Kaltenbrunner: First of all, I must say I've played the first game and did perfectly fine, I did all of the quests and killed the master perfectly fine without even having to resort to rifles or anything better for half of the game because of my terrible ST.

But that, that was like a cheerful ride in the park compared to Fallout 2. I'm still (After 4 days) trying to kill the Rat God and it is inhuman! I got like 40% or 50% chance to hit, but I end up missing sometimes up to 10 hits one after another, and the few ones I do manage to land hit in between 1 and 3 hit points.

Yeah, my build isn't the best suited, having tagged no melee skill, but still my lowest attribute is PE in 5, and I have 10 luck and finesse, which means 20% critical chance (Criticals that hardly ever happen, too). I've tried everything, have been to all the trainers, have done all of the quests, been using "hit n' run" tactics and I'm even playing on the lowest difficulty possible, but still it just seems like I have the most horrible luck in the world. Am I doing something wrong or is the game this insanely hard?

Kaltenbrunner: ... Am I doing something wrong or is the game this insanely hard?

DeMignon: Until your character is stronger, you have to kite. Hit the enemy and back off. The idea is to let your opponent waste all his action points by catching you, thus leaving him unable to strike this turn. Now hit him and back off again.