Ithrian
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Hello All,
I am going through Fallout 4 again, but I couldn’t come up with a new unique way to try and tackle the challenges of the wasteland. I am a fan of fair challenges and I do all the basics like play exclusively on Survival and I don’t save-scum or anything, but I have been trying to devise a new set of rules to bind myself with to increase the challenge. Oh I also use GCF Game Configuration Menu to turn up my, and my enemy’s damage, up to x3. To give you an example of what I mean, I will tell you the last rule-set for a playthrough I used.
Nudist/Naturist Run: Neither I or my companions are allowed to wear any kind of clothing or armor (Because I would naturally gravitate towards Ballistic Weave which is too powerful). I am limited to 3 followers (because Lone Wanderer is just too powerful, and followers tend to a liability most of the time). I am not allowed to craft weapon mods, I must take them off weapons I find in the wasteland (because it’s too easy to create the Laser Musket of DOOM and snipe/kill most things in one multi-crank shot). [Unfortunately this turned me into a sneaky melee assassin which only caused problems when my companions screwed up their stealth; and even then the enemies rarely found me so my 10x sneak attacks still slit every throat in the commonwealth.
I try to devise a set of rules ahead of time, because I like to figure out an effective strategy within a rule-set. I want my ruleset to make sense within itself, so as not to destroy my immersion. For example, in the above, Nora was always a naturist in a world where that wasn’t acceptable, so when the bombs fell, she was free to strip down judgement free. She only has 3 followers because she is kinda creepy with her flaunting her ‘assets’ and forcing her lifestyle on others, and refuses to go alone because she wants to force her beliefs on others. Finally, she isn’t a student of engineering, so can’t build a better mousetrap… or in this case a gun.
So..... any ideas?
Ithrian
I am going through Fallout 4 again, but I couldn’t come up with a new unique way to try and tackle the challenges of the wasteland. I am a fan of fair challenges and I do all the basics like play exclusively on Survival and I don’t save-scum or anything, but I have been trying to devise a new set of rules to bind myself with to increase the challenge. Oh I also use GCF Game Configuration Menu to turn up my, and my enemy’s damage, up to x3. To give you an example of what I mean, I will tell you the last rule-set for a playthrough I used.
Nudist/Naturist Run: Neither I or my companions are allowed to wear any kind of clothing or armor (Because I would naturally gravitate towards Ballistic Weave which is too powerful). I am limited to 3 followers (because Lone Wanderer is just too powerful, and followers tend to a liability most of the time). I am not allowed to craft weapon mods, I must take them off weapons I find in the wasteland (because it’s too easy to create the Laser Musket of DOOM and snipe/kill most things in one multi-crank shot). [Unfortunately this turned me into a sneaky melee assassin which only caused problems when my companions screwed up their stealth; and even then the enemies rarely found me so my 10x sneak attacks still slit every throat in the commonwealth.
I try to devise a set of rules ahead of time, because I like to figure out an effective strategy within a rule-set. I want my ruleset to make sense within itself, so as not to destroy my immersion. For example, in the above, Nora was always a naturist in a world where that wasn’t acceptable, so when the bombs fell, she was free to strip down judgement free. She only has 3 followers because she is kinda creepy with her flaunting her ‘assets’ and forcing her lifestyle on others, and refuses to go alone because she wants to force her beliefs on others. Finally, she isn’t a student of engineering, so can’t build a better mousetrap… or in this case a gun.
So..... any ideas?
Ithrian