What difficulty level? I like a challenge.

[Slimebeast]

I played Fallout 3 on PS3 a few years ago and now with the announcement of Fallout 4 I feel immense excitement, so I had to buy Fallout 3 for PC of course.

Anyway, I hate easy games and I never play on normal. I love hard games, to get a really tough challenge. Sort of like Dark Souls. I currently play Witcher 3 on the very hardest difficulty and feel it's just about right.

Now, with Oblivion and Skyrim though, the very hardest difficulty in those two games is borderline crazy hard, almost impossible. As far as I remember, I never could handle the very hardest difficulties in them. But with Fallout 3 I don't remember what difficluty I played it on, on the PS3.

In Oblivion at 100% difficulty you deal 1/6 damage, while enemies make 6x normal damage.

In Skyrim's "Legendary" difficulty you make 0.25 x normal damage, enemies make 3x normal damage.

In Fallout 3 on "Very hard" the player deals 0.5 x normal damage, enemies make 2x normal damage.

So as you can see, the stats behind the hardest difficulty levels in these three games aren't exactly comparable.

Thoughts?

[Troyas]

Strongly suggest downloading Fallout wanderers edition mod.. i like hard games as well and that mod makes the difficulty near perfect!

It makes you have to think before you engage, you can also change the difficulty in game with the mod.. by that i mean you can change how much health you have, how much damage you deal and so on, really nice mod.
Might be what you are looking for.. :)

Thought if this is your first time playing fallout 3 then it might not be an good idea to start modding right away.

[Honor Guard]

well difficulty can vary

I had this event had to me once after i left the vault


When to super duper mark

Flame lance drops down and a raider grabs it then turns me it's fury o doom at me (flame lance it is DEADLY one of the most deadly )

[Slimebeast]

Originally posted by Troyas:

Strongly suggest downloading Fallout wanderers edition mod.. i like hard games as well and that mod makes the difficulty near perfect!

It makes you have to think before you engage, you can also change the difficulty in game with the mod.. by that i mean you can change how much health you have, how much damage you deal and so on, really nice mod.
Might be what you are looking for.. :)

Thought if this is your first time playing fallout 3 then it might not be an good idea to start modding right away.

I have to try this right away!
Thanks!

[EolSunder]

With fallout 3 any first time player should be playing on normal of course. You can adjust your gameplay into hard move or very hard if you find yourself easily defeating the hardest foes in the game (overlords, albino radscorpions, super ghouls, etc). If those foes don't give a challenge in normal mode you really need to bump it up to hard mode, and even very hard if you are a maxed character.

Vet players of course shouldn't even think of playing anything under hard mode. Hard should be the base minimum and very hard really should be the norm for any vet player. This makes the toughest foes in the game actually deadly. You can still beat certain foes pretty easy as a vet player (deathclaw gauntlet vs albino radscorpions and sentry bots), stealth and reverse pickpocketing of grenades and mines vs overlords, etc.