Extra Baddies?

[lord dubu]

Playing through on hard, after playing through on normal...

Question... are there extra striders and gunships?

For the life of me I don't remember running into the gunship you have to leap over in the buggy ala Fozzerella style on Normal.

Nor do I remember the strider in the tunnel after fighting them in the square...

Am I mistaken? Or are these extra baddies for those who are bold and daring.

 

[corkscru74]

Not sure about the Gunship/Buggy bit - I know there was a Gunship you had to take down while driving on Highway 17 but I didn't have to jump it on Normal difficulty.

Strider in the Tunnel, is that the one that breaks through the wall? That was in Normal mode - but I missed it, I was facing the wrong way...then shat my pants!!!

 

[lord dubu]

Hmmm... how did I forget about that strider! Wierd.

The gunship that you jump, is the first one you fight on the Highway. At lest for me, it flew under me as I jumped a broken bridge. I landed, rounded the bend and slammed into a pile of junked cars.

Ended up fighting the thing off with the rockets from a crate in the back of a van...

As stated, I just don't remember having to do that on Normal.

 

[Pressure]

You have to do both on normal.

 

[J_Tweedy]

im pretty sure for normal and hard there are extra enemies.
for example, on the cliffside just after the trip back and forth across the bridge- i never saw any ant lions on easy- they were there on hard tho.
not sure about gunships etc.

 

[Smigit]

nah i jumped the gunship on easy and am up to city17 on normal and havent noticed a single difference enemy wise. I suppose it depends on your timing at the moment and decisions u make while playing as to what enemy will be where when...but i dont think theres any extra ones.

 

[uberBullsquid]

i dont know about striders and gunships, but i got the impression that there are more basic enemys in certain areas. I could swear there were 2 headcrabs when u climb up this ladder into like an attic in ravenholm. Playing it on hard mode i thought, i know this, there r 2 headcrabs up here waiting for me. Run up there, wtf ?! theres like 5 of the bastards.

 

[rpgprog]

i thought the only diff in hard and medium, was the amount of damage you did and amount of damage you took. But i never played in on hard or even medium, I just wanted to beat the game as easy as possible. Maybe I will try again on harder level, since I missed alot of stuff.

 

[twad]

on hard there is no extra enemies..
a gunship on easy is more or less a little inconvenience.. 3 shots and it blows up.

On hard it takes 7-8 rockets to kill it.. so you WILL notice even a single gunship. It says that on hard our weapons are weaker (or maybe the ennemies are stronger) this is why every single ennemy is far more a challenge than a easy-mode one.

On easy i did not mind the manhacks or non-poison headcrabs (they deal loww damage) and the combines were easy to take down.. now on hard i fear the manhacks, kill those headcrab asap and i take cover much more often against the combines.
I also noticed that the fast zombie dont do that much damage even on hard.. but they are a lot harder to kill (headshots save you life)

oh, the snipers on hard can insta-kill if they score a headshot on you. I died against the second sniper after the mines.. was trying to hide behind the fallen logs and then he fired and i was dead (even with 100hp/~50suit!!)