Difficulty Modes | Fallout 4 Wiki

Difficulty Modes in Fallout 4 affect a playthrough's challenge. This caters to the preferences of different players in the game to give them the choice of running the game easily or running the game with more challenges. This page covers a list of all difficulty settings that players can choose and information on the changes applied to the selected difficulty. This page contains information on levels of difficulties and their effects on gameplay.

Fallout 4 Difficulty Modes

Difficulty Modes Information

• Very Easy
• Easy
• Normal
• Hard
• Very hard
• Survival

A New Vegas like hardcore mode is currently released on PC.

Changing difficulties changes damage, resistance of enemies and appearing rate of Legendary Enemies. Legendary Enemies are harder and they have a chance of dropping a Legendary Weapon or Legendary Armor with unique characteristics like better critic chance or that refills AP when doing a critic.

The well known damage table for different difficulty settings:

• The difference between Very Hard and Survival is that Stimpaks's recovery speed is lowered in the latter mode. Also it seems that in Survival, it is more likely that you encounter a Legendary Enemy.

   *  The Adrenaline perk, courtesy of Survival, increases damage by up to 50% when fully stacked.