Monstrous things like super mutants and radscorpions make a little sense. What drives me nuts is the pissant Freeside street thug that's wearing a T-shirt but takes 3 shotgun blasts at point blank. That's what made me start rebalancing things in the GECK.

This is how I would do it as well, as I absolutely detest 'bullet sponge' enemies. One thing I would not do, though, is reuse the Point Lookout damage bonus method, as the fact that it bypassed DR was incredibly cheap.

OP That was a good poll.

I like bullet sponges in fo, because fo is a stat based game where I will without a doubt be the biggest bullet sponge of them all.

In a modern military on-line shooter I don t want them, but in fo I do.
It makes no difference if you have to shoot them 57 times because of armor or pure hit points.

The NPCs don t stand a chance against a human brain playing a level 20 courier. The best thing they can do is make some of them have a lot more hp than us. They don t scare me. When my video game guy dies I m actually happy. When I can 2 shot Super Mutant Masters while they are spraying me with a mini gun, I am not happy.

Taking the stats out, and having 1 and 2 shot kills all the time would turn this into a full blown shooter with more talking. If I want people to go down everytime with 1 head shot I ll go play SOCOM.

Bullet sponges are absolutely needed to counter how powerful our players get. Fo nv is way past over due for some real bullet sponges.

I haven t seen any of these in fo3 or fo nv.

I have seen things in (fo3 mostly) that could kill me if I was dumb, so harder to kill yes, but nearly impossible....... no