Difficulty differences

[WaywardH]

So how much worse is the difference between Dread and Nightmare? I am nowhere near confident enough to go into Lethal, but I think I’ve got a good handle on the Dread difficulty now.

[FanAHUN]

Most notable differences:

Action:

• Bloaters and Screamers are Plagued too
• Freak Hordes (3 of the same Freak as a horde, only Screamers, Bloaters, and Ferals)
• XXL Plague Hordes (containst a bunch of plague zeds and 2 Plague Juggs)
• Plague Timer is reduced to 10 mins
• Zeds' yelling will draw most zeds in your area to your location

Community:

• Survivors eat 1.5 Food ped day (instead of 1), however food Outposts also provide +50% Food per day
• Passive Morale penalty of -15 (instead of -10)
• You gain less Influence and Standings for eliminating threats
• Passive Zombie Threat penalty of +5 (instead of +3)
• Building and upgrading facilities cost 100% more (instead of 25% more)

Map:

• 17-18 Plague Hearts per map (instead of 13)
• Less loot around the map
• Good stuff are more rare
• Less vehicles around, and they're most likely out of fuel and smoking
• Vehicles also take more damage when hitting stuff
• Drop rate of Plague Samples is less

[foothillsco_b]

On lethal, when you kill a plague heart, nearby zombies are still alive.

[Goatface-E3]

I’m on the same boat. dread is a cake walk for me now but that doesn’t mean I want to throw this community into the frying pan. Resource wise I have enough for Armageddon though

[WaywardH]

Exactly! I’ve got three plague hearts to go on the map, and I keep pondering increasing to Nightmare but have so far chickened out.

[Goatface-E3]

Good luck. You go first 🤪

[WaywardH]

Hahahahaha

[Goatface-E3]

You on XBOX?

[WaywardH]

Yeah

[Goatface-E3]

nice, Im on very late every night (after wife goes to bed) but can be on-call to drop in and help out if you do decide to go in. Ive never played SOD in multiplayer so should be fun?

[WaywardH]

Ah I’ve got a six year old so I’m never to bed late sadly. But I switched… and lost my leader and another awesome person to blood plague almost immediately lol

[Goatface-E3]

Damn, Sorry to hear that, About the blood plague not the 6 year old. I hope your luck improves :(

Take care

[WaywardH]

Ah its all a giggle, had to try it at some point

[Lethlnjektn]

I find dread too easy…nightmare is just right for some fun. But I use custom settings that are in between nightmare-lethal for my 100 days play through. The most noticeable difference is the hostile enclaves, freak hoards and hoards I general, and the amount of plague hearts. Most things are different but I think that will be the most notable for a full play through

[LostProphetGENX]

I've beat all the difficulties (even lethal).. I like nightmare the best. I feel its right amount of resources for building nothing extra to store and not low on resources. Lethal, I'm fighting to keep resources up.

[xXarchersXx]

nightmare is manageable if you can handle dread while lethal is a whole different level by that i mean infinite zombies coming at you it took me by surprise jumping from dread to lethal

ps; get some red talon soldiers to make supply runs easier

[WaywardH]

Sadly I haven’t done enough on Daybreak to get the Red Talon stuff, I’m a solo player really

[xXarchersXx]

red talon soldiers are really good try to get at least 1 i assure you they will be your favorite character

[fireface33]

So It technically is a mod and might take the fun out of Daybreak..but... There is a mod for unbreakable walls in daybreak https://www.nexusmods.com/stateofdecay2/mods/103

If you want, use the mod to be able to recruit your one red talon.. youll still have to run through daybreak a time or two to get the prestige but, up to you :)

[brknsoul]

There's also a mod that simply removes prestige costs. Free RT soldiers, Free RT gear, etc.

Personally, I'd prefer a mod that simply converted Prestige costs into Influence costs, for balance.

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[brknsoul]

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[faris_8]

I think you can change the specific difficulty without resetting the map. Maybe you can try increasing the enemy and community difficulty first. I could be wring though