I recall seeing several comments by Frank saying that we might be better off going for Normal the first time around rather than Heroic.
I figured he was talking about just the difficulty of adjusting the Prometheans but is Heroic still “the way Halo was meant to be played” or is it normal now that is the intended experience for people looking to enjoy play for the first time with reasonable difficulty.
I tend to prefer having a degree of difficulty that allows for some tense and memorable encounters without being frustrating the first time through and so far Heroic has been that difficulty. I made the mistake of going through Halo 3 on normal the first time through and that was way too easy.
So is normal intended to be the representative difficulty for fans or is it still Heroic?
I haven’t seen anything one way or the other, but I would assume that Heroic is still the ‘canon’ difficulty. I think Frankie was just saying that Heroic will be a bit tougher this time around, which I applaud.
It could just be about the Prometheans themselves making any difficulty slightly harder, as they might be a tougher opponent than the Covies, so Heroic is probably still the “cannon” difficulty.
When Frankie said it’ll be more difficult, I believe that’s referring to the new experience it’ll be to combat the Prometheans. As he explained, we’ve sort of grown accustomed to the Covenant behaviour over the years. Adding in a new enemy with new skillsets and abilities will ramp up the difficulty. Also, I’d believe that the Promethean Knights would be a far greater challenge to in-canon Chief as well.
> It could just be about the Prometheans themselves making any difficulty slightly harder, as they might be a tougher opponent than the Covies, so Heroic is probably still the “cannon” difficulty.
Agreed. You probably shouldn’t read into it too much. Remeber there’s going to be alot of people playing for their first time.
There is no ‘canon’ difficulty. Heroic is just defined as the difficulty which offers the best balance of challenge - the way “Halo is meant to be played”.
> There is no ‘canon’ difficulty. Heroic is just defined as the difficulty which offers the best balance of challenge - the way “Halo is meant to be played”.
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> That doesn’t make it the canon difficulty.
OP is referring to it as “canon” difficulty because back in the days Bungie described Heroic as being closest to “reality” within the universe. So therefore it is legit to call it “canon” with “…” because it’s not really canon, but has to do with it in a way.
On topic:
Apparantly Normal is now “canon”, but I’m just going to play it on Heroic. More bang for my buck in the first playthrough!
If you mean baseline difficulty I consider baseline difficulty the one in which odds are even numerically. Meaning that my opponents do not receive extra arbitrary health is bonus weapon damage compared to my character
> It could just be about the Prometheans themselves making any difficulty slightly harder, as they might be a tougher opponent than the Covies, so Heroic is probably still the “cannon” difficulty.
> I thought Frankie was referring to mission 3 and it alone.
Nah, he was referring to the campaign as a whole, he was saying anyone who has problems doing Campaigns on Heroic generally should stick to Normal until they adjust, due to the Prometheans and what they bring to the table together.
> Nothings’s confirmed at this point in time, but I’m sure we’ll find out once the game is released.
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> So what is Easy then? I guess it’s no longer “grandma-mode”.
Easy? What is this ‘Easy’ you speak of? Real men play on anything but easy! <— Please not this is a joke.
