Which difficulty mod to choose ?

[HarutoSan]

Hello everyone,

I just started to play the game and while I have a lot of fun so far, like many, my only complain is about the game being too easy. Luckily I got the game on of and it seems there are already two mods available for the difficulty. So my question would be to know which mod between the new normal difficulty mod and the difficult difficulty mods would you advice me to install and play with ?

Also, do we need to restart the game from the beginning when we install the mod ?

Thank you guys !

[K.D.S.]

go with Hard mode

[HarutoSan]

Thanks for the reply ! I will try it. Should I restart the game ?

[gorrak]

No you don't need to restart the game but just close it and relaunch it. You just need to put a file into a folder (be carefull that the folder name is ~mods and not mods) and can switch between the two difficulty or remove it when you want.

I like the medium one because I want a minimum of challenge but I find the hard one a bit too much. But that's depent what you are looking for maybe you can start with the hard one and if you find it too hard later one just switch to the medium one. Enjoy!

[HarutoSan]

Thank you for your answer !

So I did exactly this for installing the hard mod, I created into the oaks folder a folder named ~mods, then I copied the file of the mod inside the archive. However, I’m not sure the mod is working or not. I’m into the starting cave ( where there is bat ) and I don’t feel really any difference on this zone ? How do you know the mod is working ?

Thanks a lot !

[gorrak]

It's very hard to tell if it's working or not at the very beginning but if you put the .pak file into "content/paks/~mods" it should be working.

You can maybe try another mod like the one increasing the moovement speed or the one removing the brush stroke filter. If one of this mod is working then the difficulty mod should be working as well. You will notice it after you leave the first island.

[HarutoSan]

Thanks a lot ! I will check when I have some more time :)

[boscam]

I tried the medium yesterday, the fights are still not so difficult (still in Alabasta), but they do more damage sometimes, so at least I need to heal them and I need to take care more about specific abilities. For me it is nice now.

[jagoshadow]

These are just stat boosts and damage sponges I assume? I really don't get how that's fun lol. You still win but just take minutes longer for each trash battle for no extra reward. To each their own I guess.

[Chocos Ramabotti]

The difficulty mod is probably not playtested and just tweaked some values, fights still need to be balanced indepedently to become more fun the difficulty curve is just all over the place.