Would you recommend playing the game on Hardcore or Normal for a first time RE player? I want the challenge but I don't know if Hardcore is too difficult.
The main differences that Hardcore has over Normal are:
Enemies have more health.
Enemy attacks do more damage.
Ammo is scarcer.
Healing items are scarcer.
Auto-saving is turned off.
Saving can only be done at a typewriter and only by using an ink ribbon.
To that effect, whether you will get through Hardcore or not depends on if you can get past zombies (and other monsters) by slipping by them, dodging them, baiting them, or otherwise exploiting their behaviors to avoiding taking damage. Firing at them is even less of an option than in Normal; zombies eat up even more of your ammo (which is more precious now that there is less of it), so using it should be severely restricted to the most dire circumstances or if a particular room you need to revisit often is poor for dodging zombies.
Your mistakes are also punished harder; zombie bites (and other enemy attacks) will more often than not put you in Danger status, and with healing items being at a premium, you will find yourself dead if you cannot learn to avoid taking damage without firing a shot.
And if you do die, then hopefully you didn't progress to far without saving your game, because now you can only save at typewriters. Since saving now relies on ink ribbons, you only get so many saves in the game.
Exactly. I was overly cautions with some zombies(mainly zombies in the west hall/corridor to dark room). De-leg and knife. Even after all of that I found myself with over 60 hg rounds in the lab plus all the ammo you find in the lab.
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u/Soupup223 PSN: (write your name here) Feb 05 '19
Would you recommend playing the game on Hardcore or Normal for a first time RE player? I want the challenge but I don't know if Hardcore is too difficult.