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Hazard Levels

Hazard levels, along with player count, determine the amount of enemies present in a mission and during swarms, as well as an increase to the amount of damage they can absorb and the amount of damage they deal to players. Hazard Levels contribute to a Hazard Bonus, which determines the rewards at the end of the mission.

Normal Scaling

Depending on the selected Hazard level and the amount of players in a game, the difficulty is dynamically adjusted through several factors:

• Increased Hazard Level increases enemy, environmental and friendly fire damage, as well as decreasing available health after being revived by other players. (Health gained when being revived by Bosco does not change with Hazard level.)
• Increased player count increases enemy damage even further, as well as increasing the damage resistance of some enemies.
• Additionally, Hazard 5 reduces the maximum health the player will regenerate to, from 15% to 10%.
• The Hazard Level will also affect wave modifiers, such as "time until the next wave" and enemy composition.
• Increased Hazard level affects the number of enemies that are initially present during a mission, as well as the number of enemies that spawn in waves or Swarms.
  • However, this is not the same as the number of enemies allowed to exist simultaneously, which only increases with the Hazard 5+ More Enemies modifier.

Below is a table listing several modifiers for each Hazard Level ( x / x / x / x denotes the amount of players in the game).

1 Player (Solo) / 2 Players / 3 Players / 4 Players
Hazard Icon	Hazard Level	Hazard Bonus	Enemy Damage	Enemy Attack Rate	Enemy Projectile Speed	Enemy Movement Speed	Friendly Fire	Environmental Damage	Revive Health	Max Health Regeneration	Point Extraction Scaler
	1 — Low Risk	+25%	0.50 / 0.50 / 0.50 / 0.50	0.80	1.00	0.80	0.10	0.75	0.60	0.15	0.70
	2 — Challenging	+50%	0.70 / 0.80 / 0.90 / 1.00	0.90	1.00	0.90	0.20	1.00	0.50	0.15	0.80
	3 — Dangerous	+75%	1.20 / 1.30 / 1.40 / 1.50	1.00	1.00	1.00	0.30	1.00	0.40	0.15	0.90
	4 — Extreme	+100%	2.00 / 2.15 / 2.30 / 2.50	1.25	1.30	1.00	0.40	1.33	0.20	0.15	1.00
	5 — Lethal	+133%	2.80 / 3.00 / 3.20 / 3.40	1.50	1.70	1.15	0.70	2.00	0.10	0.10	1.10

Resistance Scaling

Shown below is a table of multipliers for enemy count and enemy damage resistances. There are affected by the amount of players and the Hazard level. The enemy damage resistance is a modifier to all damage taken by enemies.

Damage dealt to enemy = Base Damage / Enemy Damage Resistance.

Effective enemy health = Base Health x Enemy Damage Resistance.

Damage resistances depend on the category of each enemy creature:

• The following are neutral creatures and don't scale at all: Loot Bug, Golden Loot Bug, Maggot, Silicate Harvester, Cave Vine & Naedocyte Cave Cruiser
• The following are normal enemies: Glyphid Spawn, Glyphid Swarmer (Frost Glyphid Swarmer, Radioactive Glyphid Swarmer), Glyphid Grunt (Frost Glyphid Grunt, Radioactive Glyphid Grunt), Glyphid Grunt Slasher (Frost Glyphid Grunt Slasher, Radioactive Glyphid Grunt Slasher), Glyphid Grunt Guard (Frost Glyphid Grunt Guard, Radioactive Glyphid Grunt Guard), Glyphid Exploder (Radioactive Glyphid Exploder), Glyphid Web Spitter. Glyphid Acid Spitter, Carnivorous Larva, Nayaka Trawler, Mactera Spawn, Mactera Tri-Jaw, Mactera Brundle, Naedocyte Shocker, Naedocyte Hatchling, Naedocyte Roe, Cave Leech, Deeptora Honeycomb & Fester Flea.
• The following are large enemies: Glyphid Praetorian (Glyphid Frost Praetorian, Radioactive Glyphid Praetorian), Glyphid Warden, Glyphid Oppressor, Glyphid Bulk Detonator (Glyphid Crassus Detonator), Glyphid Menace, Q'ronar Youngling, Q'ronar Shellback, Korlok Sprout, Korlok Healing Pod, Mactera Grabber, Mactera Goo Bomber (Mactera Frost Bomber), Naedocyte Breeder, Glyphid Brood Nexus, Spitball Infector & Huuli Hoarder.
• The following are extra large enemies: Dreadnought, BET-C (Xynarch Charge-Sucker).
• The following are extra large 2 enemies: Korlok Tyrant-Weed.
• The following are elite enemies: Elite variants of Glyphid Grunt Guard, Glyphid Grunt Slasher, Glyphid Praetorian, Glyphid Acid Spitter, Glyphid Menace, Mactera Spawn, Mactera Brundle, Mactera Tri-Jaw, Mactera Grabber & Glyphid Bulk Detonator.

