Does your character's skin color actually affect the difficulty?
The character creator describes picking your character's skin color as "difficulty" with white being the lowest difficulty and black being the highest. While this obviously seems like satire which criticizes race privilege in the US society, I wondered if it actually has a mechanical effect on the game.
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Does skin color matter in the fractured but whole?
The upcoming South Park: The Fractured But Whole game correlates your character's skin color to the game's level of difficulty. Yup.Does race matter in fractured but whole?
We reached out to the game's publisher, Ubisoft, who had no official statement but confirmed that it's just a joke. It doesn't affect combat difficulty or any other aspect of gameplay difficulty. The slider changes skin tone, but it's purely cosmetic.Does skin color matter in South Park?
\u201cWe reached out to the game's publisher, Ubisoft, who had no official statement but confirmed that it's just a joke,\u201d GamesRadar reported. \u201cIt doesn't affect combat difficulty or any other aspect of gameplay difficulty. The slider changes skin tone, but it's purely cosmetic.\u201d They came so close to saying something.How does difficulty work in fractured but whole?
What's interesting is the easier the difficulty, the lighter your character's skin. Conversely, the harder the difficulty, the darker your character's skin. It means if you want to play The Fractured but Whole on a harder than normal difficulty, you have to play as a person of colour.Describe Your Character and Personality in English
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