Lvl 22 -- lost all interest in the game, looking for a mod advice

[vas14]

Over the last couple levels I've been noticing that the game stopped being challenging on hardcore/very hard. Aside from several interesting places (such as deadwind? cavern with legendary deathclaw) that require some effort, rest of the fights became a snoozefest for me. Wearing a light armor with 15 DT and boone's beret with 0 DT i took out entire camp mccarran while hardly taking any damage. In short, game lost all challenge to it.

 

I'm looking for advice from like-minded people who are disappointed with how easy the game gets later on and have tried some of the mods designed to make the gameplay harder. In the top 100 non-adult list I see these:

 

Arwen_NV_Realism_Tweaks

Fallout - New FPS

New Vegas Realistic Battle and Dynamic Combat

 

Which of these you think provides the most challenging/fun experience? Preferably also non-VATS focused, as I don't use it.

[Wertoret]

head to the I-15 road..? deathclaws will ignore your DT and supermutants will pop up right besides you with a supersledge...

 

Of course McCarran is easy to destroy, just get the perk that shows you the HP and DT of your enemies and you'll see them having 90 HP and 0.00 DT... they won't get stronger the higher your level is, unlike FO3.

[cerebus23]

might look to fook and umm arwens? game play mods, that look to make the game harder, any number of them out there, some just adjust the global damage modifiers others go deeper and rebalance the dt of all the armors and weight of stuff you can carry etc. so there already all kind of total gameplay overhauls that are wips out there and other more simple ones that are more or less done.

 

http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=34759

 

can look thru the gameplay effects and changes category in the files section to find others and see if any float your boat.

[MADH1GHLAND3R]

Fallout new FPS (extreme) is what you want, it's really difficult but incredibly fun.

[Liquidacid23]

if you just want difficult there is a mod that makes everything in game cost 10x as much.. use that and play on hardcore.. you literally have to slaughter and loot a whole town to afford lunch

[HiraniNima]

I've been looking for a mod similar to FO3 Wanderer's Edition as far as how easily everyone can die. It makes enemies die much faster but you do as well. More realistic than you level and magically don't get hurt by bullets much. 1 shot kills enemies in the head, maybe 2 with a helmet and I think it takes 2 for you, and maybe 4 with a helmet. Makes you actually have to take things like Med-x for some fights and other drugs more helpful. Also that mod made radiation effect you about 10x as bad.

 

As far as I can tell they aren't working on a mod for NV (which included that but way way way more). Hopefully someone will do something similar to what was listed above though!

[soot00]

Only mod you will need is Fallout Wanderers Edition. That team did an amazing job with Fallout 3. I doubt it will be released anytime soon for New Vegas until a script extender, namely FOSE is ready for New Vegas.

[vas14]

head to the I-15 road..? deathclaws will ignore your DT and supermutants will pop up right besides you with a supersledge...

 

Of course McCarran is easy to destroy, just get the perk that shows you the HP and DT of your enemies and you'll see them having 90 HP and 0.00 DT... they won't get stronger the higher your level is, unlike FO3.

 

Like i said, deathclaws definitely provide a challenge, but it's the fact that all humanoids I've seen up to this point are pushovers. Kills the feeling of immersion when you can stand in the open and kill 10 NCRs with a few rangers among them who are supposed to be their elite soldiers.

 

Fallout new FPS (extreme) is what you want, it's really difficult but incredibly fun.

 

Thanks for the advice, have you tried other mods besides this one?

 

if you just want difficult there is a mod that makes everything in game cost 10x as much.. use that and play on hardcore.. you literally have to slaughter and loot a whole town to afford lunch

 

Caravan takes care of money, if you figure a good deck setup for it you don't need to loot anything period.

[Wertoret]

hyperinflation makes my caravan lunch tradeable for 5 purified waters rather than 40000000 caps :P

[MADH1GHLAND3R]

To vas - I didn't really need to, it's by far realistic enough for me since I have it on very hard and on hardcore with new FPS basically everything dies as it should in real life. You take 1-3 bullets before death with my current armor and so do things like geckos but a securotron can shrug off that much rather realisticly since its a small tank, it turns normally boring encounters like that into difficult bosses. I highly recommend it to everyone.