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Mekt-Hakkikt
Mpanty's bane
According to the WCP guide the differences are:
Damage threshold: On "rookie" your ship can take four times as much damage as one of your wingmen. That extra toughness decreases with each higher difficulty level. Even on "nightmare" though, you can sustain more damage than your wingmen.
Gun damage: On "rookie" you do twice normal damage. (Only on rookie)
Max. number of enemies targeting you: Varies between one (rookie) and three (nightmare)
Use of missiles: The higher the level the more likely you get missiles shot at you.
Enemy's maneuvrability: On rookie, the enemy only maneuvers with 80% of its real maneuvrability and at 100% on nightmare.
Enemy's fire accuracy: the enemy hit 50% more often on nightmare than on rookie
Missile decoys: The higher the difficulty level the more likely the enemy uses missile decoys.
I think roughly the same applies to the other WC games.
Additionally in WC3, the armour of the Kilrathi ships regeneratedon the highest skill level.
[Edited by Mekt-Hakkikt on 05-13-2001 at 13:28]
Damage threshold: On "rookie" your ship can take four times as much damage as one of your wingmen. That extra toughness decreases with each higher difficulty level. Even on "nightmare" though, you can sustain more damage than your wingmen.
Gun damage: On "rookie" you do twice normal damage. (Only on rookie)
Max. number of enemies targeting you: Varies between one (rookie) and three (nightmare)
Use of missiles: The higher the level the more likely you get missiles shot at you.
Enemy's maneuvrability: On rookie, the enemy only maneuvers with 80% of its real maneuvrability and at 100% on nightmare.
Enemy's fire accuracy: the enemy hit 50% more often on nightmare than on rookie
Missile decoys: The higher the difficulty level the more likely the enemy uses missile decoys.
I think roughly the same applies to the other WC games.
Additionally in WC3, the armour of the Kilrathi ships regeneratedon the highest skill level.
[Edited by Mekt-Hakkikt on 05-13-2001 at 13:28]
Mekt-Hakkikt
Mpanty's bane
You're welcome. 
And RFB, yes I think all ships regenerate their armour. Of course if you take them out fast enough, that's not going to save them
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And RFB, yes I think all ships regenerate their armour. Of course if you take them out fast enough, that's not going to save them
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Mekt-Hakkikt
Mpanty's bane
I don't think there's a scientific explanation. It's just to make the game harder. After all, you can't change the skill level in real life.
mpanty
Keen Commander
Well, call me a wimp or say that I suck, but I didn't manage to pass the reconnaissance mission on the first planet, in WC IV, the one prior to freeing the biochemist, with a difficulty level higher than Veteran... 
Oddly though, as many people have told me, the level below Nightmare, is actually easier than the Ace level...
Oddly though, as many people have told me, the level below Nightmare, is actually easier than the Ace level...
Originally posted by mpanty
Oddly though, as many people have told me, the level below Nightmare, is actually easier than the Ace level...
I have noticed that the enemy pilots suck on that level. But there are about three times as many, and your guns are reduced to flower power intensity.
Mekt-Hakkikt
Mpanty's bane
Originally posted by mpanty
Well, call me a wimp or say that I suck, but I didn't manage to pass the reconnaissance mission on the first planet, in WC IV, the one prior to freeing the biochemist, with a difficulty level higher than Veteran...
Oddly though, as many people have told me, the level below Nightmare, is actually easier than the Ace level...
You're a wimp! Just kidding...
The only thing I heard (and experienced) is that "hero" (the one above "Ace") is easier than "Ace" because they do not afterburn all the time (which is very annoying).
Bandit LOAF
Long Live the Confederation!
None of the levels increase the number of enemies you face...
Dark Tower
Rear Admiral
Hey on the topic of AI maybe the difficulty setings options used in system shock should comeback that way we can elimminate annoying trates eg afterburning all the time as well as ship numbers and such. In general its about time specific difficulty setings got back then fps for example can change between shoot everything that moves eg quake to something like system shock 2 or deus ex rpg in an fps world.
On AI for wing commander maybe the next title which will I said will be made will have an algorythm (sp?) that allows them to learn but if the game was restarted the AI should stay at the same level but not loss all it learned.
On AI for wing commander maybe the next title which will I said will be made will have an algorythm (sp?) that allows them to learn but if the game was restarted the AI should stay at the same level but not loss all it learned.
