Though im playing on HC and very hard and with arwens im playing too much like #3 and thats taking a lot of the survival effect and difficulty from the game.

Now I arrived at the strip with so much caps, stims and ammo, and lots of stuff more hidden in No Vac and it was totally unnecessary to play like this

I think ill start over again and try to play more like #1, followers are too powerful anyway( except Ed-E maybe)

I reload under two sets of circumstance:

One: If I do something I seriously did not intend to or something ugly happens to me for “gamey” reasons – stealing an item when I meant to talk to an NPC, or walking through a door which is not marked red and suddenly having a roomful of friendly NPCs I want to keep friendly start shooting and beating on me. Those sorts of things.

Two: When I wander somewhere I’m not leveled for, and get killed 6 or 7 times trying. I reload to do another quest or try to get to my destination another way.