Combat Encounter & Wave Balancer

# Combat Encounter & Wave Balancer

Design combat encounters before spending hours playtesting them.

Combat Encounter & Wave Balancer is a lightweight offline tool for game developers who want to model enemy waves, combat pressure and player survivability.

Define your player, base enemy and wave scaling, then instantly see how the encounter evolves from the opening wave to the final boss.

## What it calculates

- Enemy count per wave

- Enemy HP scaling

- Enemy damage scaling

- Total enemy HP

- Incoming DPS

- Effective incoming DPS

- Clear time

- Estimated damage taken

- Player HP remaining

- Survival margin

- Combat pressure score

- Difficulty jumps

- Dangerous waves

- Lethal waves

- Encounter duration

- Peak incoming DPS

## Encounter Audit

Get an immediate overview of the full encounter:

- Encounter Duration

- Total Enemy HP

- Hardest Wave

- First Danger Wave

- Largest Difficulty Spike

- Worst Survival Margin

- Peak Incoming DPS

- Dangerous Waves

## Automatic Balance Analysis

The tool automatically highlights potential problems such as:

- player defeat before the encounter ends;

- dangerous survival margins;

- excessive pressure growth;

- sudden difficulty spikes;

- boss waves that create extreme jumps;

- combat phases that take too long to clear.

Instead of only showing numbers, the Quick Analysis turns the model into practical balancing observations.

## Final Boss Mode

Optionally turn the last wave into a boss encounter.

Adjust:

- Boss HP multiplier

- Boss damage multiplier

and immediately see how the finale changes the encounter curve.

## Three starting presets

- Casual

- Balanced

- Punishing

Every value remains fully editable.

## Encounter Visualization

The built-in chart tracks:

- Pressure Score

- Incoming DPS

- Survival Margin

across every wave.

Click any row in the progression table to inspect that wave in detail.

## Export & Workflow

- Save settings locally

- Export JSON

- Export CSV

- Copy a readable encounter report

- Reset to default settings

JSON exports use common combat-oriented field names to support future Game Balancing Toolkit workflows.

## 100% offline

No installation.

No account.

No server.

No external library.

No data uploaded.

Download the ZIP, extract it, then open `index.html` in a modern browser.

## Included files

- index.html

- README.md

- USER_GUIDE.html

- LICENSE.txt

The user guide explains every parameter, calculation, warning, export and limitation of the model.

## Part of the Game Balancing Tools series

Designed as a complete standalone tool while remaining compatible with a broader balancing workflow.

A Weapon DPS tool can provide player damage assumptions.

An Enemy Difficulty tool can help define enemy stats.

Combat Encounter & Wave Balancer then combines those values into complete multi-wave encounters.

Each tool works independently.