Let us change the difficulty mid-playthrough

[Tomfried]

I started my first Crystal Huunt playthrough on normal difficulty but realized after a few hours that no matter how far I'm progressing into the game, enemies never really pose a threat to my unreasonably large health pool. Even as I was helplessly surrounded by Eye members and got attacked from all sides, my character just tanked all of those hits and killed them all anyway despite having inferior armor on, which seemed a bit immersion-breaking to me and also wasn't as much fun as it could be (I really should've died at that point to be honest). To make my playthrough more of a challenge and make my own health get at least a bit closer to that of my enemies I wanted to increase the amount of damage enemies dealt to two times the normal amount and also lose half of my gold on death. I checked the menu book for difficulty settings but couldn't find any, went to the main menu and select "Edit Character" but couldn't find any - ultimately I just created a second character with my preferred difficulty setting and started the game anew, but it would've been cool if I could've kept my old one since I had already collected four magic crystals with that one.

[darkblade]

There was a mod in the last version where you could edit health and how mutch the enemy would survive, maybe it will come back to the newest version

[PSY]

Originally posted by Tomfried:

I started my first Crystal Huunt playthrough on normal difficulty but realized after a few hours that no matter how far I'm progressing into the game, enemies never really pose a threat to my unreasonably large health pool. Even as I was helplessly surrounded by Eye members and got attacked from all sides, my character just tanked all of those hits and killed them all anyway despite having inferior armor on, which seemed a bit immersion-breaking to me and also wasn't as much fun as it could be (I really should've died at that point to be honest). To make my playthrough more of a challenge and make my own health get at least a bit closer to that of my enemies I wanted to increase the amount of damage enemies dealt to two times the normal amount and also lose half of my gold on death. I checked the menu book for difficulty settings but couldn't find any, went to the main menu and select "Edit Character" but couldn't find any - ultimately I just created a second character with my preferred difficulty setting and started the game anew, but it would've been cool if I could've kept my old one since I had already collected four magic crystals with that one.

Assuming you have all default directories for steam...
1) Go to Documents > My Games > BladeAndSorcery > Saves > Default
2) Find your current save there and open it with notepad++/VSCode/notepad/whatever text editor
3) Scroll to the bottom of the file
4) Edit where it says true/false/[number here] next to the value section of each entry.

What you're looking for is obvious, but for clarity you'll be wanting one of 'PlayerDamageMultiplier/EnemyDamageMultiplier/AutoDalgTranslation/CheatMenu" then 3 lines down from either of those is the value you want to change

Unlike the in-game settings of x0.2 to x2.0, the multipliers are based on an initial value of 100, and can increase to 200 or down to 20... You can probably set them higher or lower honestly. The values work the same: 200 is x2.0 and 20 is x0.2.

[Tomfried]

Thanks @PSY, I didn't realize that save editing was a possibility. I'll try it next time I wanna change the difficulty again

[Tomfried]

By now someone made a mod to change not only the difficulty but also things like walking speed or jump height in-game: https://www.nexusmods.com/bladeandsorcery/mods/11693?tab=description