Name 1(One) reason why the ability to accidently destroy a checkpoint and fuck up your progress should exist as a mechanic.
Just brought/beat this game now, destroyed 2 checkpoints without even meaning to since they die in about a second if you bounce on them when being knocked down a screen onto them. Really, really frustrating bullshit.
Maybe stop hitting them more than once dumbass
Maybe try reading?
don't be a dumbfuck and destroy them, then? the answer is pretty damn obvious, if you destroy them you get a bigger reward at the end of the level since you get currency for destroying them
how is this a thread?
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A dumbass who doesn't learn from his mistakes clearly
The checkpoints in the first stage can't even be destroyed, and all other checkpoints are fairly durable as to not accidentally destroy them, as well as usually all being positioned out of the way of anything you may need to attack.
You couldn't conceivably do this by accident. By mistake? I guess if you're that stupid of a player, like a young child who doesn't pay attention or learn.
You do know more people have played the game and know it takes more than one hit to break the checkpoint, not to mention you can just swing the shovel to stop the pogo attack.
Either way you're a moron.
>just bought and beat this game
>holy shit why am I allowed to screw myself over this is so frustrating
you sound like you just need to git gud and quit spewing bullshit
Fuck off idiot
Pretty sure they don't break at the second hit.
>if you destroy them you get a bigger reward at the end of the level since you get currency for destroying them
Which is absolutely unnescessary since there's far safer and better ways to make money.
Yeah, I'll just learn to never take damage, fall down a screen and land atop the checkpoint. Bounce bounce bounce, in the space of about a second and it's gone.
They break so incredibly fast from the Pogo attack that by the time you even realise it's happening, it's probably broken.
Please explain which part was bullshit?
For the sake of being hardcore.
Git gud or go back to playing minecraft.
Yeah they take like four.
>by the time you even realise it's happening
You mean after the first bounce? Or are you slow because they dropped you on your head as a baby?
>Mfw No-one has yet to list a single reason WHY this mechanic should be in the game
>They just keep repeating that you should never encounter this mechanic instead
It's not even a bad game, it's pretty solid, but fanboying this hard is just pathetic.
Is this bait?
I've literally never heard of one person to ever break one of the checkpoints by mistake
Jesus Christ how bad do you have to be?
see It's there for kids that want to feel hardcore for going through levels without checkpoints.
I already beat the game, it was fairly challenging but nothing too insane.
However twice I got screwed over by accidently destroying the checkpoints and I wanted to see if anyone on Sup Forums could articulate a reason WHY that mechanic exists. Seems all they can do is tell me I should avoid it though...
>by the time you even realise it's happening, it's probably broken
How poor are your reflexes?
You get a good chunk of money from checkpoints. It's a risk/reward system where experienced players can rake in cash fast by destroying checkpoints but put themselves in danger of being sent further back when they die.
It's essentially a "select your own difficulty" option, which you shouldn't be able to do accidentally like OP because it takes four fucking hits to do.
Why don't they just jump over the checkpoints then?
Why don't they let you repair them, or even just restart the whole level from scratch to get them back then?
see
High risk, high reward. Beat the level in one go and earn a ton of money at the same time.
>Need to hit it 3-4 times to break the checkpoint
>Accidentally
Not my fault you're retarded
Good enough to beat the whole game in one sitting.
>Doesn't even know how many hits it takes...
is this the designated low tier bait thread?
Also achievement/feat for breaking every single checkpoint if anybody cares about that shit
So I broke the first checkpoint on Pridemoor Keep for the hell of it. Took three bounces, and about a second.
People with reaction times of over a second probably shouldn't be playing real-time games.
>Enemy hits you
>Get knocked down a screen onto the checkpoint
>Broken by the time you realise what's happened
Seriously, how stupid do you have to be to hit a checkpoint 4 times in a row by mistake?
This has to be a joke
Why shouldn't it exist? Stop hitting them if you can't git gud.
And yet they're somehow able to beat the entire game in one sitting. Awesome No True Scotsman fallacy though.
How was OP supposed to know that he shouldn't hit the checkpoint???
WOOOOOOOOOOOOW
Do you just have spasm and start mashing the attack button every time an enemy hits you?
>accidentally
Checkpoints take 3 (three) hits to destroy. If you were hitting them with shovel swings you deserve this. If you were bouncing on top of them long enough to land 3 (three) consecutive bounces without moving, you deserve this. If you damaged the checkpoint once or twice and didn't immediately suicide since you're RIGHT FUCKING NEXT TO ONE so it would regenerate its health, you deserve this.
If you can't manage to beat this game with two missing checkpoints without feeling the need to bitch about something that was your own fault, you probably shouldn't be on Sup Forums or even playing video games in the first place. Stick to something like TV, it seems more your speed.
It gets you gems if you are confident that you'll make it to the end without a savepoint. Now go fuck yourself, dumb animeposter.
Literally never happens.
