Skipping difficulty selection in ZDoom

[Eric Vaughn]

I've defined my own skill setting in MAPINFO that I want the game to default to automatically. When the player selects new game, I want it to jump straight to the game instead of going to difficulty selection.

Is this possible?

[Gez]

Apparently no.
You can use noskillmenu but it'll automatically select skill 2.

I've suggested that it be skipped if only one skill is available.

[Eric Vaughn]

If I use noskillmenu then do you think it would be possible to override skill 2 with special difficulty parameters?

[Gez]

Gez said:

I've suggested that it be skipped if only one skill is available.

It's in. If you grab ZDoom r1278 or GZDoom r193 (or later versions), having only one skill defined (erase the other with the clearskills keyword), then you'll skip the difficulty selection screen. :)

Compiled versions aren't available yet at http://svn.drd-team.org/ but they should arrive quickly.

[Enjay]

I've just put r193 online and r1278 is uploading as we "speak". So give it a minute or so and you should be able to grab a copy. :)

[Eric Vaughn]

I figured it out without downloading a new build, you can just define the second skill level with "skill easy" in MAPINFO. I don't know if it will be necessary.