Purpose:

If you don't like shooting at bullet sponges, this mod may help.

This mod attempts to balance and increase the damage model of the game by editing variables, body part multipliers, and eventually explosion and weapon data. Perks may be modified later to prevent silly modifiers that unbalance the damage model.

What this mod currently does:

This mod dynamically increases the damage to player and NPCs alike via their creature type and locational hit. Biological creatures are easier to kill, including yourself, while robots are generally harder to kill than humans. (But still easier than vanilla robots)

The damage is amplified by damage modifiers on the individual body parts of the creature you hit, so there is no flat modifier, but generally you can see an increase of about three times the effective damage on human creatures.

Armor can only stop a portion of the damage taken, and while power armor can save your skin, it does not make you invincible like vanilla. Power Armor will effectively make you take 50% damage. Lighter armor will only protect in a 5-25% range. You will still notice a difference in wearing power armor, and it can save your skin.

NMM Install:

make sure you have downloaded the STRINGS files in the manual download and place this folder in your Fallout 4\Data folder.

Manual Installation Instructions:

1. Download the .rar file and extract the DamageMultiplier.esp into your Fallout4\Data folder.
2. Navigate to your Local Appdata Folder a quick way would be to paste and enter %localappdata% into your run bar, then navigate to the Fallout4 folder.
3. Edit the plugins.txt file by adding DamageMultiplier.esp in a new line under Fallout4.esm.
4. Make plugins.txt file read only by right clicking the file, selecting properties, and checking the read only box and applying.
5. Set the ingame difficulty to Survival.
6. Level Up your character or start a new game.