Difficulty switch bug

Author	Topic: Difficulty switch bug
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Tuesday, January 3 2006 16:11 Profile Homepage #0 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. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
radix malorum est cupiditas Lifecrafter Member # 6403	written Wednesday, January 4 2006 02:49 Profile #1 Doesn't this belong in the 'Tech Support' section? -------------------- ??? ?????? ???? ????? Posts: 883 | Registered: Wednesday, October 19 2005 07:00
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Wednesday, January 4 2006 03:19 Profile Homepage #2 It's fine here. I never noticed this, because I played the whole game on Normal (or so I thought...). -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, January 4 2006 03:22 Profile Homepage #3 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. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Wednesday, January 4 2006 06:37 Profile Homepage #4 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. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
Synergy Shaper Member # 6292	written Wednesday, January 4 2006 07:48 Profile #5 I wonder if it could be a corrupted Prefs file? I never noticed this happen to me through three entire games now. -------------------- A4 Items • A4 Singleton • G4 Items • G4 Forging • G4 Infiltrator • NR Items • The Lonely Celt Posts: 2009 | Registered: Monday, September 12 2005 07:00
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, January 4 2006 15:07 Profile Homepage #6 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. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00