[Charismatic]

Hell. Well in MP you need to be on Insane to get them all for sure..

[Goober5000]

Originally posted by ngtm1r
That medal is granted multiple times, isn't it?

Uh, no.  The Galatea is only destroyed once.

I specifically remember having a full case after my first playthrough, lo those many eons ago when I first bought FS.

You probably played on Medium then.

[Grimloq]

I like to play on Medium. It allows me to get every medal/rank, gives me a good fight (I suck horribly. 'Medium' is challenging for me), and gives me the satisfaction of knowing that I'm playing at a decent level.

All I can say at that level is never stop moving, dodge a lot, and for some reason, if you spin while in a direct straight course (Especially toward capital ships/installations), shots are more likely to miss you. I don't know why, but it's helped me often on bombing runs.

Other than that, you're crazy for wanting to play at a higher level than medium...

[Dark RevenantX]

On insane, the shots from enemy fighters hit you 90% of the time.  If you can't see them first, you're as good as dead.

[kv1at3485]

Bah.  The main FS1 and FS2 campaigns are so 'easy' even I play on 'hard'.  (Later levels are even easier once you can take the end-all loadout of Trebs, Harpoons, Maxim, and Prom S all nicely packaged in a Herc II.)

However, insane remains off limits to me. (Just as legendary remains off limits to me on Halo.)

[Fade Rathnik]

Bahh legendary is easy on Halo, the Elites are good but predictable after awhile all you have to do is think like an assasin not a human tornado(that comes in handy sometimes though), and the flood... posh always use the shotty and run for a narrow hallway when they start to overwhelm you.

Now I could handle Desent 2&3 on insane( again think like an assasin with liberal use of homers, however there is this neet trick with the guided where if you double tap the missile key it acts like a homer) but freespace on insane is insanity i don't doubt it can be done but i like my games pretty so i lack the insane hardware to keep up with the level of difficulty.

[Black13]

halo on legendary is easy because the (IIRc) covenant is always in the same place at the same time.  

The only places it is really hard is where you can't act like an assasin, like in the mission where you are onboard the alien ship - and the 3 cloaked elites come after you - the only way to kill them is to be very fast

FS2 and I guess Fred to a degree make it hard to know where your enemy is going to come in at - especially since you have 3 axii (sp?) axises to worry about.

[Fade Rathnik]

Originally posted by Black13

The only places it is really hard is where you can't act like an assasin, like in the mission where you are onboard the alien ship - and the 3 cloaked elites come after you - the only way to kill them is to be very fast

Hence one of those times you need to be a human tornado

There were three axis in descent aswell and no radar to boot. What makes the insane levels on both descent, halo and other such games easier than Freespace; there is **** to hide behind in those games. Freespace, no such luck. Someone lines up on you after or while you are making a kill, the most you can do is pile on the burners and turn hard and keep turning till you out turn him.

[TopAce]

I don't like playing on Hard, it's so unfair that your enemies have infinite ammo but you have to wait for minutes before your lasers, shields or afterburners are recharged.
Your subsystems also get destroyed in the first shot you get if you don't have shields.
On the top of the whole, the enemy Ai is simply not able to miss you.

[Roanoke]

I don't have the time to play games on hard nowadays. Plus I can't really be arsed. The last game I fully completed was probably Goldeneye.

[Andreas]

I play at medium. I can get seriously pissed off when playing at hard, or insane, so I generally avoid doing that.

[Charismatic]

I remain amazed(sp?) at how many Freespace players dont play on insane. Its the best challenge of all, how can you Not want to play on insane?

Yes they hit u w\o missing most of the time, but that just makes you learn to dodge and think quicker and run ur ass off, better.

I should cry, this is a tragety. Takeing easy way out. Bah:mad2:

[Andreas]

I have played a couple of user missions/campaigns through on insane, but I never enjoy it.

Is it that funny getting killed every other second by an endless onslaught of Maras, continiously firing double Harpoons at you? The goddamn countermeasures never seem to work in those situtiations...

But I do have to agree that I should move up to playing at Hard. Medium is starting to get far too easy for me after all these years, I must admit.

I actually liked the fact that you had to play on medium to get all the medals in FS1. They really should have implemented that in FS2 as well.

[redsniper]

I play Aeos Affair on Insane, with player shields disabled, with my eyes closed.

[Fergus]

It was tricky trying to balance my missions for Hard...don't think I tried to do it for Insane (the "Big Bomber Wave" would prob be unbeatable).  One thing that would be handy to know is what difficulty do you normally play multi-coop?  And should coop be harder than single or about the same difficulty?

[redsniper]

coop should be harder since you have more players.

[Fade Rathnik]

I say find four trained fighter pilots get in a room and play the coop campain on insane. once they get used to the controls it would be teamwork tactics after that. They'd hose that thang in no time flat.

bah typing with one hand right now.

[kv1at3485]

Most co-op missions would be better if there were no player respawns.

[TopAce]

Originally posted by Andreas
...
I actually liked the fact that you had to play on medium to get all the medals in FS1. They really should have implemented that in FS2 as well.

It is the same in FS2: You have to play on at least Medium to get all the medals. On Easy, there are three medals you cannot get: The Order of Galatea(I hate to play the mission you can get it in if I want to get the medal, otherwise it's an easy mission) and two other medals you can get in the mission Exodus and in.... Dunkerque, perhaps?

[Goober5000]

Originally posted by TopAce
It is the same in FS2: You have to play on at least Medium to get all the medals. On Easy, there are three medals you cannot get: The Order of Galatea(I hate to play the mission you can get it in if I want to get the medal, otherwise it's an easy mission) and two other medals you can get in the mission Exodus and in.... Dunkerque, perhaps?

Not true.  The OoG can be gotten on Very Easy - I've done it.

I'm pretty sure the others can too, but I'm too busy to check ATM.