How's the difficulty?

[Lil PeePee]

Too easy? Challenging?

[DharmaSarc]

playing on hard and a bit too easy if i am honest. Considering as it is my first playthrough. Only died maybe 3 times. Just got the headgear.

[Vote Concede]

Only played the demo and i found the difficulty was way too easy, even on Nightmare mode it feelt like i was still playing on Normal difficulty.

[gamertaboo]

Originally posted by dharmasarc:

playing on hard and a bit too easy if i am honest. Considering as it is my first playthrough. Only died maybe 3 times. Just got the headgear.

So like how far in is that?

[DharmaSarc]

maybe 4 hours but i have exp;lored thoroughly. you could rush here in 1 1/2hrs i think.

[Cooperal]

Has anybody identified the differences between difficulty modes? I'm not managing to find anything pre-release and would like to find an ideal balance between challenge and cheap bullet-sponge kiting action.

There are plenty of alternate ways to tweak difficulty. Enemy reaction times/detection capabilities. Frequency of attacks. More self-preservative combat behaviour. Different crafting costs. Drop rates. The list could go on for a long time.

What caught my curiosity was a bullet point in a pre-release patch note mentioning that "AI adjusts for difficulty level more effectively". Is it possibly how the enemies develop in response to your performance/build?

[DharmaSarc]

I cant say yet as i am not dropping difficulty, but the obvious HP is different for medkits and also damage taken and done.

[Lil PeePee]

Take a look at this. This is in the store page.

Challenge
Customize your gameplay options and difficulty settings for an even more tailored adventure. You can make the experience more challenging (or easier) by changing a myriad of parameters related to stealth, movement and combat.

Thoughts?

[DharmaSarc]

i dont get it. maybe the enemies are faster and more aggressive?

[gamertaboo]

Originally posted by Why contain it?:

Take a look at this. This is in the store page.

Challenge
Customize your gameplay options and difficulty settings for an even more tailored adventure. You can make the experience more challenging (or easier) by changing a myriad of parameters related to stealth, movement and combat.

Thoughts?

That's interesting... the game isn't unlocked for me yet but I only saw the usual "easy, medium, hard and terrifying (or whatever the last one is called)" in the PS4 demo earlier today.

[Lil PeePee]

It gives me hope that Arkane will include something like in Dishonored 2 or maybe it's in the options somewhere?

[gamertaboo]

Maybe the day one patch that's not released yet? I don't know, sounds interesting though.

[Steven Brattac]

stupid folks call befor release to make a game harder thats silly test it first with all settings befor calling for that . Calling for it that early is just griefing on other players .

[Deadite]

its challenging enough, died a few times, AI is pretty good and will try to work as a team to flank you

[Lil PeePee]

Why does that make someone stupid because they want a game to be as challenging as possible?

[Honelith]

I like how the enemy behaviour seems random and they'll dodge attacks, makes it very interesting. Played the PS4 demo.