Hardcore Health Overhaul

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ATTENTION:

This mod does not work well with the next gen update. For some inexplicable reason, the next-gen update screws up any mod that edits npc records. It'll cause your game to stutter super hard. Don't know why that is, and I don't know how to fix it, and frankly I don't care, because I won't be updating my game anytime soon. Unfortunately, the next-gen update breaks a whole bunch of mods, so if you haven't already downgraded, then I recommend you do.

What's the deal with bullet sponges?

Fallout 4 has way too many unnecessary bullet sponges, and at the same time, some seemingly tough creatures are laughably weak in comparison. For example, a raider has 30hp, but a gunner brigadier has 1300hp. Meanwhile, a BEHEMOTH has 1000hp. Seriously? This mod fixes all of that nonsense. Now the health values for enemy types are much more reasonable and predictable, while still following the vanilla rarity system. So for example, a basic raider now has 100hp, but a gunner brigadier has 250hp, and the big bad behemoth now has 3000hp.

What's the goal?

The Goal is to make fallout feel more grounded and I M M E R S I V E. That means less dependence on levelling your character to become a living god, and more on you being a good player that knows how to handle every situation. The overall balancing is geared toward being realistic, while also allowing some leeway for gameplay purposes. Basically, the balancing is simliar to other shooter games like Rainbow Six Siege and Call of Duty. The time to kill is quick, but it's not quite as brutal as a mil-sim, where everyone dies in 1 or 2 hits. So for an example, At 100 hp, a human target will die in 4 shots from a 5. 56 rifle. at 250, it will take 8 shots to kill, and that's before armor is taken into account. For a max level gunner (or player character) with good armor, it'll likely take 12 shots or more from an intermediate rifle to put them down, assuming every hit is a torso shot that is. A headshot will heavily reduce the shots to kill. Most of the time it'll be 1-2 headshots. Of course, it's a very different experience when it comes to the various mutated creatures in the wasteland, the big ones can be quite tanky, but you can still kill them fairly quick if you use the right tools, like explosives or a heavy weapon.

What exactly does this mod do?

-Adjusts Health and Resistance Values. No more ridiculous bullet sponges or health scaling. Every NPC has been given a concrete health range which makes sense and correlates to their overall size and toughness, so only giant monsters have big health bars. Basically, the bigger they are, the more health they have. So humans range from 100-250, but Super mutants are much more massive, so they range from 400-60