Did Difficulties Go Up or Is My Crack Addiction Catching Up to Me?

[HAZ]

I've played the hell out of this game.... check my hours.

Loved it... could finish on very hard without breaking a sweat... set it aside for some time.,... have now come back and I cannot get the Guarding Mission underway, even on just hard... just wave after wave (like 2 days apart sometimes) with massive ordnance and I have bow and arrows and some savaged laser pikes.

I've been wiped out so many times, I need to take a break ... don't want to Kyle out on my gaming rig.

[Flin Fredstone]

Do you use any mods that alter the difficulty ? Like the Attack Wave Modifier mod and have left that one set at over 100% ?

[Zep Tepi]

Can't check your hours, it's private. Maybe you forgot a key part of your old strategy? Or forgot the timing of it?

I tried putting attack wave at 100% (was lower because I run solo games) and it seemed like the frequency also went up at the same time, which made it seem impossible to get anything done between waves. Then I got Jaggid's moons and that did lower the frequency of attacks. Just play around with it until you find a balance that you can enjoy.

[Stimpacker]

I do a lot of Guardians. Don't bother crafting weapons or flamethrowers. Priority is to craft some bandages then antibiotics.
1st attack: Get lucky with scavenging and find a gun or fight them as soon as they land piecemeal. Lure 1-2 bots away, melee them.
2nd attack: You should have pikes and bows from the first attack and fare better.
Now start work on getting healing balm. Laser injuries will come.
3rd attack: Pray no spec-ops with sniper 2.0 rifle. If yes, then try to LOS it around a building corner.
4th attack: You should have laser turrets up.

[HAZ]

No mods loaded (except for Arbalest and a small handful of survivor cards)... but up against spec ops with sniper rifles... I just keel over.

And if my folks do survive the round, oh man, the burn wounds are incredible... so I replay with a TON of healing balm and first aid kits and it takes 2 full days to recover... just in time for the next wave.

Not sure if the moon I am on is affecting it that badly.

I am laying mine traps and having them run into them, and that helps... and I guess I need to work on my LoS barriers... but I'm being picked off almost instantly.

I thought it was funny last game that the spec ops landed in the middle of TWO nests... thinking ha ha, suck on that... only to have a landing party of 8 take out TWO nests and then turn on me... like... wth? How much more bad-ass have they become since I last played.

(Going to look into making my hours non private... I always thought they were public).

Thanks all. This was more of a late night vent than anything else. Love the hell out of this game... but my reunion with it has been less than satisfying =)

[Zep Tepi]

Originally posted by HAZ:

Not sure if the moon I am on is affecting it that badly.

If you were on Concordia before and on Chaos now, it could make a big difference.