1 Player (Solo) / 2 Players / 3 Players / 4 Players
Hazard Level	Enemy Count	Normal Enemy Resistance	Large Enemy Resistance	Extra Large Enemy Resistance	Extra Large 2 Enemy Resistance	Elite Enemy Resistance
1 — Low Risk	0.15 / 0.25 / 0.45 / 0.65	0.70	0.45 / 0.55 / 0.70 / 0.85	0.20 / 0.40 / 0.60 / 0.80	0.20 / 0.40 / 0.60 / 0.80	0.60 / 0.75 / 0.85 / 1.10
2 — Challenging	0.25 / 0.35 / 0.65 / 0.80	1.00	0.65 / 0.75 / 0.90 / 1.00	0.30 / 0.40 / 0.70 / 1.00	0.30 / 0.40 / 0.70 / 1.00	0.90 / 1.10 / 1.10 / 1.30
3 — Dangerous	0.50 / 0.50 / 0.80 / 1.10	1.10	0.80 / 0.90 / 1.00 / 1.10	0.50 / 0.55 / 0.90 / 1.20	0.50 / 0.50 / 0.90 / 1.10	0.90 / 1.10 / 1.30 / 1.30
4 — Extreme	0.75 / 0.75 / 1.15 / 1.35	1.20	1.00 / 1.00 / 1.20 / 1.30	0.70 / 0.75 / 1.00 / 1.60	0.70 / 0.70 / 1.00 / 1.30	1.10 / 1.10 / 1.30 / 1.50
5 — Lethal	0.85 / 0.85 / 1.25 / 1.50	1.20	1.20 / 1.20 / 1.40 / 1.50	0.75 / 0.80 / 1.20 / 1.70	0.70 / 0.70 / 1.00 / 1.30	1.30 / 1.30 / 1.50 / 1.65
— Tough Enemies 1	0.85 / 0.85 / 1.25 / 1.50	1.20	1.80 / 1.80 / 2.10 / 2.25	1.125 / 1.20 / 1.80 / 2.55	1.05 / 1.05 / 1.50 / 1.95	1.95 / 1.95 / 2.25 / 2.475
— Tough Enemies 2	0.85 / 0.85 / 1.25 / 1.50	1.596	2.10 / 2.10 / 2.45 / 2.625	1.3125 / 1.49 / 2.10 / 2.975	1.225 / 1.225 / 1.75 / 2.275	2.275 / 2.275 / 2.625 / 2.8875

There is only a small increase of enemy spawns between Solo and 2 Player to compensate for the loss of Bosco.

Hazard 5+ modifiers

The stats listed here for Hazard 5+ modifiers are relative to Hazard 5, not relative to the base values. For example, Aggressive Enemies level 1 adds x1.1 Enemy Projectile Speed on top of the x1.7 of Hazard 5, resulting in a total of x1.87 relative to base.

Aggressive Enemies	Enemy Attack Rate	Enemy Movement Speed	Enemy Projectile Speed
	x1.33	x1.23	x1.1
	x2	x1.32	x1.2

More Enemies	Enemy Count	Max Active Enemies	Max Active Swarmers	Special enemy pool	Disruptive enemy pool	Veteran Chance
	x1.2	x1.2	x1.2	-	+1	-
	x1.5	x1.5	x1.5	+1	+2	x1.15

Player Vulnerability	Enemy Damage	Friendly Fire	Environmental Damage
	x1.5	x1.43	x1.25
	x2	x2.14	x1.5

Tough Enemies	Normal Enemy Resistance	Large / Extra Large / Extra Large 2 / Elite Enemy Resistance
	-	x1.5
	x1.33	x1.75

Deep Dive Scaling

Deep Dives include three additional Hazard difficulties custom-tailored for Deep Dives.

The numbers 3.5, 4.5 and 5.5 are loose shorthands meant to give a general idea of where the difficulties are relative to the options for regular missions. They are not "real" difficulties in the sense that the developers at GSG do not refer to them by those numbers internally.

1 Player (Solo) / 2 Players / 3 Players / 4 Players
Hazard Icon	Hazard Level	Enemy Damage	Enemy Attack Rate	Enemy Projectile Speed	Enemy Movement Speed	Friendly Fire	Environmental Damage	Revive Health	Max Health Regeneration	Point Extraction Scaler
	3.5 — DD Hazard	1.50 / 1.60 / 1.70 / 1.80	1.15	1.15	1.00	0.30	1.15	0.40	0.15	0.95
	4.5 — DD Hazard	2.30 / 2.45 / 2.60 / 2.80	1.35	1.50	1.10	0.55	1.66	0.20	0.15	1.05
	5.5 — DD Hazard	3.00 / 3.20 / 3.40 / 3.60	1.50	1.70	1.20	0.70	2.20	0.10	0.10	1.15

Deep Dive Resistance Scaling

1 Player (Solo) / 2 Players / 3 Players / 4 Players
Hazard Level	Enemy Count	Normal Enemy Resistance	Large Enemy Resistance	Extra Large Enemy Resistance	Extra Large 2 Enemy Resistance	Elite Enemy Resistance
3.5 — DD Hazard	0.60 / 0.60 / 0.90 / 1.20	1.10	0.85 / 0.95 / 1.10 / 1.20	0.60 / 0.65 / 0.95 / 1.40	0.60 / 0.60 / 1.00 / 1.20	0.95 / 1.15 / 1.35 / 1.35
4.5 — DD Hazard	0.80 / 0.80 / 1.20 / 1.40	1.20	1.10 / 1.10 / 1.30 / 1.40	0.70 / 0.75 / 1.10 / 1.60	0.70 / 0.70 / 1.10 / 1.30	1.15 / 1.15 / 1.35 / 1.55
5.5 — DD Hazard	0.85 / 0.85 / 1.25 / 1.50	1.20	1.30 / 1.30 / 1.50 / 1.60	0.75 / 0.80 / 1.20 / 1.70	0.70 / 0.70 / 1.10 / 1.30	1.35 / 1.35 / 1.55 / 1.70

See Also

• Creatures
• Hazard Bonus