I just think its so boring wen you shoot and shoot but nothing happens

I use mods to make weapons do more damage, and play on normal.

Now combat is interesting, and HARD.

I think it's boring when you shoot and shoot and you're enemy goes down in no time. So I like to play on Hard to make the game challenging. I tried Very Hard once but I was having a hard time keeping myself in Stimpaks. I find Hard to be the right balance for me, even Normal was too easy.

Always played on normal.

Yup. I use Normal all the time, but simply because of the XP factor. If it weren't for that, I'd gladly play on Very Easy.

I play on Very/Easy at the beginning until I gain an admireable amount of stimpaks and ammunition.
Then I pop into Normal.

When I first played the game, I played on easy because I was stuck in the museum of history with very little health and no stimpaks. Then it got too easy & started playing on normal and now I play on Very hard because i have over 700 stimpaks and 80,000 caps.

I play on easy~ XD;
At least, in the beginning. I like to explore while on low levels, and Mutants eat low-levels in the beginning. :T
So until I'm about level 6 or so, I'll keep it on easy.

I normally play on easy on new characters, but on my level 30 i play on very hard, but if im doing something important then i switch it back to normal

Blaah, I rarely used Very Easy/Easy settings...Shoot, even in high-risk moments, I don't change it :/

But when I really HAVE to, it's only when I'm in a huge rut that I have no way of getting out of.

Otherwise...it's pretty boring :/ I have a difficult time on normal as it is with those damn Mutie Overlords...Though they seem to die quicker when you do a sneak attack

You just have to be smarter than they are, which isn't hard to do. Don't just go in with guns blazing, use your head instead. Outside of Big Town there's two of them around an abandoned truck, a regular Mutant and a Master, that I have to get through to make my way to Arefu. I lay a Frag Mine down on the road then take a Sniper shot at the Mutant. He comes chasing me, then usually gets blown up by the mine. After that I place a Bottlecap Mine in the same spot, and do the same thing with the Master. Early Mutants are a piece of cake if you're a bit creative in your approach. You just need to avoid going toe to toe with them at first.

I also perfer it on easy, I don't like getting killed the minute I step out a metro station and into the DC ruins. Plus playing it on normal or hard kind of ruins the point of using those weaker weapons I like so much since they do hardly any damage on that difficulty, even on weaker enemies like Radroaches and Bloatflies.

On the way to Arefu, so that's the two near a truck and one has a missle launcher, right? I got to them on my first playthrough and I was about level three at the time. XD;
But most of the time I do my exploring, I like enemies to pop out and have gunfights with me since it's more fun that way.

well what i tend to do is change between diffuclties deppending on what i am fighting beacuse say if im just trying to take out super muties with a sniper stealthley i leave i on a low diificultty so its realistic as well like 1 bullett a kill

I thought F3 was very well balanced early on.
I was scared to death the first time I explored the super-duper-mart.
They were taunting me. I was in hide-mode...counting bullets.
Thank the Maker...I have a grenade as well.

I may be able to blow them apart.

Yes that's them, though the one might have a Mini-Gun sometimes. There's a number of areas that seem pretty tough at first, but if you think about it and be creative they become fairly easy. I really don't see the need to drop down to the Easy level for this game, just use your head. It's all about tactics.

Nah, I don't like Easy because, well, it's too easy. There's nothing wrong with doing it, but I have no sense of pride after large battles and don't like getting less XP.

I never played on Hard/Very Hard, either. Not because it's actually too much of a challenge, but because the enemies are just bullet sponges -- I gets tedius having to empty clip after clip on a Feral Ghoul Reaver, for example, and they're bad enough on Normal.

I play on Very Hard. Between my modded weaponry and experience in the wasteland even that isn't enough of a challenge. I don't wear any sort of armor, I don't use chems aside from stims, pure water, rad away, rad x and nuka cola, and yet I still find myself wishing there was another challenge out in the wastes...

You'd memorize the AI's behavior too if you had eight or nine playthroughs


lol mods. I thought the vanilla guns were way too weak too.

I've had it on Normal ever since I started playing. I may try Very Hard, but I always run out of stimpacks and ammo (for the guns I use anyway, up to my ears in everything else. This bothers me) on Normal. That said, I do love games where you have very low ammunition. Makes it far more intense. I guess I'll try Very Hard on my next playthrough. Anything I should know?

Yes.

Use that unwanted ammo as currency instead of bottlecaps. I've found the traders are quite happy to trade in bullets as well, and I've always been able to amass more stims than I'll ever use by the time I hit level 10.

I thought all ammo was scarce on Very Hard though? This poses a problem for me as my main weapon is the sniper rifle, and on all my playthroughs .308 ammo is hard to come by.

I almost always play on very easy or easy then again i have never gotten a char above level 15, always get bored and make a new one, so i have'nt really gotten to the point where everything is to easy.
If i ever do get to that point i'll probally up the difficultly a little to to make up for my unkillable god like char.

I played on Easy for the first few hours I played the game, then switched it to Normal and have mostly kept it there. I tried playing part of a game on Very Easy to avoid leveling up (everything dies as soon as I looked at it) and I played on Hard briefly before fearing for the caravans' safety. Whatever difficulty maximizes your fun, go for it.

I play at the Hard setting, and with MMM. FWE and FOOK2. And yes, I die a lot...
I avoid Super Muties when they are in large groups, and get most of my kills from long distance head shots with a silenced sniper rifle.

I feel that with the game more difficult, it is less of a "shooting gallery" game, and more of a game of strategy and tactics. Land mines play a big role in my strategies.
For instance, if I decide to engage a large group of enemies, I'll spend some time laying out a mine field in a strategic location, then engage the targets so that any that rush me will be drawn into the mine field.

If I do happen to get drawn into a firefight, I try to keep at least one escape route available to me. If things get too intense, or I start to get over-run, I can back up to another location for better cover. I always try to keep from getting caught in a corner.


Save often.


The game difficulty doesn't affect loot. It just modifies the damage formula for your character and the computer controlled characters.

At Normal difficulty, you are pretty much playing on an even scale with the AI.
Increasing the difficulty causes your character to take more damage while the AI takes less.
Decreasing the difficulty causes your character to take less damage, and the AI takes more.

The experience gain formula is also affected. You'll gain more XP for playing at a more difficult setting than you will playing at an easier setting.

I always play on easy. It's because when you shoot something, it goes down easily, like in real life. Playing Very Hard makes no sense when you unload 3-4 clips into something and it doesn't die.