# Cataclysm's Current Level of Difficulty

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/cataclysms-current-level-of-difficulty/22806>\
**Category:** The Drawing Board\
**Created:** [February 23, 2020, 5:30am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/cataclysms-current-level-of-difficulty/22806 "2020-02-23T05:30:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Valiant](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/valiant/32/4788_2.png) [@Valiant](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Valiant)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2020, 3:01pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/cataclysms-current-level-of-difficulty/22806/8 "2020-02-26T15:01:35Z")

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> [@Toasters\_4Life](#):
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> Nearly always I start my world off by looking for a vehicle, driving to the nearest military zombie / crash site, driving over zombies, taking guns, looking for turrets, killing turrets, and then grinding for better gear.

Imagine yourself being not the two years player, but rather a total newbie playing the game for the first time. You don’t know all the tips and tricks you know now. You don’t know the “optimal” way to survive and level up your character.

Imagine those “extremely difficult” settings you’re talking about are set by default. You start the game… and die during the first 5 minutes.  
You start again, you manage to survive for 10 minutes, but in the end you die nevertheless.  
You swear quietly, but decide to give the game another chance. You start once again and manage to survive the 15 minutes, but still die.  
You might not even want to know there are many options to lower the difficulty to make it more playable for you.

What chance for you _not_ to rage quit, delete the game and never come back to it again?

The problem is the game is too easy for an **experienced** player. Making the game harder (to satisfy veteran players) could push newbies away from the game.

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