Difficulty in a nutshell

[GrimRJak]

hazard 1- easy
hazard 2- pub friendly
hazard 3- will kick your♥♥♥♥♥if your team slips with ammo
hazard 4- May the beard gods have mercy on you (unless your all scouts)

It's not that bugs are that much harder to kill at hazard 4 (they hit harder too) it's their frequency and wave composition that create ammo scarcity which make the lvl intense.

Anyone else have a different or similar insight?

[Valhalla Awaits]

Nope thats perfectly accurate for a 4 player match. However the game difficulties are far more forgiving when playing solo, I can easily do Hazzard 3 when solo, but with 4 players... It requires a very skilled team, PUG's usually can't handle them.

Hazzard 4's are still brutal as hell solo though, and as you said, it's the ammo depletion mainly to blame when 10 praetorians all spawn at once.

[Thyriel]

I see it similar. The difficulty increase (in 4 player teams) from hazard 2 to 3 is big enough so there would easily fit another difficulty setting inbetween.
Hazard 4 is just brutal, especially as driller where you're forced to go melee but go down within seconds. Every exploding critter you don't see coming insta kills you, ammo management is insane hard and when you have a wave insight a tunnel you're almost screwed just because there's so much preatorians that the whole tunnel soon fills with their gas that does quite a lot damage on hazard 4. Only chance you have is constantly moving further during waves, which makes engineer turrets pretty pointless

[PartyMaster]

You literally have to mine fast as ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hell on hazard 4 if you want to make it out with even a chance of life.

[Makuren]

Hazard 4 isn't as bad as you might think with a proper group. I made an extreme difficulty guide that you can read through. Out of the many times I've done it, I escape about 75% of the time which is a good number.

It becomes more doable with tier 3 armor upgrades.

Like Valhalla pointed out, the issue really is about the lack of supply drops. 80% of the time, we're out of supply drops when we're about to call the drop pod for evac. This is when the driller becomes critical.

Every wave and every swarm practically demands a supply drop. :/

[jajomba]

Haz 4 is pretty easy if you use your satchels right. Enemies are still slow enough for you to kite them as long as you want, yuh.
Point extraction is a different kind of beast tho. On haz 4 you gotta be fast af if you dont wanna end up swimming in a sea of bugs while trying to grab that sweet supply drop

[Phispi]

3 seems pretty easy unless you try to melee everything, 4 is pretty hard tho, you cant just stop in a big cave and mine stuff, you always need to search for nitra

[Talon Rose]

Playing in co-op is actually harder anyway. Even though you can in theory kill better because more guns...the guns *are* the problem.
Each resupply is 4X50% but still costs 80 NItra to call in. That is to say, after a wave or two, you will be hurting for ammo and you can only do a partial resupply if you're a 4-man team and you all use ammo and deployables (zipline C4 etc).

In Solo I can fully restock myself from nothing twice per pod, with 2 full heals (50% hp each ). I've noticed that the co-op is also different in terms of NItra. It seems like there is less with more players? Might just be bad luck or my imagination but it does make the game quite difficult even at H2 sometimes.

[Thyriel]

Originally posted by Chillnaga:

I've noticed that the co-op is also different in terms of NItra. It seems like there is less with more players? Might just be bad luck or my imagination but it does make the game quite difficult even at H2 sometimes.

Funny, i've had the exaxt opposite impression that there is way more nitra found in coop