Abiotic Factor Difficulty & Enemy Settings

How to change difficulty level, enemy spawn rate, health, damage, detection, and accuracy on your Abiotic Factor server.

Abiotic Factor has 3 difficulty presets plus fine-grained enemy tuning.

Difficulty Presets

In SandboxSettings.ini:

GameDifficulty=1

Value	Name	Description
1	Normal	Standard enemy count, aggression, and combat speed
2	Hard	More enemies, faster aggression, quicker reactions
3	Apocalyptic	Maximum enemies, highest aggression and speed

HardcoreMode=True

One life only — permadeath. Automatically forces Apocalyptic difficulty.

These work independently of GameDifficulty:

Setting	Default	Range	Description
`EnemySpawnRate`	`1.0`	0.5–3.0	Enemy respawn frequency
`EnemyHealthMultiplier`	`1.0`	0.75–3.0	Enemy HP
`EnemyPlayerDamageMultiplier`	`1.0`	0.25–3.0	Damage enemies deal to players
`EnemyDeployableDamageMultiplier`	`1.0`	0.1–5.0	Damage enemies deal to structures
`DetectionSpeedMultiplier`	`1.0`	0.1–3.0	How fast enemies spot you
`EnemyAccuracy`	`2`	0–4	0=Pathetic, 1=Low, 2=Default, 3=High, 4=Precise

GameDifficulty=1
EnemySpawnRate=0.5
EnemyHealthMultiplier=0.75
EnemyPlayerDamageMultiplier=0.5
DetectionSpeedMultiplier=0.5
EnemyAccuracy=1

GameDifficulty=3
EnemySpawnRate=3.0
EnemyHealthMultiplier=3.0
EnemyPlayerDamageMultiplier=2.0
DetectionSpeedMultiplier=3.0
EnemyAccuracy=4

💡 Tip: You can set GameDifficulty=1 (Normal) but crank up individual enemy settings for a custom challenge.