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It's LR/HR only right now, and no DLC monsters, so yeah it's easy as shit if you know what you're doing. If you want any shred of challenge you gotta ignore SOS / followers, and bench the cat since it's massively roided up from World. I'm not even using chest armor as a self-imposed challenge and I've only been carted once by the third area, in part because I just got plain cocky. Hopefully HR is scaled well enough for multiplayer, I'd hate for endgame to be a cakewalk if I plan on playing here.
That said, performance is unforgivable; I'm on a slightly upper midrange and by default it runs fine on near-max settings (it's honestly a beautiful game), but when it hits the 1% stutters like loading into a 50man hub in another region after an intensive cutscene, it just chokes to shit and potato's out until it catches up. Fake frames don't save it either, don't know what it is, but they blur / ghost over no movement at times, and it looks like characters have some ghost / soul trying to leave their face (among other things) (which is fair, because fake frames is supposed to get 60fps to 120fps, not "fix" stuttering below 60fps). Pretty sure there's a very small memory leak too, it's fine at the start of a session, but after 10 hours of play it started to get more common until a reset fixed it completely.

Basically, it desperately needs it's first major bugfix and fast - I wouldn't recommend it until then, and on anything other than a system that can run it. Mods might fix it down the road (like the World mod that took 48fps to 150fps in a single line of dogshit code) but it's early days yet.

Oh yeah, and Gemma is confirmed to be Little Miss Forge all grown up early on in-game.