Difficulty Levels

Campaign Difficulty

The Campaign difficulty is set on the Game Options Menu (updating the "difficulty" setting in config) and has following effects:

Difficulty level	Enemies	Player (You)
Easy	20% Damage	20% Damage
Medium	No Effect
Hard	20% Damage	20% Damage

Skirmish / Multiplayer Difficulty

In Skirmish and Multiplayer games, the difficulty for each AI (computer player) can be set independently via the Player Setup Screen.

Different AIs respond differently to the difficulty setting, for example:

• Nexus AI will cheat more on higher difficulty levels, giving itself more power boosts and random research gains. On "Easy", however, it will not cheat.
• Semperfi AI compltely ignores difficulty setting.
• NullBot AI follows a non-specialised research path on "Easy" setting, compared to adaptive research path on harder levels.

AI's set to "Insane" difficulty gain additional benefits that are coded in to Warzone:

• Their oil production is doubled
• They lose fewer map-defined buildings in relation to the baseType (see Player Initialisation Rules for full details).

Challenge Maps Difficulty

Determining Difficulty Level

Your scripts can determine the difficulty level from the difficulty global variable.