Fugacity - Vanilla-Plus Balance and Difficulty Overhaul

Fugacity

City of Ruins

Requirements:

All Official DLC

Introduction

Fugacity (pronounced few-gas-ity) is a lightweight, vanilla-plus difficulty and balance mod in a similar vein to Ascension, JSawyer Ultimate Edition, and Elegy. It provides a comprehensive set of balance tweaks to make the game subtly harder and more consistent, but preserves the spirit of the vanilla game. It is intended to be used as a base to build a modded load order around, or for those that want a one-stop mod for experiencing Fallout 3 again.

If anyone is interested, the name Fugacity comes from a chemical thermodynamics term related to the activity of a real gas (as opposed to an ideal or perfect gas). It's literary definition refers to a state of transience or evanescence, which makes it a suitably sciency-sounding alternative to Ascension and Elegy.

Description

Fugacity blends the gameplay and balance of Fallout 3 with changes from Fallout: New Vegas and JSawyer Ultimate. It aims to preserve the spirit and feel of Fallout 3, but with the improved challenge and reward of the latter.

A comprehensive list of changes is available in the Docs tab of this mod page. Below are some headline features.

Player Stats

Health and Carry Weight have both been decreased, similar to in JSawyer Ultimate; however, Carry Weight is slightly higher in Fugacity compared to JSawyer due to the larger number of weapons that the player usually carries in Fallout 3. The amount of experience required to level up has also been increased to match the formula in JSawyer. Action Points regeneration is now slower, and the VATS system has been made to match how it works in Fallout: New Vegas (lower accuracy, lower critical damage bonus, no increased weapon degradation, no extra damage resistance).

The number of skill points available per level-up has been decreased to be more similar to Fallout: New Vegas, although it is still possible to max out all skills if you collect all the skill books and bobbleheads. The base number of SPECIAL points has been decreased from 40 to 35, meaning you will now have to decrease a SPECIAL in order to increase one above 5. This change has been made as the bobbleheads each provide a free SPECIAL point and there is more opportunity to take the Intense Training perk due to the large number of perk selections available in Fallout 3 compared to Fallout: New Vegas.

Loot

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