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Game difficulty is a game mechanic in Fallout and Fallout 2.
Overview[]
Game difficulty can be set to "easy", "normal", or "hard". To change the game difficulty, click on "OPTIONS" in the main menu.
Characteristics[]
Fallout 2[]
Game difficulty only affects:
- Initial skill values
- Combat and tagged skills are unaffected by difficulty settings.
- Active and passive skills are lowered by 10 (%) when the difficulty is changed from "normal" to "hard".
- Active and passive skills are raised by 20 (%) when the difficulty is changed from "normal" to "easy".
- Finding special encounters[1]
- "Easy" difficulty adds a +5 modifier to the luck roll required for special encounters.
- "Hard" difficulty adds a -5 modifier to the luck roll required for special encounters.
- Frequency of random encounters[2]
- "Easy" difficulty causes 15% less random encounters.
- "Hard" difficulty causes 15% more random encounters.
- Number of enemies in each random encounter[3]
- "Easy" difficulty removes 2 enemies from each random encounter (but no less than the minimum enemies per encounter).
- "Hard" difficulty adds 2 enemies to each random encounter.
References[]
- ↑ snippet of code from worldmap.cc: https://github.com/alexbatalov/fallout2-ce/blob/a8d3cdd1482a64ea8a3f2ea5664720b2e88bd2d3/src/worldmap.cc
int effectiveLuck = critterGetStat(gDude, STAT_LUCK) - 5;
int chance = randomBetween(0, totalChance) + effectiveLuck;
if (perkHasRank(gDude, PERK_EXPLORER)) {
chance += 2;
}
if (perkHasRank(gDude, PERK_RANGER)) {
chance += 1;
}
if (perkHasRank(gDude, PERK_SCOUT)) {
chance += 1;
}
switch (settings.preferences.game_difficulty) {
case GAME_DIFFICULTY_EASY:
chance += 5;
if (chance > totalChance) {
chance = totalChance;
}
break;
case GAME_DIFFICULTY_HARD:
chance -= 5;
if (chance < 0) {
chance = 0;
}
break;
}
- ↑ snippet of code from worldmap.cc: https://github.com/alexbatalov/fallout2-ce/blob/a8d3cdd1482a64ea8a3f2ea5664720b2e88bd2d3/src/worldmap.cc
int frequency = wmFreqValues[wmGenData.currentSubtile->encounterChance[dayPart]];
if (frequency > 0 && frequency < 100) {
int modifier = frequency / 15;
switch (settings.preferences.game_difficulty) {
case GAME_DIFFICULTY_EASY:
frequency -= modifier;
break;
case GAME_DIFFICULTY_HARD:
frequency += modifier;
break;
} - ↑ snippet of code from worldmap.cc: https://github.com/alexbatalov/fallout2-ce/blob/a8d3cdd1482a64ea8a3f2ea5664720b2e88bd2d3/src/worldmap.cc
int critterCount = randomBetween(encounterTableSubEntry->minimumCount, encounterTableSubEntry->maximumCount);
switch (gameDifficulty) {
case GAME_DIFFICULTY_EASY:
critterCount -= 2;
if (critterCount < encounterTableSubEntry->minimumCount) {
critterCount = encounterTableSubEntry->minimumCount;
}
break;
case GAME_DIFFICULTY_HARD:
critterCount += 2;
break;
}