I seem to have a problem with hardcoe Mode. Sometimes, but not always, when I save a game, quit, and come back later my thirst, hunger, and sleep bars have jumped up significantly. About a game day worth of time, enough that I have thirst penalties.
I am not sure if it is related, but it seems to have just started recently. I downloaded all the DLC while Steam was having that big sale last week. I think it started then, but I had not played New Vegas for quite a while.
Any known solution to this, or work around? Or console commands to allow me to set the numbers back where they should be?
As for mods I only have a couple of small ones, one that adds eye patches, and one that adds the stealth field to the Chinese Stealth Armor, nothing else. Other than all the DLC that is.