I see some other people here say how hard it was for them, I don’t see how.
I don’t think I dropped more than 40 health in a firefight on hard mode throughout the entire game unless I fell and dropped to it. HL1 was much much more harder even on medium/normal setting. Could you guys make an even more difficult mode for long time HL1 enthusiasts?
I actually think this Medium setting was a tad harder than the original Medium setting. HECU especially tend to be more lethal. Hmm.
Can’t say much about Hard though.
Are you kidding or just being sarcastic? the “Questionable Ethics” ambush fight is almost impossible to beat on Hard without God Mode
On Hard you still 1-shot soldiers with the Crossbow. I used that, and then the gauss gun for the last few.
Even on Medium I had a tough time with those soldiers. going into that ambush fight I had troubles even making a dent in them, I finally succeeded after 20+ tries.
yeah I got kittened repeatedly on Hard
if you are unhappy with the difficulty, you can always make your own by editing skill.cfg
I didn’t say I was unhappy with it. Honestly, the way it is right now, I found myself trying different tactics till something worked. Like the Crossbow during the ambush helped pick off key soldiers such as the medic, the shotgun, and the squad leader. The Tao cannon is MEAN vs vehicles. I ran out of rockets on a tank and shot it with a charged up tao cannon and watched it go boom. And finally, my trip mine tactic never fails me vs the assassins. except when I don’t have enough to trap them, that was the first time I pulled out my magnum on them and pinged one in the head and ran like I was just about to piss my pants.
I’m playing on easy and it’s freaking 'ard…
Set it to hard and you won’t be saying it’s easy.
should be renamed to Insane
Lol if you are saying you didn’t die much on hard either you are lying or you are a maniac who actually knows tactical combat.
I really don’t get this attitude. I’m playing it on normal and it is much harder than HL1 ever was. I rarely have my health over 60, and attacks hit much harder than they used to.
If you’re a sadist who thinks its too easy, fine but don’t colour us all with your inhuman abilities. The game is harder than HL2 AND HL1, and that is plenty hard enough, thanks!
I play on normal mode, and as far as I can tell its pretty easy.
BUT the HECU is tough as fuck. They aim like pros, and if you try to peak they hit you instantly. I found that the only way to win a fight without loosing a lot of hit points is just waiting for them to come at you. Waiting with a shotgun or revolver!
The ‘ninjas’ was quick as damn but really easy to kill.
The spitters do good damage, but easy to kill (double barrel)
The houndeyes do huge damage, but easy to kill from behind. But if they surprise you, they are lethal.
Not sure where OP is coming from… normal is a bit tougher than normal in the original, and hard makes some of the firefights nearly impossible.
Yeah if anything I thought it was harder then Half-Life, but I can only compare to medium. The worst thing was that almost every time music kicked in, an insane battle was sure to follow.
i had no trouble with hard except the ambush on questinable ethics. that one took a dozen retries. the final part when your about to teleport to xen was also pretty difficult until i realized that just running around is much easier, since they dont atack the scientist at all…
I won’t lie that I didn’t die though, seems pretty insane to claim that you never died 
I died a lot, and i’ve beaten the original more then 20 times.
It’s possible he didn’t try adjusting the difficulty, it defaulted to Easy for me and I had to change it.
agreed
Well, there was one thing I wanted to do: adjust the hitscan damage (bullet, basically) of pretty much every millitary stuff (but mostly soldiers). No such options in there.
I could switch to Easy, but then other things become lame. Its kind of annoying. Already that the Itchyausar, whatever its spelled, is killed with 2 crossbow hit (lol what) and most other monsters are barely more resistant, when you put it on Easy everything dies like a fly and it kills the fun just the same.
I defeated that on medium, it was my favourite fight in the game. I died a few times, but I then made a pattern of where I need to be and soon I won it without loosing much health 
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