"very hard" difficulty is impossible, softlocks at various points due to how it scales

[No I think Not]

There are various instances in the game where the difficulty can borderline softlock your game. In "Never fade away" one of the johnny flashback missions, the car shootout is by far the most aggregious example; you get shot through the car with only 150 health by the time the RP is over. By the time the slide animation is done after your first shot your dead.

I don't mind things being hard, what pisses me off is when In not allowed to play the game and don't get the chance to do anything because enemies deal too much damage. I'm usually a stealth guy, so I typically don't run into these sorts of problems whenever I can help it, but god forbid I play some kind of melee build.

[adobo]

The car chase? I just shot at the cars and they all exploded. Though I did survive with at least 5 health at one point. This is on very hard.

[dot]

I had to retry 2 times in the nomad prologue, 0 times in never fade away... Like 10~ times in the chimera fight in PL with my awful jack of all trades attribute distribution at lv 30 in very hard. It doesn`t matter, still pretty easy for being the top difficulty xD It took me 20+ times the first time on the first hellgate in nightmare in doom eternal, god knows how many in many souls bosses, some several hours...


The games that have several difficulties to choose from, more often than not, have only one difficulty around which the game has been design and tested around. These sliders are only a quick patch to try to cater more audience originally, but in many games I feel that there are some cheap masturbatory label when it seems like nobody plays in the normal difficulty and just jumps to very hard...
Like who the ♥♥♥♥ even plays Oblivion or Skyrim on Master? DAO on Nightmare? First time playing DOS2 and jump to Honour Tactician? But then expect CP77 Very Hard to be played itself. I feel games like CP77 lie to me with those difficulty options, and then when I go to Rimworld used to be lied and select Loosing is Fun I find myself surprised that indeed I`m gonna loose... Hell, in Struggle to Survive I already do struggle to survive xD

[phlux]

The car chases feel pretty much like rolling a dice now.
Always the worst part of the mission when it happens to me.

[fox]

There is a sidequest in liberty where you get to play as Kurt Hansen in a flashback sequence and there is a car chase that is also ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Your at half health by the time you lean out the window and actually gain control.

[Meazelle.ttv]

I had around 20 times i've tried that special part of "Never fade away" in the first 19 i was dead before i could shoot all three cars. Sometimes i died while i did my first shot to the first Gunner... mostly because Johnny already get damaged while his animation to lean out of the window wasnt finished. Fatal, if 3 shots kill you.

Then, in my last try, obviously, none of them was able to hit. Like all three gunners are badly drunk. I think the devs, and some other people had the same kind of luck, when they tested it.

Really "rolling a dice" when it comes to car chases since 2.0.

[Bioshyn]

yeah i had to turn down difficulty for that, feels bad...
but one try i died before i even could fire a single shot

in the most successful attempts i died to the last car while i had to reload

[LaughingGoblin]

Shoot the gunners and if you can't manage it, turn down the difficulty temporarily. I expect CDPR to fix that in the next patch.

[phlegmo]

Car chase in nomad prologue is even worse

[Andrew]

Same for lightning breaks mission.
4 drones at the start of the chase is impossible to kill at very hard.
Please fix

[-Tr¡Ρ-]

I only got stuck on the Sasquatch fight on very hard because I was using a stealth build and didn't have any perks in body or reflexes to tank or avoid damage. I came back later after unlocking the dash and it was fine though. The Johnny car chase was pretty tough but it's doable if your aim is quick and accurate enough.

[Tech Enthusiast]

Originally posted by Andrew:

Same for lightning breaks mission.
4 drones at the start of the chase is impossible to kill at very hard.
Please fix

not impossible, just need to actually hit them and not shoot the air.
You know, like "very hard" suggests. Not a mode for people that can't hit the targets. ;-)

[LaughingGoblin]

Originally posted by -Tr¡Ρ-:

I only got stuck on the Sasquatch fight on very hard because I was using a stealth build and didn't have any perks in body or reflexes to tank or avoid damage. I came back later after unlocking the dash and it was fine though. The Johnny car chase was pretty tough but it's doable if your aim is quick and accurate enough.

Sasquatch is easy, you just need to take the chickensh*t approach ;) Run around the room and spam firegrenades until she falls lol ... it a little long and boring though.

[Andrew]

So after patch its still not fixed?