: : Too late for all your advice, I found the Marathon
: Yeah, no golden Elites with plasma swords in the first room of the ship. It's
: not just that the numbers get jumped up in most places on higher
: difficulties - it's that entirely new enemies are sometimes added to an
: area that they weren't in before. For instance, if you play on Easy or
: Normal, the first bridge on Assault on the Control Room has only ground
: forces on it. If you play on Heroic or Legendary, now you'll also have to
: deal with a Banshee. Hunters are a common thing to find added to different
: places on different difficulty levels. For instance, after the big door
: opens out of the first room of the Truth & Reconciliation, on Easy and
: Normal you'll encounter just two Jackals. On Heroic and Legendary, you'll
: encounter two Hunters and no Jackals. Big difference, I must say.
: Vale,
: Perseus
A big shuttle full of marines breaking into a room NOT happening on legendary is the kind of thing I'm talking about. Removing an entire cinematic scripted event is the kind of stuff most game designers are averse to.
