Can't change difficulty at all... - by jtr7
jtr7 on 3/5/2013 at 10:47
I'm getting way too many hits in searches for this problem and the solution, so forgive me if it's not actually hard to find.
I've never played TDS on anything but Normal difficulty, and only played all the way through once, so there are huge areas of playing experience I'm lacking, mainly regarding AIs and any other changes aside from loot requirements. I don't see anything in Let's Plays that look much different from what I experienced on Normal, but anyway--
The last time I fired up the game, when I completed Checking Inn, Cashing Out, I was between missions and saw the option to change the difficulty before starting End of the Bloodline, but it wouldn't respond in any way. It wasn't grayed out. Did I screw something up? Can I change the variable in an *.ini file or something?
Briareos H on 3/5/2013 at 11:20
Did you patch to 1.1? The 1.0 bug that would reset your difficulty level to normal on level change / gamesave load is notorious.
Though I'm not so sure that changing difficulty between missions ever worked...
jtr7 on 3/5/2013 at 11:39
I'm patched up. Unless something got undone while it still says 1.1 onscreen...
I know the loot requirements have changed for people (1, 2, or 3 Special Loot items required, and 50%, 70%, or 90% regular loot required), and there's been a lot of talk about playing on Expert in the past, so I hope to be able to check it out someday. I never really noticed kill restrictions in my notes/objectives, though they exist in the gamefiles. I don't think a lot of the mission-specific changes seen in the older titles exist in TDS, like accessible areas, varied conversations and readables (though again, in the gamefiles there are a couple of variants for readables). I also never noticed many keys lying around on Normal, and just lockpicked my way everywhere, so I wouldn't notice less keys or moved keys. I don't know if there are more torch-bearing AIs or harder locks to pick, etc.
snobel on 3/5/2013 at 13:31
Quote Posted by jtr7
The last time I fired up the game, when I completed
Checking Inn, Cashing Out, I was between missions and saw the option to change the difficulty before starting
End of the Bloodline, but it wouldn't respond in any way. It wasn't grayed out. Did I screw something up?
You definitely should be able to change it at that point. IIRC you can change the difficulty at the briefing screen for each proper mission (except
Inn, which only has normal), but not in the city sections in between.
If the 'difficulty' button doesn't respond, then there must be something wrong. Can you upload a savegame from near the end of the
Inn mission?
Edit: (
http://ubuntuone.com/232PFySAwBUWTnDszt9Aiy) Here's a known-good save from the very end of Inn. (Make a new empty SaveGames folder and unpack it there.) If that doesn't work for you, then you should probably reinstall the game.
Quote:
Can I change the variable in an *.ini file or something?
The setting would be in the savegame files somewhere - probably not the best approach.
jtr7 on 4/5/2013 at 04:14
Well, that confirms it. Something's wrong. Hahaha! Thanks, though.
snobel on 4/5/2013 at 05:19
...but is it a problem with your savegames or your installation?
Beleg Cúthalion on 4/5/2013 at 07:00
Quote Posted by snobel
You definitely should be able to change it at that point.
Nope. The briefing mission is special since its difficulty cannot be altered. For FMs you have to change a certain property in the mission intro actors IIRC to allow this change to happen since most FMs override the Inn mission by default.
It might be an idea to keep in mind for the T3Gold project; since you only have to change the one property, it should be possible to turn the Inn mission into a proper one.
jtr7 on 4/5/2013 at 07:42
Quote Posted by snobel
...but is it a problem with your savegames or your installation?
It's not savegames. It's just attempting to play the game straight through from the beginning. Other than the patch, having T3Ed installed, and turning off the HUD from time to time, it's a vanilla install.
snobel on 4/5/2013 at 08:34
Quote Posted by Beleg Cúthalion
Nope. The briefing mission is special since its difficulty cannot be altered. [...] it should be possible to turn the Inn mission into a proper one.
Right - so you
can change the difficulty before every
proper mission? :p :) Seriously though, turning
Inn into a real mission for the Gold project would be great...
Quote Posted by jtr7
It's not savegames. It's just attempting to play the game straight through from the beginning. Other than the patch, having T3Ed installed, and turning off the HUD from time to time, it's a vanilla install.
If you have a common install for the game and T3Ed, then a new separate install for the game would probably be a good idea.
jtr7 on 4/5/2013 at 08:45
They are separate, yeah.
