Probably for no other reason than it's Dead Money, it's not supposed to be fair and balanced. A lot of people are just so used to the ghosts being so relentless that making that change would feel less like a bugfix and more like a difficulty mod.
True. I always thought the game over-exaggerated the threat of the Ghost People, anyway. Just unload into their legs in VATS and if you don't dismember them (you almost always do), then hit them with the knife spear while they're down. Sure they're annoying in groups but that's what the auto rifle is for.
Survivalist's Rifle isn't exactly a "hidden" gem, but damned if it hasn't been my bread and butter for ten years.
That part of the lore gets a lot easier to swallow if you accept the theory that Sinclair signed up to test run some Big MT experiments. The defunct hazmat suits, the holo-emitters, the vending machines, the cosmic knives etc. In exchange for all of that intensely powerful space age tech that's seemingly stored inside of the Casino vault further below, they fund his dream bomb shelter disguised to look like an opulent and imperial gambling den.
Elijah's Advanced LAER. Fragile as hell, especially with Built To Destroy and Max Charge MF cells, but oh baby that damage! 84 per shot with 260 dps? Talk about a face melter.
Imagine how terrifying an irradiated mountain lion could be.
Opposite for me, on my sneaking sniper build on Very Hard difficulty I was one shotting super mutant masters in the head with a scoped hunting rifle, shit was completely broke to my benefit.
"if it's brown lay down, if it's black fight back, if it's white goodnight, if its nuclear, oh fu-"
On Survival its such a nuisance. No fast travel (unless modded) and if a settlement is attacked but you havent done much to it they're screwed. I just use them for little save spots and explore the surrounding area.
One reason I really hate this is because it so severely limits roleplay ability. I don't really roleplay in RPGs, but I know lots of people do. It'd make it hard to, say, do sidequests until the main quest is complete, but Bethesda still puts so many of them right in your direct path. What kind of parent would stop to collect comic books when his only son has been kidnapped and is off somewhere in a nuked hellhole?
Not much of an RPG where you can make up a build and maybe give them a personality and see how the world interacts to you, only to see dialog options about your kid and it just centers you back to what Bethesda wants you to be.
My first playthrough, I never even met the master. I armed the nuke in the cathedral basement and hauled ass out of there.
Ngl I'd love a "Joseph B. Steyn, esq" simulator (Doesn't that look official!).
