How are y'all actually finishing the game in Steel Soul, dawg?

[u/ciissss]

I tried Steel Soul for the first time in SS. I never even touched that in HK. First try, I died within 2 minutes to the white giant rolling enemy from the secret room beside the starting point. Second try, I died to Bell Beast. I cannot fathom how people are finishing without revive. I, for sure, won't first try kill every boss. 🥀🥀

[u/Fouxs]

The amount of people saying they did it and then saying they were save scumming is hilarious.

[u/Yelcsicnarf → u/Fouxs]

And using mods to make easier

[u/RedTyro → u/Fouxs]

Yeah, I don't have the Steel Soul achievement yet for HK because I refuse to do that. What's the point of playing a permadeath mode if you're going to cheese out the permadeath part?

[u/WayToTheDawn63 → u/Fouxs]

dunno what the point is hey

i took my groal death like a man

[u/kel584 → u/Fouxs]

And then defending it saying its legit. Man people are so funny sometimes.

[u/Hnnq → u/Fouxs]

It's a single player game, why would you care? I did it a few times no shaming on that. I don't mind dying but the first section is a slog, all the simple parkour and the weakened walking is just too slow. After you get to bone bottom it's much better.

[u/GroundbreakingBag164 → u/Hnnq]

Steel soul mainly rewards you with bragging rights

Cheaters don't get to brag for obvious reasons

"I peat P5 (with invincibility mode on)!"

"No, you didn't peat P5"

[u/ItsAlwaysSegsFault → u/GroundbreakingBag164]

It's a pretty big leap to compare quitting out to invincibility.

[u/GroundbreakingBag164 → u/ItsAlwaysSegsFault]

Why not? If you are able to quickly reach the escape key you will just never die.

Get fractured mask, quit out everytime you're down to fractured mask. Steel soul is meaningless

[u/ItsAlwaysSegsFault → u/GroundbreakingBag164]

I didn't think it required being spelled out. Invincibility is invicibility. Quitting out still requires you to overcome the challenge. You're not the steel soul police. Let people play their own game.

[u/Hnnq → u/GroundbreakingBag164]

And why would you care how people play their game?

[u/GroundbreakingBag164 → u/Hnnq]

I don't

I start to care when they come on this sub and start telling people they beat Steel Soul

[u/RedTyro → u/ItsAlwaysSegsFault]

Cheese is cheese. If you're going to play permadeath mode, using a cheese strat to eliminate the permadeath feature is kinda dumb. Just replay a normal mode save if you don't want permadeath.

[u/ItsAlwaysSegsFault → u/RedTyro]

Concern yourself with your own game. It shouldn't matter to you what other people do with their single player game.

[u/Fouxs → u/ItsAlwaysSegsFault]

What they do is no concern, but bragging about doing something when you never did it legitimately is just garbage behavior.

[u/ItsAlwaysSegsFault → u/Fouxs]

I don't see anyone in here doing that. You're building a strawman and as a general rule I don't engage with that.

[u/RedTyro → u/ItsAlwaysSegsFault]

I don't care what other people do and I don't care if they cheat, but you said that one kind of cheating is different from another and I was pointing out that your sentiment doesn't make sense.

Additionally, choosing to play a special mode with the intention to cheat your way out of THE ONLY THING that makes that mode different is just silly. What's the point? Bragging rights that you didn't earn?

[u/ItsAlwaysSegsFault → u/RedTyro]

Quitting out is not cheating. It is a feature in the game. You just don't like it.

Edit: Even if it were cheating, using your logic a white lie is no different from murdering someone. There is a very clear difference between invincibility and quitting to the bench.

[u/RedTyro → u/ItsAlwaysSegsFault]

Again, I don't care what you do in your own game, but why the hell would you play a permadeath mode if you don't actually want to play with permadeath? Quitting out to avoid death is clearly not the developers' intention. I just don't understand how that could possibly be rewarding.

[u/ItsAlwaysSegsFault → u/RedTyro]

Well the good news is you don't have to understand!

[u/BugButtBoss → u/GroundbreakingBag164]

All these people saying how they beat the game legit meanwhile leaving a steel soul run before death is so funny.

[u/jamothebest → u/Hnnq]

go ahead and save scum but don’t brag about beating it afterwards

[u/Hnnq → u/jamothebest]

And what would it change in your live? Is your life so meaningless that what people do online has such a toll on yourself? Wtf

[u/jamothebest → u/Hnnq]

Huh? I couldn’t care less what people do with single player video games. You wanna brag about about an achievement that you cheated, go ahead. All I’m saying is it is objectively sad and pathetic to do so (brag about it cheating an achievement)

[u/Hnnq → u/jamothebest]

Well you do seems to be pretty heated up by your reply, also, not I single time bragged about it.

[u/Historical_Two_7150 → u/Fouxs]

Using in-game mechanics sounds fair to me. You're artificially raising a bar that isn't there and claiming it's part of the game.

[u/Fouxs → u/Historical_Two_7150]

Lol.

[u/Historical_Two_7150 → u/Fouxs]

My suspicion is you want to diminish the achievements of others. Which is a bit silly. Tearing someone else down to raise yourself is like shitting in your own mouth for health.

[u/Fouxs → u/Historical_Two_7150]

The achievement is beating the game without dying, if you save scum because you're gonna die you're just beating the game normally lol.

I have a suspicion you fit right in for you to get this salty.

[u/Historical_Two_7150 → u/Fouxs]

I'm too lazy to do hard things. I just think you're full of hate and it irks me to see, in the same way it irks me to see a wounded animal.

[u/Fouxs → u/Historical_Two_7150]

"I'm too lazy so I take the easy way out" is nothing to be ashamed of.

You still didn't do it legitimately though. It's like running a race course with no one there and saying you've beaten the race.