How does the difficulty alter the game?

[Nanaki]

Going through the game files, here is what I found so far...

1: Cash rewards from missions are less
2: Shops give you less money for sold equipment, everythings more expensive
3: Enemies are tougher
4: You get less experiance from each kill

[ryuujin]

me i'm playing on easy mode because i want easy kill and finished the quest fast so that random bugs wont hit me as often as it is. I had a very bad experience in Star Wolves 2 where random bugs hit me quite often in every mission I did. its really frustrating keep doing the same mission evertime bugs hits not to mentioned restart the whole game.. omg.. that time Star Wolves 2 was my worst buggiest game ever played in my life.

[Nanaki]

As long as you avoid the Inoco mission line, Star Wolves 3 is quite bug free.

[tsavo]

Just cleared XB-19 after I changed mothership to Astarte
Only 3 pilots with me, It looks the AI is pretty much the same,
I was hoping with harder game, u have better AI

Is there any way to change that?

[Nanaki]

Is there any way to change that?

AI is pretty much the same though and though, although its pretty smart as is, they will work as teams if in the same squad. Becides, Star Wolves is an RPG, so in reality the AI does not have to do much, everythings handled by the pilot stats and the ship stats.

[tsavo]

Originally Posted by Nanaki

AI is pretty much the same though and though, although its pretty smart as is, they will work as teams if in the same squad. Becides, Star Wolves is an RPG, so in reality the AI does not have to do much, everythings handled by the pilot stats and the ship stats.

No, disagree.
I use Astarte(600 shield, +5 repair) + 1 G4(decent equipments, but not the best) + 1 G3
cleared XB-19 without lost anything.
And I never group fighters together, and my pilot(greyhair) is just able to fly the G4

and now, I just finished Alex convoy mission, but got 1.5m cash + loads of junks worth another 1.5m(excluding the 4 G5 fighters from hidden locations)

during encounters, my mothership even does not need to change course.

[tsavo]

and one of my play mates even found a way to make money and gain exp automatically, without touch the keyboard, without change any game setting.