I've really fucked up with making my characters. You should have blurted out advice, Crudblud. I am disappoint. Time to start the game over.
I just assumed, since you had beaten the first game, you would understand what to look for in a character build to some extent, therefore would understand that the premades are not any good. They're good if you are super experienced and looking for a challenge, but for a first timer, definitely not. Out of curiosity, how far did you get?
Well, I
didn't beat the first game. That's why I said "characters," plural. I chose a shitty premade in that one too, and it only slowly began dawning on me just how much I had fucked myself as I progressed further and further into the game. I finally gave up when I started getting my ass handed to me by deathclaws and nightkin. I had explored pretty much the whole map and completed a fair number of sidequests, though, so I considered myself ready to move on to F2 - in which I had really only just arrived at Klamath when I realized I had made the same mistake. It's the fact that I'll have to restart the first one that particularly irritates me.
It's all Bethesda's fault, of course. The loose, "jack of all trades" roleplaying that they encourage in their games definitely isn't an option in these titles, and that threw me off.