I lowered my level down to 'Hard' because frankly I was just dying too much... Pretty sure I'll bump it back up to 'Very Hard' when I start finding some good weapons and increase my attributes.

Sounds like the diffaculty isnt quite hard enough for the various diffaculty levels...*grins*

Dont try to ironman this one untill you have a couple playthroughs under the belt and know whats what.


DEATHCLAWS are supposed to scatter your insides all over thier caves.Its thier job.*Sagely nod*

Pretty much this

As far as I remember the Laser RCW can be found early on (as I still have it and have only been as far as Primm or at least that's where I think I got it) and is likely to be one of the weaker energy weapons of the game. Find a better weapon because basically attacking a deathclaw with it is probably a lot like attacking it with the varmint rifle. In other words: It's not going to end well.

Tactics are important just cant run out and expect to take on anything the wasteland can throw at you. But now I am seriouslly thinking about dropping the game to very easy if I can finish it, this last boss is a pain and the ass but then again I am only a level 20 with a sniper rifle and the .50 cal sniper rifle.

I've just come onto FNV after playing though Stalker:COP.

I've found this quite okay so long as you fight tactically. I'm yet to get chewed up badly yet. No doubt it will happen, but it doesn't seem as deadly as F3 was.

Range and accuracy are my friends. Can't unlock a public toilet door, but at least I can kill bloatflys....

That's the thing about game forums. The bunch of people who complain that a game is too easy, and the bunch of people who complain that another thing it too hard? They're probably different groups of people. But if you just look at the forum as a whole, you might perceive that it's The Forum? saying these things, at which point it seems pretty schitzo.


(Part of it may be the shift to the new DT-based combat system. Another part of it is most likely the new way they're doing the "leveling" of the world.... people who in FO3 would just pick a direction and see what compass triangles are off in that direction without too much trouble, are now wandering off the road and getting eaten by stuff they have little chance against. It's a bit of a change. )


...I know that I've gotten my face eaten pretty epically just trying to explore into the hills along the road from Nipton to Novac. Heh.

I agree Summer, the gameplay to me is more along the lines of back to Morrowind. Where you have to keep to certain areas until you are higher level. If any of the newer players would understand this example playing FONV is like you don't go to Red Mountain (Morrowind) at level 3, am I right or what?

Platform?

On PC, we already have some mods to make everything die faster

Heck, I made one of them!

im confused, you guys trying to fight deathclaws and failing, i dont get how.

i killed a deathclaw on my own at level 3. I was playing on easy of course, what difficulty are you playing on?

I love the lack of scaling. I just hit level 7 last night and many fights so far (been heading south and west from Goodsprings NOT Deathclaw north) have been challenging. I have died far more than in FO3. Most fights take real tactics. I also reload a lot because I'm in hardcoe mode and if I get limbed I get frustrated and reload. If, after a few tries, I can determine I can win the fight but can't escape being crippled then I'll live with it until I can get to a doctor (or some cases I'll use a Hydra if I'm in the middle of nowhere).

So the strategy tips? See them before they see you. Save at that point then reconnoiter the situation. Will the fight take some grenades or dynamite to soften up your foes first? Is there a choke point where some land mines can be used to your advantage? Can you drag one or two of a group into the fray without attracting their friends (guys with guns stay more stationary while melee users charge you, use that)?

It took me 10+ tries and a bunch of different scenarios to take out everyone in Correctional Facility at level 5 but I did it and got some good loot. Sometimes you just have to accept defeat though and slink away. I know if I see a Deathclaw at this point I'm heading in the other direction. And really, that's awesome. I was never afraid of anything in FO3.

Seen alot of talk about deathclaws here. Ya, theyre brutal this time around. But how come no one is mentioning those damn cazadors?? Theyre the bane of my existence!

Disclaimer: I am only level 6 and about 6.5 hours in the game (stupid full time job). That said so far I am having the opposite experience. I am following along the main quest; Goodsprings -> Primm -> Nipton (just finished in Nipton) and so far I have had almost no challenge. I have been sticking to the road, not trekking cross country, and the hardest single enemy I've had to fight so far was a Gecko Hunter. Primm was a little difficult when I first got there because I got swarmed by about 6 or 7 guys, but I got through it and the rest of that quest was easy peasy. Compared to FWE in FO3 this game is a stroll in the park.

Well, obviously if you stick to the main quest and follow where the game tells you to go, you're not going to be running into Deathclaws and Cazadors around every corner; that would just be silly. Obsidian may have set out to make the game tougher but that doesn't mean throwing impossible enemies in the path of the main quest. If you want to explore the wastes before you're ready, you can; just be prepared to deal with the dangers.

I've found that a change in tactics does indeed make all the difference. I remember going through that valley just beyond Nipton, and the first time I did, I got ambushed by raiders. I probably could have taken them, but they killed ED-E so I was like [censored] that and reset. Then I snuck up onto the ridges and killed them all without any of them even seeing me. Of course, with some enemies at some points in the game, the only strategy is to run, pray, and change your pants if you get back to safety.

im finding it pretty easy. Hardest part I had a while ago was the nightstalkers or whatever their called (stealth boys and the invisible things with jason bright), however just plopped a few frag mines down and laughed at how slow they were once crippled

Maybe you accidently set your difficulty to Hard and are playing hardcoe? I am set to Normal hardcoe and I find the game to be suspenseful and just difficult enough...

Whereas Deathclaws made me nervous in FO3, even at lv20. As did groups of enemies with Missile Launchers, and Sentry Bots. (again, missile launchers + armor). On Normal.

Of course, I didn't have any companions, generally didn't have much in the way of unique weapons, etc.

I had the same thought as the OP my first few minutes into the game. I ran toward the cross thing that you can see from the starter town and got my taters nipped off by some Giant Radscorpions. Tried again and this time went kinda south-ish and it wasn't as bad. I actually kinda like that there are areas that you can't go until you have some levels under your belt

Buy specialized ammo for your weapons. I don't know how many different ammo types their are but I'm sure there's something to help you out.

Ps3 only has easy, normal and hard...how are you playing on very easy?

QFT, (playing very hard/ hc) I ran into my first legion assassins last night and OMG, that was hard as [censored]! Especially since i'm on hardcoe, and they showed up immediately after I had been through a large battle and was low on health. Thankfully I had saved after the first battle so I didn't have to redo that as well! Took me like 15 tries to get through the bastards!

I couldn't be more happy

Is there a way to see the DT of an enemy (I think there might be a perk)

Well, if your weapon is truly ineffective, there should be a little shield icon popping up somewhere in the status bars.

According to the wiki there is a Level 8 perk that requires 70 medicine that will show the DT and HP of all targets, while increasing damage done to humans and non-feral ghouls.

It makes the game more realistic
thats why i think they made it as hard as they did

Because just like Fallout 3 they had to reconfigure and take out some things that the PS3 system could not handle including some options and graphics, so they could release it on the PS3 which came out much later then the 360 and PC versions. I am not insulting PS3 in anyway, just stating fact.

and yes they didn't release FO3 on PS3 at first and everyone with the sytem was upset on the forums here. So Bethesda finally released it later on. Not sure how much time past between the 360 and pC versions to the PS3 version.