Originally Posted by coaster 
And that's it. I basically wanted a harder version of Vanilla F3 with a few extra tweaks.
That's pretty much how I played FO3, and I really enjoyed it. In fact, it was one of the best games I've played in the last 5 years.
I used Arwen's XP reducer mod but not the realism tweaks. Does that include iron sights? If not, make sure to install a mod for that.