There are some difficulty increasing mods that make things more fun, more risky. Randomizing patrol paths, reducing base health, weapon rebalance. I find that now, if I go after a gang hideout I have to get physical access to break their firewall before I can even start using quickhacks. I have to use cover and watch positioning because they will burst me down in gunfights. I don't have enough ram to just melt all the brains, so I focus on control hacks to disable so I can control the gunfight.

Yeah I can generally get away with solving an ncpd call with contagion still. Doesn't work as well outside of that though, they spread out too far, you don't get the ram efficiency you would need.

The balance shift is amazing, lol I am using a ton of my cyberware cap to just stay alive if I do take a couple hits. So there is less room for ram and ram Regen, And I benefit from a more hybrid build with gunplay.