

I finished the game on Hard as well last year and mostly really used just Plasma Cutter, although I think I had Pulse Rifle, Contact Beam and Line Gun as well. Shooting both of the arms is an okay strat, but just make sure you don't waste ammo trying to hit the swining blades, use stasis if you go for that, although I personally rarely have used it on my later playthroughs, I just try to cut through everything ASAP before they get too close. Take out a leg and once they collapse, the head and they die right away. Knowing where every Necromorph also appear approximately helps. You just gotta know the weakpoints of the enemies to conserve ammo. Yes, I will probably end up trying it, but I’m not sure I’ll be able to finish it (kind of like hard mode on Evil Within.much less Akumu). Yes, I do know there’s a harder difficulty. Just crazy stuff, but so glad I hung on and beat it!

I was selling guns I had upgraded just to buy back a basic version of that same gun to have some ammo for it. The sheer lack of ammo later in the game is crazy. I almost gave up once on Mission 10 or 11, but I was able to go back to an older save and try a different approach. I beat maybe the first 5 or 6 missions fairly easily, since I got the basics down from my first play through, but things started getting very hard by the end of the game. Man, it’s not easy, is it? I’m used to “hard” in games kinda being like the old version of normal, but this one really took some work. Been playing a lot of Alien: Isolation too, and I’ve beaten that on every difficulty fairly easily by this point (even beat the entire game without dying), so I figured I’d come back and finally try to beat DS1 on Hard. Came back later, tried again on Hard, got my ass handed to me again, and went back and beat it on Medium and enjoyed it a ton. I originally tried this game on Hard maybe a year ago, and it was just punishing, so I gave up. I actually have the next two, and will okay those at some point coming up. So, I’ve only played the first one, so please no spoilers for later games.
