Pacific Drive: How to Use Easy Mode Tweaks?

Pacific Drive is precisely as easy or difficult as you want the game to be. Unlike the vast majority of modern survival games, which thrive on hardcore gameplay systems and difficult situations, Pacific Drive is perfectly content with letting you do whatever you want, and making the experience as simple as you want it to be. This is all accomplished through the game's extremely in-depth difficulty customization system, which we'll call 'Easy Mode' for the purposes of this guide!

So, if the idea that Pacific Drive is extremely hardcore put you off, there's nothing to really worry about: down below, we've explained each and every one of the game's many difficulty tweaks, and we believe there's something for everyone to be found here!

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How to turn on Easy Mode in Pacific Drive?

All of the options outlined below can be found in Pacific Drive's 'Settings' menu, found in the pause UI. Once you open the menu up, the very first tab that appears is 'Accessibility' which is bound to very useful for sight and hearing-impaired gamers. The more broadly interesting options are found in the 'Gameplay' tab to the right, however, and that's where you'll find all the Easy Mode tweaks.

No dawdling, then. Here's the full and comprehensive list of all of Pacific Drive's Easy Mode difficulty tweaks, alongside an explanation of what they do in practice:

• Pause Game While in Menus: simple, self-explanatory, useful.
• Semi-Invulnerable While in Menus: reduces damage taken while you've got your UI opened up.
• Failed Run Penatly: what happens when you mess up a run?
• Faster Nights: self-explanatory.
• Car Damage: self-explanatory.
• Player Damage: self-explanatory.
• Ambient Damage: does radiation cause you damage, or is it a mere annoyance?
• Player Death: turning it off makes you effectively invulnerable.

Under these options, you'll find a few tweaks that aren't necessarily making the game easier, just offer slight changes to the core gameplay loop. We'll skip those and move on to Easy Mode modifiers, instead:

• Resource Replenishment: tops up your fuel, battery, and health whenever you reach the Garage.
• Successful Run Free Repair: fully repairs your jalopy whenever you reach the Garage.
• Infinite Fuel: self-explanatory.
• Persistent Fuel Can: permanently adds a fuel can to your inventory.
• Harmful Status Effects: toggles whether your car is susceptible to, say, electric damage.
• Car Quirks: do they develop? How often?
• Free Quirk Hints: how many do you get?
• Disable Instability Storms: removes storms that manifest whenever you're in one location for too long.
• Disable Gateway Storms: removes storms that manifest when you open a gateway.

Combine this with the absolute glut of other gameplay options on offer, and you've got an incredibly customizable survival game that's perfect for any player.

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