Or they could just make survival actually be hard.

My suggestions:

Food and water exist, make hunger/thirst part of the game.

Sleep is there, make sleep needed.

Ammo, stimpacks should have weight.

Radaway is FAR too easy to get, radiation is nearly pointless

Permanent radiation damage should exist if you allow yourself to absorb too many rads, again radiation is a joke in this game

Remove the hazmat suit, it trivializes radiation and shouldn't exist in this world

Ammo should be far, far more scarce. Melee should not be a choice, but a necessity. Guns should be used sparingly not like an arnold schwarzenegger movie like it is now. There are no factories producing boxes of ammo anymore.

Stealth is far too powerful, there's no need to add things like not activating mines and not tripping traps. in fact,the game would be much better if stealth were removed.

Feel free to add your own.

all those are irrelevant after the first 20m of the game since non are rare on the Fallout universe.

How exactly should a Hazmat suit just not exist in this world? They're all just gone out of nowhere...because of what exactly? And they may make rads not a factor, but they also have no ballistic or energy resistance...making them hardly OP or even ideal.

Huh?

These are my suggestions to make the hardest difficulty actually hard, maybe you misunderstood? And you can't just take a hazmat suit on and off...

Stealth is fine but they should re tie the disarm landmine feature with the explosive perk and the disarm tripwire with the sneak perk. Hazmat suits are needed really in only a few places so atp its cosmetic. Permanent radiation damage just no. Unless ghoulification can result from it. Everything else im cool with.

You also can't heal several bullet wounds by eating a fruit or jamming a needle into yourself. Reality isn't exactly relevant.

Oh yea there's radiation everywhere but not a single person would have thought of making a radiation suit. Makes sense. About as much sense as a person being unable to even attempt to be sneaky. We are all obviously clumsy, hoof-footed, staggering idiots.

/Sarcasm over

Besides those two inane ideas, melee being a necessity might be a tad too far but ammo should be a bit rarer, especially the larger calibers. such that you have to think about whether it's worth the bullet. Food, water, and sleep necessities end up just being a boring chore rather than something I at least would want to spend time on. If I decide to roleplay and actually make my character need to eat I can easily do that without it being a necessity. Ammo and stimpacks should weigh something in the harder difficulties but considering that with power armor my carry weight is 510 it's not going to make too much of a difference. The only thing I'd like is for better A.I. so that we can actually have the option of coordinating tactics and having the enemy actually try and do something smart (where applicable of course, no death claws hacking computers to send robots after me)

The Hazmat suit is actually kinda rare in game unless you know where to look unlike previous fallouts

I'd probably stick the tripwire perk into perception. Or at least give higher perception characters a chance to have the tripwire glow or something while at the same time make all tripwires thinner and harder to spot so it's still possible to spot them as the player but making your character build factor into it as well.Then yea you could actually put disarming tripwires in agility, light fingers and all that.

A deathclaw hacking a computer isnt implausible. Theyre smart and some can even speak

The idea of removing Stealth or the Haz Suit is absurd. In fact, I oppose the removal of any feature or item as it's completely optional.

True, I hadn't played the previous games so I was unaware of that. Still just skimming that it looks like only one survived. Also speaking yes, but the claw part of the deathclaw would probably make typing difficult. Then again seeing the stereotypical receptionist with the 9 inch nails maybe not impossible for deathclaws.

t's obvious the majority of you just don't understand what difficulty is even supposed to mean. It doesn't mean that you run rampant killing everything in one hit and feeling awesome for doing so like on legendary difficulty like Skyrim. I said the hazmat suit SHOULD not exist in this world, try to learn how to read.

Why would a hazmat suit not exist in the Fallout world? This is a world that relied very heavily on nuclear technology, and hazmat suits are a crucial part of working with this technology. It's entirely reasonable for there to be hazmat suits in the various laboratory locations you visit, and for them to be available elsewhere. I'm seriously struggling to understand why you find the existence of hazmat suits to be unreasonable.

We can read, we just think your ideas make no sense. If a Hazmat suit is so OP, try engaging a deathclaw at close range in the glowing sea wearing a hazmat suit on survival. At least you won't be irradiated when you die.

I'm well aware you said should. I'm saying that's it's illogical that it would not exist. As for difficulty no one is holding a gun to your head and telling you to put the hazmat suit on, if you think it doesn't fit with how you want to play then don't use it.

Now if you could try and put together a coherent idea that'd be great. You are hopping from idea to idea. Running rampant killing everything is in no way connected to the radiation suit trivializing radiation (which you know it should be doing because it's a RADIATION suit but anyway). I honestly am not sure how you mean to connect those two. If you could just completely rewrite that entire thing in a manner such that it actually follows a logical, coherent path, I'd appreciate it.

Why is this so hard for you guys to figure out? I said it SHOULD not exist, because completely trivializes radiation in the game. Carry one with you and high radiation areas, like the mass fusion area, are completely pointless.

Except your damage resistance suffers significantly when you do so. But then on the other hand wearing armor instead of a hazmat suit makes it harder for enemies to kill you, so that shouldn't be in the game either then, right?

Ok, another guy that's telling me to self-balance the game. That's not the point of my thread and I shouldn't have to tell you that. Here you go, if you don't want to the game to be as hard as it possibly can be, then don't put it on that level. I'm not talking about across the board the changes to the game...

If you want to play with the hazmat suit, then don't pick the hardest difficulty level. Wow when did gamers become such limp wristed [censored]es.

i mean that non of those point that where present on NV or most of it, make the game any difficult back then.

Food/water/sleep places are common, same goes for Ammo.

My point is that it's not as overpowered as you claim to think. It has its strengths and drawbacks, same as everything else.

No you are just being illogical as all get out. You can't really expect the developers to cut content and cater the game to your exact whim by making a new difficulty that can quite honestly be easily self-imposed. You want the game to be harder, play it a bit harder. If you don't have the self-control to create a rule set for the game and you need someone else to do it for you that's on you.

They modded F3 for most all of those things, so I'm sure it'll be done for this game as well. Just don't expect Beth to do it, won't happen.