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New Difficulty Settings - 6/9/2013 10:38:44 AM

Trifler

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First of all I want to say "thank you very much" for the custom difficulty settings. They're really great to have and I'm already enjoying having those options.

However, I didn't see any documentation in the game folder, the in-game Library, or on either these or the Slitherine forums on exactly what all the options do. I figured out the Strength sliders easily enough. Some kind of run-down of what each option does would be appreciated. Or tooltips when hoving the cursor over each option in a future patch.

In particular, I'm not sure what the Custom Difficulty checkbox does or what the particulars are for the AI Level, Game Rules, and Combat Random options. I also would like to know what these sliders and options are set to for each of the predetermined difficulty levels. I'm guessing that on Sergeant it uses AI Level 0. I know it uses an AI Strength of -5. I don't know how prestige, experience, and number of turns are affected on that setting. As for the other difficulty settings, I don't know anything other than the AI Strength. Perhaps in a future patch, the sliders and options in the Advanced tab would match the difficulty selected under the Basic tab unless the Custom Difficulty checkbox was selected?

Mostly I just need some info. Thanks!

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RE: New Difficulty Settings - 6/9/2013 4:00:45 PM

VPaulus

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Please check Slitherine forum.
You have several open threads with more information about it.

http://www.slitherine.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=121&t=43093
http://www.slitherine.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=121&t=43018
http://www.slitherine.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=121&t=43070

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RE: New Difficulty Settings - 6/10/2013 3:00:23 AM

Trifler

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Thanks. I was looking for more information than what those provide, and preferably in some official written up documentation in one place, but fortunately I found a post where someone said the settings for each of the basic difficulty levels can be found in the diff.pzdat file in the Panzer Corps/Data folder. I was able to open it using a text editor (Notepad). That, combined with the links you provided, gave me the information I needed. I'll work on putting this information together into a single post in the War Room forum.

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RE: New Difficulty Settings - 6/10/2013 3:10:33 AM

FroBodine

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Here you go, Trifler. I asked the exact same thing in the general forum.

VPaulus's links don't really explain much, but he did go into detail in this thread here - http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=3343526

Very helpful, VPaulus.

< Message edited by jglazier -- 6/10/2013 3:11:01 AM >

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RE: New Difficulty Settings - 6/10/2013 8:24:50 AM

Trifler

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Thanks for that link jglazier and thanks VPaulus.

I've compiled everything into a single post for everyone: Custom Difficulty Settings

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