spike between difficulties?

[ManInBlue]

so I've been playing on Hard the whole time until a side quest on Chapter 2, where I simply cannot go through no matter what composition I chose. So I tuned the difficulty down to Normal, and I finished the mission with almost full health... wtf is this difficulty difference? Afaik the only difference is rest regen, and some enemy health/damage buff?

[GeneralGonzo]

Don´t worry, it even get worse latrer on - chapter III get´s a massive spike not only duie to new enemies, even the known one (picts) get massive HP buffs so it´s very hard on hard..... ;-)

[Yarden]

This problem absolutely ruins the game for me.
Normal is so easy, and Hard gets impossible on act 2..
I wonder if any QA was done??

[GeneralGonzo]

Originally posted by Yarden:

This problem absolutely ruins the game for me.
Normal is so easy, and Hard gets impossible on act 2..
I wonder if any QA was done??

Yea, the difference of those two level is by far too high. There should be one level inbetween then....

[Alachikantor]

Yes, it's way to hard

[Alachikantor]

I've stopped playing it, will not recommend this until they dial it back. Crazy hard. Mobs massive increase across the board.

[RodHull]

Honestly I get people thinking normal is a bit to easy, but it exists for you to learn the game. Much of the difficulty is not really based on being outpowered but suddenly having lots of new status effects and mechanics to deal with.

Act 3 is particularly harsh for that as you go from encountering almost no CC whatsoever in act 2 to suddenly having entire screens of enemies with stuns, freezes and numerous other debuffs.

That aspect is indeed badly balanced. However now I know this when I play through at a later time on hard I will know to build toward that. Cause prior to act 3 I saw anything with resists and such and basically discounted it as it wasn't worthwhile, now in act 3 I am resist stacked up to the eyeballs cause otherwise its just horrible.

[GeneralGonzo]

Yea, but why they ramp up HP, DAMAGE plus numbers of enemies. I´m in the mission in act III to face the undead knight the 3rd or 4th time, have to kill 3 witches. First two encounters....ok....then, 1st witch has ineed 20 mobs, plus summoning more plus having resist to fire etc. !
Devs, are you real ? I mean, cmon....

[RodHull]

Originally posted by GeneralGonzo:

Yea, but why they ramp up HP, DAMAGE plus numbers of enemies. I´m in the mission in act III to face the undead knight the 3rd or 4th time, have to kill 3 witches. First two encounters....ok....then, 1st witch has ineed 20 mobs, plus summoning more plus having resist to fire etc. !
Devs, are you real ? I mean, cmon....

If you mean the Telwyn fight, that is one of the easier ones of that part of the game tbh. But then I personally find the undead enemies the easiest to face.

I just did the demon mission for Morgana and holy crap they are broken, they hit like trucks and there are loads of them.

[Alachikantor]

Yes, the NPCs are way to OP and outnumber you. Not enough heals in this game. Need more then 5 on a team to win. too hard. I'll come back when the NPCs are dialed in

[ManInBlue]

Glad I'm not the only one experiencing this... jeez
@dev hope someone from dev can see this

[Rightman]

finished act 4 yesterday, first run on very hard, with a total use of 6 potions XD

[ManInBlue]

Originally posted by Rightman:

finished act 4 yesterday, first run on very hard, with a total use of 6 potions XD

whatever you say, private profile

[Rightman]

Originally posted by ManInBlue:

Originally posted by Rightman:

finished act 4 yesterday, first run on very hard, with a total use of 6 potions XD

whatever you say, private profile

you may decide if to believe or not to anyone but as a tip be sure that someones profile wouldn't show you that he play games as such for more then 16 years.

[ManInBlue]

Originally posted by Rightman:

Originally posted by ManInBlue:

whatever you say, private profile

you may decide if to believe or not to anyone but as a tip be sure that someones profile wouldn't show you that he play games as such for more then 16 years.

i beat elden ring with first try on every boss dude... and I played games for 25 years

[proba 1 2 3]

The Morgana Le Fay mission is already being checked by the designer team. I'm also collecting feedback on the various missions and on missions in general.

The balance is a sensitive topic as some players can easily go through all missions on Hard and are against a general nerf while others struggle a lot on this level. Hard was one of the mostly played level on our end as it was the one and only difficulty level prior to a certain point in the development.

I will keep watching this thread (and all threads) and sum up these so keep us updated with details about your epxerience. Thanks!