In Nolvus Awakening, you can select between 4 difficulty presets during installation with the Dashboard.

• Milk Drinker (Very Easy)
• Hack & Slash (Easy)
• True Nord (Medium)
• Prepare to Die (Hard)

These 4 presets comes with a different setting for

• Enemy Scaling (scaling will be explained in the next section)
• Max level an enemy can reach
• Exhaustion System
• Power Attack Nerfing
• Bosses Encounters

Milk Drinker

This is the very easy preset. in this preset the scaling is the same than the Hack and slash preset but some enemy difficulty mods have been removed

• Fanatical Enemies (common enemies difficulty)
• The restless Dead (draugr difficulty)
• Better Vampire NPCs (vampires difficulty)
• Lawless bBandits difficulty)
• Madmen (forsworn difficulty)

Enemy can level up till level 50

With this preset, the enemies can't use modded spells and perks added by the mod list, dungeons are less populated with enemies as well.

Exhaustion is disabled by default and the power attack, dual wield attacks and dual wield power attacks damages are reduced by 30% for NPC's only.

Bosses encounter is disabled and can't be activated.

Hack & Slash

This is the easy preset. In this preset the enemy difficulty mods mentionned above are not removed.

Enemy can level up till level 50

With this preset, the enemies can use modded spells and perks added by the mod list, dungeons are more populated with enemies as well.

Exhaustion is disabled by default and the power attack, dual wield attacks and dual wield power attacks damages are reduced by 30% for NPC's only.

Bosses encounter is disabled by default but can be enabled.

True Nord

This is the medium preset. In this preset the enemy difficulty mods mentionned above are not removed.

Enemy can level up till level 75

With this preset, the enemies can use modded spells and perks added by the mod list with a higher % of chance than the Hack & Slash preset, dungeons are more populated with enemies as well.

Exhaustion is enabled by default and the power attack, dual wield attacks and dual wield power attacks damages are reduced by 30% for NPC's AND the player.

Bosses encounter is enabled by default.

Prepare to Die

This is the hard preset. In this preset the enemy difficulty mods mentionned above are not removed.

Enemy can level up till level 95

With this preset, the enemies can use modded spells and perks added by the mod list with a higher % of chance than the True Nord preset, dungeons are more populated with enemies as well.

Exhaustion is enabled by default and the power attack, dual wield attacks and dual wield power attacks damages are reduced by 30% for the player only.

Bosses encounter is enabled by default.

Standard Game Difficulty Override

If you want to change that you need to go to the Simply Balanced MCM menu

Uncheck the override

You can also define lot fo settings like your combat skills, magic skills,...