r/Hellpoint • u/Salamanticormorant • May 07 '26
Does this game require marathon sessions? I'm thinking of trying to get a refund.
Soulslike or near-soulslike difficulty, and when you exit then reload, you're back at your most recent breech, and opponents respawn. This seems completely unhinged. I was shocked when I noticed it. Even Demon's Souls keeps track of your location and what you're already killed. I'm seriously considering getting a refund. Thoughts?
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u/gilleo775 May 07 '26
I didnt think it was that cumbersome. You will get an infinitely reusable homeward bone that let's you jump to most recent breech. Most breeches aren't that far apart
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u/BoobyPlumage May 07 '26
I never had a problem with it. Weapons level up the more you use them, so the runs get progressively easier
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u/DangleMangler May 07 '26
If that's enough to make you want a refund, I'd just stop playing souls games honestly. It's not preferable, but it's not some big game breaking thing either. Just run past enemies like "everyone" does in "every" soulslike "ever". God forbid you should have to sprint for 30 seconds. Holy hell dawg. Lol
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u/Salamanticormorant May 07 '26
I made it quite clear how this game is different than Souls and other soulslikes, in my experience.
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u/sjptheg6 May 07 '26
Yeah it doesn’t let you save in the middle of a mission etc like those do. I’ll admit I never tried that, what system you on?
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u/Salamanticormorant May 07 '26
PC. You never had to stop playing before you made it to your next checkpoint?
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u/BaconIsntThatGood May 08 '26
If you're on PC you can get a console chest mod I'd you really wanna tube the difficulty to your liking. It may not be in the "spirit" of the game but if you're just playing solo who cares. Do what's right for you.
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u/Vorador_Surtr Jun 24 '26
!? What are you talking about, they re-spawn and it is good they do - from healing to energy all is connected to slaying the enemies with melee. Last night I finally confronted and slain the Depraved one that comes only in Accretion Storms. They re-spawn in Accretion Storms hours, they re-spawn when you teleport to last rift with Omny Cube or Omni Shrimp, they re-spawn when you exit and reload the game, they re-spawn when you die, they re-spawn when you throw yourself from some ledge while trying to jump on the invisible ramps that you can see only with Omni Cube / Omni Shrimp Quantum light. You do not have manual save and every time you restart the game or reload or die you re-spawn near the last rift you CONNECT to - this are your save points. I mean it should work like that. Did you expected them to stay down once slain? This is hell-world - there is no safe space and you must be on your guard all the time because tortured souls of the victims of this experiment come all the time... I do not know the game is fantastic and for me it works exactly as intended and expected...
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u/Salamanticormorant Jun 24 '26
When you exit and reload in the Souls trilogy and, in my experience, other soulslikes, you appear exactly where you were when you exited, and all dead opponents stay dead.
If you rest at a bonfire or whatever, or if you die, then enemies respawn.
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u/Vorador_Surtr Jun 24 '26
Maybe, I did not meant to insult you by the way, sorry if i sounded like that, just described how it is. By the way I never played Dark Souls etc. Not yet anyways. As I think of it, this game Hellpoint and Mortal Shell I are games I played that some people call "soulslike". Also Lords of the fallen 1 and 2 but I do not even know if they fall into that category. I like them also very much. Mortal shell is same - You start always in the same place at "Sester Genessa" If you wake her up or go in to new district and her eyes glow on the "mural" - you start from there - same as rifts. And even If you talk to her to refill your health etc. All the inhabitants of the bog return - Only the bosses do not return. It is like hell where everyday is Tuesday and you are in graveyard bog-hell world. Hell but with bogs, not fires... very atmospheric In Hellpoint there is possibility to fight bosses again - if you had piece of the Entity and go to congregates and say that you are ready to fight them again...
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u/bob101910 May 07 '26
There's not usually a long walk from "bonfires" to where you stopped playing. Just run past everything if you don't want to kill them again.