Difficulty thread (Give us a true insanity)

Hopefully, the combat is nothing like DAI. I would prefer ME3 with about a 20% difficulty increase...through actual intelligent enemy design and not simply adding a layer of armor and shields or more weapon damage. I want it to be tactically more challenging, not just grind through more waves of enemies.

It will be as difficult as the other Mass Effect games.

I was playing the most recent demo for Nioh yesterday and was actually thinking about this very subject.

In that game, when you kill the boss of a mission in the normal game, you unlock the ability to replay that same mission on what the game refers to as "twilight mode" - meaning that in addition to enemies having more health and dealing more damage, it actually changes what enemies spawn. So for example, a section that would normally have five or six soldiers will have a miniboss-type enemy (stronger enemies with more diverse movesets that are generally bigger and more complicated to fight) and two soldiers on twilight. In addition to that, the boss of the mission also behaves more aggressively and gains new attacks. To incentivize playing twilight missions, the loot that the bosses drop is much better.

I think this is the best implementation of a harder difficulty I've come across.

edit: Oh, and as a neat touch, it also changes the time of day to match the twilight name. Completely irrelevant in terms of gameplay, but it's a cool aesthetic that shows an attention to detail.

Insanity in ME1 and 2 could be pretty challenging at least for the first half of each game. 

As long as the casual setting is the asme level of difficulty as in the previous games they can do what they like with the other settings.

I'd prefer creative battles set ups, with moving hazards and useable stuff, like shields, turrets, ships... I really liked the battle in a moving elevator in ME 3. I know, I have not played a lot of games, but the fancy battle set ups captured my imagination in SWTOR operations. Would love to see something like that in sp.

As long as super easy is still super easy made insanity as hard as you like but do it via actually making that higher levels more difficult not the whole game. I don;t want to be playing a dark soulsesque game where you bang you r head against a boss for 50 deaths until you figure out how to kill him on easy mode.

I'm of two minds here.

On the one hand, I have cerebral palsy. My reaction times are very bad and I have trouble with simple things like holding down multiple buttons at once and tapping buttons rapidly. So I have a vested interest in easy being easy.

On the other hand, I completed ME3 on Insanity, so I'm thinking it should've been harder.

What made Insanity on Mass Effect 1 hard? All it did for me was to make the combat last longer since all enemies had the health and shields of a Geth Armature. I will admit that it was hard at the start if you started at level 1 when you didn't have any gear, but the moment you started to get some reasonable gear it was just like The Division with bullet sponge enemies.

yeah that's my disability as well. I have Cerebral Palsy which means that I only have one hand on the controls and have difficulty having to use too,many buttons and getting them pressed quickly enough. Although I've gotto admit I'm impreesed by the fact you beat ME3 on Insanity I can only just about do it on Casual and I get my ass kicked if I try to go any higher. That's the main reason why I'm worried about the no pause to aim. In terms of the rest of the game it looks and sounds good but the lack of pause to aim does hav eme slightly worried as to whether I can fire my powers off accurately.

I agree with this. While I would like a challenging game, I do understand a decent chunk of the player base cares more about the actual stories that the combat and other things involved in the game. If BW can pull off a game where its almost entirely story for some (with RP elements ofc) and make the game the challenge some crave they have outdone themselves.

Yeah well narrative mode I wouldn't asy is required as that pretty much controlled everything even the RPG elements and I like to make some choices for myself so Casual generally worked well enough for me in that I had the ability to choose where the story was headed but without the high levels of difficulty. But yeagh hopefully they can set a level that's good for most of us. I know I'll be playing on Casual but we'll see how it goes from there.