My thoughts on the difficulty

[Cs__sz__r]

I remember beating the game and then came dark mode. Aryan handed my ass to me on a platter.

 

[Jeeers]

Dark mode is cakewalk in my opinion (except Operator . If you have learned mechanics and use right tactics (and Quen sign) - you never get hit. But when you get hit, you die quickly. I was somewhat dissapointed with Dark mode. I was hoping for more monster spawns, tougher enemies, but I just got "hard-hitting" enemies with the same AI, but no additional spawnts, etc.
Am I wrong? ...Or I just have forgotten how it was on regular hard?
I remember my first playthrough - Prologue was such pain in ass, but then I discovered Quen... Now I wish for prologue to be harder, as it was before rebalancing.

 

[AserPik]

One word for you. Quen.

 

[Chaosadnd1]

My first few play throughs on hard were very tough. I am actually running through dark mode now with the FCR2 and I find it pretty easy.

 

[Thothistox]

Dark mode is cakewalk in my opinion (except Operator />. If you have learned mechanics and use right tactics (and Quen sign) - you never get hit. But when you get hit, you die quickly. I was somewhat dissapointed with Dark mode. I was hoping for more monster spawns, tougher enemies, but I just got "hard-hitting" enemies with the same AI, but no additional spawnts, etc.
Am I wrong? ...Or I just have forgotten how it was on regular hard? />
I remember my first playthrough - Prologue was such pain in ass, but then I discovered Quen... /> Now I wish for prologue to be harder, as it was before rebalancing.

I think you're right. I don't remember any additional enemies being spawned on Dark.

 

[daddy300]

Way to easy. Last time I played it was way more fun since I refused to use Quen and Yrden. Boss in chapter 2 is way more fun without using that one spell. I still consider it a glitch.
TW2; Normal = Easy, Hard = Normal.

I hope TW3 has some tough enemies who will kick your ass even on normal diffculty.

 

[AserPik]

I thought perhaps that maybe when you die you respawn at the nearest Inn, introduce that kinda aspect of the game for Dark mode or whatnot.

 

[Nephta]

My first time was hard, but after you learn the roll and parry mechanics its really easy.

No problem about that, in no mean i complain that the game is too hard. I like challenging games, I'm just saying most fights are really unforgiving if you make a mistake. And you can't get away easily from group fight like you did in Witcher 1 with group style.