Difficulty levels

[HeinzHarald]

Originally Posted by CJ Mcnasty

I don't know about the slider. Hopefully it just clicks over to the difficulty settings instead of sliding. Some people might want to try and get an achievment for beating the game on hard, and the slider could be a tiny bit under hard and they might not get the achievment.

Well the difficulty level is spelled out for the players right there just above the slider, so you'll know when you're at High or not no matter if the slider snaps into place or not. I seriously doubt there'll be more than 5 places the slider stops though. Can't see a point in being able to change the difficulty level in tiny increments.

[ckline]

There's Easy, Medium, and Hard.

+ Easy is really easy, intended for people new to FPS games or people who just want to blast through the game and enjoy the story without dying too much.

+ Medium is the basic "default" setting intended for people who play FPS games casually.

+ Hard is, well, pretty brutal. It's intended for hardcore gamers and people who want a serious challenge.

You can also change difficulty at any time without exiting the game or restarting. (Note: this may, however, invalidate existing progress towards difficulty-related Achievements on the 360 version)

I would hazard a guess that most of the people on this forum should be playing on Hard or at least Medium. Unless you're.... you know.... scared?

-Chris Kline, Lead Programmer, Bioshock

[Nick9823]

Originally Posted by ckline

There's Easy, Medium, and Hard.

+ Easy is really easy, intended for people new to FPS games or people who just want to blast through the game and enjoy the story without dying too much.

+ Medium is the basic "default" setting intended for people who play FPS games casually.

+ Hard is, well, pretty brutal. It's intended for hardcore gamers and people who want a serious challenge.

You can also change difficulty at any time without exiting the game or restarting. (Note: this may, however, invalidate existing progress towards difficulty-related Achievements on the 360 version)

I would hazard a guess that most of the people on this forum should be playing on Hard or at least Medium. Unless you're.... you know.... scared?

-Chris Kline, Lead Programmer, Bioshock

Lol, thanks for the information chris, and ill be playing on hard because im a beast.

[Raveness]

Originally Posted by TheVinster

Difficulty slider:

http://www.2kgames.com/cultofrapture...c/gameplay.jpg

Hehe you know without notches on the slider, and since they took a picture of 'Medium', one could interpret that there is any other difficulties in-between each side and the middle. As much as the thickness of the indicator anyways.

[solidwolf52]

I think there will be 5 ranging from very easy to very hard

[TheVinster]

Originally Posted by solidwolf52

I think there will be 5 ranging from very easy to very hard

Read this page, talk about oblivious.

[Raveness]

Originally Posted by TheVinster

Read this page, talk about oblivious.

You're my hero

[TheVinster]

Originally Posted by Raveness

You're my hero

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[Nick9823]

Lmao the lead programmer just explained everything and someone still goes and guesses.

[Seamonkey]

I'll play on Hard the first run-through.

It's just more intense. Makes you feel like there are real concrete descisions to make, and you have to be much more careful about how you handle Big Daddies, etc.

If there's like a Very Hard option, I'll probably save that for my second playthrough, as I'd rather avoid any frustration with my virgin run.