Game Difficulty Setting

[TheSiameseDreamer]

Which setting do you play on and do you notice any differences other than the enemies being even more of a bullet sponge?

[† ⅤΣ†𝓤𝟝Ω †]

Veteran. They hit harder, more of a bullet sponge for sure but i use mods to mitigate that with lowered repair costs, mutant loot and 25% reduction on mutant health. Unless you are playing like a knob, you should have no problem playing on lower difficulties. Stalker difficulty is pretty much ok for a person not having much experience in games like Stalker.
Never changed difficulty from start to finish in all my playthroughs.
Other than those i haven't noticed any significant changes to difficulty except reward system and selling prices are drastically lowered.
Also lowered stamina regen on Veteran is really bad.

[Fryskar]

Imo on stalker, humans die quick and some mutants are fairly spongy or get other mechanics to replicate it.

[Rickenbacker]

I play on easy, because who has the time? :) Enemies are pretty tanky if you shoot them center mass, but headshots are mostly one hit kills. Other than that, no real difference that I know of.

[BTGbullseye]

I went all the way through my first run on easy to get the story. Been taking the time to find the right mods to match my playstyle nicely for a Stalker run to do the other story paths.

[Nite69]

I play vetaran most of the game, some specific battles I have to set to rookie cause they are just ridiculously unfair

[Slithy]

Set it to Veteran and never looked back. I will admit though, I was tempted to lower the difficulty when I encountered a Chimera and it had me trapped at an elevated spot. The amount of ammo that had to be dumped into it was ridiculous.