Hatchling Cockatrice Aoslare Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 Has anyone else encountered this? Occasionally, the game difficulty resets to normal when I start up a game which was saved under a different difficulty. I don't know what causes this, and I can't consistently recreate it, so it's hard to document, but I'm 100% sure it's happened to me repeatedly. Also, the difficulty options in the Preferences window and in the Edit Party window don't always seem to be in sync. Sometimes changing one will change the other. Sometimes it won't, and it's easy to get them to disagree as to what the difficulty level is. The Edit Party option seems to be mostly irrelevant to the game, except that it usually (but not always!) changes the value in the Preferences window if you change it when starting a new game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unflappable Drayk Radix Malorum Est Cupiditas Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 Doesn't this belong in the 'Tech Support' section? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Kelandon Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 It's fine here. I never noticed this, because I played the whole game on Normal (or so I thought...). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Lilith Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 I just opened my most recent savefile (at the very end of the game), and sure enough the difficulty was still correctly set to Torment. I hadn't touched the difficulty settings since the start of the game. So if it does occur randomly, it can't occur very often -- or it might be triggered by opening the preferences window or something, which I also don't do very often. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Aoslare Posted January 4, 2006 Author Share Posted January 4, 2006 You don't have to open the prefs window. It's happened to me at least twice on fresh starts of the application, going straight to loading the quicksave. Playing under Easy gives you a substantial bonus to your dodge score (actually, I think the enemy levels may just all be reduced, so they all have lower to-hit scores), and as a singleton with high dodge, it's extremely noticeable when this bonus goes away. As I said, though, I can't recreate it, so I don't know what caused it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Synergy Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 I wonder if it could be a corrupted Prefs file? I never noticed this happen to me through three entire games now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Lilith Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 Both times you observed the problem, it was after loading a quicksave? Hmm. I never use Quicksave, so maybe that's where the problem lies. Unlikely, but possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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