Recently I finished the game on hard difficulty (2nd hardest difficulty) with a similar build to your character and actually found the game to be overall easy (with the exception of one boss fight.)The_State said:I just finished this game for the first time last night. Talk about uncanny coincidence. I'd played it a few times before but, as Yahtzee said, it's a tough game to beat. My final build was a tech specialist with plenty of points in modify, maintain, hack, and repair. I focused on energy weapons first and standard weapons second. No psi at all, as it doesn't take much to make the game easy. Even with it's shoddy third act and not-so-simple UI, it's still in the top five of my favorite games.
I did go standard weapons first though, putting some points into energy, heavy and exotic later in the game to use the first tier weapons of each class to create a sort of Combat Engineer class. No psi powers at all.
Putting points into the modify weapons skill seemed to make the biggest difference as the extra damage weapons do will save you a ton of ammo.
With exception to the aged graphics and dumb AI, this game is pretty good and is definitely worth a play. The story is interesting and the upgrade system offers a lot of depth to craft a character that fits your play style. My character started off as a tech, but gradually became more combat oriented. Its also quite a long game too.