Difficulty and Load

Difficulty

Difficulty noun - Something that is a cause for suffering or special effort especially in the attainment of a goal.

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Load and difficulty are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Load" instead a noun "Difficulty".

Nearby Word: difficult

Load noun - A mass or quantity of something taken up and carried, conveyed, or transported.

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Difficulty and load are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Difficulty" instead a noun "Load".

Nearby Words: loaded, loading, loader, loadable

high	high difficulty	high load
full	full difficulty	full load
low	low difficulty	low load
special	special difficulty	special load
Other adjectives: particular, regular, certain, current, standard, initial, actual, real, massive, increased, great, new, advanced, less, extra, immense, maximum.

A bug in the very first game meant that no matter what difficulty setting you chose for the game, as soon as you save your game or load a save, you're suddenly playing on Beginner (the lowest).

Source: Video Game / X-COM
H2's Legendary in general is a big load of trial and error, fake difficulty and luck-based situations.

Source: Trial-and-Error Gameplay
You can load up your completed save file, which lets you not only pick which difficulty you want to play on, but keep all of your Materia, stats, and levels.

Source: New Game+

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