The chosen folder/files overwrite the modifiers affecting health, damage etc, changing Easy difficulty into your chosen difficulty, but with friendly fire removed. Party members are still affected by freezing, knockdowns etc. They don't seem to be affected by lingering effects like being set on fire, though the animations will still play. NPC allies are still affected by all types of friendly fire.

Place the folder/files corresponding to the difficulty that you want to play in:

Documents > Bioware > Dragon Age > packages > core > override

Only one set of the files (Normal, Hard or Nightmare) can be used at any one time.

In game, change the difficulty to Easy.

For example, if you copy the HARD version to the override folder, this is what you'll get for each difficulty selected in the game:

In-game displays EASY difficulty: Play HARD difficulty without friendly fire
In-game displays NORMAL difficulty: Play NORMAL difficulty with friendly fire
In-game displays HARD difficulty: Play HARD difficulty with friendly fire
In-game displays NIGHTMARE difficulty: Play NIGHTMARE difficulty with friendly fire

These files are modified from v1.04 of Dragon Age Origins.

Works without any issues in the Ultimate edition (v1.05).

*** V1.1 ***
Additional files added, containing more multipliers.

*** v1.0 ***
Quick tests on each difficulty, both in Origins and Awakening, indicate the files work properly.


This mod may conflict with any others that affect difficulty.