This is why it's way too difficult, the AI literally spots you across the map when even you can't see them. Then the gameplay mechanics are way too complex adding to the difficulty.
I sincerely don't think it is complex at all. I think the way the game guides you into understanding it's mechanics are bad (huge walls of text and some youtube videos IN game). I commend the effort the dev took to make those, but a tutorial with step-by-step is in dire need for new players.
Apart from that, you have skills (cyberware) that consume battery. You have items that do exactly whay they say in their Info text. And the gun customization is also just "slap whatever better part you have on you in each slot and be happy".
Everything else is noise. The different ammunitions don't have such a huge difference in stats, some are better for close, some for far. The enemies all work the same way: they'll shoot you, if you get staggered they rape, if not they kill.
And that's that. It's no Tarkov with absurdly complex health system, or hundreds of different magazines that need specific receivers with specific calibers to feed properly, or ArmA, etc.
I really think it's a problem with tutorial and introduction, not complexity, but that's my opinion, I understand yours and what you're saying and also agree.
DSS 2.0 should probably fix that, which is the next update iirc. I mean from what I can remember Delta Zone isn't too different to these except there is a bit more fluidity in the integration between the scenes and player, no pre-defined location for the scene.
DZ is not perfect, the scenes can be made to run for a long time in the menu, and then you control with a button when to advance the animations. So it also lacks finer control, for example speed or a way to go back. But it kinda makes sense there since she's being raped, so the player also don't have control. Kinda makes sense looking at it that way, but would be good to also let us have more control over scenes.
With BitS it's kinda strange to not see that level of finer control over scenes from start because it's Animopron, that have already released previously that lara with horse tech-demo, and all those beautiful animations. So one would think logically that, after putting so much time and effort on BitS animations (which again, are beautiful and very detailed for a real-time rendered game so far) that we would have ways to repeat them and see them over and over with more control.
I kinda get that making them choices through the game makes it more replayable, so you would need to do it again to see other results. But for a game, a interactive thing, it gets pretty boring having to redo EVERYTHING over and over again for some very minor variations.
But the gallery for sure will fix this, so we'll have the exploration and story part play, and then we can go into the gallery and watch the animations. Just hope it have a unlock style to it, so that to see a animation you have to unlock it first by seeing it in story mode. So that way you'll keep the "you have to play again" loop, but also give us the reward of being able to watch what we collected after at our leisure.
