PlayerX Mod? Let game think there are more players

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Hi :slight_smile:

I would like to increase difficulty, but changing as less as possible to stay compatible to everything and prevent bugs.

Therefore I thought it would be best to use the already existing ingame player-count scaling (it does exist, right?).
For Titan Quest there was such a mod “PlayerX”.
I already searched, but it seems there is no mod like this already for Grim Dawn?

So what do you think, how easy/hard would it be to create such a mod? What kind of stuff do I need to change?
I hoped it would be a simple lua-Mod, eg. overwriting the “Game.GetNumPlayers()” function to always return “+2”, so the game thinks there are 2 players more.
Would this work and be enough? Or are more changes necessary?

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Modding it may not be as simple as it seems. Most of what you are looking for is in the database/records/game folder.

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In here the gameengine.dbr controls how balancingadjustment_mp+difficulty files are handled as seen below within this image of the gameengine.dbr

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Wfsxcj-DcWqb7An3ThcHUyfR4o-iHUGz/view?usp=sharing

As you can see it links to the Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Grim Dawn\database\records\game\balancingadjustment_mp+difficulty_enemies01 & players01 files under the player info and monster info tabs. The 3 part variable strings you see are for normal(veteran), elite and ultimate. When you open balancingadjustment_mp+difficulty files associated with monsters and players, you see below.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/180QyjYn19r6jraUyCkwkFUIlQthasXDS/view?usp=sharing

This is just the example of the player version. Here you see the arrays have 12 parts set to player# (P1-4) and difficult level (N,E,U). As you see, they are grouped as NP1, NP2, NP3, NP4, EP1, EP2, EP3, EP4, UP1, UP2, UP3, UP4.

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So to your answer, you would have to go into the balancingadjustment DBR files and manually adjust the setting for each and every parameter (offensive, retaliation, defensive, & charater) as Crate did initially. If it was a formula, it would be much easier.

FYI I can’t figure out why my images are not displaying on the post so I had to include URL links as well.:rolleyes: