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[The Satellite]

Well at least they're not Medusa heads.

[KingPridenia]

Had my first run-in with Medusa. They NEED to nerf her. She turns you to stone the moment she sees you, and it's almost impossible to hit her quick enough to stop being stoned. Not only that, but I got stoned literally the exact moment I got un-stoned. That's a bit much. Made worse that I saw her in pre Hard Mode.

 

Anyway, that aside, I took my already end-game tier guy through Expert and here are some notes. Feel free to add where needed:

 

Spoiler

Eye of Cthulhu: Pretty normal except staying underneath spamming Shurikens is suicide. It fires a few servants then does three quick charges (about the same speed as 1.0.4) then goes back to its normal pattern. At half HP, it does the same charging gimmick, but it will get even more pissy at about 1/4 HP or so and it will charge REALLY super fast.

 

Eater of Worlds: The segments spit what looks like the stuff Corruptors spit at you. Other than that, not much difference other than higher HP.

 

Brain of Cthulhu: The eyes are murderous! They can inflict about half a dozen different debuffs and are far more aggressive. Once you kill all the eyes, it charges like normal. However, as you whittle its HP down, it will begin to project very faint fakes of it. These become less faint as you damage it, eventually making it very hard to tell the real Brain from the fakes.

 

Skeletron: Welcome back to Skeletron being the epic end-game tier boss of 1.0.3. If you don't destroy his hands, the head takes very little damage. However, he fires homing skulls at you and when spinning, will spin faster and will rush to your location under he's covered most of the distance.

 

Wall of Flesh: Does way more damage and gets hyper speed its last few thousand HP. Don't even try without end-game tier pre Hard Mode gear.

 

Destroyer: As far as I can tell, there isn't too much different other than damage, more HP and the lasers seem more frequent. Same strategy as before works.

 

Queen Bee: Pretty much the same aside from HP/damage, but she charges MUCH faster at low HP.

 

The Twins: These guys are officially the hardest of the Mechanical trio. Their projectiles are much faster, and Spaz's cursed flames debuff you for longer.

 

Skeletron Prime: Other than damage and HP, seems to me the easiest of the Mechanical trio. I didn't notice too much difference.

 

Plantera: Much faster and more aggressive.

 

Golem: Just seems to have more damage/HP, and that's about it.

 

Consider the spoiler incomplete information.

 

On another note, Yo-Yos are officially my new favorite weapon class.

[Nathaniel]

I'm having a hard enough time adjusting to the new biomes in normal mode so far, with a new character.  I'm glad I started out that way.  I prefer to savor what 1.3 has to offer.  I am in no hurry, that's for sure.

 

And people are already talking about hosting a server.  I'd certainly love to be involved in multiplayer, although I might need a little bit more single player time first.  After all, the update was just today.  Plus my work schedule and all.  Perhaps by this weekend at the absolute soonest.

 

So far, I am loving everything that I have noticed with the update.  Improvements on many fronts.

[ShadowTiger]

Agreed on all counts, actually. Those Medusi are pretty aggravating. I've only faced one so far. I've beaten all pre-1.1 bosses so far, still need to go through the dungeon, the jungle, the sky islands, and the left ocean, but my town is halfway done, and I'm looking for the Goblin Tinkerer. Gotta make hunter and spelunking potions.

Definitely enjoying the update. It's all I can see myself doing for a while.



As for the server, I think we all need another week or two. I want to finish the game completely before I even think about playing. There are all these new things to adapt to.

[Russ]

We've been playing on expert mode, which certainly is challenging. But the good kind of challenging, for the most part. While killing certain enemies is downright aggravating, there's a certain reward to it. Evan did some shenanigans with the corruption and explosives to get some meteors to drop, so we're outfitted in meteor armor now.

The new slime rain event is cool, yet kinda terrifying on expert mode. The king slime boss drops some downright amazing items. Evan and I can each solo Eye of Cuthulu using the Slime Mount in about twenty seconds, and reach orbit while we're at it. This item is magnificently broken.

