How does the difficulty alter the game?

[Nanaki]

Originally Posted by Killer

I have just started my fourth playthrough and chosed hard. So far the biggest difference is XP. It seems really hard to get XP from killing NPC. I just spent all my points to antimissile defense for me and Ternie, ten killed about 40 pirates and I am at 3.8 XP points... Bye, bye 5th generation fighters

You can fix that, you know.

I play hard, do we have hardest difficulty?

Hmm, that is the hardest difficulty. Maybe it is just that active ECM is a lot better than passive ECM...

[tsavo]

Originally Posted by Nanaki

Hmm, that is the hardest difficulty. Maybe it is just that active ECM is a lot better than passive ECM...

Just run through the Alien mission lastnight, Laser defence is usless against Alien missile, but Flare works fine. My decoy fighter never survive first wave of missiles when equiped with Laser defence.

May be the Laser is able to destroy multi-warhead missiles afar, when it is still in one-piece?

[Killer]

Originally Posted by Nanaki

You can fix that, you know.

I know, I have read it in a different topic, but I am affraid not to make the game too easy. But maybe I will try it.