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Hard Difficulties [OBSOLETE]
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Hard Difficulties [OBSOLETE]

Description
Simple mod that adds three new difficulties to the game: Hard, Very Hard and Extreme. Disables achievements.

Hard:
  • Health: -0.25 (minor penalty)
  • General Opinion: -5
  • Vassal Opinion: -5
  • Marriage Acceptance: -10
  • Stress Gain: +10%
  • Men-at-arms Maintenance: +10%
  • Hostile Scheme Chance: -5%
  • Court Grandeur: -4
AI:
  • Boldness: Small bonus (equivalent to Impatient or Gregarious)
  • War Chance: Small increase (equivalent to Wrathful or Irritable)
  • War Cooldown: Small decrease
  • Men-at-Arms Recruitment Cost: -30%
  • Men-at-Arms Maintenance: -10%
  • Direct Vassal Opinion: +5
  • Same Culture Opinion: +5

Very Hard:
  • Health: -0.4 (minor penalty)
  • General Opinion: -10
  • Marriage Acceptance: -20
  • Tyranny Decay: -28%
  • Short Reign Duration: +10%
  • Tax From Vassals: -10%
  • Levies From Vassals: -10%
  • Stress Gain: +20%
  • Men-at-arms Maintenance: +20%
  • Size of Men-at-Arms Regiments: -1
  • Mercenary Hire Cost: +20%
  • Domain Limit: -1
  • Personal Scheme Chance: -10% (except Learn Language)
  • Hostile Scheme Chance: -10%
  • Court Grandeur: -10
AI:
  • Boldness: Medium bonus (equivalent to Diligent or Wrathful)
  • War Chance: Medium increase (equivalent to Greedy)
  • War Cooldown: Medium decrease (equivalent to Ambitious or Irritable)
  • Men-at-Arms Recruitment Cost: -50%
  • Men-at-Arms Maintenance: -20%
  • Levy Size: +10%
  • Monthly Income: +10%
  • Direct Vassal Opinion: +5
  • Same Culture Opinion: +5
  • Same Faith Opinion: +5


Extreme:
  • Health: -0.8 (major penalty)
  • General Opinion: -10
  • Marriage Acceptance: -30
  • Vassal Opinion: -10
  • Tyranny Gain: +25%
  • Tyranny Decay: -28%
  • Dread Gain: -25%
  • Short Reign Duration: +20%
  • Tax From Vassals: -20%
  • Levies From Vassals: -20%
  • Levy Size: -20%
  • Stress Gain: +20%
  • Stress Loss: -10%
  • Men-at-arms Maintenance: +20%
  • Number of Men-at-Arms Regiments: -1
  • Size of Men-at-Arms Regiments: -1
  • Army Maintenance: +10%
  • Mercenary Hire Cost: +40%
  • Domain Limit: -2
  • Monthly Income: -10%
  • Monthly Prestige: -10%
  • Monthly Piety: -10%
  • Personal Scheme Chance: -10% (except Learn Language)
  • Hostile Scheme Chance: -10%
  • Court Grandeur: -10
AI: Same as Very Hard

Notes:
  • Boldness is an AI personality modifier that affects (among others) how likely it is to be cowed by Dread, and how likely they are to enter factions.
  • War Chance and Cooldown affect AI willingness to start wars, and how often they will consider doing so. These modifiers should both make the AI declare more wars on the player and grow faster when they have the means to.



Guide to making a personal version:
  1. Open the CK3 launcher, click "All installed mods" on the left, then "Mod Tools" in the top right. Click "create mod", choose a name, put anything for version, and choose a folder name.
  2. Go to "Documents\Paradox Interactive\Crusader Kings III\mod".
  3. Go through each ".mod" file (just open them in a notepad) until you find the one that says name="Hard Difficulties".
  4. Go to the address in that file, next to the 'path='. It will look something like "...\steamapps\workshop\content\<number>\<number>".
  5. Copy everything in that folder, except the ".mod" file.
  6. Go back to the 'mod' folder from 2) and into the folder with the name you chose in step 1), then paste.
  7. From there you can open "common\modifiers\hard_difficulties_modifiers.txt" and tweak all the modifiers in any way you want! Remember to disable this mod in "playsets" in the launcher so it doesn't conflict with the new one you made.
72 Comments
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Swend  [author] 22 May @ 7:12am 
Obsolete for now, with the introduction of difficulty in the base game. I may update with higher difficulty if I find the new stuff to be too lenient.
IceeManny 4 May @ 1:25pm 
Hello, I was wondering if this mod still works.:steammocking:
Swend  [author] 1 Feb @ 5:26am 
@TheMuyu you have to start a new game, since the difficulty is chosen along with the other game options at the start.
TheMuyu 1 Feb @ 3:28am 
Is this usable on current save or has to be start new game?
Swend  [author] 1 Dec, 2024 @ 7:58am 
Oh alright. Well, you're best shot at compatibility is probably to remove the more minor stuff from this mod in common: 'character_interactions', 'schemes' and/or 'traits'. The other files are just additive. Good luck (:
TomTheMedic 1 Dec, 2024 @ 7:19am 
Sorry, should have mentioned, I'm on the ATE dev team so I'm using the unreleased updated version of the mod (which is making good progress on public release)
Swend  [author] 1 Dec, 2024 @ 1:45am 
@TomTheMedic After The End hasn't been updated for 1.13 or 1.14 yet. If you are rolling back to 1.12 this mod probably won't function.
TomTheMedic 30 Nov, 2024 @ 11:34pm 
I am having an issue where, besides domain limit modifiers, none of the difficulty modifiers are applying to my game. Additionally, I am unable to select the Extreme difficulty from the regular menu, and I can only select it if I use an old save of my gamerules settings, although the effects no longer apply. I do play with other mods, namely After the End, but I have been using your mod for about a year now with no major issues, until just recently. I'm not sure what the problem might be, even after digging around in the code, so I wanted to ask for your help and see if you might have any insight on what I might need to do in order to play your mod again. Thank you.
Swend  [author] 30 Oct, 2024 @ 2:24am 
@luqfire2016 I don't get that problem on my end. It could be a mod compatibility issue, but honestly I don't know how that would happen in that specific way. You could try starting a new game with only this mod enabled, and see if the same thing happen.
luqfire2016 29 Oct, 2024 @ 4:23pm 
Did you get rid of the health debuff? It's not showing up in the difficulty modifiers or when I hover over the health icon. Might be an error on my end, but it was my favorite feature from the mod