Oh, I totally get that. My own preferences lean heavily towards style of gameplay that most people would call tedious and annoying, I’m just not into “1 hit death, enemies spot and attack you from the other side of the map and you dehydrate in minutes” type of thing. That’s why I usually start with medium difficulty settings and bump up from there as I get the feel for how things are balanced.
Punishment IS fun, over tuning on the other hand can be less so. Since everyone has their own preferences, that sentence is purely subjective for every player and what they see as too much.
Yeah, I totally agree with you. It’s a fine balance between immersion (which to me is one of the main draws of STALKER) and enjoyable gameplay. I tried playing a Call of Chernobyl-based modpack called A.R.E.A. as a counter example, and that shit is just pure pain. Way too much “realism”, way too little fun. It was certainly interesting but… yeah.
Though actually on the note of spotting you from half the map, there are a ton of helpful AI mods that are pretty much standard that I should probably also dig up for you…
Oh, I totally get that. My own preferences lean heavily towards style of gameplay that most people would call tedious and annoying, I’m just not into “1 hit death, enemies spot and attack you from the other side of the map and you dehydrate in minutes” type of thing. That’s why I usually start with medium difficulty settings and bump up from there as I get the feel for how things are balanced.
Punishment IS fun, over tuning on the other hand can be less so. Since everyone has their own preferences, that sentence is purely subjective for every player and what they see as too much.
Yeah, I totally agree with you. It’s a fine balance between immersion (which to me is one of the main draws of STALKER) and enjoyable gameplay. I tried playing a Call of Chernobyl-based modpack called A.R.E.A. as a counter example, and that shit is just pure pain. Way too much “realism”, way too little fun. It was certainly interesting but… yeah.
Though actually on the note of spotting you from half the map, there are a ton of helpful AI mods that are pretty much standard that I should probably also dig up for you…