The fact that the only person to finish your scenario frequently mentions that he cheated in order to get through the game should have been a HUGE clue to you that you needed to go back and redo some aspects of your design.

I only played through 1.25 of the levels before I quit.

Kudos for making a scenario at all; that's no small feat. Also, I liked your set pieces (such as the stasis pods, or whatever they were) which make it feel more like a "real" space we're playing in. Your terminals also looked really good.

This scenario is not difficult; it is a tedious waste of time. If it was difficult then I'd have to actually put effort into playing it.

Withholding save terminals (I didn't see any) does not make your scenario more difficult.

Starting the player at 1/4 health and withholding rechargers and canisters (I did not see any) does not make your scenario more difficult.

Giving the player an assault rifle but only two extra grenade packs (I didn't see any other ammo) does not make your game more difficult.

Hiding switches and doors that are mandatory to progress through a level does not make your game more difficult.

None of these things makes the game hard, it just makes the game arbitrarily unfair.

I quit after the third time I died (on Normal). Why would I waste time replaying everything from the start again? It's just switch hunting, backtracking, and the little combat that exists isn't fun.

Maybe the later levels are more fun and interesting, but you certainly don't seem to want me to get to them and find out.

This scenario is very hard and . . . well, that's it. There's nothing wrong with a hard scenario, so long as it is fun enough to keep the player interested despite many deaths and re-tries. A dull scenario is tolerable if you can breeze through it quickly. A dull hard scenario, though, is just no good at all.

Depriving the player of save terminals so that they have to redo a tedious switch hunt when they die - hard? Yes. Fun? Heck no. Fighting Devlins with fists or inadequate ammo - hard? Yes. Fun? Heck no. Frequently teleporting in enemies behind the player - hard? Yes. Fun? Heck no, at least in narrow corridors. (Take a look at TI for teleporting enemies behind the player done right - they are used to block escape routes, not as a "Surprise! Ya dead!" thing.) A vacuum level with inadequate air - hard? Heck yes. Fun? Very much heck no.

There is some good architecture here, and some of the combat is fun - hence the rating of two stars rather than one - but you have to wade through a lot of tedium and "do it again stupid" gameplay to get it.

I look forward to the new version. There is a lot of room for improvement here.

First level was too tedious, I wasn't having fun so I stopped playing.