see difficulty from console?

[verdeAntico]

Sorry to bother.. I'm not sure of the difficulty of a save file.. can I see that with a console command?

[BippoErnesti]

As far as I'm aware, there's no good way to check the difficulty of a save on this version.

There are two console commands related to difficulty; "d_skill" and "startskill"; unfortunately, neither command updates to reflect the active difficulty when loading a save. While "d_skill" seems to only ever change manually, "startskill" changes when you start a new game or use level select, keeping that value until you start another new game or change WADs.

It's possible there's a less dumb way of checking this, but the best way I can think of is to load the save and make note of the max kill/item counts on the automap, then using level select to choose that map and trying difficulties one by one until the counts match. Of course, this still relies on the map actually changing those counts based on difficulty/modifiers.

It should be noted that all the commands for modifiers update accurately (shows "1" when on) when loading a game, and can be checked with the following commands:

• d_pistolstart - Reset inventory after each level
  
• d_solonet - Use Multiplayer spawns in single player
  
• d_nomonsters - Don't spawn any monsters
  
• d_fastmonsters - Enable fast monsters
  
• d_respawnmonsters - Monsters respawn

If only "d_skill" updated too... Or if the saves just listed the difficulty on the save menu instead.

[verdeAntico]

thanks for sharing the info, man.

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[Nathan]

they need to fix this, either let us name the save or list the difficulty of the save. it's ridiculous it was overlooked, whoever worked on this clearly wasn't playing the game.

[verdeAntico]

I think there point is: you have the levels selection and you can choose the difficulty there;
the only down is that you lack of weapons and ammo but you can take them with the cheat.

but yeah, knowing the skill level in the savings would be nice.