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The Difficulty of a timeline is a property that affects the degree of challenge and the final score of a run in Into the Breach. Into the Breach has four difficulties: Easy, Normal, Hard and Unfair.
Difficulty Effects[ | ]
Easy[ | ]
- Each region has a maximum of 500 civilians and the highest score for an island is 2,500. A perfect four-island run will have a score of 10,000.
- No alpha Vek will spawn outside of three-objective missions on the first and second island.
- The Bot Leader does not appear.
- Less Vek will spawn across all missions.
- Islands cannot have more than one type of rare Vek.
Normal[ | ]
- Each region has a maximum of 1,000 civilians and the highest score for an island is 5,000. A perfect four-island run will have a score of 20,000.
- Alpha Vek will appear outside of three-objective missions starting from the second island.
- The Bot Leader will appear.
- The normal amount of Vek will spawn.
- The fourth island has two types of rare Vek.
Hard[ | ]
- Each region has a maximum of 1,500 civilians and the highest score for an island is 7,500. A perfect four-island run will have a score of 30,000.
- Alpha Vek will appear more often and can be encountered on any mission starting from the first island.
- The third and fourth islands have two types of rare Vek.
- A Boss Vek will appear on the first phase of the Volcanic Hive.
Unfair[ | ]
- Introduced in Advanced Edition.
- All grid health earned is doubled.
- Grid defense starts at zero.
- Each region has a maximum of 2,000 civilians and the highest score for an island is 10,000. A perfect four-island run will have a score of 40,000.
- More Vek will spawn than on Hard.
- Alpha Vek frequency further increases.
- On the fourth island, a Vek Leader will appear in every regular mission, replacing one of the possible enemies that has a Boss variant (except the Spider Leader and the islands Psion). The HQ mission on the 4th island will also have two bosses to fight.
- During 3 or 4 Island playthroughs, the Volcanic Hive now has two bosses in each phase. The rules are similar to the previous point.