Level 100 and DLC

[dorkington]

So I OCD'd my way to lev 100. Then put FO4 away for a bit. I was getting ready to restart in survival mode. Is lev 100 too high to find any real challenges in Far Harbor? Will survival mode , , and lower level player, put a kink in my Far Harbor Fun?. Just starting a new character in normal difffiuclty is always an option.

[LauraSaurusRAWR]

The game is made for a wide audience, so I doubt you will see a real challange if you are experienced with shooters. But I guess level 100 is a little over the top.
I dont want to spoil something but you can see for yourself where Far-Harbour starts. Then you might find the answer to your question.

[Skiptro]

i'm lv91 and at the start a lot of enemies were lvl 3 and stuff but then it scaled to my level after getting the initial quests out of the way.

[dorkington]

"The game is made for a wide audience"
Good point. Think just starting a new survivor and going there early will work. I can always reload if its a chore. Survival mode can wait a bit. Appreciate the input. Time to thaw out a fresh vault dweller!

[GM Pax]

The enemies level with you, across the whole of the game and all of it's DLC. Some areas are tethered to a certain max level - the very beginning, before you've learned how to approach a fight with them, for example. But by and large, it all scales to you quite well.

I'm level 141 or 142 right now, and there are enemies I can't one-shot without burning a stored critical hit, even with a maxxed-out .50 sniper rifle.

Heck, if I only had my 10mm silenced pistol in hand, there are some enemies - largely the upper-tier Supermutants - I've pumped FIVE CRITICAL HEADSHOTS into, all in one VATS sequence (yahh for storing crits!)( and only taken down half their health. (OTOH, two or three loud and noisy non-critical blasts from Le Fusils Terrible to the face, and they still go down nicely.)

[dorkington]

"The enemies level with you,"
Yea at some point, I can't say when, we started leveling together. Kinda threw a wet blanket on the whole thng. If I had fought any monsters recently, with a skull next to their name, I didn't notice.

[GM Pax]

After a certain point, you won't see that "this dude is WAAAAAY higher level than you" skull. Because if they low-bounded enemies high enough that a L100 character was still seeing that skull?

Then that area of the map might as well not exist for the majority of players.

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As for the wet blanket thing: be glad it's not like prior Bethesda games, where hitting such a huge level meant that everything in the game ws trivialized for you. Or worse, where they just said "okay, you're done, no more levels or XP or advancement for you" to avoid that trivializing effect.

At least now, you will run into things that can challenge you (at least enough to not let you faceroll them to death) no matter what level you have reached. :)