Fallout New Vegas: Hardcore Mode

[Onyx Oblivion]

Hardcore.

But if it gives me Morrowind flashbacks, I'm out. Like, fun goes away at the cost of immersion.

FATIGUE DRAINED WHILE RUNNING. You need fatigue to cast spells successfully and hit things successfully. So I have to walk everywhere in order to hit the hordes of cliff racers.

And the Steam version of Morrowind makes me jump through a thousand hoops to mod it, so fuck that. I've modded Oblivion on Steam, though. Mostly fan patches. I love the vanilla game too damn much to do anything besides add horses and a house to Shivering Isles.

 

[andreas3K]

Hardcore all the way on the first run. In Fallout 3 I always had too much ammo, too much money and food items were useless. Now I'll have a reason not to hoard ammo and I'll be spending money on food which is now vital. It should bring back that survival struggle which was quite fun and went missing at levels 5 and up.

 

[Hr Habberdasher]

Hardcore, hopefully it will bring back that feeling from the first 20 minute of Fallout 3 where you were shitting yourself due to lack of stimpaks and ammo.

 

[Wolfram23]

Hardcore mode, with the wild west perk or whatever that is, for all the funny bits. Probably start on hard difficulty and if it's too much I might go down to medium but we'll see. I like a challenge.

 

[Treeinthewoods]

Hardcore for sure, start off on normal difficulty but I may increase it after playing for a while. Also, I've decided to start off as blackheartedly evil as I can be (I usually play through as a good guy the first time for some reason).

 

[nicholaxxx]

normal or hard first, then hardcore

 

[k3v1n]

first hardcore, then normal, then hard normal, then I'll mod the hell out of it

 

[etherlance]

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OH WHAT FUN!!!!

Im trying it on hardcore first.

"DAMN IT ALL NINJA'D"!!!!!

 

[etherlance]

Could someone please remind me what happens in hardcore mode in fallout vegas?

 

[Agayek]

I'm almost certainly going to play vanilla first, and switch to hardcore once I know "the lay of the land" and all that. I'm really bad at planning beforehand and my usual strategy in games like Fallout 3 and the like is "Run in really fast and proceed to smash faces". Something tells me that wouldn't work too well for a hardcore playthrough.

 

[Evil the White]

Hardcore straight off. I relish the challenge.

 

[ShockValue]

I plan on starting right away on hardcore mode.

 

[LastMondaysHangover]

I'll go easy first, beat the game and switch to hardcore. The game is made to played multiple times after all

 

[Agayek]

Hardcore makes it so you have to eat and drink right? And adds weight to ammo.. anything else?

Specifically, for the serious Fallout fan, New Vegas introduces a Hardcore option from the get-go, allowing them to bypass early tutorials and live a more difficult post-nuclear life. Players opting to go hardcore will have to stave off hunger and dehydration, and will be required to visit doctors for more serious injuries. Hardcore also more harshly limits the amount of ammo one can carry, applying weight to bullets. Stimpacks won't heal instantly, but will heal over time.

According to this [http://kotaku.com/5528480/fallout-new-vegas-adds-hardcore-mode-weapon-mods--more] Kotaku article, the only thing you missed is that getting healed up after a fight takes a lot more time and energy.

 

[Zaksav91]

Yes Hardcore will be amazing. Not knowing where anything is, preparing for the unknown, taking into consideration EVERYTING. Gah it will definately bring up the immersion factor which I'm a big believer in.

 

[Evil the White]

Could someone please remind me what happens in hardcore mode in fallout vegas?

Might have been ninja'd to this, but as far as I am aware:
You do less damage.
You take more damage.
Bullets have a weight in a similar manner to the original Fallouts (so for example, 12 10mm rounds (10mm pistol clip size) might have a weight of 1, or something to that effect, with missiles and nukes weighing more). Basically meaning you can't be a mobile armoury anymore.

 

[GonzoGamer]

Could someone please remind me what happens in hardcore mode in fallout vegas?

Your companions can die (otherwise they're knocked unconscious), you need water and food or you die (if you don't have enough to get you from A to B, you can't fast travel either), Ammo has weight, healing isn't instant, and Fisto will violate you on sight.

 

[Vivace-Vivian]

Normal then Hardcore.

 

[Tibike77]

And here I was thinking "hardcore" mode is having a single save slot, being only able to save when you quit the game, a save which gets deleted when you die.

 

[TheColdHeart]

Normal to begin with so I can learn where key things are etc then once I've finished it attempt hardcore with some prior knowledge. But I'll probably be absolutely rubbish at it.