There is nothing except water that cannot burn and rotting corpses are perfect kindling. Everything, except Goons and Demolishers will die instantly when impaled, including Volatiles. This means you'll be seeing blue rarity melee weapons more common. Decreased chance of finding higher quality tier weapons compared to Normal mode, in order to compensate the chance of finding gold-tier weapons.A new melee weapon rarity is available to be found on Hard mode, you have 1/1000 chance of finding gold-tier weapons from Hard chests or Police Vans.There is a very small chance to obtain gold-tier weapons from chests with a Hard lock-picking difficulty or higher, from the back of police vans, from merchants and from Demolishers.Merchants at random encounters may still sell crafting supplies. Merchants at safehouses no longer sell firearm ammunition and crafting supplies.Entering the inventory no longer pauses the game.Rais's Men now appear near Airdrops sooner.Your health and energy regenerate at a much slower rate.