Are there various levels of difficulty?

[Ricoh GRIIIx]

in other words difficulty settings? Such as Recruit, Regular, Harneded, Veteran and so on.

[Mr Fantastic]

Yes but there's no easy difficulty. The "easiest mode" is somewhere between normal and hard comparing to other games.

You're also going to spend a huge amount of time at the wiki page of the game since there's a metric ton of obscure stuff you can find.

[Mazurka]

There are four difficulty settings that can be changed when re-rolling a campaign or adventure. You wont lose progress on character / gear / items (excluding key items), just whatever campaign levels or adventure you are resetting. There is also a Hardcore (ironman / one life) mode with each of those four settings.
Further, there are intrinsic difficulty settings based on your gear and Archetype progression, 1 - 20, and an additional rule setting - such as if you are Power Level 10, and enter an area for the first time, it'll be PL 11. If you then upgrade your gear to 12, it will remain 11 until re-rolled.

There is also difficulty regarding game mechanics, such as the ridiculous swarming and excessive mob count - but that's on the player at this point

[Green_Wight]

Yes but "Easy" isn't one of them :-)

[Britannic]

The jump from the base difficulty level to the next one up is quite something. Bosses are bullet sponges that hit like a truck, any wrong move is punished. I can't imagine how hard these bosses will be in the 2 difficulty levels above that.

[voodoov]

dont upgrade your guns past +8! else survivor mode was pretty easy. except for last boss of cause. BUT dont upgrade past +8 or your char will be useless

[Mr Fantastic]

Originally posted by voodoov:

dont upgrade your guns past +8! else survivor mode was pretty easy. except for last noss of couse. BUT dont upgrade past +8 or your char will be useless

This is not accurate.

The best way is to leave all weapons at lv0 until you have 2 archtypes at level 10, then raise your guns to 20 afterwards.

It gives you a decent progression curve that still allows you to max all gear.

[voodoov]

yeah but thats my experience. have ~4 archetypes on 10. and was fine till i upgraded a single boss weapon from +8 to +10 (16 to+20 non boss i guess) iam stuck since that moment. tried multiple adventures. wen back to bosses i easyly rolled over before... stuck.

[Ricoh GRIIIx]

Is Apocalypse very difficult?