Malleus on 20/1/2010 at 00:59
Hi. Just a question.
Is there any 'hardcoded', not level-specific difference between Thief 1/2 difficulty levels apart from your health? Like, anything about AI behaviour, or something like that? Just curious.
jtr7 on 20/1/2010 at 01:04
AIs' numbers and types and placement and routes may change, types of loot and where may change, types of gear and where and how much will change, what you can buy at the store will change most of the time, on rare occasion some doors may not be accessible unless you are playing on higher difficulty, how long it takes to pick a lock may change, locations of keys may change, conversation location and texts may change (rare), a conversation may or may not be there (very rare), AIs' sensitivity may change...
Malleus on 20/1/2010 at 01:07
Yes, but those are what I meant as 'level specific' (should've wrote map-specific, maybe). They are set by the mission designer (at least AFAIK, I'm not one). But looked like the amount of health you have is something that's the same (on the same difficulty levels) on different maps. Or can that be set, are all these things set by the mission designer as well?
jtr7 on 20/1/2010 at 01:12
I think HP's the only difference, but I'm sure it's still not hard-coded.
Malleus on 20/1/2010 at 01:13
Thanks, that's what I was curious about. :)
Dan on 22/1/2010 at 21:18
This is my specialty. I spent a dozen hours in DromEd a while back, to catalog all the differences in missions between difficulty settings. You can check it out at the thief.wikia.com. Go to any of the T1/TG/T2 game articles, click on a mission and check the "Difficulty Alterations" paragraph.
It is more than just HP. There are different numbers and/or placement of NPC and items, some items are gone on specific difficulties, some rooms are sealed off, some books contain different info and its not just objective based. Check out the articles for a detailed list of NPC numbers and changes.
SneakyJack on 22/1/2010 at 23:51
Quote Posted by Dan
This is my specialty. I spent a dozen hours in DromEd a while back, to catalog all the differences in missions between difficulty settings. You can check it out at the thief.wikia.com. Go to any of the T1/TG/T2 game articles, click on a mission and check the "
Difficulty Alterations" paragraph.
Thank you for doing so - I really enjoyed reading the differences in each difficulty and literally went through the wiki for each level that had those differences just to read how the missions were changed. I appreciated that someone had taken the time to go through them like that and list the changes - so thanks again!
Malleus on 23/1/2010 at 00:28
Quote Posted by Dan
Go to any of the T1/TG/T2 game articles, click on a mission and check the "
Difficulty Alterations" paragraph.
I already did when I was searching for info about the difficulty levels. Good work cataloguing all that stuff!
