: Guess I'm a wuss because I like to explore and solve puzzles and read the
: terminals. For me, Marathon is not about shooting things.
: I NEVER play above 'normal'. It's not like you get points in Marathon. When I
: did want to shoot adversaries for fun, there's multiplayer, you get the
: challenge of fighting of competing against human intellects who aren't un
: fairly stronger than you. But I haven't play any multiplayer in a long
: time.
Player preferences notwithstanding, I think it's reasonably non-controversial that in the non-TC difficulty levels, every enemy is being held back. Once you go up to TC, this stops happening—except for the S'pht. You can make an argument over whether this was intentional or not, but regardless, this is my headcanon and I'm sticking to it ;-)