Difficulty ?

[chiron]

Just wondering, what decides the difficulty in a game?
What's the difference betwen them?
When makin a map is it set to normal, can I change the difficulty setting?

Btw, my first mission is in progress

/chiron

[scottlu]

You can check for the run time variable $difficulty. It'll tell you what the difficulty setting currently is. 1 is easy, 2 is normal, 3 is hard.

For an example, D_03-sample.ld checks $difficulty for 3 in one place.

[Wizard]

Following on from scottlu, you can set different groups to appear or not depending on the level.

For example for an "Easy" level only have 3 enemy units appear.
For a "Hard" level, have 10 enemy units appear.

All using groups, etc

[SoLan]

Reading about this I first despaired, thinking I would have to do my levels all over again. After thinking a bit more, however, I think that I can actually adjust difficulty without too much extra work. Since my levels are on the hard side, I will just set difficulty conditions on some of the more vicious enemy attacks.

It was great to get information about how to adjust for difficulty. I had not noticed the check for difficulty in D_03-sample.ld, and I see that it will be a lot easier to balance my levels now that I can let the player chose to make it easier.

--SoLan

[chiron]

Thanks for the quick responses !

Feels good to be here where everyone is so helpful.

This is why I log in several times a day just to see what has come up next to help us all in this wonderful game

yours
/chiron