Change difficulty on the fly?

Website · by **Tizerak** » Sat Sep 22, 2012 7:06 am

I don't know why I assumed this but I couldn't find a way to do it anywhere, is there a way to change the difficulty while you're playing single player? I played normal for about 2 hours and was like damn this is easy i'll go up a difficulty level, and then found I couldn't so my current work around has been to just make LAN games and change the difficulty.

by **JaggidEdje** » Sat Sep 22, 2012 7:09 am

I don't believe it is currently possible.

You could just continue your game as a LAN game though and you can select whatever difficulty you want each time you launch the game that way.

BTW, the difficulty does ramp up considerably as you progress. Act I appears to be stupidly easy no matter what difficulty you choose.

by **Wuffletronics** » Sat Sep 22, 2012 7:09 am

Sadly, once you choose a difficulty, that's set in stone for single player. You can remake your character and transfer gear via shared stash or wait til late game for more of a challenge.

by **Hydrargent** » Sat Sep 22, 2012 7:39 am

If you enable and use the console, you can change difficulty with the command "setdifficulty #" where # is a number between 0 and 3, from easy to elite.

To enable the console, open the settings.txt file located in My Documents/My Games/Runic Games/Torchlight 2/Save
Then scroll down until you see CONSOLE: 0, and change the 0 to a 1.
To open the console ingame, press CTRL+SHIFT+NUMPAD_0.

If you use the console, it flags your character as a console user. Other players online will be able to see a mark next to your portrait. If you don't care about this, go ahead, otherwise I'd stick to just remaking LAN games and changing the difficulty there.

by **Exiled** » Sat Sep 22, 2012 8:19 am

I hope it won't flag you as cheater or something... I think Runic has to fix this one.

Website · by **Tizerak** » Sat Sep 22, 2012 8:44 am

Yeah I don't want to be "flagged" ill just keep doing LAN games it not a huge deal, thanks for the info.

by **Rly** » Sun Sep 23, 2012 9:27 am

Don't really mind being flagged since I'm probably going to be playing with my friends exclusively. But there really should be an easier way. Maybe just patch a little drop down menu in on the settings?

by **lukian** » Tue Sep 25, 2012 1:45 am

Does upgrading the difficulty in single player (normal and/or NG+) flag your character as suspicious?

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