Difficulty of the game.

[Golivyd]

Please tell me what the difficulty of the game affects (Tramp, traveler, warrior, etc.)?

[Lady MacBeth]

https://7daystodie.fandom.com/wiki/Difficulty

[Niuq]

Someone can correct me on specifics but for a quick answer.
Damage dealt players deal less damage as difficulty increases.
Game stage (the scaling mechanic) increases faster so you will see harder zombies sooner.
As a by product of faster game stage, you will see guns in loot faster on higher difficulties.
Due to dealing less damage, early on zombies are harder to stun or knock down.

Think most of this is right, been awhile since i looked at the differences.

[Lady MacBeth]

They removed game stage modifiers in a19. So difficulty no longer raises gamestage faster.

[FT]

I'm not sure if GameStage is affected by the difficulty setting anymore, I think that was changed in A19 (maybe changed but not "done away with"?).

Increasing the difficulty will mostly make you do less damage against the zeds, and make the zeds do more damage against you.


(Running speeds and block damage and XP-rates and loot and horde-night caps all have their own governing options...and aren't affected by the difficulty setting).


EDIT:
VVV mostly that.

[Crashtian]

It's mostly a bullet sponge slider.

[Khissi]

Originally posted by Crashtian:

It's mostly a bullet sponge slider.

This.. it used to make a huge difference, but not any more. Now it's more an annoyance buffer where, higher, means Khissi gets into rage mode faster and throws things because she's out of bullets, and a wandering horde just came over the horizon, lower means Khissi is Goddess of the World and all zombies to die.

[{FU}TheForgeryTTV]

Originally posted by Crashtian:

It's mostly a bullet sponge slider.

That, and zombies deal more damage. On the hardest difficulty and when I first started on a new world back in alpha 17, I died like 50 times before I could stop dying every couple of minutes. I don't think I'll do that again.