Grounded is trash

[King Julien XIII]

Its a crawling simulator. The level of actual omnipotence and aimbot given to these npcs is disgusting. Ontop of there being no resources its a matter of killing one person and running around a corner and waiting. There is no reason for NPC's to be actual gods amongst men with superman hearing and eyesight.

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it's grounded, it's supposed to be unfair

are you playing it on first playthrough?

[JohnTravoltage]

I really enjoy grounded, its nice having a game where AI aren't completely incompetent in regards to eyesight, their hearing is still pretty bad though.

A lot of the game is about guerilla/hit & run tactics, don't be afraid to get seen, in many cases you can exploit misleading AI to get around areas easily and avoid fighting everyone.

Even in grounded, AI still have pretty bad eyesight, like they can't see someone crawling in ankle height grass over 30-40m away when you could easily see that, or the movement in taller grass far away.

[gewenzsko]

are you implying you find it unrealistic, that a group of say 5-6 men can easily overcome you if you run in like rambo without being stealth? Then it might be the wrong game or difficulty for you.

[King Julien XIII]

It is't my first playthrough of the game, but my first on pc. Regardless the grounded difficulty turns the game from a fun hit and run immersive playstyle, into a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ game where every combat scenario you have 2 options. Stealth and run away. Or ever so slowly one by one bait and stealth kill each enemy around a corner over and over. You cannot engage with the normal flow of combat at a heightened difficulty. because the difficulty is so obscenely unfair it forces you to completely avoid combat. Not to mention the artificial difficulty of manipulating enemy AI based on where your position is. It feels worse and worse the further I play. I platinumed on PS, not sure why this feels so much worse. Artificial difficulty interrupting core mechanics and flow/pacing is just horrid. Unfair is not the same as hard.

[[SF] MooMan]

Looks like this game isn't for you kiddo.

[King Julien XIII]

Originally posted by SF MooMan:

Looks like this game isn't for you kiddo.

Platinum

[VDRSK]

Originally posted by King Julien XIII:

Its a crawling simulator. The level of actual omnipotence and aimbot given to these npcs is disgusting. Ontop of there being no resources its a matter of killing one person and running around a corner and waiting. There is no reason for NPC's to be actual gods amongst men with superman hearing and eyesight.

A bit off topic, but i see people complain that stealth has not progressed and AI has remained stupid, the truth is that if they were to make a realistic AI for stealth it would 99% of the time turn into carnage, which people would almost certainly complain about.

In fact I believe a studio said as much when they tried to do just that, all the playtesters really disliked how perceptive the AI was.

[PONPOKO]

Yeah it can get quite tedious, but I've already played the game every other way so at least it's different. I'll be finished by tomorrow, then I'll do the Permadeath mode on a New Game+ (easier difficulty) playthrough.

[episoder]

grounded is great. a challenge. it's unfair. or realistic.. if you play it without permadeath you'll get a load of chances to study the enemies and pathes. gotta enjoy it at some point.