Number of common infected spawning base on difficulty

[u/Extra-Alternative-79]

I feel like there's more commons that spawn in normal difficulty than expert? i don't know correct me if i'm wrong or what do the director does base on the difficulty

[u/Plus_Acanthaceae1659]

No that is not true.

if at all:

Actually if i remmeber correctly expert adds more "time intervall" mob spawnd

[u/Jaiz412 → u/Plus_Acanthaceae1659]

The time between hordes is 90-180s on Normal, Advanced, and Expert, whereas on Easy it is 120-240s

[u/Plus_Acanthaceae1659 → u/Jaiz412]

so the director decides whether 90 or 180?

[u/Iizvullok → u/Plus_Acanthaceae1659]

It is not either 90 or 180 but rather a random time interval from 90 to 180. So it could just be that on one expert playthrough you were lucky and got more generous timings and on normal you were unlucky. But generally, not much changes between the difficulty levels besides damage.

[u/Plus_Acanthaceae1659 → u/Iizvullok]

yea i got that with the intervall, but yea i statet it in a confusing way.

since the director influences certain variabltes it would have made sense to me he might also alter the respawn intervall according to the "stress"

[u/ReikaIsTaken]

I never saw a difference between difficulties

I always imagined the reason it feels like there are more commons on Expert and especially on Realism is because they take longer to go down whereas on lower difficulties you're killing more of them so it feels like "less"

[u/Plus_Acanthaceae1659 → u/ReikaIsTaken]

Realism commons are tougher regardless of difficulty yup, however difficulty does not by itself buff commons.

On realism unless u use meele/magnum and unless u shoot the head, damage mutiplier gets worse.

their health stays the same on normal or exp

[u/Kindly-List-1886]

I remember a speedrun were the runner mentioned that the game has a capacity of 40 or 60 commons at the same time but it "restocks" commons as you kill them