Currently I am playing on the skirmish difficulty and I have found that sneaking by the machines is a little too easy. I have no skills that give me visibility/noise reduction and yet most of the fights I get into are intentional. While I do find the sneaking mechanic to be a great part of the game, I want there to be some challenge in trying to get from place to place. I know I could just engage the machines myself, but I don’t think I’d try to start a fight I didn’t think I could win. So the only case I would ever be in a pretty hard battle is when they spot me. So, yeah. Does difficulty affect the machine’s optics?
Difficulty does affect the maxhines detection range iirc.
Would it also affect what kind of modules they would have? (IR, OPV, Etc.)
Doubt it but im unaware, i imagine machines have all these automatically no matter the difficulty.
The machines do seem to be a lot more blind on Adventure than Skirmish. Haven’t tried Guerilla but by the same logic they’ll probably be a lot more aware there.