Ditch Difficulty Modes, Add Customizable Game Options to New Game Screen

04Leonhardt

Something I'd like to see is the ability to not only apply presets like Freedom, Survival, Hardcore, and Creative modes, but mix and match settings to create a custom game mode.

For example, have the Default always be Survival mode. From the new proposed New Game Screen, you would be able to set various parameters to tune your individual play experience. Such as

• Setting the individual decay rates of Hunger, thirst, and Oxygen, or individually disabling Hunger/Thirst/Oxygen all together. (So have it so you only have to regulate Food and Water, while disabling Oxygen, or Only Oxygen, or Only food, etc)
• Adjusting Health Regeneration, Damage Resistance, or disabling Player Health all together (Increase regen speed to heal like Wolverine, increase Damage Resistance to shrug off Reaper Attacks. Lower Damage Resistance to make even Biters an instant kill)
• Adjusting Tool Speed and Energy Efficiency (Instantly build anything while using 1% power, halve the Welding Rate for whatever reason, make it so SeaGlides only lose 1 power her hour, etc)
• Adjusting Base and Vehicle Health, Energy Production and Usage, and Welder Repair Speed (Make vehicles not require energy, become invincible, make Solar Panels instantly charge, etc)
• Set Creature Spawn Rates (Less Carnivores if you're sick of Sand Sharks being in your face. Less Herbivores if you want a challenge)
• Set Day and Night Speed (Max out the Day for unlimited sunny adventures, Max out the night for a spoopy darkness experience)
• Change Respawn parameters, like if you lose items, or if you have to start a new game
• Set Oxygen, Food, and Water warnings, so you don't have to hear your PDA's voice when you have 10 seconds to ascend 300m

Ark Survival Evolved does this, and its great, being able to control every aspect of your game.
It could have Presets for basic modes, like Freedom, Survival, Creative, and Hardcore

Whaddyathink?

0x6A7232

So you're saying, the default modes apply their values (O2 consumption = on, rate = 1.0x, etc) and then you can tweak those values, which becomes a custom mode?

04Leonhardt

0x6A7232 wrote: »

So you're saying, the default modes apply their values (O2 consumption = on, rate = 1.0x, etc) and then you can tweak those values, which becomes a custom mode?

Yeah that's how a preset would work.
You could also save your own presets, like if you want to do Survival but remove Oxygen, make Days twice as long, halve Hostile Creature spawns, and set vehicles to have 1000x Health, you could save it as "CustomPreset1" and then load it up every time you want to start a new game.

Survival, Freedom, Creative, and Hardcore would all be hard presets that can't be deleted.
Survival would be the default each time.

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actually a good idea, than i can make it harder for myself, but on top of that i think it would be nice if you could set a number of lives, like if you want to do hardcore but allow one foult and have 2 lives or someting, nice idea!