My issue with the combat is a bit layered. I don't enjoy it enough and have right thumb RSI that makes me not want to do it for 40+ hours, so I put it on easy with the auto-combat chips on. The issue here is I love bullet hell shooters and want to play those sections on hard difficulty, but you can't enter menus during those sections to change difficulty so I was stuck playing the combat parts I actually like on easy. There was no warning that I noticed that said anything about not being able to enter game settings during it.