↜ Create a difficulty mod! by WNG ↝
IntroductionHello! This guide will show you how to create a simple mod that adjusts difficulty settings of the game. Difficulty mods are very popular, and for a reason: they are simple to make and can modify the game experience by a lot. In this tutorial, we will look at numerous files that can be modified to change the difficulty of the game. There's more that you can do than simply spawning in more monsters; in fact, there's numerous ways to get creative here.
I may assume you have some basic knowledge and overlook some manipulations. Feel free to tell me if anything is unclear.I. gameengine.dbrrecords\xpack\game\gameengine.dbr
This file controls a myriad of general settings of the game. Here, you can alter some different options to make the game potentially harder. Let's have a look at some of them.
gameengine.dbrII. monstergamebalanceattributes.dbrrecords\game\monstergamebalanceattributes.dbr
This file is referenced in the gameengine.dbr seen above and is used to improve monsters based on the number of players and the difficulty level you play on. For example, you can decide the bonus of health or damage granted to enemy creatures here.
Look over here to find details on the characteristics you can change (it is another tutorial but the same characteristics are seen in detail here) :
https://titanquestfans.net/index.php?topic=886.0Notice how each field is an array where you can input multiple values. You have 3 options:
- 0 values: Leave empty or with a zero; the game will ignore this characteristic.
- 3 values: Input up to 3 values; the first value will be used for Normal, the second for Epic and the last for Legendary.
- 18 values: Input up to 18 values; the first value being Normal difficulty with 1 player, then 2 players... up until 6 players. The seventh value is Epic with 1 player, and so on so forth. In other terms, have 1 value for each number of players per difficulty.
III. femalepc01.dbr/malepc01.dbrrecords\xpack\creatures\pc\femalepc01.dbr
records\xpack\creatures\pc\malepc01.dbr
These files are the actual characters you can control. You can modify some of their innate characteristics. The male and female characters have technically different files, although they look identical. You could, if you so desire, make them different in certain aspects.
femalepc01.dbr/malepc01.dbrIV. playerlevels.dbrrecords\creatures\pc\playerlevels.dbr
This file sets some parameters related to experience and the level-up system.
femalepc01.dbr/malepc01.dbr