Difficulty settings

[mark.fsg]

I cannot find any details of what the tweaks are in the difficulty settings - anyone have any idea? For example, what has been removed from "Realistic" to make it "Very Cheesy"

[farmerman_03]

great question, i'd be curious to know this too.

[iBeSavage]

+1, would love to know this as well.

[stormxx71]

+1

[Uncle Thrusty]

I think I read a tooltip somewhere referencing damage and damage control effectiveness

[supersound99ss]

Think I found the answer as to what changes. This is for a realistic difficulty, hence 0% no buff/debuff.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3380067373

[Keelfins]

From what i found, the AI Struggles to take down missiles or fight you. but you have terrible radar and sensor range, to the point if you have no helicopter support, you are doomed, i had to get in to about 35 nm range to even get a ESM contact. but thats 1 test on a simple escort custom with half decent weather.

[Shoelace]

Realistic is the only way to go.

[Orion]

I'd love to know where the difficulty settings are in the files. In Cold Waters, one could tweak the buffs for each difficulty with a simple text editor. Alas, I have been unable to find the file for Sea Power as of yet, if it is even possible.

[Stix_09]

there is no setting in files, i think its just a very simple stat modifier as shown above in the screenshot
Discord quote.

Q: Hey is there anywhere to see exactly what the different difficulty levels do? I can't seem to find them in any of the inis I've checked

A: it's basically a stat buff for certain things.