Preferred Difficulty?

[Chaosolous]

What's your preferred difficulty?

The older I get the less time I have for unbalanced challenges so I play a lot of stuff on Normal. I found myself to just be pointing my mouse and killing things though so I've been playing on Hard lately.

What'bout you?

[Youraye]

normal to enjoy the story, when it got to easy up to hard and hard or very hard for replay

[Spiegel]

Switched to hard. It was fun being unkillable superman for a while but when there is zero need for any tactics it gets boring.

[Dizzy Ladybug]

Very Hard, i haven't played on anything else. sometimes it feels unfair, but it's pretty fun to try to overcome it.

[Bishop-Six]

I enjoy Hard.

I played several times with very hard but its just making the enemies bullet sponges and kills immersion imo.

Hard is the sweet spot between challenging but not being too harsh, you can have relaxed fights without dying from 1 bullet when you dont pay attention.

I wouldnt listen to the "only maximum difficulty" crowd. Often its false pride and i saw several threads already from dudes who fell into this trap and killed their own fun with that game.

Its a story based RPG, so no need for min-maxing your character. Play on hard, have good times and freedom for unconventional builds / weapons. No need for "meta-builds".

Just my 2 cents from someone who is a bit older too ;)

[Deo]

I play every game on hardest difficulty. Always did, and still do. It's more fun that way.
Cyberpunk on Very Hard is easy. Enemies can't jump, and can only climb ladders. Bosses - yes, that's another story and will require some brain work (like 5% maybe).

[随缘宁静]

Since playing Elden Ring, I like to choose the hard or very hard mode when playing any game, just in the hope that it can bring me a little challenge.

[Porkhammer]

Normal. I play to enjoy the game, not work.

[Larco]

I started on normal for the first few levels, quickly shifted to hard - normals pretty easy - then, once my "build" got going a bit, went up to very hard. I think that's not a bad way to do it, though I would say very hard feels pretty bullet spongy to me, at least when you hit guys with skulls.

Overall, while the level of challenge has been quite good so far, and way better than the original game, I periodically think about shifting it back down to hard and just taking off my armor, cutting back cyberware, dropping body stats etc Looking back, playing hard when my V was early on and pretty squishy felt much snappier and prob more fun.

[zenos]

Anything below hard is for little kids and grandmas

[DYSEQTA]

I can't play this game on anything but Very Hard. Anything less just feels mindless to me. But hey that's just, like, my personal opinion man.

[Sacrefice]

Pretty much like you. Right now i'm playing on normal because i'm still getting used to the game mechanics as soon as it gets too easy i gonna ramp it up to hard and be done with it. No need to go for max diff. just to torture myself with unbalanced enemys, no fun in that for me. If i wanna play a game that is balanced around higher difficulty i play Dark Souls or Eldenring or games that actually add changes to higher difficulties so it feels rewarding.

[mcdcecil]

playing on very hard just makes the game longer. i hate the end of games so i do all i can to avoid the end. So often i just start a new game so i can play it better.

[lackesis]

Very hard, so I actually had to take cover or dodge. still the game isn't hard at all.

[mcdcecil]

The game is hard. You have to learn how to play. i figgered it out i got a 1000 hrs. i aint the sharpest knife in the drawer.

[The Great Cornholio]

started this patch/expansion in normal with a full sword build, switched to hard after a few hours, feels ok