# \[Investigating\] Large difficulty increase for Underspire battles **URL:** \ **Category:** Bug Reports\ **Created:** [September 6, 2023, 8:57am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/investigating-large-difficulty-increase-for-underspire-battles/81241 "2023-09-06T08:57:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![Fourdottwoone](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/fourdottwoone/32/66655_2.png) [@Fourdottwoone](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Fourdottwoone)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2023, 10:46am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/investigating-large-difficulty-increase-for-underspire-battles/81241/3 "2023-09-06T10:46:50Z")
> [@sylverscale](#): > > It still kept the keystones so maybe it kept the difficulty as well? No idea how those are coded so I hope this is unintentional. So far this seems to be happening to every player, no matter how far (or even if) they played Underspire earlier this week. It’s highly likely a side effect of this fix going live: > [@\[Reported\] Underspire: Endless corridor](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/reported-underspire-endless-corridor/80966): > > Platform, device version and operating system: Windows 10 x64 Screenshot or image: What you were expecting to happen, and what actually happened: Several weeks it was perfectly normal. Well, it was normal up today. And today I spent all daily gems trying to reach the end of the corridor - in vain. As you can see, it’s 27 locations long already, and still didn’t end! It’s utterly wrong, especially as I cannot accumulate turns, and even cannot pay with gems. Neither corridor must be… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/investigating-large-difficulty-increase-for-underspire-battles/81241)._