Is this game really hard?

[Tanyon]

I only played the first one three times and all three times I lost. I refused to put the difficulty below 100 because what's the point I thought it would just be challenging.. Does this game have the same type of settings maybe I will try it on a easier setting. I love the lore, the atmosphere, and everything else but it's not too much fun investing 20 or 30 hours in a campaign just to lose to an RNG event or one wrong decision.

[XenoReaver]

Thea 2: The Shattering is much easier than Thea: The Awakening.

Also you shouldn't feel bad about playing at a reduced difficulty rating. It's a good way to learn the mechanics without worrying about the game killing you off so much. If need be then take some time playing on easy to learn what to do and what not to do.

[Tanyon]

Originally posted by XenoReaver:

Thea 2: The Shattering is much easier than Thea: The Awakening.

Also you shouldn't feel bad about playing at a reduced difficulty rating. It's a good way to learn the mechanics without worrying about the game killing you off so much. If need be then take some time playing on easy to learn what to do and what not to do.

yea thanks man. You're right.

[Lorska]

To add to that:

You aren't really expected to win/know everything on higher difficulties either.
It's normal to lose people, that's why the defeat condition is your chosen dying and not anyone dying.

You generally won't die to one bad decision (maybe excluding a bad toxin event which could happen on any difficulty) but a chain of them. The good thing is that you can temper with the settings however you like.

The main things I would recommend soon though, so you don't learn bad habits: deactivate reinforcement range, deactivate stealth, increase autoresolve difficulty. I played a lot on easier difficulty too btw ;)

[Yoinkyz]

takes alot of time to grasp its depth. and be sure to ask questions whenever someone allways answers on here

[DNLH]

I'd say that playing on lower difficulties is almost mandatory at first. It makes it so much easier to learn all those enemies and events when you're sure to have an upper hand over them and from there figure out how you'd want to make it work in a 'proper' high difficulty run.

'Knowing is half the battle' rings especially true for Shattering. If you don't know what you're getting into, chances are that your first group will be eaten by boars.