best recommended difficulty?

[TheFibrewire]

I want a difficulty where survival can be a main role but not make enemies spongy. I saw one video showing different levels of spongyness but which will be the balanced difficulty for this game?

[Sprinkles]

The enemies are a bit spongy by nature on this game. But yes, on the higher difficulties, they are even more so. Especially since at higher difficulties, head-shots become more important. Personality, I feel the game will be much too easy on anything less than hard 2. Especially if you're even a little bit proficient with FPS games and mouse aim.

If you plan to play with just the controller then maybe you can get away with a lower difficulty and have it still feel challenging based on footage I've seen of those who play it on console. The degree of control seems horrendous to me but I get the feeling that's how the game was meant to be played due to the extremely generous amount of "focus” the game gives you. Focus, if you're unaware, is basically a time dilation game mechanic similar to Max Payne, where time slows down and gives you god-like aim because of it. Extremely OP with mouse-aim but seemingly needed if you're gimped by a controller.

[TheFibrewire]

Originally posted by Sprinkles:

The enemies are a bit spongy by nature on this game. But yes, on the higher difficulties, they are even more so. Especially since at higher difficulties, head-shots become more important. Personality, I feel the game will be much too easy on anything less than hard 2. Especially if you're even a little bit proficient with FPS games and mouse aim.

If you plan to play with just the controller then maybe you can get away with a lower difficulty and have it still feel challenging based on footage I've seen of those who play it on console. The degree of control seems horrendous to me but I get the feeling that's how the game was meant to be played due to the extremely generous amount of "focus” the game gives you. Focus, if you're unaware, is basically a time dilation game mechanic similar to Max Payne, where time slows down and gives you god-like aim because of it. Extremely OP with mouse-aim but seemingly needed if you're gimped by a controller.

ty for answering, Guess I will go with hard.

[Sprinkles]

Not a bad choice. I believe, if I recall correctly, you're allowed to make the game harder midway through the game if you find it a little too easy. You're just not allowed to lower the difficulty without restarting over.

[dprog1995]

I don't recommend survival difficulties since those difficulties disable fast travel and that imo makes the game less fun.

[[JRE] Joe Rogan]

I'm playing on Hard with controller and it feels like normal difficulty to me which is probably fine, at leas this game acknowledges I'm above average in skill level. So many games try to make me feel like I'm poopoo at games.