Is there a difficulty setting?

[Panam]

I keep seeing people on this forum mentioning difficulty settings, but I don't see any options for that in the settings menu.

[elendil]

You can choose a difficulty setting if you start the game.

[Panam]

Okay I'll check again.
Started "A new home" and never saw an option for difficulty settings.

[Kim Jong Chill]

you go to select scenario, then pick your scenario, and then youll be able to costomize the scenario

[Mono]

You probably have to finish that New Home scenario before you get to change difficulty. I just installed the game and the select scenario button is grayed out and I can only choose to play New Home and there is no dialog for changing the difficulty.

[Amanoob105]

Originally posted by TheWokki:

You probably have to finish that New Home scenario before you get to change difficulty. I just installed the game and the select scenario button is grayed out and I can only choose to play New Home and there is no dialog for changing the difficulty.

Basically this^. The game comes with four difficulty levels.
Easy. Medium. Hard. Extreme.
The New Home scenario is set to medium when you first play it and needs to be seen though to the end (it also acts as the games tutorial) before you can pick what scenarios you want to do and at what difficulty.

I can't remember if you have access to endless mode before finishing New Home.

[General Idea]

Originally posted by TheWokki:

You probably have to finish that New Home scenario before you get to change difficulty. I just installed the game and the select scenario button is grayed out and I can only choose to play New Home and there is no dialog for changing the difficulty.

You may not need to complete the New Home in full. You can quit and restart which should give you the option to choose a different difficulty.

I recommend staying with medium, but if you had too many difficulties in your initial playthrough then pick easy as that will be more forgiving and start you with more resources to begin with thereby allowing your people to gather, build and research at faster speeds whilst been less susceptible to the weather conditions reducing their sickness levels.

[redhomba]

I did not have to play through New Home to be able to change the difficulty. You can start a new game.

[WastedZymbol]

I get this game is suppose to be hard, but my god.. when easy is hard enough to complete the game stops being good.

[Amanoob105]

Originally posted by WastedZymbol:

I get this game is suppose to be hard, but my god.. when easy is hard enough to complete the game stops being good.

You can always ask for some help to get things started. Not everyone's a born expert at every sort of game and some, like this one, have a lot of information for people to process when they start.

[General Idea]

Originally posted by WastedZymbol:

I get this game is suppose to be hard, but my god.. when easy is hard enough to complete the game stops being good.

Easy level always gives you more resources to begin with and allows you to make mistakes and still be able to recover. It can be the level that makes you into an expert at the game, learning all the pitfalls and tips and tricks for yourself.

Alternatively you can learn from other peoples mistakes and their guides to achieve better results. There's a multitude of other people that have already tread the footsteps that you are now undertaking. Take their advice if you get too frustrated trying to struggle on your own.

Guides tab/Gameplay Basics/The Beginner's Frostpunk Guide
By Imperatordavius (5 star rating)

Edit: Don't forget that you can customise your easy, medium, hard and extreme games turning up or down the weather effects for instance in experiment.

In addition, once you have completed 20 days in A New Home scenario then you can choose to play on any level from then on and don't have to complete it on your first attempt, although failure can also be a great motivator for future success.

[socratessoul]

Originally posted by Amanoob105:

Easy. Medium. Hard. Extreme.

Umm ... what happened to Survival?!

I like Survival Mode, it really makes the game gritty and feels like a great achievement because you've played it all in one go, mistakes and all.

[Hat8]

The inability to pause makes a huge difference. Survival is at least twice as hard as extreme.

[General Idea]

Originally posted by Hat8:

The inability to pause makes a huge difference. Survival is at least twice as hard as extreme.

Survivor mode is a very difficult game setting and extremely challenging (no save unless on exit) where you can only pause the game using the available menus. Extreme is a extremely difficult game setting and extremely challenging and is the hardest game setting of all.

[Tiasmoon]

Originally posted by General Idea:

Survivor mode is a very difficult game setting and extremely challenging (no save unless on exit) where you can only pause the game using the available menus. Extreme is a extremely difficult game setting and extremely challenging and is the hardest game setting of all.

For all intents and purposes Survivor mode is considered its own difficulty setting, above extreme. Its the highest difficulty since its literally Extreme + the extra difficulty of no pausing or manual saving added.

[General Idea]

Originally posted by Tiasmoon:

Originally posted by General Idea:

Survivor mode is a very difficult game setting and extremely challenging (no save unless on exit) where you can only pause the game using the available menus. Extreme is a extremely difficult game setting and extremely challenging and is the hardest game setting of all.

For all intents and purposes Survivor mode is considered its own difficulty setting, above extreme. Its the highest difficulty since its literally Extreme + the extra difficulty of no pausing or manual saving added.

Look at the description for Survival Mode as it starts - a very difficult game setting and extremely challenging.


You can pause the game in survival mode by building something and holding that thought or activating your settlement management. You can also pause the game in any game setting by entering the frostland view. You just can't use the space bar to pause the game as you can in other game settings.

Time for a coffee