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    Main missions - Can't select lowest difficulty

    Hi there,

    I play on challenging difficulty with few directive, but i cant select hard difficulty to do daily missions (seams that doing it on higher difficulty doesnt give daily missions) reward.. but i can select story difficulty (and obviously higher difficulty)... do i have to switch global difficulty every time i want to to daily missions ?... or wtf ?
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    xcel30's Avatar Senior Member
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    Yeap, bit of a weird one, probably because of the bugs with drops that caused before
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    Sircowdog1's Avatar Senior Member
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    Nope, that's how it's always been. You can never pick a difficulty for a mission that's lower than your world setting. It's dumb as hell, IMO, but probably has something to do with the underlying program design of how difficulty is set, since many mission entrances are seamless from the open world.

    Why you can choose story difficulty though....I have no idea. Maybe they set it up that way from the beginning and just never went back to update it.
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    This is still a thing? Challenging doesn't count on hard missions? lol
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    Zathras23's Avatar Senior Member
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    Originally Posted by mckrackin5324 Go to original post
    This is still a thing? Challenging doesn't count on hard missions? lol
    Usually it's do the mission at a specific difficulty or higher. Doing those on a higher difficulty will count. The only time I've seen where you have to do a mission at a specific difficulty are the timed missions for global events and those have the difficulty required open no matter what your global difficulty is set at.
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    Originally Posted by Sircowdog1 Go to original post
    Why you can choose story difficulty though....I have no idea. Maybe they set it up that way from the beginning and just never went back to update it.
    Probably because story mode is hard scripted with no variation in number of enemies spawn locations etc so its not affected in any way by difficulty algorithms. Where all the other modes are.
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