Decline in challenge + AI ruining immersion

Coflash · March 5, 2018, 1:57pm

The problem with mods is that you’re at the mercy of the mod author moving forward. Updates will continually break gameplay based mods, so unless they constantly update, you’re screwed.

Anyway, these things should be fixed in the base game. Vavra himself tweeted that the game is too easy:

If the head of the studio considers it to be too easy, then surely it’s not unreasonable to expect an official fix.

The only way I’d consider mods is if the game was on its final patch. Otherwise it’ll be like GTAV/FO4 etc where you’re constantly waiting on mod/script/tool updates.

Grimbarian · March 5, 2018, 2:02pm

Problem is the game is way too flawed right now to enjoy it vanilla.

Grimbarian · March 5, 2018, 9:11pm

bamsmacked88:

Really??

I think the balance is brought was perfect. No more one shotting anything, unless it’s an unarmored opponent.

Enemy AI in groups is much more challenging because they are way more aggressive and enemies will no longer wait for their “friends” to finish attacking you before they make an attack.

The rate of which you can move is greatly reduced when in heavy armor, and stamina is heavily impacted.

Weapon damage scaling disabled, longswords nerfed, perks reworked, slow motion disabled blocking disabled – when you’re fighting a good opponent it’s a lot more difficult than it use to be.

I’ve tried strong enemies, I’ve tried the armor increase mod, and I’ve tried dark times. Immersive Balance is the best out of all of them – it balances the game out and keeps it as vanilla as possible.

Combine that mod with roads are dangerous, I was ambushed by 3 bandits 2 of them weren’t so armored but their leader was and he was tougher than Captain Bernard…

Your reply was compelling so I decided to remove the other mods and try it again and it’s been great, just had a roadside encounter where one of the bandits was heavily armoured and I swear the fight felt like it took 10 minutes until I had him down (I forced him to fight to the death ha!) I backtracked so much during the fight I nearly lost my horse!