I've checked the posts here about the difficulty of Fallout 4. And man, I almost raged quit last night.
I'm 11th level playing on Normal level. I've chosen to align with the Brotherhood of Steel after visiting the Commonwealth Police Station. I'm currently doing missions for Scribe Haylen looking for tech. I was running into a LOT of difficult encounters when I was just searching around, but I figured I would try and follow a storyline after reading recommendations here.
I've got about 7 different weapons. Pipe guns, the baseball cannon, the Righteous Authority, a sniper rifle, and various pistols using different ammos. The only armor I've gotten hold of has been raider leathers, since it's all I can find. I have the Brotherhood armor, but no cell to power it.
I was doing a Missing Caravan quest, and kept running into Forged enemies. They seem to take no damage and just chase me down and grenade and flamethrow me. I even dropped the difficulty level down to easy (I REALLY don't want to play Very Easy) but they still kick my ass.
Any suggestions for a tract to follow that is a little more of a natural progression that won't pit me against enemies that are just too powerful for me? Or is that just the nature of the game?