How do I "tune" game difficulty, postpone 1st alien attacks?
Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2014 1:44 am
The game seems to lack a genuine difficulty setting slider. I can control the size of alien Nests, and how common they are, and how strong they are, but as for alien attacks, I can either have them enabled or disabled, as a binary thing. If disabled, they won't happen until I start attacking their nests. If enabled, they'll always start occuring after the same amount of total elapsed time, maybe 90 minutes or so.
Is there a way for me to postpone the alien attacks, so that they start occuring, say, 50% later than normal, but still start occuring on their own, without me having to go and trigger the waves by attacking a Nest? I find that they come too early relative to when I'm able to build and set up a quantity of Turrets, and if they can be delayed a bit, without the first attacks then being more intense than they are now, that'd make the game a lot more fun for me.
So I guess I'm looking at some way to tweak the speed at which this "Evolution" thing escalates. How do I do that? Is there a good, stable, popular and well-tested mod for it? Or a concole command? I suppose if Evolution starts at 0.0 and goes up by 1 per minute, and the aliens start attacking at evolution 100, then if I tweak the starting value for Evolution to become -50 then I'd be where I want to be.
Is there a way for me to postpone the alien attacks, so that they start occuring, say, 50% later than normal, but still start occuring on their own, without me having to go and trigger the waves by attacking a Nest? I find that they come too early relative to when I'm able to build and set up a quantity of Turrets, and if they can be delayed a bit, without the first attacks then being more intense than they are now, that'd make the game a lot more fun for me.
So I guess I'm looking at some way to tweak the speed at which this "Evolution" thing escalates. How do I do that? Is there a good, stable, popular and well-tested mod for it? Or a concole command? I suppose if Evolution starts at 0.0 and goes up by 1 per minute, and the aliens start attacking at evolution 100, then if I tweak the starting value for Evolution to become -50 then I'd be where I want to be.