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How hard is 'Expert?'


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About to play on that highest level.

What makes it difficult?

Is it cheap difficulty?

 

If you only play Expert to get the BlackOps Specialist trophy then it's incredibly easy. You don't need to worry about alarms, deaths, medkits, completing or secondary objectives so if you've previously beaten the game (on Normal or completed Hard with under five deaths) then you'll be able to rush through the game.

 

The worst point for me was dealing the guards while disabling the bombs at the end of mission 9, which took a bit of pre-planning (like planting wall mines).

 

As for what makes it difficult, enemies do more damage, they're more likely to detect you if they are close/using a torch (rather than being mostly blind on normal) and I think you get less acccessories (air foils, shockers, cameras) but I am not sure on that.

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Just finished the NYC level. Mission 5, and i see what you mean. It has been shockingly easy so far except for a couple of parts. Thanks for that heads up on mission 9. I must say that this game is more fun....if you can call these games fun, than the original.

 

The worst point for me was dealing the guards while disabling the bombs at the end of mission 9, which took a bit of pre-planning (like planting wall mines).

 

As for what makes it difficult, enemies do more damage, they're more likely to detect you if they are close/using a torch (rather than being mostly blind on normal) and I think you get less acccessories (air foils, shockers, cameras) but I am not sure on that.

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If you only play Expert to get the BlackOps Specialist trophy then it's incredibly easy. You don't need to worry about alarms, deaths, medkits, completing or secondary objectives so if you've previously beaten the game (on Normal or completed Hard with under five deaths) then you'll be able to rush through the game.

 

The worst point for me was dealing the guards while disabling the bombs at the end of mission 9, which took a bit of pre-planning (like planting wall mines).

 

As for what makes it difficult, enemies do more damage, they're more likely to detect you if they are close/using a torch (rather than being mostly blind on normal) and I think you get less acccessories (air foils, shockers, cameras) but I am not sure on that.

 

Yup you are mostly right, they are alot smarter and being shot tends to insta kill you, but thankfully you get the same amount of accessories that you get in normal. I just hope that hard won't be so bad because I died alot on Soul.

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If you know your way around the level, it's not that hard to even make it around without even knocking anyone out. I had played the XBOX version, and when I got this, my first playthrough was on Expert. Didn't even knock anyone out, and got most of the difficult trophies on my first run. Sadly, I now have to play it on normal and hard, both for the normal trophy and the one where you don't die.

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