Map generation

The skeleton of each act

Act 1 is one row longer and holds four to five more nodes than the others, yet caps at 3 nodes per row; acts 2 and 3 allow up to 7. Later maps are wider and shallower — more forks, but every path through them is shorter. The pool of battlefields runs the other way: 26 in act 1, down to 13 in act 3, exactly half.

How hard a fight gets, by row

Every battle on the map carries a difficulty rank, and those ranks are not scattered at random. They are looked up by row: which rank a given row produces, and with what odds, is fixed in the data.

Act 3 contains no easy battles at all — all five rows roll strictly between average and hard. And in act 1, only row 1 is guaranteed easy; from row 2 onward the easy rank is off the table for good.

Nothing in the game data says whether this table reads across or down. The data answers that itself: the three ranks on any one row sum to exactly 1, across all 15 columns without exception. That sum is the sole basis for every difficulty claim on this page, so the build re-checks it every time and refuses to publish if it ever stops holding.

The two tables do not count rows the same way: map generation gives act 1 six rows and acts 2 and 3 five each, while the difficulty table stops at row 5 for all three. The likeliest difference is whether the boss row is counted. The data never says, and we are not going to decide for it — the table above uses the difficulty table's own numbering.

Which node types appear on which rows

Seven node types, listed in the game's own placement priority. The number is the order in which they claim space: earlier types get their pick first, so even a node marked 100% is not guaranteed to show up — it depends on how many slots the types above it already took.

What that battle name means

This is the only difficulty cue visible on the map, and the game never explains how these names differ. Ten names cover three strength tiers, and every name within a tier carries identical weight — the name encodes the tier and nothing finer.

Easy

Conflict, Kerfufle, Tussle

Average

Battle, Brawl, Clash, Fight

Hard

Bloodshed, Struggle, War

Battlefields

63 battlefields, under the game's own location names. The codex entry for every one of them still reads “Coming soon” — the names are the only part that was actually written.