How challenging is this game?

[Ponterbee]

on the hardest difficulty?
is it harder than Half-Life 1 on hard?

[Call Sign: Raven]

I've never played Half-Life, but I died once in my 90 minute playthrough while on Medium, mainly due to not paying attention. The AI is pretty dumb, and you're kinda OP, but not too bad. It feels like a moderately difficult game, if that helps.

[GrenadeMagnet6]

Hard to say - people have wrote the game starts of easy on Exterminatus difficulty. but then the difficulty really ramps up, likely when facing a large number of opponents. But there is also an excess amount of health and armor everywhere, so it likely comes down to how well you can survive each major battle.

I've played through only the first two maps on Exterminatus, and did get my health down to 5% at one point, but was almost full strength by the time I got to the exit.

[Ponterbee]

Hmmm, looks like the game is not that hard... Makes sense tho, you play as an almighty space marine after all, that the biggest selling point.

Thank you for the details!

[Delta_Assault]

There are some big difficulty spikes when you get to the arena rooms.

[Dosto]

It has some spikes on exterminatus with some arenas, but mostly fair.

[Slithy]

So I started on normal and that was insanely easy so I just went all in on Exterminatus and I can confirm that it is easy if you're good at dodging. If you're one of those players that takes everything to the face you're going to die quick. If you know how to exploit angles then it's a lot easier.

The thing is the game respects your time in not turning everything into a damage sponge on the highest difficulty so it feels easier when it's still a bit more difficult. The difference in difficulty also seems to come down to how you handle less vs more basic enemies on the screen. On normal the first room you encounter a Chaos Marine has just 1 inside the room. On Exterminatus there are 3 inside the room. I assume everything past that point just has more enemies than other difficulties.

Also, I beat the first chapter on Exterminatus and the bosses do hit like trucks. Easy to beat with a Plasma Gun for the most part but the constant horde that keeps spawning on you really keeps you on your toes. It's fun.

[GrenadeMagnet6]

Yeah, I was having an easy time on Exterminatus up to Level 3, then the 4th mission's Purge Arena finally took me out. So hopefully now Boltgun will really provide a challenge for me with Mission 4 going forward.

I'll also making the game a little tougher by only picking up health and armor shards that appear to be from slain enemies, and ignoring the loose chains of shards floating around. I'll still pick up full health packs and faith/armor packs, just none that were not generated from dead enemies.

That makes the Nurgling-type enemies tougher to deal with, as they only drop armor shards.

[LemonRush7777]

Started playing on hard and played the first 3 levels. It was pretty easy, honestly.

The main marine character is too much of a powerhouse, the bolter is too strong for a first weapon and there's health, ammo and shield pickups littered everywhere. Oh, and there's a lot of grenades to pick up, which are really powerful. Didn't die once so far.

Tomorrow I'll try Exterminatus. Hopefully it makes things a bit harder.

[astgdzfgdsg]

The second half of the game on exterminatus ramps up the difficulty a lot.

[Khloros]

Originally posted by Ponterbee:

on the hardest difficulty?
is it harder than Half-Life 1 on hard?

On a scale from Doom II to Master levels of doom II, on the hardest difficulty of this game, its like....eh....nightmare? on doom2?

[GrenadeMagnet6]

Originally posted by derpherpitucus:

The second half of the game on exterminatus ramps up the difficulty a lot.

Ah, that's good to hear - I'll use the first chapter on Exterminatus to experiment with the weapons and tactics, so to get better prepared.

[topeveryday]

Exterminatus seems like a little easier than nightmare difficulty in Doom eternal for comparison, it is not that bad, just get your dodge game down. (Just murdered 1st lord of change, relatively easy fight on Exterminatus imo)

The game also spits an unbelievable amount of big health and shield paks for Exterminatus difficulty as well.Figured they would reduce them on higher difficulties, but its just buckets and buckets left behind.

[Kain]

Exterminatus is pretty doable. I think it's way easier than Doom Eternal's nightmare though.

[topeveryday]

Originally posted by Kain:

Exterminatus is pretty doable. I think it's way easier than Doom Eternal's nightmare though.

yea i mean easier than doom eternal nightamre, ty correction lol