Cisco's Fantasy Medieval RPG [Ultimate]

Think of a hard game, think of the hardest difficulty or that game, does it make the enemies faster and does more combo? or does it... put you in a 500 hours stat grind where you have to outdps 60 billion hp enemies that oneshots you?

Well if you're playing this modpack, you WILL be hit with the latter, congrats!

Now let's get more in depth, Cisco's ultimate certainly tried it's... best, i think... to mimic the endless grind of RPG dungeon crawler games except it does it very badly because it does things exactly like those other endless grind RPG dungeon crawler where enemies has tons of dps checks and you generally has no fighting chance in the early and midgame...

Except you do! it's Minecraft, you can do guerilla tactics, block off dungeon paths, and just go straight to the chest and get the absolute best early game gear (Brightsteel) 10 minutes into the pack... yeah, a bit insane isn't it?

And look, stat checks can be turned into something fun if it was something very gradual and forgiving and not damage sponges type of dps checks, but when your pack does it like this simply for the reason of making it very hard and then have nothing else to entertain the player, it's just a bad RPG choice, and as unforgiving as other semi-RPG pack is (RLCraft, Abyssal Ascent, Ascendra, ATM (kitchen sink), GTNH (it has difficult mobs in it, not entirely rpg but tangent), etc), they all work because they have other things to make your players entertain themselves while still being stat checked by the bosses and so

Not to mention the performance of this pack honestly feels really bad, even for 1.20.1 packs which many has bad performances too, this is just on the worse ends, aesthetics feels very bland like there's just no identity to the pack, nothing much to the immersiveness either, and then, you're hit with this kinda gameplay, it's just like that one meme...

play our game at the hardest difficulty!
"is it numbers difficulty or mechanics difficulty?"
what?
pull out detailed chart explaining the difference between the two
its a difficult game sir
its numbers difficulty again

THIS PACK IS JUST NUMBERS = DIFFICULT, and even though it's still really bad, i definitely see the potential with it, just, Ciscos Ultimate has just been pretty bad for the time being, i dropped this a few months ago, i do wanna say that the next iteration of this pack (also known as Ciscos Dragonfyre) does it's stat check a bit better compared to Ultimate, but that's for another review, poor modpack, hope it gets better

If you like good progression, game balance, a cohesive theme, any form of logic or thought put into your modpacks, this is not for you.

Despite the fact that this RPG has custom mods, it still feels worse than a kitchen sink you could cook up in ten minutes. The sum of its parts are vastly inferior to the array of good mods included in it, which barely manage to salvage any reputation the pack has.

It also markets itself as an "RPG" without understanding what an RPG even is. This is a mere stat check of a modpack.

if this modpack just didnt have apotheosis it would already be MUCH, MUCH better

The entire modpack revolves around upgrading your gear through Apotheosis Gems. You need an absurd amount of XP to upgrade everything. Youre always either so undergeared that everything oneshots you or you're completely op and oneshot everything and take no damage. Damage is obscure and hard to understand, the UI fights you and is generally unintuitive. You dont actually have to fight bosses to upgrade your gear for the most part. You build a mob farm, farm the gems, materials and levels you need to max out your gear. Armor is extremely stupid as that the higher the incoming hit is the worse your armor becomes meaning vs high lvl monsters armor is basically worthless and all that matters is flat dmg reductions through effects or flat max HP. The passive skilltree is unbalanced af too. All that matters is HP. Its generally pretty boring imo and the mods dont create one coherent experience. Overall I dont recommend playing this pack as there are much better packs out there. Ive heard the new version Dragonfyre is supposed to be better..

I was introduced via utube video and I fell in love with it and a lot of time in this. But unfortunately the late game progression is not that good. Like uh I crafted syvill or sylivv set whatever it is called and I basically became unkillable though I did not get a problem with that but the thing is that the deus interface(i think it's called that) in the quest book is the bosses part and literally I hate it. The early bosses are cool but I literally one shot them and they don't scale well. I literally have to search for hours on end to find boss or it's summoning materials or sometimes I can't even find it and got to use cheats moreover the explorers compass is not even that accurate I don't like how late game stuff is locked strickly to end even best enchantings tuff is locked to end if u play and get to end it will get too boring and this is too unoptimised and unbalanced aesthetically it ain't good at all I absolutely hate the everbright and ever dawn dimension in combination with this mod(they re good but not good combined with other mods they should be played solo tbh)

Horrible beyond compare. Not even joking. Play anything else.

It's a really fun pack with a lot of OP things. It's kinda cheesable to be honest, and many items are just so powerful that other things become kinda useless. The early to mid game was really fun with all the dimensions and bosses, but the end game is kinda whatever (could use better balancing. I was one just shotting most things).

There's even a cool custom mod for this pack so that's a plus