Posted October 05, 2018
I've been playing through the game using the default game settings (didn't even touch them, actually), getting as far as Palawan Lagoon, only to just now realize that my Indy Quotient or IQ score in the Game Statistics menu had been inexplicably lowered due to 'Difficulty Penalties'.
What's even weirder is the inconsistent manner in which these penalties have been doled out: I received a penalty of 4 for Chapter 1 (Canyonlands), 20 for Chapters 2-4, and 6 for Chapter 5 (Palawan Lagoon). Once again, I don't seem to remember ever having fiddled around with the Game Settings menu (or even having opened it, for that matter).
I'm not entirely sure what could have caused this. I remember that I initially changed the resolution from the default to 1920x1080 (16:9) and then to 1280x1024 (4:3) because the game clearly wasn't designed for a widescreen aspect ratio. I've also been exploiting the Quicksave function pretty heavily, which might have something to do with it. Finally, I've also been frequently alt-tabbing away from the game executable to skim through a walkthrough in order find every treasure. I don't see how any of these actions could possibly effect the game in the manner I just described, but at this point I'm stuck for answers, so I figured I'd mention them in the hopes of finding a solution.
I probably should have noticed something was awry once I'd finished the first chapter with a less than perfect score, but it was late at night and I was tired, so whatever.
FYI, I've been playing the game via the GOG Galaxy client on a laptop running Windows 8.1 (64-bit).
What's even weirder is the inconsistent manner in which these penalties have been doled out: I received a penalty of 4 for Chapter 1 (Canyonlands), 20 for Chapters 2-4, and 6 for Chapter 5 (Palawan Lagoon). Once again, I don't seem to remember ever having fiddled around with the Game Settings menu (or even having opened it, for that matter).
I'm not entirely sure what could have caused this. I remember that I initially changed the resolution from the default to 1920x1080 (16:9) and then to 1280x1024 (4:3) because the game clearly wasn't designed for a widescreen aspect ratio. I've also been exploiting the Quicksave function pretty heavily, which might have something to do with it. Finally, I've also been frequently alt-tabbing away from the game executable to skim through a walkthrough in order find every treasure. I don't see how any of these actions could possibly effect the game in the manner I just described, but at this point I'm stuck for answers, so I figured I'd mention them in the hopes of finding a solution.
I probably should have noticed something was awry once I'd finished the first chapter with a less than perfect score, but it was late at night and I was tired, so whatever.
FYI, I've been playing the game via the GOG Galaxy client on a laptop running Windows 8.1 (64-bit).
