Jesus fuck I had to go through a bunch of bullshit just to log in so I could write this tirade.
Its funny that theres always two types of people in these threads;
1. The "Yes I agree it can be crap at times but hang in there kiddo" type.
and
2. The "maybe if you take the dick out of your brain and stop jerking your chubby pud for a second you can just git gud like me cause im a legend. this game isnt hard you fuckin pleb" type.
The simple truth is, the stealth in this game sucks farts out of your colon harder than 10 shop vacs at once.
Its not that its Hard OR Easy. Its just garbage. Mainly because it's inconsistent and doesn't have the best AI programmed by what would be realistic or what you are used to in much better stealth games.
There is a larger debate about Hard vs Normal difficulty and how the game becomes a savescrubbing hell-hole. But I won't get into that, though I will still mention some of the differences.
Im also not going to talk about hacking as much since that can be an entirely different skill tree on its own.
When it comes to stealth, there are a few really clear ways to me that the game handles how you get through stuff.
One way is just by having perks and guns (silenced usually) that benefit by you just being able to hit people in the head.
Couple this with timing your shots and not having dudes see the guys you shoot, and you can walk through areas without much effort at all. The only time you might run into trouble is if you don't have some of the nifty skills such as the one which slows time when someone is seeing you or being alerted, or if you havent yet gotten skills the help you kill robotic types faster and have a bunch of them to go through. But still, generally being good with your head shots lets this be pretty easy, even if you are on Hard difficulty. This is when things go right and the game feels EASY.
Then there is the "Oh no, that one fukkin loser saw me while I was trying to shoot him or his buddy in their private parts but I missed because I cant control my mouse cause im a fuckin dunce" route; which also get split into two sub-catergories.
The first of these two sub-categories is if you happen to have some buttfucking dickfart see you AT ALL while trying to sneak. Then its game over. They inexplicably know where you are and suddenly everyone comes to put their meat poles inside your meat pole and detonate them, thus exploding your meat pole all over your meat self, and you die.
The second is if you happen to have some fart huffing taint licker see you after you shoot your gun and miss like a moron, then you run around a little bit and maybe try hiding somewhere and somehow the game decides they DONT actually know where you are. Then you just have to wait like 30 seconds and you can have another shot at being the failure you are.
Thats about it.
I can't fault the company too much for some of the bad mechanics. Theyve had a long time to make this steamy pile, of course. But to be fair, they also have literally written their own versions of mechanics for many types of features and gameplay that they didn't have in the witcher series.... Which lets all remember is like the ONLY thing these guys have one before.
Overall, yes the stealth is crap. But it seems like they want to improve the game. So here is hoping they see this entire thread and maybe make a few changes. Otherwise... idk whatever ive already put like 60 hours into the game so if it still sucks in 1 year I guess I wont come back to play it again.
