because of duty support is slightly more difficult content even possible?

[Rudje]

in from the cold (which is arguably more unintuitive than difficult)

In From The Cold's difficulty arises from it testing skills that the game doesn't give a shit about outside of IFtC. Navigating without a map (especially in a place where everything looks the same), understanding enemy aggro types and radii, and doing both of the former while being nerfed to hell are not things you're forced to see unless you take a break from msq to do Eureka (which at least has a damn map), which is required for nothing in the story, and none of that is tested with a time limit. It's just badly designed, which only looks like difficulty if your only metric is player failure.

[Ancalagon_Blacktalon]

In From The Cold's difficulty arises from it testing skills that the game doesn't give a shit about outside of IFtC. Navigating without a map (especially in a place where everything looks the same), understanding enemy aggro types and radii, and doing both of the former while being nerfed to hell are not things you're forced to see unless you take a break from msq to do Eureka (which at least has a damn map), which is required for nothing in the story, and none of that is tested with a time limit. It's just badly designed, which only looks like difficulty if your only metric is player failure.

and also, look, I loved In From The Cold and beat it before they nerfed it, but I also just absolutely hate it when games that lack explicit stealth mechanics expect me to stealth. I can't see vision cones of enemies and I have no radar showing their movements, nor any ability to take cover and hide behind something. So then the stealth just becomes, inherently, guesswork. Which worked with the narrative to some extent but as a gameplay experience......