Hardcore reverts back to Fallout 3's harsh system, in which a Deathclaw's first swipe will send your beloved companion's head sailing - and it's not as funny when happens to one of your guys. In normal, your companions might get knocked out in a fight, but they'll get back up again once combat's over (assuming you survived). Recommended Perks: Cannibal, Ghastly Scavenger 5: Companions stay dead Just an hour or two of shut-eye every day or so keeps you bright-eyed and bushy-tailed as you can be. Fallout New Vegas: Character Build Guide for 100 Completion - Very Hard, Hardcore. As for sleep, you don't exactly need the recommended eight hours a night. Fallout New Vegas PERFECT Character Build Guide (BEST GUIDE EVER). The worst that's likely to happen to you is getting irradiated due to drinking dirty water and eating too much Radroach meat, but a quick fast-travel trip to the doctor's office will fix you up lickity split. Whenever you get a notification that you're suffering from minor starvation, just eat something. You can't swing a dead iguana without hitting something to eat - and even if you could, you could eat the iguana. This aspect of Hardcore mode is disappointingly un-hardcore due to the abundance of tasty food, fresh water and comfy mattresses. As a courier once left for dead by a mysterious man in a striped suit, the player must now set out to find their assailant and uncover the secrets of the enigmatic ruler of New Vegas.

In effect, your health bar is diminished from near-immortality to frighteningly finite. The post-apocalyptic Fallout universe expands into Nevada in this new title in the franchise. But Hardcore mode changes all that: now a stimpack will take several seconds so to work its magic, and in the heat of battle you're almost certainly going to take damage faster than you're healing.

Those syringes full of magical juice, both the normal and super varieties, can stimulate your body from battered bones and shredded flesh back to Isaiah Mustafa -like condition in the blink of an eye, meaning that your health bar is basically infinite until you've exhausted your supply. In normal mode, you're basically invulnerable until you run out of stimpacks. This is the biggie - all the rest of the changes combined won't affect you as much as one. More like 'HELL Yes!' 1: Stimpacks don't heal instantly What's Hardcore mode, and are you hardcore enough to play it? Don't jump in blind: read our guide to the five big differences, and tips for how to survive the increased deadliness of the Hardcore Nevada wastes.

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