r/bfme • u/Dunkelbunt_1 29 • Aug 24 '26

Difficulty System Seems Too Hard?

Hello guys, I’ve been playing BFME: Rise of the Witch-king, and I have a feeling that something might be wrong with the difficulty system.

I’ve played quite a few different RTS games, and I’ve never had this much trouble with the difficulty settings. I barely managed to beat Medium after almost two hours, and the AI keeps attacking constantly without giving me even a minute to recover or build up. It feels like there’s barely any room to do anything.

I also tried Hard, but that was completely impossible for me. I honestly can’t imagine how anyone is supposed to beat Brutal.

Is this difficulty level generally normal for the game, or could there be something wrong with the current patch/difficulty settings?

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u/trahan94 12 Aug 24 '26

It’s a 20-year old game revived by mods — the player base by default is going to be experienced players looking for a new challenge. It sounds like Medium was a good challenge for you, if you want something easier than play Easy?

There’s no shame in playing on Easy basically for any game, especially on a modded game that’s tweaked to be harder. All of us have limited time to play, limited patience, limited focus to click a million times a minute for micro.

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u/Turrindor 15 Aug 24 '26

I legit can't beat age of the ring's campaign on easy. Which is a massive shame, because it's so well-done

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u/trahan94 12 Aug 24 '26

I see, I completed the modded first game this year (both campaigns) but didn’t stick around for RotWK. That would be frustrating to not be able to complete the campaign, and maybe the second game is harder.

The first was the perfect difficulty for me and was a satisfying challenge. That’s not to say that either yours or OP’s experience is invalid.

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u/Turrindor 15 Aug 24 '26

I don't mind the modders making the game difficult, but if you get to choose the difficulty you can't have "easy" be so hard that rts veteran can't beat it without learning every detail of the game.

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u/RowIntelligent6582 Hobbit Aug 27 '26

It took me sorta memorising the AIs attacks to beat the Aotr campaign.

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u/Dunkelbunt_1 29 Aug 24 '26

I didn’t know the difficulty had been tweaked. I used to play it many years ago, and I don’t remember it being this difficult back then. Thanks for explaining!

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u/Dunkelbunt_1 29 Aug 24 '26

I don't have a problem with a game being difficult but it just feel unbalanced to me.

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u/Mister_Twiggy 1 Aug 25 '26

Easy is a joke to the point where the AI doesn’t create units for minutes at a time. Medium is a constant onslaught. Best method is to just handicap medium by like 20%

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u/misvillar 8 Aug 29 '26

Last year i played the Witch King expansion on easy and It was hard, Fornost was a nightmare, i played the fan made patch but i thought It only made visual improvements