survival mode...no legendaries??

[CraqerJaq]

Been playing on survival difficulty for about 7-8 hours (fresh character) and I've not seen a legendary mob yet. Granted the beginning stuff is a bit slow and more story driven...but the way they talk about it...I figured I'd at least have seen one when out scavenging. Anyone else notice a lack of increased amounts of legendary mobs?

[Hagakure]

You are still in the early stage of the game, so it won't throw super mutants and other bad ass stuff at you as much as later.

I played and lasted survival mode for about 30 hours and then I gave up on it because of a horde of super mutants was attacking a place I had to defend and no way I could kill them.

So I could either fail that mission and let the mutants win there or adjust the difficulty.
I chose for the 2nd option :P

I think I found more and more legendary mobs as I got further in the game (around +/- 15 hours I think) so give it a bit of time and you will run into them.

[Sundowner]

ive been playing the same time length as the op and ive seen:
a legendary radroach
a legendary ghoul reaver (or stalker cant remember)
a legendary savage mongrel
a legendary synth ..something something (i ran away the moment i saw it and like 4 other synths with skulls next to their health bars)

im only level 7 at the minute but they are out there :) the loots pretty useful too got a lock picking aid that makes the sweet spots bigger a chest piece that increases my defense against certain enemy types and a pipe pistol that restores all my AP when i land a crit.

[Flaminski]

I've seen many, but I switched it to normal, still gets legendary thou

[rdngmikey]

After 30 hours on Survival I've seen:
4 L; Ghouls
3 L; Radroaches
2 L; Raiders
2 L; Mongrels
and a Legendary Super Mutant(killed me and then didnt spawn when I reloaded)
This is just the list of what I can think of, pretty sure I've come across a few more.

[robthebob11]

Does playing on Survival increase the odds of Legendaries as well? Or provide any benefit? Or is it purely there for those who love punishment?

[Erra]

I see plenty just in Normal mode. Its RNG though. Sometimes its hours. sometimes you get 2 in a single fight.

[Hagakure]

Originally posted by robthebob11:

Does playing on Survival increase the odds of Legendaries as well? Or provide any benefit? Or is it purely there for those who love punishment?

I think it says in the options the chances are bigger you will run into legendary enemies if you play on a harder difficulty, yes.

The punishment part, well....

I found it really hard to beat a pack of feral dogs if each could take about twenty .308 rounds to the head without dying ;P to name one example in particular.

[Geese1999]

Getting bum rushed by random enemies with autist strength is getting old fast.

[ WraithGear]

keep in mind, at level 1 you can kill anything in the game with just the rusty pistol.

i am rushing the Charisma Bobblehead on my survival run. and lets just say that there is 4 death claws near Parsons phyc' ward.

got to think cleaverly. what i did was lure the death claws to all the raider outposts i needed gone, and then to finish them off i lead them to the mercenaries at parsons.granted i got no EXP for doing that, but i got 4 death claw steaks, and all the combat armor/machine guns/ammo/legendary weapons i could ever want?

does it make me evil as sin to abuse people? yes, but this is survival of the cleaver here!

[Erra]

Originally posted by David Mentalson The III:

Getting bum rushed by random enemies with autist strength is getting old fast.

Nice thread necromancy..