From 6488f520556c1eef504d3e7e49168b84403ba6d2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christoph Oelckers <coelckers@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 18:30:00 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] - fixed: Restarting after dying unset the currently selected
 skill level.

---
 source/games/duke/src/premap.cpp | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/source/games/duke/src/premap.cpp b/source/games/duke/src/premap.cpp
index 06a0609be..2c56eef1c 100644
--- a/source/games/duke/src/premap.cpp
+++ b/source/games/duke/src/premap.cpp
@@ -990,6 +990,7 @@ void enterlevel(MapRecord *mi, int gamemode)
 
 void startnewgame(MapRecord* map, int skill)
 {
+    if (skill == -1) skill = ud.player_skill;
     ud.player_skill = skill;
     ud.m_respawn_monsters = (skill == 4);
     ud.m_monsters_off = ud.monsters_off = 0;