Episode 3 - No Threat/Too easy [Spoiler]

[TripleJay]

I choosed the hardest difficulty when started wintermute and on end of episode2 i allready struggled finding any more food (completed all sidequests aswell) -> went bit for hunting.

Now, in episode 3 i have so much ressources of chips, soda, snacks even kerosene, medicine (about 30 of each antibiotics and painkillers). I had to throw half of them away or left them in the storage container for the last mission. Ammunation at the end -> about 50 for pistol and 2 Rifle's fully loaded. Again, (almost) all sidequests done.

Way too easy and this on the hardest diffculty!

There was never a feeling or a threat of a survival experience, except of the beginning and some coldish-days.

Other than that, really nice survival-game! just the balancing for EP3 was really bad!

[skorbos]

i think youre just that kind of player that have the ability to handle game like that. For few others like me the weather is already hard to deal with, theres so many wolves, like all the time, i just keep dying and dying and dying, i am at the beginning of episode 3 on basic level, and find it really hard..,

[TripleJay]

..since i tagged this thread with i can tell you, as soon you find the priest it's gets pretty easy....you are surrounded with houses full of resources and on the airplane crashsite there is ton of stuff i could have probably carried 20kg of meat and sodas back.

the wolves are pretty laughable, i just take the pistol, shoot one of em in the head and the rest will flee ... big THREAT LOL .... i never needed any of those blue sticks. Walking on the ice, you have caves to warm up....walking on the road you will find little houses to warm up.

...it's really just the beginning which is kinda tough.

[Cougarific]

Originally posted by TripleJay:

Now, in episode 3 i have so much ressources of chips, soda, snacks even kerosene, medicine (about 30 of each antibiotics and painkillers). I had to throw half of them away or left them in the storage container for the last mission.

You put all the "excess" stuff you found in the Storage Locker to complete the "Gather x amount of stuff" mission?

Guess it wasn't excess stuff then.

[TripleJay]

by last mission i ment the one called 'the mine'. the mission with 'gather X amount' was allready completed.

[Cougarific]

Meh - it's Story mode - I mean once you put an everlasting fire at home base much of the survival aspect goes right out the window.

Great story tho (Ep. 3 I mean).

[TripleJay]

...but if the game offers a hardest difficulty, which i choosed, i wouldn't epexct something that easy. it was basically just a walkthrough TBH.

...that said, the earlier episodes had more of a 'mystical' feeling, with that bear, that speer. the 3rd one, was more of a pick&carry story. Kind of boring, but that's just my 2cents.

[peterspam]

I agree, found Episode 3 quite easy to do, the main storyline that is. It was a nice episode, but I am not impressed by the time spent on making some new dialogues and some minimal new features. A bit of a letdown after all this time, playing it through in two sessions.
Some examples with spoiler alert:

1. Dragging away the victims is too easy as it has no serious weight penalty and energy depletion is minimal.
2. Because of only 1 map for the story, you can stop underway at easy spots and there are even more caves than usual on other maps, so once the victim gets cold, you just stop for a while until you can continue.
3. Food was aplenty, the plane food made it way too easy and did not even need to kill animals to provide for the stash, did not kill a single rabbit, needed no hides, etc.
4. Weather was only stormy occasionally, there were enough clothes not to have to craft anything. It did not feel like a survival experience.
5. The wolves are a bit bugged: even when you shoot them (torso, head, does not matter), they mostly don't die and even when hit, some just keep coming, not to speak of being bit by invisible wolves through shed walls.. However, even when they are in packs, they just bite at you a bit until you can scare them off. I did run almost out of ammo in the end, but did not really need more.
6. Played through in 2 sessions, basically with 1 or 2 deaths when I forgot to bring matches to the plane (assuming the bonfires can light a torch, well no logic there), most of the time I could watch my other monitor as there was no challenge, just a walking simulator.

[listless]

HS is very easy if you take advantage of all the freebies, but you don't have to.
If you forego the eternal flame, force yourself to hunt, keep the well fed bonus up, and even to do some camping instead of staying indoors - it can give you more of a satisfying challenge.