Difficulty

[Peggy Gou]

Should you play the game in normal mode or hard because it looks like it has an impact in the story mod

[asarokk]

Story mode puts emphasis on just the narrative. Combat is extremely easy; Jonathan will inflict more damage, receive less damage and gain more experience. Whereas in Hard mode, the emphasis is pretty much just on the combat part. Jonathan will inflict less damage, receive more damage and gain less experience. If you want more experience, you'll have to embrace citizens to get it.

Story mode and hard mode were both added into the game much later, so normal is the original mode. It's the best of both worlds.

If you've never played Vampyr before, I recommend completing it first on normal. Vampyr doesn't hold your hand, there's lot of things you need to figure out by yourself, including where to go. Since you can't manually save whenever you want, your choices carry more weight and on hard mode there is little room for error.

Your decisions, how many citizens you embrace and the state of each district affects the narrative. Due to differences between the difficulty settings, it is harder to achieve a good outcome on hard mode.

[Peggy Gou]

Originally posted by asarokk:

Story mode puts emphasis on just the narrative. Combat is extremely easy; Jonathan will inflict more damage, receive less damage and gain more experience. Whereas in Hard mode, the emphasis is pretty much just on the combat part. Jonathan will inflict less damage, receive more damage and gain less experience. If you want more experience, you'll have to embrace citizens to get it.

Story mode and hard mode were both added into the game much later, so normal is the original mode. It's the best of both worlds.

If you've never played Vampyr before, I recommend completing it first on normal. Vampyr doesn't hold your hand, there's lot of things you need to figure out by yourself, including where to go. Since you can't manually save whenever you want, your choices carry more weight and on hard mode there is little room for error.

Your decisions, how many citizens you embrace and the state of each district affects the narrative. Due to differences between the difficulty settings, it is harder to achieve a good outcome on hard mode.

Okay thank you verry much !

[asarokk]

No problem mate.

[Faded]

Hard seems like it would be too hard for a first play because even normal the bosses are hard.

I’m on normal mode

[wendigo211]

I did my first/only play on hard. I ended up embracing 4 citizens (Clay Cox, the Serial Killer at the Docks, the Slumlord in White Chapel and the Priest who wants to burn the city in White Chapel), and I ended on level 29. I could have hit 30, but I spent 3000 XP to turn someone.
However, I was pretty exhaustive in my investigations and, while I didn't unlock every clue, I did get most clues.

The combat isn't too bad as long as you keep the level difference <7, more than that and the enemies are annoyingly tanky and hit a bit too hard. Combat is janky, but it's fairly similar to any 3rd person melee action game that doesn't use the Arkham style Free-Flow. I'd say it plays closest to the Witcher 2 and 3 (Quen=Blood Barrier?). If you play a lot of 3rd person melee action games, then you can probably play on hard to start.