What Difficulty Will you play Black Mesa on?

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#41

You can still admire the game on hard after you’ve killed everything that moves around you.

#42

Hard, just like the first and only(so far) time I played the original Half-Life.

#43

Custom. Tweek the Skill.cfg to be the way I want it… “hard” isn’t hard enough for me.

#44

I think I shall play it on hard for the first playthrough. One thing I remember about the original half-life was when you played it on hard a lot of the scripted sequences played out differently. Army vs. Alien fights would end much faster etc. and sometimes you missed a lot of sequences and you would never know until you played it on a lesser difficulty. I will probably play on hard and then on normal the second time and spend a lot more time looking around and exploring.

#45

Hard, need to die many times in order to savor the game longer than the 10 hours

#46

Medium, then later Hard. If it gets too easy on Medium I’ll switch.

#47

Half Life always annoyed me with its ‘‘enemies NEED to take more than 100 bullets to the face to die’’ difficulty setting

#48

Probably easy, because:

A. I just want to appreciate the mod for what it is, preferably without dying every two seconds like I always did on any other difficulty in the original

OR

B. I’m a pussy who is terrible at vidya gamez.

Take your pick.

#49

Hard - I want to face the invisible ninja bitches and keep the experience nice and long.

#50

I’ll Play it on normal this time through and the next time I Play it (hopefully when Xen is added) I’ll go through on hard.

#51

THIS

although I will finish it on hard first, as I don’t like screwing with weapon damage and npc health etc until I have played the vanilla at least a little bit

#52

I never normally play a game on hard but I am seriously considering it just to prolong my experience of the mod!

#53

Yeah, I think one of the devs mentioned how hard hard would actually be, but I can’t remember. What I really love in a game is when enemies on hard aren’t “bullet sponges” as someone said. Does anyone know what to expect? Sponges, or something more balanced?

#54

The combine being bullet sponges in HL2 made perfect sense because they are wearing super thick, otherworldly armor (except the metrocops)

#55

Yeah, I guess you have a point there. But weren’t the HL1 grunts/stuff sponges too? There’s only so many bullets you can take, kevlar or not.

#56

I’ll probably end up playing on medium just so I can appreciate the scenery and combat, then hard on second play-through for a challenge.

#57

HGrunts in HL1 were the ultimate bullet sponges, it was insane. I remember once the Cigar Grunt somehow came up to me and launched a contact grenade almost point-blank into my stomach, and somehow I got blown to pieces but he didn’t. :brow:

It didn’t help that the MP5 had such high inaccuracy in the first place, and you didn’t get the Magnum until the level AFTER WGH, which means you had to deal with a whole level of Grunts without a high-power ranged anti-Grunt weapon, or risk charging in with the shotgun and basically opening yourself up to every flanking maneuver possible. :expressionless:

Loved the Grunts as an enemy. They were enjoyably annoying to fight. I really hope they’re like that in Black Mesa too. :slight_smile:

#58

Easy because I cannot seem to get skilled enough to go higher than easy.

#59

Well, I want them to be really challenging, but not bullet sponges… I’m still playing on hard though, no matter what.

#60

Hard. Even if everything’s a bullet sponge I will enjoy it.

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