Which difficulty should you pick?

Six presets, named and ordered from the game's own files — and the 103 settings each one silently changes.

Picking a difficulty changes 103 of the 282 settings, not a handful. Here is what that actually means.

Every setting ships six default values, one per difficulty. Nothing in the shipped files says which position is which difficulty. Here is how we established it — three ways, none of which is guessing.

The order

1. The server binary names them

The shipped executable exports EGameXishuNandu with exactly these six members. That is a different artifact from the config JSON, so it is independent evidence for the set of names.

2. Each difficulty template matches its own index, and only its own

The developer ships one config template per difficulty. Matching each template's values against every index of the difficulty arrays gives a clean diagonal: 100% of 282 settings, in all five schema families.

3. The direction, without translating anything

Across indices 0–4 these four settings move strictly one way, and index 2 sits at exactly 1.0 on all of them. Easiest to hardest, provable without reading a single Chinese character.