I battled Ulysses on Normal difficulty, non-hardcoe, and I actually had a pretty tough fight there. I used loads of stimpaks (actually, my stealth suit mk II did) but he was clearly a LOT tougher than Lanius or Graham were. Mostly because I didn't bother switching off his Eyebots, so he kept healing up.

Anyway, I was wondering: I know that quite a lot of people here play FO:NV on the Very Hard and hardcoe settings. Did any of you actually beat Ulysses with these settings on? If so, how? What kind of armor and weapons did you use?

Holorifle, MC ammo and a full round of VATS. I did have enough APs for five shots.

Hard/hardcoe + Super Slam! + Saturnite Fist Super Heated = Easy K.O. if you punch Ulysses down in the silo. A script causes insta-death.

Very Hard / hardcoe. T-51 PA. Riot Shotgun. (Didn't know 'And Stay Back' wouldn't help). Med-X. Psycho. Ultra-Jet. Turbo. A Super-Stimpak or two.

Bye-Bye Ulysses.

use alien blaster. when you first start fight run up to point blank and use vats on his head.

Painful!

You got that weapon boosted by Pryomaniac?

No, actually.

This worked for me too, only I just holorifled everything.