Prator: I'm wondering about this primarily because "easy" mode is "so hard that I must cheat constantly in order to survive" mode. Also, I keep running into events that aren't described in any walkthrough I've found for Earth 2150, like the LC developing their weather-control superweapon before level 10 or Neo hacking into my UCS bots every fifteen minutes to turn ALL OF MY UNITS hostile. I'm starting to get the impression that there is only the "hard" difficulty setting and you don't actually have the ability to change it.

As far as I can tell, how challenging it is to destroy an enemy vehicle doesn't change with the difficulty mode, and the AI is always mindlessly aggressive. So what's up with these difficulty settings?

See also my thread on my game experiences if you want more details:
http://www.gog.com/en/forum/earth_series/finished_earth_2150_escape_from_the_blue_planet_w_ed_my_thoughts

seremak1987: 12 years necro.
I finished all 3 campaigns in Earth 2150 on medium and one (UCS) on hard difficulty as a small 9 years old kid. I loved this game, but i didn't find it particularry difficult, just great and unique.