To adjust your Remnant 2 difficulty, you've got to start your campaign over with a new character or by rerolling to regenerate the worlds. Unfortunately, there’s no way to change your campaign's difficulty mid-run, so you’ve go to choose the right difficulty for you out of the three difficulty levels available to you when creating your first character. With this in mind, I’ve laid out everything to do with the Remnant 2 difficult levels and how to change them by rerolling your campaign.
All Remnant 2 difficulty levels
Remnant 2 features four difficulty levels, although one is unlocked after completing the campaign. Since you can’t change your difficulty, choose a lower difficulty to get a feel for the game, then consider a campaign reroll shortly after starting Remnant 2 if you find things far too easy. Here are the four difficulty options you can choose from in Remnant 2:
- Survivor: The "easiest" difficulty for Remnant 2 but by no means easy. This is the baseline for Remnant 2 and is a good starting point for any player and is still challenging, especially at certain bosses.
- Veteran: Enemies are tougher and deadlier. If you’re up for a greater test of your skills, choose this mode.
- Nightmare: While you can choose this mode when starting a new character, it's not recommended as Nightmare is very tough and is intended for geared-up players with good builds. Save this for a campaign reroll.
- Apocalypse: This mode is not available from the start but is unlocked once you’ve completed the campaign once. Its description says only, “good luck”, so expect this to be pure pain.
Higher difficulties also offer better XP rewards for your efforts, so you should aim to increase your difficulty gradually with rerolls. Furthermore, when creating a character, you can also activate Hardcore Mode which adds perma-death to your character. If they die at any point, they're gone for good and no Worldstone is bringing them back.
How to reroll your campaign in Remnant 2
The closest Remnant 2 comes to allowing you to change the difficulty is through the campaign reroll system. If you choose to re-roll your campaign you’ll effectively start over, allowing you to choose a new difficulty level and experience a newly generated campaign, so it should be quite different to what you were doing before. However, your character retains all their gear and it allows them to get previously inaccessible gear to unlock new Remnant 2 Archetypes. Here’s exactly how you reroll your Remnant 2 campaign:
- After completing the tutorial, teleport back to Ward 13 using a checkpoint.
- Interact with the Worldstone in the middle of Ward and select the ‘World Settings’ option. This’ll show you your currently active campaign.
- Select the 'Reroll Campaign' button below and you’ll now be able to choose the difficulty for your newly generated campaign. You can still back out at this stage, so press B/Circle to close the menu if you decide you don’t want to reroll.
There appears to be no penalty or limit for rerolling your campaign, so you can keep doing it until you get the right difficulty for you or the right campaign areas and quests.
Do note that once you’ve completed a biome by defeating its boss, you can begin an Adventure there to farm for loot and roll new areas that you didn't go through in your campaign. These are accessed under the same 'World Settings' menu as rerolls. You also get to choose the difficulty of the Adventure as it's separate from your campaign, making Adventures great for trying out higher difficulty levels before rerolling a campaign and for playing Remnant 2 multiplayer.
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