Difficulty

[meszaros-lajos-gyorgy]

• [ ] Make a new concept for difficulties replacing the 3 ones found in the demo:
  • Normal
  • Hard (disables hp regeneration)
  • Very Hard (disables hp regeneration and mana regeneration as well - maybe)
  • Insanity (all features + demo nightmare difficulty equivalent)
  • Survival/Nightmare (Hidden difficulty in the screen as it was in the demo, for extreme and expert players)
• [ ] Difficulties only change the hp regeneration (and mana if it's approved), and it will manage a global integer variable with game scripts #DIFFICULTY, select a difficulty will change variable values: 0 = normal, 1 = hard, 2 = very hard, 3 = insanity, 4 = survival
• [ ] Disable HP regeneration if it's not the normal difficulty
• [ ] Hunger should be affected by the difficulties. Increased the hunger rate:
  • 1.1x so 110% in hard
  • 1.2x so 120% in very hard
  • 1.3x so 130% in insanity
  • 1.4x so 140% in survival.

[Gussak]

may be, the difficulties could be configured as "difficulty options".
we could have std::getenv("ARX_DIFFICULTY_HP_REGEN") == 0.01f #means, it will regen only 1% of vanilla, so the player can tweak it the way he wants.
it would initially be environment variables, but later they could be implemented in the options menu (that I guess demands much more effort right?) so we can have new features faster, and players can just help each other sharing configs/presets with these precisely tweaked variables.

the same for mana regen.

now hunger (and thirsty) could be based on the actions we perform, like in each action has a weight influence on how much food and water is spent, could be like, spend (these below would be multipliers to some base value): not moving = 0.01/s walking = 0.1/s stealth moving = 0.17/s sprinting = 0.25/s jump = 0.25 each jump melee attack small weapon = 0.15 each melee attack big weapon = 0.3 each shoot arrow = 0.1 each cast weak spell = 0.07 each cast strong spell 0.15 each