Nightmare mode is the mode that was added along with The Following . When a player activates Nightmare, unlimited fighting stamina is disabled and enemies are tougher. More Virals and Volatiles will attack if noise is made. Furthermore, weapons and other tools will break down faster. If Crane is killed, all legend points are lost. But the upside is that legend point gain is significantly increased. Night time is especially dangerous, only for the most serious players!
Nightmare Mode Difficulty Changes
- A new melee weapon rarity is available to be found on Nightmare mode, you have 1/100 chance of finding Gold Tier weapons from Hard chests or Police Vans.
- Unlike Hard mode where you lose 25% Legend experience upon death, on Nightmare mode you'll be losing 100% instead.
- Enemies receive even greater health and damage.
- Easter eggs can't be used on Nightmare mode, although EXPcalibur still seems to be still usable.
- You no longer have infinite stamina on Nightmare mode.
- You receive 10% experience buff per player in Co-Op.
Experience
- All experience on Hard mode is increased by 10x which is 20x at the night time. You lose 100% of your total experience in Legend skill-tree towards next rank upon death.
- When you die, you can only lose experience towards the next rank, not the rank itself. So if you die with 0 experience, you'll lose nothing.
- Note: To players who like to play more recklessly and thus risk dying a lot, but don't want to lose their experience, it's adviced that they avoid delivering DROPs to Quartermaster until they have enough packages to pass the next rank, it's most safe and efficient way of progressing your Survivor and Legend skill-trees.
- After Survivor skill-tree is maxed out, the Legend experience you receive from delivering DROPs to Quartermaster is greatly increased on Nightmare mode, even if the DROPs were obtained on Normal or Hard mode.
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