What Does Difficulty ACTUALLY DO in 7 Days To Die Alpha 20?

Is there a video on what you prefer on your settings and or what ones you use?

damn, i thought they had more hp hit harder and drop more xp, but if it's only 'cheating' for the zombies and no gain for me, than i will switch down to 0% i guess..

Difficulty also affects Rage and Super Rage chances.
R SR
1: 0% 0%
2: 15% 1%
3: 30% 3%
4: 35% 5%
5: 40% 8%
6: 50% 15%

I've been running into considerably less drops from killed zombies. But if this is all difficulty does, it's probably a placebo effect caused by avoiding more zombies than i used to (i wanted to try playing on insane for a bit just to see if i could. So far it's doable, but damn does it feel boring and needlessly unfair. guess that's why it's 'insane difficulty' though).

The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion difficulty slider, the worst kind of difficulty slider.

I love getting 1 shot by a 2500 health zombie bear on day 1, insane nightmare is fun

This is pure gold!

This is really well done thank you sir!!! Never actually knew what was changing. Is it still true that it raises your GS faster?

I wish that "the amount of damage you do" and "the amount of damage you take" could be changed separately.
I would LOVE to run with zombies doing Insane damage, all of the time (exciting!). But I don't really enjoy super-tanky enemies (tedious af).
I would use Insane incoming, and warrior outgoing, and never change it.
A20 does have better scaling for incoming/outgoing damage though (compared to A19). It used to make enemies even more tanky at max diff.

I thought you would have covered head shots as well. I thought I heard somewhere that headshots were unaffected by difficulty?

I also adjust the block damage for scaling difficulty to my taste. Usually easy mining, and no sledgehammer hands zombies.

i like to put the difficulty to low as possible cause all that does is increase or decrease their health pool, and zobies should have low health, easy to kill. so the way i make it harder is by making them always run, max zombies and now the feral sense

Those are tables, not graphs

I miss the option for every player to pick their own difficulty on a multiplayer server, since it just modifies the players dealt and taken damage every player should be able to have their own setting without making it weird. Some players may want more challenge than others and I dont like lowering the difficulty for myself just to fit the lowest skilled player.

Bullet sponges and nerf bats is not true difficulty, give us more interesting zombies or mechanics and mini bosses at higher difficulties Fun Pimps! Reward harder diff :D

Very informative thanks!

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Well explained!

i like the way you exlpained the damage. your chart is much easier for me to read and understand at a glance. i thank you sir