Modding harder difficulty

[MsCabbage]

Oh yummy- this is what I need!

I reckon I can work out how to upack and sort out this file thing etc...

BUT what I would really like is advice on the lines of code I would need to change to get a super hard impossible game. I would by very grateful if someone could copy and past the lines of code I could then just copy and past into the file to make it stupid proof for me!

[Ruthless Reuban]

I started no losses try with Soothsayer, following settings

exp=0.5|1.0|1.30|2.3 // êîýô. ðàñòÿæåíèÿ òàáëèöû îïûòà ãåðîÿ
alead=0.5|1.0|1.30|2.3 // êîýô. ëèäåðñòâà âðàãà
spexp=0.5|1.0|1.15|1.7 // êîýô. ðàñòÿæåíèÿ òàáëèöû îïûòà äóõîâ ÿðîñòè
money=3.0|1.0|0.75|0.5 // êîýô. ïîëó÷åííûõ äåíåã
rage=2.0|1.0|0.85|0.4 // êîýô. ïðèõîäà ÿðîñòè â áîþ
manarage=2.0|1.0|0.80|0.4 // êîýô. ïðèõîäà ìàíû íà êàðòå, à äëÿ ÿðîñòè

So for 3 losses fights (spider boss and 2 battles on first island). In fact first one of two battles in first island was impossible without temporarily upping more mana with console command. I had lots of challenge in first 4 islands. Now in Greenwort and such places level 24 I wish some more challenge altough most opponents are Lethal or stronger so not very easy fights anyway. I do use Rune mages but modded their phantom skill lower and phantoms only last for 1 turn (die after used action points after summoning).

Difficulty is very well balanced on 4 first islands, after that not so well. This is not for those who want "hardcore no losses" but it seems to offer "challenging no losses" so far.

Difficulty Impossible of course.

[MsCabbage]

Ruthless Reuban I really appreciate you posting the code.

In the end I used this code

exp=0.5|1.0|1.30|1.7 // êîýô. ðàñòÿæåíèÿ òàáëèöû îïûòà ãåðîÿ
alead=0.5|1.0|1.30|7.0 // êîýô. ëèäåðñòâà âðàãà
spexp=0.5|1.0|1.15|1.3 // êîýô. ðàñòÿæåíèÿ òàáëèöû îïûòà äóõîâ ÿðîñòè
money=3.0|1.0|0.75|0.5 // êîýô. ïîëó÷åííûõ äåíåã
rage=2.0|1.0|0.85|0.7 // êîýô. ïðèõîäà ÿðîñòè â áîþ
manarage=2.0|1.0|0.80|0.5 // êîýô. ïðèõîäà ìàíû íà êàðòå, à äëÿ ÿðîñòè

which only changes the enemy stack leadership from 170% to 700%. This absolutely means you will suffer losses which I love as you have to evolve you army and thus strategies as you run out of your favourite recruits.

I also found the last two fights truly impossible on the first island so I just kept on wearing down the enemy with suicide runs with the starter army you get after you die - which the took about 30+ suicide runs to soften them up for a possible win.

After the first island for a while I thought maybe it was still too easy but I have killed off about 80% of the enemies and now the game has become delicious as I am having battles that it really is touch and go that I will survive - I may even need to restart!!

Interestingly not changing the experience required to level seems OK as I am on level 17 at the moment and I feel I will be around level 20 if I ever manage to kill off the remaining armies before I tackle the spider boss.

Just as an aside I haven't noticed a single bug in the game yet... and would say with this mod it is my best experience of the series so far!