Question for anyone that's done a ranger and supreme jerk playthrough

[HELLFIRE]

So I've finished Ranger difficulty and started SJ, and it feels like the difficulties were switched. I was CONSTANTLY getting critted and stomped out in ranger difficulty; basically if I didn't end combat in one or two rounds I was guaranteed to have at least 2-3 KOs. I'm at big trouble in little vegas, and I have yet to take one critical hit in supreme jerk.

Also when I started my Ranger playthrough, I didn't have any spare ammo for my sniper, made the intro VERY difficult.

Anyone else experience this?

[stretch]

The first little bit is easy if you get (I think) 2 points in mech, one in first aid and one in lockpick.
You should ding a level at the final big fight so if you need more there you can get them.
This lets you kill the first big robot using the broken valve which drops a turret or two. You need 1 mech for the valve and 2 mech to deploy the turret.
When you are building a character simply select each starter weapon repeatedly ( I just cycle through all of them over and over.) and it gives you one qty (be it 5 sniper or 20 AR etc) of ammo for that starter weapon each time. So you can start with bulk ammo.
At worst engage and pull back from the final fight and let the npc ranger do the bulk of the work.
Cake. Even on SJ but until you know this then yeah getting caught short on sniper ammo is very, very normal.

As for crits I think you have been lucky.
Some SJ encounters do not seem to scale up well. Enemies are still very weak and in others they are stupidly strong based on their hp's anyway. I don't get it.

[HELLFIRE]

Oh I'm scooting along just fine, went with a melee/sniper for this run through, I just happened to notice my rangers are taking a WHOLE lot less damage than they were on the ranger difficulty playthrough. It's possible they balanced the game since I started my first playthrough and I'm just now noticing it.

[BigRockWall]

You might also be making better more informed decisions your second play through. I feel like there is a little more damage incoming but its mostly inflated con pools between the 2 difficulties.

[Iso Koala]

Cant say for sure, but I loaded the last battle on my save, and enemies definitely did more dmg on supreme jerk than on ranger. It changes instantly so I also could see that compared to normal, ranger has +50% more HP on enemies and Supreme Jerk +100%, I would say the damage is also this much more. Due to RNG nature of weapons I cant say this for sure though. Hit % are the same.