Is the game a bit... too easy?

[macmert]

Well switching to a harder difficulty is a must I guess... But I think I will do that on my second run...

[Slugworld]

Hi,

 

Yes macmert I found the game was too easy as well. I had picked the exact perks to yourself, however I only had 6 in luck toward the end.

 

I was surprised with the AI and enjoyed how the opposition would linger before coming around a corner. I think the AI needs to be more patient and needs more health. They should also make use of chems. Deathclaws should be harder to kill.

 

To conclude I'd like to play with another character before making a final decision. My first character was a gun toting maniac who massacred everything in his path. Perhaps playing again with a highly charismatic character could be more of a challenge...

[macmert]

Yea I guess a less gunning character would be more of a challange but all in all you would need to use weapons in order to survive in the wasteland... The moment I see that I can wipe out the game with guns, I tend to exploit that, yesterday I got into the slavers den and I picked up the mez gun, just wanted to try it out on a slaver and we got into a gunfight... The next moment all the slavers were dead along with that Eulogy guy... The whole slaver questline was buried beneath the DC soil :) I didnt even die once... so I guess a difficulty tweak is essential in order to enjoy the game...

 

But funny thing is I have trouble killing rad scorpions :) they always give me a hard time... I mean I killed mirelurk kings but that damn scorpions are a real pain in the a... :)

[Slugworld]

Yeah the scorpions are a *censored*, I imagine shooting their appendages might help. All though they have got a tough exoskeleton.

[macmert]

hmm... but if I shoot of their tails, do I recieve less poison glands when I loot the body?

[Slugworld]

Good question, only testing will tell...

[Phoynix]

The problem is.

 

the same thing they did wrong in oblivion, leleved monsters.

 

I dont like to throw around "RETARDED" but.. even the people who loved Oblivion and wanted to have its babies thought the whole world leveling with you was stupid.

 

I like fallout3.. but the level up thing.. again.. in my opinion made it to easy and boring.

 

Once you get to level 20, you can take 10 hits of a Plasma gun and it can take 10 hits to kill some things with the plasma gun, trying to use anything else like an assault rifle can take 100 rounds of ammo.

 

 

 

Sad fact is in fallout weapons just aint dangerous(except perhaps the shotgun)

 

 

The reason its that way is, they didnt bother bringing over the armor factor from fallout, trying to take out an armored foe didnt work well with small arms, big weapons or explosives did.

 

IN OblivionOut, armor just reduces your total damage, and it does so the same ammount agasint all weapons.

 

 

This is actually my big thing I thought fallout3 failed on, and just felt totaly oblivion like, and which I cant understand how it could be left like this..... considering the effort put into other parts of the game.

 

 

This all leads to the greatest sin Fallout 3 has commited.

 

The world feels neither dangerous or hostile.

[Shimmerman]

I play on very hard, and yeah it's been fairly easy most of the game. Although some parts of the game are a pain in the ass, but generally it's easy. But then again I don't think I've played any RPG that was really hardcore challenging. Fallout 2 was hard for the first couple of hours.. but once you got a gun then the challenge sort of went way down.

 

As for FO3 I think the most challenging aspects of the game come from some of the dungeons. Which are really well made, some are almost maze like and plain infuriating. And some are rigged from head to toe with traps. which on very hard difficulty can kill you easily. So yeah.. don't play on normal if you want a challenge.

[Roflcore]

Very hard is not really harder at all. All it does is raising the damage resistance and hp of enemies. so the only thing you need to do is finding more bullets or buying more. the ai is still the worst in the world, so no change their. thats basically the reason why the game won't be harder. so mod it to remove the cheat in vats and your hp or the game wont get harder at all.

[macmert]

I guess trying on harder lvls will not change the game's difficulty that much... As Shimmerman said, Fallout II would get easier after you find a machine gun... and now I am all guns blazing, maxed out sneak and small guns, got luck to 7, I shoot everyone in sneak mode and supermutants go down with one headshot... I reached the lvl cap now and I kill many of the opposition without breaking a sweat... only radscorpions, and those sentry bots give me a real hard time... Those sentry bots dont go down without 10 pulse grenades... they dont go down easily with plasma weapons...