The Hardest Difficulty

[Francisè von Spitroast]

Finding it very easy on the second hardest, although I am very early on in the game so I'm sure it'll ramp up, but was just wondering is the hardest difficulty meant to be for the absolute masochists and is artificially difficult similar to DOOM's Nightmare mode or is it still actually quite fair like the other difficulties and has no gimmicks?

[masternoxx1]

Hardest difficulty "Black Plague posesses thee" is quite hard due to the enemies shot speed, some websites say 3x faster some say 4x, either way it's very fast and highly difficult to dodge. Enemies move and shoot 3x or 4x faster and they shoot at you more often for instance many enemies just shoot at you non stop. I made it all the way to D'Sparil on this difficulty but was unable to beat him because of all the Wizards he spawns firing at me... I think he may have more health on this hardest difficulty... you have to have tons of ammo and get really lucky to be able to beat him on this difficulty.

It may in fact be harder than Doom nightmare mode.

I always wanted to turn down the projectile speed in Heretic hardest difficulty because it seems unfair and not fun to not be able to dodge I mean dodging is a big part of the game, and makes it more fun when you dodge successfully.

The second hardest difficulty seems very easy. And there is nothing between that and hardest.

It turns out there is a way tho to launch the game with custom parameters such as move / shoot speed at 2.5, etc, but it is kind of a pain.