banjo2E Posted January 11, 2014 Share Posted January 11, 2014 I've been having problems with the game's difficulty. Specifically, I keep running into things that I couldn't possibly be expected to fight at my level. This would normally lead me to believe something's messed with my leveled lists, but none of my mods should be doing enemy rebalancing for me. My suspicions started when I had to fight a snow troll and, later on, three large frostbite spiders...at single digit levels. Later on, I had to fight a Pyromancer (level 40 enemy that shouldn't spawn until level 46) at level 26 in a dungeon used for a level 14 daedric quest. Now, it's possible that randomly encountering occasional enemies vastly above your power level is normal in the vanilla game. But this just seems excessive, and my most recent experience has cemented my belief that something's seriously wrong. My game's become unplayable as a result of my most recent save file. I'd just gotten back from scrounging up a daedra heart and some troll fat for Malacath's quest, and given them to the shaman, when I was suddenly instantly killed from behind. I reloaded my save file, and it turns out three Dawnguard were standing behind me. The orcs didn't do anything to help me because they're the coward orcs from the Malacath quest. Okay, so I have to fight them on my own. Except that doesn't work. Nothing I do kills them, or even does decent damage; at most I take off 10% of a single enemy's life bar before I die. If I fight the guy with the hammer, he hits me twice and kills me. If I Ice Form him and fight the archers, they shoot me twice and kill me. If I summon Durnehviir, they kill him before he finishes giving me the next word in his shout. Durnehviir isn't even a vampire, so this isn't happening just because the Dawnguard get a free damage bonus against vampires like my character. I can't even run away, because the one time I tried (and I tried incredibly hard) I got surprise-mauled by two cave bears which were somehow just as powerful and just as damage-resistant as the Dawnguard despite not having a bonus against vampires and despite my having killed them with impunity many, many times in the past. Getting killed in two hits by an enemy on the overworld is not fun. Being unable to do more than 1% of his health in damage is not fun. Facing all of this on ADEPT difficulty? No. Just no. If I don't get some kind of help with this, I'm probably just going to stop playing entirely. If this is the normal difficulty in this game, and every single difficulty-adjusting mod I've been able to find exists to make things even harder, there's no way I can possibly have fun playing this. Active Mod Files: 00 Skyrim.esm 01 Update.esm 02 Unofficial Skyrim Patch.esp [Version 2.0.0a] 03 Dawnguard.esm 04 Unofficial Dawnguard Patch.esp [Version 2.0.0b] 05 HearthFires.esm 06 Unofficial Hearthfire Patch.esp [Version 2.0.0] 07 Dragonborn.esm 08 Unofficial Dragonborn Patch.esp [Version 2.0.0] 09 SkyUI.esp 0A D13LeveledItemsUpgradeD.esp 0B Thunderchild - Epic Shout Package.esp 0C Apocalypse - The Spell Package.esp 0D Bashed Patch, 0.esp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts