Sorry, but I have a hard time accepting that making the game harder will slow the game down.

(More DR on every foe, less weapon damage, more healing required, more running away, etc).Дawn Porter Posts: 3449 Joined: Sun 11:17 amД®ven on very hard the game is too easy and leveling up is far too fast, which not only led me to making my own slowed leveling mod, but also to downloading increased Wasteland Spawns and XFO to give me more of a challenge. Because changing the difficulty does not alter the amount of XP you receive UNLESS you change it to hardcoe mode - but then if you think about it it does slow down the game if you make it harder (not necessarily putting it to hardcoe mode) But making the original game harder will slow your game down a tremendous amount because it will take you double or tripple the time to kill things and get things done because it will be all that much harder. It seems to me that it shouldn't be too hard to implement an optional alternative to leveling such as this.ДЄctually in fact - you don't have to change the coding of the game. Since the harder difficulty you play on earns you more xp, the best option is to either A: increase the bump base so it requires more xp to level up, B: Decrease the amount of xp gained from killing, lockpicking, hacking etc., or C: A combination of increasing the bump base and lowering the xp gained from these actions.

Unfortunately that won't slow down your leveling, it will only accelerate it.

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