Current Events > Rookie Mode confirmed for Megaman X Legacy Collection

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As fun as Capcom's Mega Man series is, it's never exactly been a forgiving platformer. With this in mind, a recent post by Siliconera suggests the company's upcoming Switch titles, Mega Man X Legacy Collection and Mega Man X Legacy Collection 2, will make play sessions less of a struggle this time around with the inclusion of a new 'Rookie Hunter' mode.

Able to be toggled on and off in-game and also from the main menu with relative ease, the Rookie Hunter mode allows players to halve the damage taken within every game in the Mega Man X series. When activated in X4 and X8, instant deaths from spikes and bottomless pits will also be prevented.
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I never wondered why people got butthurt by things like this as if they HAVE to play it like this. As long as the regular mode is there, who cares?

Obviously this isnt towards you, TC. I love you.
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I think thats kinda cool
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This is a feature in a lot of later MM stuff. The Rockman Arrange games had a lot of extra pit indicators and platforms and hints for every screen that you can see in English in Anniversary Collections Navi mode. And 10, as well as maybe 9 I dont remember, had an easy mode that litters safe platforms in tough spots
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Options are bad
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DuranOfForcena posted...

Kelystic posted...

When activated in X4 and X8, instant deaths from spikes and bottomless pits will also be prevented.

i wonder this is only being implemented in X4 and X8. all the other ones have spikes and bottmomless pits too, don't they?

They do.
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X8 is pretty forgiving already since it has an in-game item that prevents instant spike death (once).
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Kelystic posted...

X8 is pretty forgiving already since it has an in-game item that prevents instant spike death (once).

Wait you don't just do Muhammad topics anymore?
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Kelystic posted...

X8 is pretty forgiving already since it has an in-game item that prevents instant spike death (once).

there's 4 trophy's where you can't use rookie mode (those require actual skill) just on the first four games.
if they have those password screens. it can probably be cheesed.
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DuranOfForcena posted...

i wonder why this is only being implemented in X4 and X8. all the other ones have spikes and bottmomless pits too, don't they?

It would take away the benefit of Gaea and Shadow armour having spike immunity