Please rebalance Hardcore Mode.

[Trent Easton]

So, I finished a playthrough of hardcore mode yesterday... Yeah. If you can get past level 3, you may as well just consider hardcore mode beaten, and stop playing because it will NEVER get harder than level 3. Level four has a couple of moments, but that's about it. I died a few times on level 3 and 4, and didn't die again. Could the later stages possibly be made a little harder?

[Antroid]

I thought stages 6 and 4 were definitely harder than 3. In 3 you just have to not dawdle in the big city area and that's it. 4 has some extremely annoying plasma gun dudes and 6 has a TON of hitscanners that just chip off your health points and there are some places with no health pick-ups in sight.
Level 8 is also much more tense due to the plasma gun dudes mostly near the end.
Not saying I wouldn't welcome some additional challenge, I just don't think the difficulty peaks at level 3 at all.

[Trent Easton]

Originally posted by therealantroid:

I thought stages 6 and 4 were definitely harder than 3. In 3 you just have to not dawdle in the big city area and that's it. 4 has some extremely annoying plasma gun dudes and 6 has a TON of hitscanners that just chip off your health points and there are some places with no health pick-ups in sight.
Level 8 is also much more tense due to the plasma gun dudes mostly near the end.
Not saying I wouldn't welcome some additional challenge, I just don't think the difficulty peaks at level 3 at all.

Level 6 has a lot of hit scanners, but they are mostly stationary. And they can easily be picked off from a distance. Level 8 has a lot of plasma gunners, sure, but you'd EXPECT the last level to try to kill you. Level three has raptors and hitscanners surrounding you on all sides.

[Antroid]

Originally posted by Otep Shamaya Is Queen:

Level 6 has a lot of hit scanners, but they are mostly stationary. And they can easily be picked off from a distance. Level 8 has a lot of plasma gunners, sure, but you'd EXPECT the last level to try to kill you. Level three has raptors and hitscanners surrounding you on all sides.

The hitscanners' reaction times are kinda crazy though, a lot of them manage to get hits in before I can aim for them and kill them. And there's that one place where the green dinos with guns on their backs are thrown among all the hit-scanners, I died several times in there I think.

I honestly had way more trouble on level 3 on my first playthrough on Hard just because I was exploring all of it and didn't know where to go. The raptors are easily ignored on any difficulty and the hitscanners on lvl 3 you can either easily run away from or even cover from. I had no more trouble with that level than 2 on my hardcore playthrough. In fact there's that one place in 2 that's IMO worse than the entirety of level 3, the place being the little mountain where on the bottom you get your first boobytrap thingy and avalanches, then you walk around and up and there's a whole bunch of hiscanners in there around this temple with some pools and a rope bridge behind it. I probably died more times in there than in any single place in the entire game on hardcore.

I suppose in the end it just comes down to everyone's personal experience with the levels though.

[Trent Easton]

My personal experience is that level 3 killed me a lot, level four killed me twice because of the two stationary Sargeants in the maze, and two more guarding the key. I didn't die again until level 6, due to a platforming fail, which has nothing to do with game difficulty. The very last part of level 8, just before getting to the T-rex killed me two more times. I didn't really run into too much trouble other than that.

[Snake Plissken]

you may not be intrested but i have a mod in the works. it already spawns motralhealth drops more frequent on hardcore mode. and this makes it alto more fun in my book. (also some may find it to help them last longer, get health more often) but thats currently all it dose, going to add one or two more tweaks to it and ill surly make a post with it for download. its some simple changes in itemspawner.txt

[Antroid]

Originally posted by Otep Shamaya Is Queen:

My personal experience is that level 3 killed me a lot

I don't think I died on 3 in my hardcore playthrough at all. Didn't even fall down in that platforming section. Level four was a kick in the face after that, the worst death by far being that one water pillar indoors where as you swim up and jump out onto a ledge there's a hitscanner that's pretty much guaranteed to shoot you a bunch before you can even get a gun out. I had little health there, so... yeah.

[Clebardman]

I just beat Ancient City on Hardcore and... it was a lot of fun :3. I think I died 3 times, but it was awesome from start to finish. I never really stopped playing Dinosaur Hunter since my parents bought it to me on release, and it was incredible. I felt like I was Turok more than ever, blitzing through a whole battlefield infested with nasty hitscanners and raptors.

I know the enemies' speed will be fixed, but please, PLEASE, change it for humans & the likes only. Raptors, beetles, leapers and Pur-Lins are amazing in Hardcore. Please, don't change them :p.