For Those of You Afraid to do Hazard 4 Missions:

[koan]

Hazard 2's are easy with little reward and hazard 3 is a bit more challenging, but if you want a step up in difficulty, may as well go all in. It's not an unfairly difficult hazard, and you get double the rewards just from the difficulty bonus alone. You might also learn aspects of the game you otherwise would have never known about or never felt the need to use in the appropriate instances.

Higher difficulty level = better rewards + deeper gameplay experience!

I make this thread because I notice a lot of hazard 2's being played, which is perfectly fine, but I, and many others, like to join the more difficult games for the reward and challenge. People may be afraid to do hazard 4's because after all, it is the highest difficulty, though they are more doable than you might think, and imo, more enjoyable.

If you are looking to dip your toes into the world of Hazard 4, I suggest playing a solo mission with Bosco. It gives you a good feeling of how hazard 4 plays and gets you thinking more about your positioning rather than where your team is positioned.

Rock and Stone!

[dimi]

I think it's way easier to play on H4 with a full team of 4.

[Chibbity]

I don't think the issue is anyone being scared of it, some people just prefer a more laid back experience.

As a veteran player I don't find Haz4 very hard at all, but I still prefer Haz3 lobbies most of the time.

DRG is my drinking and relaxing game, not my caffeine and try hard game. I'm sure many feel the same.

[MrPurple33]

just a noob right now -- only been playing 2 weeks -- usually stick to Haz 2, but depending on the mission- Haz 3 hasn't been a problem -- waiting just a bit to try Haz 4 -- not for fear for myself, just don't want to be a Lead Weight for the team, have to be revived a bunch -- just did my 1st extraction Mission-- kinda hard, but what made it harder was It was on Glacial -- kept falling into crevasses, and Blizzards would hit

Love how DRG Isn't Truly a "combat" game -- It's really a Mining/Resource Gathering game-- the most difficult parts are the Terrain, the dang Planet Itself Hates Us! -- the Bugs are just another environmental hazard

[PhilkIced]

I think haz 3 is the perfect middle ground, haz 2 is just so empty it gets boring but haz 4 on the other hand is so flooded with bugs that AoE weapons become bread and butter while the new scout rifle I'm loving so much becomes useless with it's low ammo and single target slow shots.

[koan]

Originally posted by Chibbity:

I don't think the issue is anyone being scared of it, some people just prefer a more laid back experience.

As a veteran player I don't find Haz4 very hard at all, but I still prefer Haz3 lobbies most of the time.

DRG is my drinking and relaxing game, not my caffeine and try hard game. I'm sure many feel the same.

Fair enough. I don't mean to over-generalize. I've just found when I have played in hazard 3's and asked in the chat if the team wants to play a hazard 4, that there's a lot of hesitation and questions of whether or not they can do it. This post is mostly meant for people like that :P

[KEV1N]

Originally posted by Chibbity:

I don't think the issue is anyone being scared of it, some people just prefer a more laid back experience.

This.

Originally posted by Chibbity:

DRG is my drinking and relaxing game, not my caffeine and try hard game. I'm sure many feel the same.

And this.

[koan]

Originally posted by KEV1N:

Originally posted by Chibbity:

I don't think the issue is anyone being scared of it, some people just prefer a more laid back experience.

This.

Originally posted by Chibbity:

DRG is my drinking and relaxing game, not my caffeine and try hard game. I'm sure many feel the same.

And this.

The post wasn't aimed towards people who simply prefer not to play hazard 4.

[BROLY 32]

Haz 4 feels like a constant race to get 80 nitra, it's not fun.
Haz 3 is perfectly balanced for me so far, still kinda new to the game. Mostly playing solo or duo and it's annoying to run out of ammo so quickly on haz 4. I'd rather explore than spend my time shooting stuff.

When I play on a 4 player game tho, Haz 3 feels a bit too easy depending on the missions (ice and magma caves are still hard), maybe I'll switch to 4 for that.

Never touched haz 1 and haz 2 felt boring after 2 games.

[SLI_Fallen]

You have GOT to be kidding me. Patch 19 MASSIVELY increased the enemy count and especially with multiple players it has gotten out of hand. Of course I know this is EA, of course I know there is much more balancing to be done. But right now this game is anything BUT "laid back" lol.

[Gimli]

Hazard 4 is the only way my buds and I play. Best rewards and payout, not to mention fun as hell!

-Rock and Stone

[NeloDante]

Originally posted by BROLY 32:

Haz 4 feels like a constant race to get 80 nitra, it's not fun.
Haz 3 is perfectly balanced for me so far

This, with the extra enemies that we are getting with the new patch Im now running out of ammo after every wave which would require half of the supply pod something that is not always available if there are more than 2 players, thus it's a constant race for nitra instead of chasing the main objective.

Hazard 4, unless you have a full team and not something that you can get in PUGs like 3 engis 1 gunner, feels stressing and not an actual "challenge" since the difficulty comes from "I can't shoot, I can't kill anything my only option is to run and let everyone die in this coop game meanwhile I try to get Nitra while getting killed". If Haz4 felt to me more like "the enemies are tough, hit really hard and punish mistakes" I would love it more than just "the difficulty is the ammo management".

[BROLY 32]

I disagree with what I said earlier, I got a bit better now and I play differently. Mostly playing haz 4 now.