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chiron Developing Poster
Joined: 13 Jan 2004 Posts: 20 Location: Sweden
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Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 8:34 am Post subject: Difficulty ? |
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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
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scottlu WI Founder
Joined: 15 Aug 2003 Posts: 1773
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Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 6:31 pm Post subject: |
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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. _________________ Warfare Incorporated Development Team |
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Wizard Established Forum User
Joined: 30 Nov 2003 Posts: 68 Location: Bristol, England
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Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 3:04 am Post subject: |
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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 _________________ Wizard
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SoLan Very Active User
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Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 5:45 am Post subject: |
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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.
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chiron Developing Poster
Joined: 13 Jan 2004 Posts: 20 Location: Sweden
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Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 8:25 am Post subject: |
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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 _________________ Palm|T3 + 128 Mb SD + ZLauncher 4.10 |
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