible Badge.
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dark903, I think it needs to be done in a challenge. I completed the first match insane and nothing. Then I did Challenge 1 and went insane, lost, and then the badge unlocked.