Larian Studios Forums Beyond Divinity (English) Technical Problems Changing difficulty level

Can't seem to change the difficulty level. I thought this was possible with the new patch? In Options / Game the arrows are grey and don't allow me to change.Any suggestions?

If you choose hardcore you are not allowed to change again, you can only change the difficulty if you're playing in the other difficulties.

Noooooo!
The third Battlefield was so ridiculously easy (totally unbalanced, because I had a hard time against the enemies before finding the third battlefield key) that I changed the difficulty to hardcore (resulting in that every enemy in that battlefield died on two strokes instead of one). And now that I've finished the *entire* Battlefield (which is a boring and stupid thing to do), I realize that I can't change the difficulty back? And there was no warning about it, nothing!
I seldomly get angry at stupid design decisions, but first forcing me to play through all three braindead battlefields, because without them the game is too difficult for me on *very easy*, and then forcing me to play through the third battlefield again...I don't get it, really.
And I, too thought it was a technical problem.

And what if I had not kept the savegames from before the battlefield? That would mean I'd sit on unplayable savegames now and had to start the game all over (which I wouldn't do). Allowing me to change into hardcore, but not back without warning, I really can't believe it. This one jumps to No. 1 in my personal stupid design decisions Hitlist.

Flash, same thing happened to me. I started of on action which was too easy, then switched to tactical for the bulk of Act I. At the battlefield, the skeletons were too easy so I chose to move to Hardcore, which is dang hard once I returned to the main game and had to face a Citadel Death Knight. It seems every creature does double the damage, hits twice as often, and takes half the damage....ouch! I feel up to the challenge but its going to make gaming life difficult. I don't like having to reload several times every battle for lucky breaks or using endless potions. This is my first time through, so I anticipate frustration... I may just start over and go tactical. I have had to pull the steal gold technique just to keep enough potions on hand, not cool. All the monsters are quite above me in level and kick my butt unless play hard and dirty. Heeeelp <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ohh.gif" alt="" />