[Logos]

Let's just say that even in full titanium armor with the awesome meteor staff, I could not take out expert mode skeletron

[coolgamer012345]

Agreed on all counts, actually. Those Medusi are pretty aggravating. I've only faced one so far. I've beaten all pre-1.1 bosses so far, still need to go through the dungeon, the jungle, the sky islands, and the left ocean, but my town is halfway done, and I'm looking for the Goblin Tinkerer. Gotta make hunter and spelunking potions.

Definitely enjoying the update. It's all I can see myself doing for a while.



As for the server, I think we all need another week or two. I want to finish the game completely before I even think about playing. There are all these new things to adapt to.

That seems like a kinda.. eh.. reason to wait to make the server...

Oh well, hopefully by the time that a server is made there is still new stuff to discover.

(If a server's made of course)
((It also gives more time for Steam/Redgit to sort out some steam integration shenanigans, as me and a few others had some issues getting it to work))

Edited by Coolgamer012345, 01 July 2015 - 01:18 PM.

[KingPridenia]

Minor spoiler but:

 

Spoiler

I really love some of the Expert Mode items, namely the following:

Shield of Cthulhu: I love this thing. Pretty strong for when you get it and it never really gets obsolete. I love using it to ram into enemies to avoid taking damage and getting a bit of extra DPS and using it as an offensive Tabi, when in Expert Mode is A LOT.
Spore Sac: Dropped from Expert Mode Plantera. It constantly spawns in spores that do around 50-60 damage a hit.
Demon Heart: From the Wall of Flesh. It gives +1 accessory slot. Nuff said.
Worm Scarf: From Eater of Worlds. Reduces damage by 17%...umm, do I have to say anything more about this one?

 

Did I mention I love the Yo-Yo? I crafted the three-in-one accessory for it and made a new character that started with it and a Zealous Wooden Yo-Yo and I'm just shredding the likes of Zombies and flying Crimson/Corruption mobs. I strongly recommend getting 20 Cobweb ASAP and 10 Wood to make one. At 9 melee damage, it's an excellent starter weapon. Really can't wait until I get my hands on the ultimate one.

 

In other news, I picked up my first mount, the Unicorn. Was shocked to see that I killed something with it once it ran full speed. On another note, I seem to keep getting achievements more by accident than on purpose, such as the one for killing a mob with a mine cart or just barely surviving a fall. I think tomorrow after work I'm going to make a 1.3 character from scratch then after I achieve end-game status on him, play Expert Mode so I actually start racking up a death count. Honestly, all this time I've played Terraria, I died a few times at most. I'm hoping Expert Mode is going to have me at a dozen or more deaths before I defeat the Wall of Flesh. I want some challenge because to be honest, I found Terraria to be a bit on the easy side.

[Mr. Z]

Okay, do NOT trust mine cart tracks when you're at lava level. Really.

[Magi_Hero]

It took me a while to figure out to click the buff to get out of the minecart. :>

[Mr. Z]

It took me a while to figure out to click the buff to get out of the minecart. :>

 

I use the hook. But there has to be an even better way than that...

[ShadowTiger]

I use the mount button.

Yeah, there's a new mount button. It's awesome. I gotta figure out a way to pogo-jump with a slime mount.

[Lejes]

As for the server, I think we all need another week or two. I want to finish the game completely before I even think about playing. There are all these new things to adapt to.

 

What's the point if it's not unfamiliar? If you wanted to play stuff everyone already knew, you could have started a server any time in the last year. But no one did that because everyone had already burned out on Terraria.

[Lejes]

So what is the interest level in a server right now? I started one today, but it's only got a couple people from IRC on it for now. I couldn't get Steam integration to work, so it would just be posting an IP address and password in here.

[coolgamer012345]

So, Lejes set up a server. We need mo' people tho'! It's a large, normal mode world (as of writing this, hasn't went into hardemode yet) and hopefully this post isn't too spammy, anyway, with lejes's permission (if I got that wrong somehow I will edit out the server's join stuff) I was able to post this. So far, I don't believe skeletron has been defeated, the biome order is:
Ocean->(?)->Jungle->Corruption->Desert->Forest->Snow->Forest->Desert->Corruption->Desert->Forest->Dungeon->Ocean

 

You  have to join through the IP. It's 96.42.196.202

The server password is a backslash ( " \ " ).

Edited by Coolgamer012345, 03 July 2015 - 08:28 PM.