The hardest battles of FO2

[ViTal]

Which ones do you think are the hardest battles that you've faced in OG or RPU?
For me it's:
Cave robbers random encounter after level 15 - regardless of your gear, you will struggle.
I was quite surprised after playing this game for hundreds of hours since release to face them for the first time just few years ago. I thought it was some RPU shenanigans, but it came from the original game. Faced them barely 2 times during many many runs.
It's a cave of 12-15 enemies in combat armors, sporting pulse/gauss/turbo plasma rifles among other stuff.
Other tough battles that come to mind: military base if you don't have power armor, and the cleanup of the navarro upper ground floor

[Johnny Casey]

Every instances of Kaga battle, just because mfer runs away...

[Bobisz]

Originally posted by Johnny Casey:

Every instances of Kaga battle, just because mfer runs away...

Seriously though... this is my fist run with the restoration project and I just had my first encounter with this mofo...
I didn't know this is a recurring encounter, so I had no idea I probably should just run away the first time (underleveled and underskilled for it)

[The Great Cornholio]

If you become a Slaver and Childkiller in the Den, you get some brutal bounty hunter random encounters that progress in armor/equipment.

[ULTRA]

The raiders outside Vault City really busted my balls because some of them shoot through walls

[babuk.fracal]

Melchior
If you are trying to not kill him to kill every single creature he spawns.

Gives a lot of exp though.

Second would be when I went on a genocide in the oil rig
That one room with a ton of people with regular power armor and gauss rifles

[Vassago Rain]

1) hardest game and combat difficulty level 25+ bounty hunters after you become a child killer and/or berserker.
2) same as above, but enclave patrols (upwards of 12 of them can appear).
3) caves random encounter full of bounty hunters/mercs/robbers in combat armor, all armed with nonsense like gauss rifles and pulse rifles.
4) tackling Navarro's topside. The plasma turrets are anti-fun.
5) Frank Horrigan and Melchior.