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DNCLIP

Insane difficulty can eat a bag of hell

Trying to achievement grind on the XB1 version at the moment. I've beat this game before on PC, I thought this would be a super quick achievement. Nope, I am STRUGGLING to get through this game. Possession is borderline useless, aiming is so inaccurate and rate of fire so slow you just get lit up instantly. I did not think aiming with a controller would be so hard. Even Halo had autoaim, what happened??

Anyone got any tips for how to engage a large group of ranged enemies with no horde, no powers, only melee attacks?

Posted Apr 6, 2021, 3:28 AM UTC

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ThatCanadianGuy19•

It’s tough man for sure, it’s one of those game that really wasn’t meant for that level of damaged per hit so extra difficulty just feels tacked on to artificially expand playtime.

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DNCLIPOP•

Definitely agree. It's not well balanced, just lazy game design. This game is meant to be played on normal or easy IMO. Good balance of challenge but still light hearted fun.

I keep making progress on insane but it's basically to the point where it takes me 10-30 lives to clear a room and reach the next save checkpoint. Not super fun to be honest. But I'm past halfway through the game at this point, just have to finish it and get the platinum, then I will probably not touch the game again for a few years.

Next on my achievements todo list was going to be Crash Bandicoot, I might need to choose something a little less challenging for next time. Probably Grim Fandango, that'll be a nice easy one.

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DNCLIPOP•

Some tips I discovered:

There's a number of areas that you don't actually need to kill all the humans in order to progress, you just need to get to the exit.

Also, you can run past a cluster of enemies and don't engage, then draw them into a different area where you can bottleneck them and take on one or two at a time. This was pretty useful in the outdoor mall area.

When there's a group of enemies, pretty much don't even bother engaging head on. Get enough horde going to keep them distracted, then just run around behind enemies and eat brains. Rinse and repeat.

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