It makes fallout 3 and new Vegas seem like a joke

I love that even if you dismember an enemy they still come for you (though I'm currently hoping it's not just ghouls this happens too)

Yeah, it's tougher. I'm playing on the next-to-highest difficulty. Clearing the boss in my first visit to Concord was tedious. But this was in part due to the fact that it was harder to trick the AI, so I can't really complain.

I'm playing survival and I find it too easy. I'm not even using power armor. I'm killing everything with modified pipe sniper rifles and pipe weapons and grenades as well as tactics.

I played dying light in the hardest mode and COD black ops 3 in the hardest mode so I guess it got me ready for the challenge

I do admit if I was playing a melee character in survival mode it would be a lot tougher! trying that next)

It's very rough on melee so far compared to the other games, seems like the game was balanced for ranged.

That's what I figured. In melee on survival I would be dying often right now.. Ranged is easy. I look forward to going melee with my 2nd character.

thats an understatment, what makes it even weirder are some of the things you can find in game

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Legendary Tommy Gun with "Medic" as a property? what the heck? Im suposed to spray and pray hot lead and heal the enemy ? Im not even sure my companions would appreciate me shooting THEM with healing bullets, never mind the enemy. Im just hopenig this does not come in FATMAN variety or it might make fights down right idiotic

however Instigating on a high power sniper rifle?

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Heavy melee is ridiculous against humans. At least light melee can be chained and if they block its no big deal. If someone blocks a sledgehammer with their forearm that arm should at least be crippled, not bounce off harmlessly.

And yes, fat man medic would actually be fun for making some hilarious moments.

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Was minding my own business doing an unrelated quest next door and decided to look around... Luckily I was wearing power armour and had some heavy artillery

Its funny you can absolutely troll DeathClaws with any ranged weapon as long as theres a car on the street or a set of stairs or inside a building.

Meanwhile melee gets 2 shot even in PA lol. Guess i'll have to reduce settings or play heavy weapons build.

just got destroyed by 3 bloat flies :/

The radiation sapping me is no joke. I'm always getting rads so I'm persistently at 75% of my max health at any one time. The rads, they love me.

Cobbling together proper armor at the start without relying on Rusty (what I call the power armor) takes some time, until you peel something proper off a raider or buy it.

I agree. I've been getting my butt handed to me , bloatflies, bloodbugs and even a wild dog have destroyed me at one point lol the only way i've made it is by cooking food and making my own stimpaks when i have the material

I hate the freaking Mole Rats. Just casually walking along when suddenly I hear the sound of the ground erupting and an army of those ugly mother-in-laws swarming me.

I played through Fallout 3 and New Vegas to prepare myself for this game, and this one is significantly harder than both of those, New Vegas in particular. I'm only playing on hard difficulty, as well. It makes a nice change.

Playing on Hard - Cambridge is ghoul hell.....

I'm just happy they're 1 hit kill for now ( I don't even waste ammo on them just gun smash them all)

Certainly a step up from FO3 and New Vegas in difficulty. Find myself in need of cooking food and making stimpaks alot, also ammo is pretty scarce as i am running on 1 luck atm. Helps that the enemy AI is pretty solid. Ghouls are the worst enemy yet, as i am a sniper and in tight corridors i am usually outplayed. I love their movement patterns and dmg output.

Ya it actually is I'm surprised, and I love it. Skyrim was too easy, I cranked it up to master and still blew through it but I'm doing fallout 4 on normal and its still pretty challening, thank you bethesda for not making it too easy.

Yes, surprisingly, it is tougher. Very nice

I'm playing on survival and can certainly say beth has done much to improve the combat this time around.

Never felt like I was up against a sponge so far, nor am I invulnerable or getting locked into cheap sync kills.

Can't agree more.

The gunfight at the factory where the raiders are at the start was hell. Anyone else find it tougher to locate enemies and where they are shooting you? I just realized that many games nowadays have made us softer with the "see through walls" mechanic. This game is gonna give people a kick in the crotch difficulty wise.

Yep, I ended up just booking it out of there, I had lousy weapons, barely had any ammo left and there seemed to be a turret behind every corner, in addition to the raiders. Hopefully that settlement that needed my help with them will hold out until I get some decent guns and more than twenty bullets.

But overall, I like that it's hard. I had grown complacent in F3 and NV with their stimpack spamming and op armor, guns and companions - after Dogmeat got invincible via Broken Steel glitch, or I got the Boone + ED-E combo I barely did any work anymore.

3? You麓re hardcoe! 2 were enough for me...