Difficulty difference

[Ichbinsolaire]

hello boys. I've played on medium diff for 6 hours and it felt pretty easy. Should I change into very hard? what is the difference

[Ferzh]

Higher difficult will start to be noticed (at least in my personal experiencie) from the end of Episode 2 onwards.

The main difference will affect these aspects:
-Enemies will be harder to beat
-Cargo would be easier to get damaged
-Will be harder to walk/keep the balance

EDIT: Idk if might be wrong on this, but I noticed that after going hard or higher you see less warnings when you about to fall

[Ichbinsolaire]

Can't I quick save in case my cargo gets damaged?

[Ferzh]

Originally posted by Ichbinsolaire:

Can't I quick save in case my cargo gets damaged?

You can save game anytime you want. If it's an important quest or you going with too many things on, I recommend you to save before starting or each time you consider neccesary.

Personally i struggled with reaching Port Knot City in max difficult so i put it on Hard and was better hahaha

[ubik]

The difficulty slider affects the game in more ways than are obvious... people always primarily think of AI. In this game, for one example, timefall affects everything more on harder difficulty. Everything wears out faster. That won't necessarily impede your progress in the game, but it will make things more grindy as more in-game time is consumed.

And on harder difficulty, you will burn more time because you'll have to change/repair vehicles more, etc.

[>KibOne<]

Playing this game on Very Hard is like playing it offline and having to build literally EVERYTHING by yourself! Trust me, I’ve tried it so many, many hours wasted

[Ichbinsolaire]

I only wanted to play it for like achievements I heard some achievements only gettable by playing the game on very hard.

[John Josep Jingleheimer Schmidt]

Originally posted by Ichbinsolaire:

I only wanted to play it for like achievements I heard some achievements only gettable by playing the game on very hard.

no achievement is locked behind game difficulty

[Ichbinsolaire]

really? I heard like there is an achievement where you need to deliver 20 cargos on legend of legends. can I still do that on medium?

[ubik]

Originally posted by Ichbinsolaire:

really? I heard like there is an achievement where you need to deliver 20 cargos on legend of legends. can I still do that on medium?

Legend of Legends = Hard
Legend of Legends of Legends = Very Hard

So if by "medium" you mean "Normal" then no.

[The Sentinel]

i really like very hard. it made me use equipment/vehicles/plans for routes a lot more. previously i could basically do everything naked or cheese everything through the basic truck. the only issue i see with it is bullet spongy BT's (but you get a LOT of crystals when you kill one)

[CatPerson]

Originally posted by ubik:

Originally posted by Ichbinsolaire:

really? I heard like there is an achievement where you need to deliver 20 cargos on legend of legends. can I still do that on medium?

Legend of Legends = Hard
Legend of Legends of Legends = Very Hard

So if by "medium" you mean "Normal" then no.

Ah, that was the thingie that had me use VH on my 2nd run (on console, back when). Thanks for the reminder. Not just the achivement alone (don't care about achivements per se), but the concept of the titles, wanting a run where I'd have those from the start etc.

I played my first run offline, the 2nd one I did VH+online, because I knew I wanted to make a crazy mega reaching zipline network that would've been impossible without the help/luck of using at least several/some other player's ziplines in the world.