I'll put it like this, it's pretty common to see 30 or more brotherhood of steel spawn in a group all get killed one after another, even though I'm helping them. Which I'll die too if I don't run. Which has led to some interesting Alamo-ish stand off's, where I'm the only one left hidden behind some sandbags or something. Sitting there really angry because everyone is dead. The impossible difficulty has made me a better fighter, but it's not like I'll ever get anything done in the game.

I use Very Hard. Not only that, but also I changed my MMM so that it's a 6-8 spawn rate and also 10X chance encounters. As if that wasn't enough I threw STALKER arsonal an 20th century weapons in there just so the NPC's would have some weapons to work with. It's not like RI-PN (Real Injuries Primary Needs) makes things any more easy, certianly when you enable wounds. Pretty much anyway that I could make it more difficult I did that.

The only real optimization I had to do was to limit weapon fire rates to at least near the vanilla weapons for player made weapons. Then some of the textures had to be optimized. The whole build only took about 60 hours, with 40 hours just fixing the game to not crash in order to get the 4-8 hour games. Was it worth it, yah it's been a fun game.

There's nothing to gain if there's no risk of loss. The risk here being that if I die even just once, I'll have to start over, which I hate doing. Which presents a unique feeling of OMG please don't let me die as a general underlying feeling anytime I do anything outside the city walls. This gets interesting because not all of the spawns have been increased thru MMM, some of the dealing with quests stay the same. Giving you a false feeling of "hey, everything is going to be okay" hahahaha right before a spawn of 3 trogs turn into 21 an dances all over your face.

I can't use mods because of Microsoft, but it sounds like a pretty sweet set up, I'd like to try it when I get my new comp

Lol

Well as long as you got 6-8 Hours of entertainment for 60 hours of work, Good for you.

It would be cool if there really was a "Suicide" difficulty: like Very Hard, but:

* All enemies double in number.
* VATS is disabled.
* Sleeping does not restore HP.
* If you start serious trouble in a town, you're NEVER forgiven (the 3-day rule only applies to petty thefts of comp hacks)
* And you have to eat twice a day. Drink, too.

BUT, you get double XP for each kill.

wat.

Yeah, I myself play MMM and FWE, though with fewer, more powerful, enemies rather than more weaker ones. Great fun!

So basically like FWE?

What's FWE? Sorry for being an ignorant savage, but I don't know all the terminology.

WHAT IS FWE!?!?!?!?!111
Why...it is only the best gaming mod ever created for mankind's sole purpose of enjoying the best thing in life so far which can only be described as Fallout 3.
It is a complete overhaul of Fallout 3. It adds an item in you items which lets you alter the damage multipliers, how realistic the game is, etc, etc.
BUT, the reason FWE was created was to make Fallout 3 the most enjoyable experience. EVER.
It makes you have to eat, sleep, drink, slows down the timescale, weapons do more damage, you move at a more realistic pace, you don't level up from killing a single molerat, and it is also known for its...
HARSHER WASTELAND PRESET-
This makes it so that the wasteland is the most unforgiving gaming world you have ever visited. You will get brutally slaughtered by molerats and your face will be smushed into the ground by raiders, the "kill so-and-so" contract that the regulators or talon mercs always carry will be fullfilled and the enclave will wipe you off the face of the Post-apocalyptic earth because YOU WILL DIE.

Also known as Fallout 3 Wanderers Edition.
Link: http://fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=2761

Idk, I have this for the xbox but I know i'd play on very hard anytime, it's just fallout 3 is one of the few games I greatly enjoy on very easy.