Difficulty Scaling

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Hazard Levels

Hazard levels along with player count determine the amount of enemies present in a mission and during swarms, as well as an increase to the amount of damage they can absorb and the amount of damage they deal to players. Hazard Levels contribute to a Hazard Bonus, starting with +25% bonus at 1-Low Risk and increasing in 25% intervals to 100% bonus at 4-Extreme.

Scaling

On higher Hazard levels and with more players, the threats players face increases.

• Increased Hazard Levels increase enemy damage and friendly fire.
• Increased player count increase enemy counts and enemy damage weakness, but do not affect enemy damage and friendly fire.
• Hazard 5 disables health regeneration and lowers health received from revives.

Shown below is a table of multipliers for Enviromental, Enemy Damage and Friendly Fire, only affected by Hazard Level.

Hazard Icon	Hazard Level	Enemy Damage	Friendly Fire*	Enviromental Damage	Wave Time	Speed
	1 - Low Risk	0.5 / 0.5 / 0.5 / 0.5	0.1	0.75	?	?
	2 - Challenging	0.7 / 0.8 / 0.9 / 1.0	0.2	1.0	?	?
	3 - Dangerous	1.2 / 1.3 / 1.4 / 1.5	0.3	1.0	?	?
	4 - Extreme	2.0 /2.15/ 2.3 / 2.5	0.4	1.33	?	?
	5 - Lethal	2.6 / 2.8 / 3.0 / 3.2	0.7	2.0	?	?

^{*Explosive friendly fire is reduced by a further 50%}

Shown below is a table of multipliers for enemy count and enemy damage weakness. (Separated by size classification), only affected by the amount of players and hazard level. The enemy damage weakness is a modifier to all damage dealt to enemies by players.

Damage dealt to enemy = Damage of Weapon / Modifier.

For damage resistances:

• Lootbug and Golden Loot Bug are neutral enemies and don't scale at all.
  
• The following are special enemies: Glyphid Praetorian, Glyphid Bulk Detonator, Glyphid Menace, Glyphid Warden, Q'ronar Youngling, Q'ronar Shellback, Mactera Grabber, Mactera Goo/Ice Bomber, Naedocyte Breeder, Naedocyte Roe, Glyphid Brood Nexus, Spitball Infector, Huuli Hoarder.
  
• The following are boss enemies: The Glyphid Dreadnought, Xynarch Charge-Sucker (BET-C).
  
• All other enemies have normal resistances.

1 Player (Solo) / 2 Players / 3 Players / 4 Players
Hazard Level	Enemy Count	Normal Enemy Resistance	Special Enemy Resistance	Boss Enemy Resistance
1 - Low Risk	0.15 / 0.25 / 0.45 / 0.65	0.45 / 0.55 / 0.70 / 0.85	0.7	0.2 / 0.4 / 0.6 / 0.8
2 - Challenging	0.25 / 0.35 / 0.65 / 0.89	0.65 / 0.75 / 0.90 / 1.00	1.0	0.3 / 0.4 / 0.7 / 1.0
3 - Dangerous	0.50 / 0.50 / 0.80 / 1.10	0.80 / 0.90 / 1.00 / 1.10	1.1	0.5 / 0.5 / 0.7 / 1.1
4 - Extreme	0.75 / 0.75 / 1.25 / 1.35	1.00 / 1.00 / 1.20 / 1.30	1.2	0.7 / 0.7 / 0.9 / 1.6
5 - Lethal	0.85 / 0.85 / 1.25 / 1.50	1.20 / 1.20 / 1.40 / 1.50	1.2	0.7 / 0.7 / 1 / 1.6

There is only a small increase of enemy spawns between Solo and 2 Player to compensate for the loss of Bosco.

See Also

• Creatures
• Hazard Bonus