Honour mode glitch?

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I created an honour mode playthrough with some buddies and for some reason it switched itself to balanced? No party deaths so far.

[Kafik]

Did someone either alt-f4 or quite the game in some way? Maybe even lose power? That breaks the honour mode. I would certainly not play that mode with other people unless it's someone like in your house.

[Mosey]

Are you absolutely sure the difficulty didn't reset before you started?

Alt-F4 even as host doesn't do diddly. Tried it right off the bat and it just saves the game and closes the application. You can easily reload that save and it will still be set for honor mode.

Loss of power may corrupt a save game, but it wouldn't be such a targeted and specific thing it would likely just make the game entirely unplayable or the save game corrupted to the point it doesn't run.

My best guess is when the lobby was started it simply was set on the default option for one reason or another.

[Kafik]

Originally posted by Mosey:

Are you absolutely sure the difficulty didn't reset before you started?

Alt-F4 even as host doesn't do diddly. Tried it right off the bat and it just saves the game and closes the application. You can easily reload that save and it will still be set for honor mode.

Loss of power may corrupt a save game, but it wouldn't be such a targeted and specific thing it would likely just make the game entirely unplayable or the save game corrupted to the point it doesn't run.

My best guess is when the lobby was started it simply was set on the default option for one reason or another.

Alt-F4 breaks the honour mode. Check your difficulty, if you see a bunch of settings it's broke. It would be extremely odd for Larian to allow people to alt-f4 in multiplayer but not solo.

[Mosey]

Originally posted by Mal:

Alt-F4 breaks the honour mode. Check your difficulty, if you see a bunch of settings it's broke. It would be extremely odd for Larian to allow people to alt-f4 in multiplayer but not solo.

I'm not sure how to tell you this, but it does absolutely jack diddly and I can say this because I've literally tried it myself.

Specifically in solo mode, because I'm not the kind of guy to crash the game on 3 other players just to feed my ego or test obscure game rules. I just wanted to know how Larian thought they could keep people from using Alt-F4, and it turns out they just save the game and close the application. There is no change to the difficulty mode whatsoever.

Perhaps it is a bug in multiplayer, but that makes no sense given that we already know their solution for solo play and there is no particular reason to have it work differently for the host of a multiplayer game.

One thing I know for sure is that a multiplayer person dropping from the game does nothing to the difficulty mode, and since they have no effect on save games it's illogical to say it would between quitting normally and using Alt-F4. Their method of leaving has no effect on the game, nor could it theoretically change the outcome of events that have already happened.

If it broke on your game, I'd suggest it's a limited and unintended glitch that certainly does not reliably reproduce itself.

[Recjawjind]

Originally posted by Mal:

Did someone either alt-f4 or quite the game in some way? Maybe even lose power? That breaks the honour mode. I would certainly not play that mode with other people unless it's someone like in your house.

What? It... it doesn't. I have taskkilled the game before after running into a softlock on honour, and it's just fine.

[Kafik]

Originally posted by Mosey:

Originally posted by Mal:

Alt-F4 breaks the honour mode. Check your difficulty, if you see a bunch of settings it's broke. It would be extremely odd for Larian to allow people to alt-f4 in multiplayer but not solo.

I'm not sure how to tell you this, but it does absolutely jack diddly and I can say this because I've literally tried it myself.

Specifically in solo mode, because I'm not the kind of guy to crash the game on 3 other players just to feed my ego or test obscure game rules. I just wanted to know how Larian thought they could keep people from using Alt-F4, and it turns out they just save the game and close the application. There is no change to the difficulty mode whatsoever.

Perhaps it is a bug in multiplayer, but that makes no sense given that we already know their solution for solo play and there is no particular reason to have it work differently for the host of a multiplayer game.

One thing I know for sure is that a multiplayer person dropping from the game does nothing to the difficulty mode, and since they have no effect on save games it's illogical to say it would between quitting normally and using Alt-F4. Their method of leaving has no effect on the game, nor could it theoretically change the outcome of events that have already happened.

If it broke on your game, I'd suggest it's a limited and unintended glitch that certainly does not reliably reproduce itself.

I've tried it myself and it absolutely does break honour mode. I tested it a couple of times already. Check your difficulty options, if you see settings your honour mode is broken no matter what your save says. If you see the same picture when you first selected honour mode then you got lucky.

[Kafik]

Originally posted by Recjawjind:

Originally posted by Mal:

Did someone either alt-f4 or quite the game in some way? Maybe even lose power? That breaks the honour mode. I would certainly not play that mode with other people unless it's someone like in your house.

What? It... it doesn't. I have taskkilled the game before after running into a softlock on honour, and it's just fine.

Alt-f4 absolutely does.