The only joke is that you don't even know how the mechanic works and you still feel qualified to talk down to people.
Sad.
WOW so an enemy hit me and knocked me into a Death pit killing me
Explain to me why this bullshit is allowed?
I don't think I've ever destroyed a checkpoint when I played it. Seems like you have to actively do so, unless you're a complete fucking retard. Plus, the game is already pretty easy so even if you're dumb enough to get rid of a checkpoint, you don't even really need to worry about it.
>tfw DSP posts on Sup Forums
>Doesn't even know how many hits it takes...
I'm pretty sure it's four normal hits and like three bounces, or something to that extent.
Regardless of the exact number it takes a good second to try and destroy. If you're really destroying them faster than you can process you must have a very slow reaction time or aren't paying that much attention.
This isn't a "git gud" thing. You shouldn't even be having this problem because the checkpoints are designed to take some effort to break.
>3 (three)
what is this meme? i keep seeing this everywhere now
Except you don't fucking pogo unless you press down so what the fuck are you trying to say? Your fat fingers hit down too much?
>I'm pretty sure
>or something to that extent.
I'll wait till you know what you're talking about then.
I dunno about you, but I was Pogoing pretty much everywhere on reflex after about the first 1/3 of the game.
Doesn't undo your previous progress
Happened to me twice in my last run
There was some old copypasta (years old at this point) where someone was clearly fake-shilling for some company, and included the line of "1 (one)" whatever they were talking about.
It's been floating around for awhile now, generally in a mocking sense of how stupid someone would need to be to have that sort of indicator.
I was getting hit by enemies then I suddenly died
Explain to me 1 (one) good reason you have health bars that can run out and kill you
Then stop fucking doing the pogo attack on checkpoints you retard
if your such an idiot that you repeatedly hit a checkpoint enough times to break it, let alone doing it twice, you have bigger problems then fucking Shovel Knight. Those things take like four hits each, how do you """"accidentally"""" destroy them?
You know why a lot of people are not 100% sure how much hits it takes to break a checkpoint?
Because until your dumb ass did it no one ever needed to worry about accidentally breaking them
That's your problem
That's not really relevant in this game though. I died ~200 times in my first playthrough (although a good handful were suicide deaths after reaching a checkpoint... Why not make the checkpoint just heal you?) and maybe 1/5 or less would have been HP loss deaths.
The pits are what gets you in Shovel Knight.
i didn't even know you could destroy the checkpoints lmao
>Doesn't know what he's talking about
>Continues to post
It's embarrassing now, please stop.
Op, I can buy that you destroyed one checkpoint by accident. But 2? What was your thought process behind destroying the second one? Did you think the first time it happened was just a prank?
Checkpoints are some of the biggest pranksters around user
>I was Pogoing pretty much everywhere on reflex
It sounds like you developed some pretty poor reflexes, then. Sounds like that is the problem, not the game design.
>Not breaking all the checkpoints not only for the achievement, but also for the challenge
Wew.
>is too slow to move an inch to either side so that you stop bouncing on the checkpoint
>too stupid to know that you can cancel the shovel drop mid-bounce
Next you'll be complaining about bomb bursts in PoS, aren't you?
It's a risk reward mechanic, that's the whole point and it's a clever design decision.
I don't how you managed to accidentally destroy 2 checkpoints without the intention of doing so, you must have extreme parkinson's.
Why would you bounce on them if you knew they would break? It's kind of a no-brainer.
Beside's it only happened twice, by making a thread about it you're really crying over split milk.
Accidentally? Are you fucking serious? You need several hits to break a checkpoint and checkpoints are usually put in rather calm zones, without too many insidious enemies.
You really have to do it ON PURPOSE. Or you are mentally challenged, I don't know, you tell me.
Using phrases you don't understand the meaning of doesn't make you appear smart.
Just break 'em all on your no-death run, two birds with one stone.
You can make it out like I'm some terrible player all you want.
But arguing that also means you're saying that the game must be fucking simple then, if I'm really as bad as you seem to believe, since I beat it in one session.
Must be an absolute garbage baby's first casual walk in the park game, eh?
Or maybe the checkpoint breaking thing is just dumb.
Maybe you are dumb if you are having problems with it.
Counterpoint: maybe you're just dumb because you complain about optional challenges and didn't learn after breaking the first checkpoint.
I will ask you again, why and how did you break the second checkpoint?
You're the only person that has problems with that mechanic. Reflect on that.
Checkpoint breaking is fine
Game is not hard. Are you some 'le hardcore dark souls pro' that thinks saying a game is super hard makes you good?
Next time don't break them. There you go, easy as that
>But arguing that also means you're saying that the game must be fucking simple then
the game is simple, whatever makes you think its not?
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>WHAT THE FUCK I HAD NO TIME TO REACT
>Name 1(One) reason why the ability to accidently destroy a checkpoint and fuck up your progress should exist as a mechanic.
