Did Bethesda somehow (secretely) sneak in an AI tweak? Cause I SWEAR somethings going on... (X360 btw..)

Alright, I'll safely say most of my Characters that reach LV8-10 in that range can 1 hit "Bandit"(s) and "Wolf"(s). OHK almost everytime with my Sword.

I just made a new char. not long ago and I was LV11 and it took me 3-4 hits to kill a "Wolf" and same goes for reg. "Bandit". And on top of that Chief's are like O.O NOW!

It's not necessarily so bad when they have a reg. NON-Enchanted Weapon.. otherwise.. yea ahole [censored]. I've been killed several times by this 1 Chief in this Mine and it's confusing the hell outta me..

Did something happen that I'm now showing up for or something? Don't get it..

NOTE: This is ALL on ADEPT DIFFICULTY. Not Expert.. not Master.. ADEPT.

Yup..

I once played my main character that was lvl 35, then saved and loaded another character that was lvl 15. I swear the world around my lvl 15 char was like from the previous lvl 35 char. I died and when it reloaded auto save sudetley the enemies that just killed my lvl 15 char were a piece of cake. I guess it's a bug of some short...might be that you had the same wierd bug.

I've always found Bandit Chiefs to hit harder than regular bandits. And they can take a lot more punishment too. I havent had any problems with wolves or the like. I can one shot a lot of Bandits with my Glass Bow, especially with sneak attacks, but not all. Takes a few hits in melee

Hmm.

First thing I would ask before saying it's a tweak is did you have the same difficulty as you did for when you were that level on your first character? Did you ramp up the difficulty as you leveled on your first character?

Also, the new patch hasn't released for consoles so unless it was with the last patch, your mind is playing tricks.

I play on adept, Bandit Chiefs are hard, I have to take them 1 on 1 or I will lose, and even then theres no gurantee ill win.

Nope, adept on any char. cept my Nord.. and that was my 1st character. Haven't played him in a long while.

I always play on Adept unless I'm 40+ and feel I can take on Expert/Master. Dragons on Master right off the get go are aggravating imo.