Board 8 > Any New Vegas player who can tell me about the hardcore mode?

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I know the basics like you need to eat, drink, sleep, ammo has a weight, can't heal broken limbs easily etc etc but I want to know if it makes the game much much harder or just hard enough to keep it interesting.

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The latter. It's sometimes annoying having to keep an eye on your weight, but it does add an extra level of roleplaying, having to actually sift through stuff you find, rather than just mashing the button and picking up every bent can and empty syringe you find.

Also, totally play on hard when you do hardcore. I did from the very start the first time I played NV and it's fantastic.

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FAH's pretty much covered it. It's almost more annoying than anything.

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FAHtastic posted...
The latter. It's sometimes annoying having to keep an eye on your weight, but it does add an extra level of roleplaying, having to actually sift through stuff you find, rather than just mashing the button and picking up every bent can and empty syringe you find.

Also, totally play on hard when you do hardcore. I did from the very start the first time I played NV and it's fantastic.

What does higher difficulties change in this game? I hope it's not simple a '' you take more damage and your enemies less '' thing.

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And also the game is much much much more fun that Fallout 3, can't even compare. Glad I got this when it was on sale at gamestop.

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Ammo has weight?

welp I'm definitely doing this ever. I hated weight limits enough already

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Hard is pretty much do less damage/take more damage, but it's not unreasonable. I think stuff heals you less too, but it's been a while since I've played and, to be honest, I've not played 3 or NV on anything other than hard so I can't really compare.

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Weights limit aren't that bad ! Especially in New Vegas, I somehow manage to always have less than 100 units of weight.

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Weight on ammo pretty much just means you have to limit yourself to certain weapons which use certain ammo. Which makes it much more challenging that just carrying an arsenal of weapons and having millions of rounds of ammo for each of them. I just focused on melee and hand-to-hand stuff to make up for ammo and now I'm one-punching everything.

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hardcore is menu management, but I like it!

I personally just use 3 weapons (I just started to they're bad weapons) -> Varmint Rifle with scope and bigger magazine. 9mm pistol with bigger magazine and .357 Magnum. Everything else I sell.

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Also any idea of some place I can use for storage? In Fallout 3 I used the megaton house (obviously) but I have no idea if there are easy to get houses in NV.

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Best LPer ever, Gix ! : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt5YKmP7ecY

you can get your own room in novac, but that might be a bit away from where you are. you can use victor's shack as a home base if you want, it's considered unowned in game.

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I used Novac. You can cope until you get to Novac if you don't do too much exploration early on.

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Ah good, Victor's dead in my game anyway.. found his corpse lying around near Goodpsrings, probably died when I ran back to town with 3 gian radscorpions on my tail at level 2

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victor can't die

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I found his corpse though !

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Best LPer ever, Gix ! : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt5YKmP7ecY

there's a shack just north of the graveyard in goodsprings that you can use, too.


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I'm pretty serious about chocobos.

The status of your hydratation, hunger and sleep isn't on the hud? That's stupid, getting a mod for that asap.

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Why the hell is installing mod so complicated with this game.. For that one damn HUD mod I needed 3 other frigging mod.

And then my game doesn't start anymore. I guess I'll play the hard way.

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Guh, even if I remove all the mods and delete all files related to them my game doesn't want to start.. Guess it's fresh reinstallation time.

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Best LPer ever, Gix ! : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt5YKmP7ecY

It shows you your hunger and all that on your pip boy... and it tells you every time it worsens a stage.

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Conformity and rebellion...both ways are simple-minded--they are only for people who cannot cope with contradiction and ambiguity.

Yeah I know, but I find it stupid to have to check on your pipboy to know if you're starving. I'm pretty sure the courier ain,t a braindead moron.

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Still doesn't work after a fresh re-install.

What the hell kind of mod did I try to install goddamnit.

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Best LPer ever, Gix ! : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt5YKmP7ecY

Yay! Finally got it to work. The FOD/H20/SLP meters go up slower than I thought they'd go, but I guess it really prevents you from fast travelling.

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Best LPer ever, Gix ! : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt5YKmP7ecY

like I said, it tells you when you have a lack of h20 fod or slp

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*Enter Gommorah*
*Buy 500 caps*

10 minutes later

*Leaves with 18000 caps and banned from playing*

U mad Gommorah?

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Ayuyu posted...
Yeah I know, but I find it stupid to have to check on your pipboy to know if you're starving. I'm pretty sure the courier ain,t a braindead moron.

He was shot in the head. The part of his brain that tells him he's hungry/thirsty could have been damaged.

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