Enemy Scaling

[Alamar]

I just read somewhere in news that this game have enemy scaling to your current level, is that true? You cannot turn off this option? If so it seems really stupid mech. and con.

[♂TheBlasterMaster™✞]

There are difficulty settings which affect this.

[Praesi]

Its the opposite of stupid. You wanna shoot enemies 10 lvls below you? You tough War Hero.

[6o3.matty]

It really is a stupid system. The enemies scale to you.

So what is the point of having levels at all?

[Billy Blaze]

Enemies can be a higher level than you, but never below your level.
That being said, everything that is your level is killed just as fast as in "The New Colossus", if not faster.
Higher level enemies exist to gatekeep content, so you can't rush to the final zone in one hour.
The difficulty, as far as I know, only affects how much damage enemies deal, but it doesn't seem like they get more health/defense.

Bottom line:
It isn't like in "Oblivion", where enemies could steamroll you later in the game if you train your char wrong.
They just get adjusted to your level, so you can't kill a huge robot in just one shot.
I played till around level 30, and everything dies just as fast as in the beginning... and even faster than that, cause of weapon upgrades.

[DakotaThrice]

Originally posted by Billy Blaze:

Enemies can be a higher level than you, but never below your level.
That being said, everything that is your level is killed just as fast as in "The New Colossus", if not faster.
Higher level enemies exist to gatekeep content, so you can't rush to the final zone in one hour.
The difficulty, as far as I know, only affects how much damage enemies deal, but it doesn't seem like they get more health/defense.

Bottom line:
It isn't like in "Oblivion", where enemies could steamroll you later in the game if you train your char wrong.
They just get adjusted to your level, so you can't kill a huge robot in just one shot.

Enemies scale to the host not the player do they absolutely can be below your level.

[Billy Blaze]

Originally posted by DakotaThrice:

Originally posted by Billy Blaze:

Enemies can be a higher level than you, but never below your level.
That being said, everything that is your level is killed just as fast as in "The New Colossus", if not faster.
Higher level enemies exist to gatekeep content, so you can't rush to the final zone in one hour.
The difficulty, as far as I know, only affects how much damage enemies deal, but it doesn't seem like they get more health/defense.

Bottom line:
It isn't like in "Oblivion", where enemies could steamroll you later in the game if you train your char wrong.
They just get adjusted to your level, so you can't kill a huge robot in just one shot.

Enemies scale to the host not the player do they absolutely can be below your level.

Pff yeah, that's also possible, I think
But since I play this game either solo or from start to finish with another person in coop, I never had a moment where enemies had a lower level.

[Shrimp On The New Breed]

yeah this has rpg elements for some reason