like you can’t see how the game looks or plays when you’re playing on hard
First on easy and then on hard!
Why not play on hard first? best way to play is with a hard-on.
You can…
But I’ve been waiting for this game for a damn long time, as have a lot of us here! so I’m going to look in every corner, every plant, every damn rock.
or maybe that’s a little extreme… :freeman: hahaha
Playing on easy to see/experience more of BM? :brow:
First off, exploration normally occurs outside firefights, so difficulty while exploring doesnt matter.
Secondly, BM is only a game, so dying more often on hard just means you have to reload and try again :’( . Consequently, it will take you LONGER to beat BM and offer you MORE opportunities to see and experience everything. I look forward to savoring the firefights instead of dominating everyone. Im hoping for a challenge and really get the most out of my years of waiting.
Different strokes for different folks i guess…i like it hard, real hard :jizz:
Or you could just do medium for a decent challenge AND the ability to experience it the way you wanted to.
Personally, Ive completed HL countless times on hard. No reason NOT to play BM on hard.
Hard on first play through.
As PlausibleSarge said above, I too like to play on the hardest mode of each game I play.
So, devs, what difficulty do you guys find is the most enjoyable to play the mod on?
this, 1000x
Exactly. I really don’t where this whole “you can’t take in a game on hard” stigma comes from. The only time that would ever be true was if it’s absolutely non-stop action every hour, minute, and second of game time, which obviously doesn’t happen in BM.
It’s not like while you are swinging crowbars at headcrab zombies playing on easy is going to somehow make it possible to do that while focusing on that amazing wall texture to your left.
I think I’ve decided to go for medium instead of hard. The way I look at it is, Half-Life on hard is hard. And we have no way of telling what level of “hard” Black Mesa will be. And I would hate to start going into a game with no idea how most of the enemies and all of the weapons will behave, and have Black Mesa have a hard mode like Half-Life 1, where it’s clearly meant for the very skilled FPS players or veterans of the series. So I’ll probably play through once on medium, just to get a feel of the game, then I’ll play through again on hard (and hopefully each time after that) once I know what I’m doing.
I’ll play at easy(at least the first time), it’s more like a movie than a game for me. No challenges.
Maybe you could simply up the difficulty each playthrough. Or perhaps lower it.
Aw, but your Gordon House avatar says badass. it’s a must to go hard first go!
Don’t forget guys, since it’s HL2 you can lower the difficulty during the game, so you can always get a taste of a certain difficulty first to see if you like it.
^ THIS SO MUCH. Seriously, HL on Hard is brutal. HL2 is easy pizdets compared to HL1 on Hard. Particularly on fucking Xen.
The hardest possible option. I want veteran mode because the hard mode on HL1 wasn’t difficult enough 
was wondering when someone would respond to that. thank you.