Oddity or Classic: Which do you prefer to play on?

[Magma]

I prefer to play on classic. While I like oddity more conceptually, I find that in terms of pacing, around the mid game levelling starts to slow down significantly before picking back up in the late game, where as in classic the pacing is consistent all the way through.

[harperfan7]

oddity only slows down if you stop doing questlines
classic levels you up too fast, so thats out by default
you already cap out too soon even on oddity, imo

[NumberTJ47]

After playing both on dominating I'd say I prefer classic. My own experience with each lines up well with harperfan's, but I like level up faster to see whether the build I'm testing is any good. Classic also rewards you with xp even when you're killing the same enemies and looking for parts, so it feels much better when I'm playing a crafting-heavy build like energy pistol.

I personally wish the xp systems had been combined a bit more. For some reason quests gives extremely little oddity xp. You can walk into a random cave and gain as much experience as a quest on oddity. It also incentives stealth builds even more than classic because you'll want to avoid enemies more.

Overall if I were starting the game with a crafting-heavy tin can build and I wanna finish the game as fast as I can I'd go classic. If I wanna play a stealth build and play every quest I'd go oddity.

[Eidein]

Id say I prefer classic, oddity is faster till around lv14 then id say its classic that takes the leveling lead.

In terms of playability ive played too many oddity runs that collecting them all feels a bit like a chore, I know where pretty much all of them are so the challenge isnt super present. I will sprinkle in an oddity run every 1/3 runs id say, the rest are classic.