Campaign Mode Difficulty

from PolMach Forums
I read on here that the way you set the difficulty in Campaign Mode is to go into Quick Play mode, play at a difficulty level, then go back to Campaign Mode and your difficulty will be at whatever you played last in Quick Play mode. I'm going to restrain myself from saying anything about this design decision. Instead I want to say: it doesn't work.

I started a custom campaign with candidate X (Republican). Played a campaign, using auto-save feature, won election, lost all progress. (I understand the situation here.) This first game was at Beginner difficulty, apparently because my first Quick Game was at Beginner.

So now I have to replay candidate X versus Wesley Clark. First I go into Quick Play mode and play an entire election as Kerry at Normal Difficulty. Now I go back to Campaign Mode and play as Candidate X versus Wesley Clark. I win handily. At the end it informs me that I was at Beginner difficulty.

Problems:

---wrong difficulty
---there's no way to see what difficulty you are playing at until the election is over (?)

Is it going to be possible to every play Candidate X at Normal Difficulty, or is he "stuck" at Beginner? Is he stuck at Beginner because when I created him my last Quick Play game was at beginner? Because the first time I played with him it defaulted to Beginner? (Even though that game was "lost" to the auto-save bug?) Because it just doesn't work and all campaign games are at Beginner difficulty?

This is all version 1.0. I have downloaded the patch. I saw nothing about Campaign Difficulty settings in the readme. Did I miss something or did you?
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Reply #1 from PolMach Forums Top
Quick Play difficulty level doesn't affect the campaign mode.  The further you get on the campaign, the harder it gets.
Reply #2 from PolMach Forums Top
Isn't "BoogieBac" a Stardock employee? Cause he answered someone else's question about how to set campaign difficulty with:

"Play in "Quick Game" to set all your settings as you see fit!".

I'm confused.
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Reply #3 from PolMach Forums Top

If you play in Quick Game you have control over difficulty.

That's not the same mode as playing the campaign.

 

Reply #4 from PolMach Forums Top
I'm well aware that Quick Game is not the same mode as Campaign Mode.

I guess BoogieBac gave a less than straightforward answer to the question about setting Campaign Difficulty. I guess what he should have written was, "No, you can't set difficulty in campaign mode, BUT if you want to set your own difficulty you can play in Quick Game mode.

[talks to self] Thanks for straightening that out.