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• chainsquaw at 2006-12-10 05:36
  Is there a method (or mod) available that can ramp up the difficulty in Duke 3d?
• TX at 2006-12-10 06:32

  Re: Make Duke Harder?

  Just open up USER.CON and start dicking with the strength values for the enemies or something.
• Maren at 2006-12-10 06:44
  Play in the hardest difficulty level and don't pick up any healing items.
• The-Ice-Man at 2006-12-10 06:46
  Well, if you don't think the highest skill setting is hard enough, you could open the user.con file and in there you can change both the weapon damage values for your weapons and the enemie's weapons, (ie make yours do less and there's do more), and you can change the amount of hit points each enemy has. Bare in mind though that the pigcops use shotguns and the lizards use chainguns so making them do more or less damage will effect your shotgun and chaingun as well as their's. For weapon strenghs look for:
  
  // Weapon Strengths
  define KNEE_WEAPON_STRENGTH                      10
  define PISTOL_WEAPON_STRENGTH                    6  // Adds rand()%5 (0 to 5)
  define HANDBOMB_WEAPON_STRENGTH          140
  
  // For direct hits with the rocket launcher,
  // this amount is actually doubled.  Otherwise,
  // damage values depend on distance. The
  // further, the weaker.
  
  define RPG_WEAPON_STRENGTH                      140
  
  define SHRINKER_WEAPON_STRENGTH                0
  define SHOTGUN_WEAPON_STRENGTH              10
  define CHAINGUN_WEAPON_STRENGTH              9
  define FREEZETHROWER_WEAPON_STRENGTH    20
  define COOL_EXPLOSION_STRENGTH                38
  define TRIPBOMB_STRENGTH                          100
  define FIRELASER_WEAPON_STRENGTH              7
  define MORTER_WEAPON_STRENGTH                50
  define BOUNCEMINE_WEAPON_STRENGTH        150
  define SPIT_WEAPON_STRENGTH                        8
  define BULLET_WEAPON_STRENGTH                  30
  
  For enemy hit points look for
  
  // Enemy strengths (hit points).
  
  define TROOPSTRENGTH                30
  define PIGCOPSTRENGTH            100
  define PIG_SHIELD_AMOUNT1        75
  define PIG_SHIELD_AMOUNT2        50
  define LIZSTRENGTH                    100
  define LIZGETTINGDAZEDAT          15
  define LIZEATINGPLAYER                -2
  define OCTASTRENGTH                175
  define OCTASCRATCHINGPLAYER  -11
  define RECONSTRENGTH                50
  define TURRETSTRENGTH                30
  define ROTTURRETSTRENGTH          40
  define DRONESTRENGTH                150
  define CAPTAINSTRENGTH              50
  define CAPTSPINNINGPLAYER        -11
  define COMMANDERSTRENGTH        350
  define SHARKSTRENGTH                  35
  define SHARKBITESTRENGTH            -9
  
  For boss hit points look for
  
  define BOSS1STRENGTH            4500
  define BOSS1PALSTRENGTH      1000
  define BOSS2STRENGTH            4500
  define BOSS3STRENGTH            4500
  
• chainsquaw at 2006-12-10 07:06
  Thanks all!
  Bumping up the enemies hit points sounds like a good idea.
  Only problem is I searched the JFDUKE3D folder and can't find the USER.CON file.
  
  Am I looking in the right place?
  
  
• TX at 2006-12-10 07:42
  You can either extract the CON files from DUKE3D.GRP, or copy them off of your Duke CD.
• chainsquaw at 2006-12-10 07:52
  That did the trick!
  Thanks