Having a lot of trouble with groups with rifles. If they get lucky they can 1-2 shot the main character from max distance in the 1st round of combat. There seems to be no defense against this. Armor seems to do squat, best defense seems to be have a lot more people than them and fight fire with fire, or rifles with rifles in this case. So, if they have two riflemen use 10 riflemen, even then if the enemy gets lucky they can still win in the first round of combat. 100 damage plus hits are common in the game even in the early game. Even regular crossbows can hit for 90+ damage. Considering the default for your main character is 100 hpts which never increases, the game seems nigh impossible. Motorcycle helmet and leather jacket doesn't seem to help. Conflict avoidance is too random. Sometimes three groups of bandits attack and other times none attack. Yet, as you progress bandit encounters increase.
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