PC Question about game difficulty and co-op multiplayer

[edyonline]

My wife and I play on standard settings, but Horde night every 5th... I wanted every night but its a bit tough for her. Until we joined her brothers server, and he had everything on easy mode. Now she wants to start again with easier settings. It was fun rummaging to find bullets for her before the Horde, but playing the brothers server, it kinda felt like we were playing in creative mode.

Ive agreed to play with higher XP, but only because I want to try out new talent builds. Im thinking of a build inspired by the engineer in Team Fortress 2, with buffed turrets and healing to team members.. but after that I can see myself getting bored really quickly.

 

[Ghostlight]

btw....did you increase your zombie counts? THAT makes a difference at night. You actually feel like you have to sneak and use rocks as misdirection when there is a crowd wandering around in the dark.

I have tried this at last. I've put perception, or whatever it is to 200, raised the zombie number to 10 in all biomes, day and night, and set respawn to 0.1. It's better yes but still not quite there. They come very much in waves then when the immediate area is clear there tends to be a lull, which I dislike. Still not quite A15/A16. Will probably drop respawn further. I really want them almost constant and everywhere and always coming towards me, the way it feels in State of Decay. I am constantly on edge and tense in that game if outside the base, and at night....wow. Scary, wonderful game. Zombies always closing. No room to do anything.

 

[meganoth]

My wife and I play on standard settings, but Horde night every 5th... I wanted every night but its a bit tough for her. Until we joined her brothers server, and he had everything on easy mode. Now she wants to start again with easier settings. It was fun rummaging to find bullets for her before the Horde, but playing the brothers server, it kinda felt like we were playing in creative mode.
Ive agreed to play with higher XP, but only because I want to try out new talent builds. Im thinking of a build inspired by the engineer in Team Fortress 2, with buffed turrets and healing to team members.. but after that I can see myself getting bored really quickly.

Since you have your own server, you could do this: Ask your wife which attribute and weapons she wants to use. Agree with your brother to never use those weapons. Mod the server so that those weapons do 1.5 or 2 times as much damage. (You could also give this functionality to a weapon mod and just give her the mod. Then you don't need to agree which weapons to use)

And/or: Agree with your brother to never use the better armor mod (the one you put in armor and it gives +2 armor). Change that mod to give +3 armor (if she uses heavy armor) or even +4 or +5 (if she uses light armor), give her two such mods and one piece of armor as starting equipment.

Then you can play on higher difficulties.