Risk/reward
>Just brought/beat this game now, destroyed 2 checkpoints without even meaning to since they die in about a second if you bounce on them when being knocked down a screen onto them. Really, really frustrating bullshit.
git gud
>You can make it out like I'm some terrible player all you want.
It's okay user you're not bad, just really fuckin' stupid
Are you really not able to connect the dots on something that simple?
You were stating that only people with terrible reflexes would ever make that mistake, people with reflexes so bad they shouldn't play real time games.
ie. "A TRUE gamer wouldn't have this problem."
Classic No True Scotsman. The fact I had to spell that out for you is pretty pathetic really.
This thread is fucking hysterical.
Goddamnit, this is some shitty bait.
I'm willing to bet not even DSP broke a checkpoint by mistake
even the game grumps figured out that mechanic
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I'm almost completely sure OP is just baiting. But then again I've seen some stupid shit online so who knows
I just hope he is baiting and really isn't this dumb
>Imgur
ah, that explains a lot.
>He is a DOA waifufag
Now this whole thread makes a lot more of sense.
>I will ask you again, why and how did you break the second checkpoint?
1st Checkpoint I don't remember exactly what happened, it was on Treasure Knight's level, something knocked me back, landed on the checkpoint and it's gone.
2nd Checkpoint was on Polar Knight's level, I got knocked down two screens landed on it and it broke
Oh no user, it's not just simple, it's downright baby level. It's a childish first grader's kind'a game. It's the kind of game a 6yr old plays.
Er.. Why are you playing a childrens game again?
Checkpoints take multiple hits to break, so why do you bother with lying?
>I ran out of arguments, better post random shit instead
>Er.. Why are you playing a childrens game again?
Why are you complaining about how you couldn't figure out a mechanic in a childrens game? :^) Even children can figure it out, why can't you?
This isn't a point in your favor, just to let you know. kek
That implies you hit them before though. Why did you do it?
Actually, why did you do it purposely?
Maybe you should go back saving waifu pictures rather than talking about gameplay features.
DSP actually posts on Sup Forums what the fuck?
So not only did you have plenty of time to react to the fact that you were pogoing so you could cancel it, but you did so in a stage with slowed falling speed. Then proceeded to do it after 2 screen transitions. Despite having ample time to just move left or right, or use a pogo cancel.
A pogo cancel ability that's taught in the first stage. A pogo cancel ability that's required to clear the Tower of Fate unless you want to eat shit during the underwater descent. A pogo cancel ability that would be required for the Enchantress fight if you're truly as dumb as you are to have instinctively pogo'd everywhere you went.
>Still claims to have beaten the game in a single sitting.
If you actually beat the game, you would've been able to at least acknowledge that such a cancel existed and realize how you'd be able to not break a checkpoint by ''''accident''' this thread wouldn't exist.
>Er.. Why are you playing a childrens game again?
you're the one who completed it in one sitting and couldn't avoid a simple mechanic that you frankly can't do "accidently" more than once.
Also; simple =/= strictly for children. Might be a bit difficult for you to grasp but here's to hope.
>Almost 100 posts
>Still no-one able to think up a reason beyond "so hardcore players don't have to jump over it"
>Still no-one can clarify why we can't reset a level and go back to the beginning
I give up. Everyone's too busy shitposting to discuss something that's clearly crap gameplay design.
Just because you like a game doesn't mean it's perfect guys. Think about that for the future.
Answer these:
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>Also; simple =/= strictly for children. Might be a bit difficult for you to grasp but here's to hope.
But it is strictly for Children. I mean! It must be!
If I'm really as bad, or dumb as you guys seem to be suggesting, then there's no way I could possibly have beaten it so easily otherwise! Beat the whole thing in one setting, didn't even use potions for the Boss Rush part (since I was worried the final boss would come straight after) and it still only took a few hours.
It really must be one of the easiest, simplest games around. Maybe it was originally gonna be a Barney game, but they reskinned it?
>DOAfag
>Sup Forumsposter
Damn, you should have told us about your autism from the get-go! Sorry for making fun of you.
oh god
it was barneyfag all along
don't you have to fuck some dogs instead, lee?
Boo hoo baby made a mistake and had to learn from it
Life hurts wear a cup
>Still no-one able to think up a reason beyond "so hardcore players don't have to jump over it
What is acquiring currency? Clearly you've never seen the speedrun routes for the game since your casual ass probably grinded in easy spots to get gems to buy all the upgrades and gear.
>Still no-one can clarify why we can't reset a level and go back to the beginning
Oh but you can. There's this magical thing called a Pause menu that lets you forcibly restart a stage without saving any of your progress.
You dumbshit.
>barneyfag
i see it's a lost cause.
It's really not a mistake. It's clear OP purposely broke the checkpoints. Because they need several hit to be broken. He complains about something he did on purpose, not one but two times.
He is basically baiting to the max. And now, once cornered, he has no arguments left, see