The maximum number of countries that can leave the XCOM project at the end of the month

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And does it change based on the difficulty level? In my last game on Normal difficulty, I had six countries at maximum panic (5/5) at the end of the month, but only two decided to leave the project. Is that a fixed number? Would all six countries have left if I was playing on Classic or Impossible difficulty?

Best Answer

In the ini files, there are the following settings:

PANIC_DEFECTIONS_PER_MONTH_EASY=1
PANIC_DEFECTIONS_PER_MONTH_NORMAL=2 
PANIC_DEFECTIONS_PER_MONTH_HARD=3 
PANIC_DEFECTIONS_PER_MONTH_CLASSIC=8