LootBalance

For me, the completely unbalanced loot system in Fallout 4 makes the list of top problems in the game. You can change the game difficulty all you want, you're still going to end up with enough Stimpaks to fully heal yourself 50 times over, and so much ammunition that you stopped counting 15 levels ago.

Difficulty should mean more than how much damage you deal/take

I was appalled to find that Fallout 4 Survival Mode didn't make any adjustments to how much loot you find, sure the challenges it presents can be quite fun in the beginning - but after a couple hours of play, you've collected a large amount of any item you could ever need, and none of those challenges hold any weight. You might as well be playing vanilla.

But the normal game faces the same problem, I can set the difficulty as high as I like, I'm still able to un-endingly heal myself, buff myself up with any of the 40 chems I'm carrying, and spray out bullets like I'm playing Wolfenstein.

LootBalance is my effort to answer this problem by introducing the missing challenge of scarcity into Fallout 4, in order to create a more compelling scavenging experience. The useful items that are way to common in the base game will be found considerably less, making them a far more valuable resource to the player. Whether they be Stimpaks, healing items, radiation meds, bobby pins, grenades, ammunition, or other - finding them will incur a moment of gratefulness rather than the automatic response of throwing them onto the pile.

There are a few loot overhaul mods out there that all have their benefits and negatives, with this mod though I have tried to retain as much of the vanilla distribution of loot as possible, just with less of it. You'll feel like you're playing Fallout 4 with the difficulty option that should have been there from the beginning.

(All are optional)

Find Less Items

Affects containers and the Worldspace/Interior cells. Includes:

• []Stimpaks, Radaway, and Rad-X and other health items.

  []Enhancement Chems.

  []Food and drink.

  []Grenades.

  []Bobby Pins.

  []Valuable Junk.

  []Ammunition.

  Additional

  • []Health Items have been adjusted to complement the reduction of Stimpaks.

    []Food takes twice as long to heal you and the HP yield is reduced by a third (generally).

    []Some Junk items have had their components and other properties adjusted.

    []Some Food items have had their values boosted (like alcohol).

    []Some Post-war items no longer spawn in Pre-war locations.

    []Extreme mode - It's LootBalance but with a giant middle finger in every First Aid Kit.

    []Break down and craft ammunition to account for the reduction.