What difficulty is everyone playing on?

[Muckle Puckle]

Is the default setting 'New blood' too easy?

[Golden Boy]

depends.

if you are new to the genre then play easy mode.

[ARFett]

I would recommend easy even if you are NOT new.

Normal is totally overtuned with 3-4 times more foes than your squad, choked down reward drops and munition, money earning is so bad you cannot even sustain your beginner squad (or barely with one mine) and the enemy gear adjusts to your squad each time even in stupid ways (you get one assault rifle - hurray - ALL enemies now have assault rifles even if only one of your squad has barely got the rifle).

Balance is just totally out of whack on what they call "normal".

[Kmany]

I play on normal.. HAvent gotten that far into the game since we have problems with crashes playing coop, but the difficulty seems just right on normal.

[niksa83]

I started on the default difficulty with 4 mercs and there have been times when i got totally over run by the sheer amount of enemies. Untill you can replace pistols with rifles and ak's your going to have a hard time. Grenades for me has been a solid option to kill and weaken enemies in most scenarios. I would have not survived early on without grenades.

[ARFett]

Originally posted by Kmany:

I play on normal.. HAvent gotten that far into the game since we have problems with crashes playing coop, but the difficulty seems just right on normal.

Just cleared the island and dropped in the first port:

14 enemies - and in addition a overtuned Bounty Hunter Squad of 6.

With having a squad of FIVE.

All armored while barely my main character has west, helm and armored jeans.

And all better weapons.

Mind you it is on the "Normal" setting.

Plus I am almost broke already and out of ammo as you are choked down with drops and ammo.

And nope - not using forgiving option.

So even the lowest difficulty is just balance broken in my opinion.

[LeftPaw]

I can't find the mode I want to play on 'very,easy,easy, with extra side easy.'

[Caleb]

It's not a game that does the thinking for you and you can just wander through it like todays games...accept the challenge

I am playing Commando and it´s tough as hell. Even without deactivating the other "help". But i guess my 3rd restart will be easy mode^^

[Dorok]

Normal, not forgiving option, because clearly it's management that make the game harder. Not sure yet, I could fail and restart at low difficulty but still not forgiving option.

[Steven]

Forgiving mode: Off
Difficulty: Mission Impossible (hardest difficulty)
Verdict: GAME IS TOO FREAKING EASY!!! coming from a guy who considers darksouls normal mode already hard.

[Econ]

I played my first game on the one below Commando. My second run is on Commando. To be honest, I haven't noticed much difference - except Grenade launchers are a bit less OP on Commando (often targets are left with a sliver of health rather than just obliterated).

f you are anything like me, you will immediately want to replay the game on completion so having a higher difficulty to try will make that second play through more interesting. (Novelty will sustain the first playthrough.)

[[NcK]MasterShake|CM]

If you're familiar with the series, with the mechanics it's probably worth starting out on Commando. Even if familiar with turn based strategy, it's probably best to leave it on first blood and get to the first push back before adjusting difficulty-- and no, I don't mean taking Ernie or newbie island. You'll know it when you get to it because you can find plenty of people complaining about it, what triggers it, and how to avoid it.

If the push back from that is completely trivial to you, then yes, best to restart on Commando or M.I.

Do not complain about the difficulty if you save scum. Every game is trivialized if you can simply roll the dice until you get natural 20s on every roll, so to speak. Go first blood, single save, lethal weapons [whatever one means when they hit 0 they die].

[peppergomez]

Commando

[zpc]

I started on commando for the first playthrough and I'm now finally playing on "Mission impossible" with the Custom Settings mod (squad size 12, starting money 80.000 (default 40000), enemy squad size * 2, I.M.P. max stat 90 (default 85), I.M.P. max stat points 600 (default 550) and higher base ammo drop chance (15 vs 7).

It's just sick - I tuned down the enemy squad size to 1.25 and turned forgiving mode on to soften the maintenance penalties ._.

[Mitth'raw'nuruodo]

Based on the many previews I have seen, the difficulty seems to come not from balancing, but from horrible UI and other fundamental design flaws like terrible unintuitive stealth mechanics.

[ChaosKhan]

Did my very first run on FB. Since then, switched to MI only.