Differences Between Difficulties

[Icky]

What are the differences between the four difficulties? I vaguely remember that there used to be something about how only headshots could kill a zombie on Hardcore and Extreme difficulties. What were the other difference? The menu doesn't really explain them.

[Gilver]

Your stamina gets faster to 0 below the weight of 150 or above.
I have 2 game safe files on easy and normal and i see the difference on normal in compare to easy.

[Duplucky]

In hardcore, there are more zombies and some of them spawn randomly and there are some little new traps too. And obviously, they are more difficult to kill and they hit harder than before.

[Vasitheas]

Originally posted by Icky:

What are the differences between the four difficulties? I vaguely remember that there used to be something about how only headshots could kill a zombie on Hardcore and Extreme difficulties. What were the other difference? The menu doesn't really explain them.

i'm not sure of all the changes, but from recollection, the harder the difficulty:
stamina drains faster
zombies hit harder
zombies take more damage
and the most annoying part is certain sections of the game will cause the zombies to spawn indefinitely until an objective or point is reached.

when i played hard difficulty for the first time and i got to the vending machine part (double blue doors, meeting room area), i was perplexed because the zombies kept coming. this never happened on normal difficulty, as far as i remember. i killed them and browsed the vending machine, only for more to come. took me awhile to realise that i had to reach the next objective for them to stop spawning.

[Technopiper]

At the hardest difficulty the bow comes later, I believe that's the only stage design difference.