Anyone else read that? From the first "leaker" the higher the difficulty the more enemy spawns you get?...if such is the case I'll prob start on hard maybe even survivor

That is only for legendary enemies.. basically the higher the difficulty whenever enemies spawn there is a chance one of the enemies in the group will be a legendary enemy.

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I didn't know that, that sounds totally cool! I heard we have 6 levels of difficulty, yet this is to be substantiated.

but is survival mode an extension of very hard or a seperate setting from whatever other difficult settings you pick, so in other words can you pick adept difficulty and survival mode

One thing that I'm curious about is if power armor spawns in tougher enemies.

I might go survivor difficulty... I want the rare loot drops, and the legendary enemies.

So there is a survivor difficulty? I keep hearing mentions of it but nothing really concrete.

AFAIK, and from what I've heard yes. Don't take my word as official confirmation though, I don't have the game in my hands.

I don't like that. It throws off the balance of things too much. I'd rather the quality of enemies be affected than the quantity. If you're playing on Easy, it's far better to face weak enemies instead of just facing very few.

fingers crossed.

That doesn't appear to be the case. Survival mode looks to be the hardest difficulty.

That is wrong difficulty affects the number of legendary enemies.. not the number of total enemies.. the higher the difficulty the higher the chance that one of the enemies in a group will be legendary instead of a normal mob.

This is way better than just reducing player damage output and increasing enemy output. Using higher level enemies makes sense. Now let's just cross fingers they also use their environment better. Please no Point lookout buffed enemies.

Interesting. If it isn't bundled with enemy HP * 20 + player damage * 0.05 bull[censored], i'll have to use it.

I believe difficulty level also impacts mob health, hit point regen rate, and the rate at which stimpacks heal you - but, as I do not yet have the game, I could, of course, be wrong.

Well, if it is, mods will fix it.

Difficulty setting is very easy, easy, normal, hard, very hard and survivor. On survivor, all healing items also heal slower. Difficulty affects legendary enemy spawn and on hard, that means you'll be running into one once every major area. Legendary enemies always drop a unique weapon though, which is just a regular weapon with a buff such as ''50% more damage on mirelurks''.

Edit: difficulty setting is damage multipliers as always in Bethesda's games.

Ah, so full Borderlands 2 loot system.

Though given the weapon modding system, there's no need to pray or farm to get one with the parts you need, you can just swap them out yourself. Cool. Tentatively

The special effects seem to be uncraftable by the player, and unique weapons can't be broken down for scraps.

But can they be modded?

I sure hope so! I haven't heard anything about that.

Yes, from what I have heard, they can be.

I'll have to go with whatever dificulty is hardest, I love the tension you get when entering unknown areas and knowing that you could get your [censored] kicked. If the difficulty is too easy then you don't get the same experience and become too casual in your play.

I want to see this game last me the next 12 months (no kidding). I've given up on online games, a solid offline single player game is just what I need and the hardest difficulty will make it last and make be grow into the game.