It’s not the scaling itself but when the scaling is done bad! D3 also has scaling but nobody is complaining about it as it done right.
The scaling is a very good concept if implemented properly, it keeps the game fresh all the way till end game level, older areas don’t become obsolete and ignored by higher level chars. I never liked how D2 was set up as at higher levels the only playable part of the game was Bail runs, over and over and over, the rest of it was useless, at least that’s how it was by the time I stopped playing it.
I never found challenge to be fun. Immersion and being able to experience things I cannot while playing a powerful character is where the fun is. Not everyone is a masochist. Some of us are sadists. We want to see other people in pain.
And Dark Souls is one of the worst games I played.
The level scaling is still better than WoW where you start out one shotting a mob but go back to that same mob 30 levels later and it takes you a full rotation to kill it.
It anyway will be as side quests exp / rewards do not scale… Why i should go back and do a quest that gives 4k exp, when i can get 10k killing pack of mobs.
Only force to do side quests/ exploration is completion for paragon points, which you anyway will have to do, with or without level scaling.
I confirmed this yesterday while playing the necromancer. Certain zones on the map have a minimum level. If you go into those zones below the minimum level, you’re going to encounter enemies at the zone’s minimum level.
For example, I was level 10 and wandered into I believe Frigid Expanse which has a minimum level of 12 and had to fight level 12 enemies.
This level scaling really like eh! I didn’t notice it till I went backwards and was like… why the heck are these guys same level as me after spending 10 minutes progressing forward. Then I went back to the first dungeon thinking it would be easier but come to find out I leveled twice in the dungeon but didn’t pick up any gear that made my character better. Then I get to the boss and it’s almost unbeatable because my gear isn’t up to par with my level…. SMH not a fan of this scaled leveling. My goal now is to get to level 25, the cap for beta, as fast as possible so I can stay at that level and get better gear so I can actually enjoy the game. Not even sure the purpose of leveling as it really doesn’t pay off to level. Why level if you don’t really get stronger? The purpose of leveling has nothing to do with getting strong and everything to do with just getting more skill points.
After giving it some thought, there is zero grind element to this game. The best thing to do is progress through the story and ignore leveling because the whole purpose of leveling is somewhat irrelevant. Complete opposite affect of what was intended I believe.
The smarter hc players will abuse this lvl scaling system. Why bother pushing the story or side quests or dungeons, when they can just have a low lvl buddy carry them at the events spawn locations in the first zone. We will see massive chat spam of selling lvl services, and anyone will be able to do it since low lvls can carry.
Scaling doesn’t make it harder, it spoonfeeds progression instead of giving the player agency to take risks in how quickly they want to try and progress through the content.
you are delusional to think that will be a thing. it would get patched. also some areas only scale at a certain level. and you need to be a certain level to access certain difficulties so you won’t be able to get uniques
Your delusional to think it won’t be a thing. The only way they could fix it is to set a lvl range with the players in a shared world, and a lvl range of those in your party, and I don’t see that happening. And since the first zone scales it doesn’t matter. Players abusing this system won’t be behind in gear because they are farming the events and gambeling for gear.
level scaling is what turns d3 leveling into nonsense. Why not just start as max level? It just eat time to loop of dropping same items but higher level again and again, fighting monsters scaling always to your level.
I would like to have different level of content in the same areas, so i can get there back later, but not be annoyed by monsters and content i surpass long ago. There are must be dungeons, world bosses, rifts/maps etc for endgame content.
Even if location is low level it still can be a place for high-level event or dungeon. Or justinteresting NPC or object.
But scaling kills the feeling of progress, you cant get back in locations to feel the difference of how stronger you get. You have no common determinator for your character until you reach max level. It’s worst game design.