I've seen some people's post in the past about role playing their on hardcoe Mode. I just need some tips to get started like how many Stimpacks I should equipped etc.

Who knows what's hard for you, figure it out yourself. How should anyone know how many stimpacks will make your game easy?


Since now we are obligated to imagine features in our games, just use your imagination. I think I might as well start playing Mario as RPG, I will just imagine stats, it's the same. Welcome to the new age of gaming.......

Minimum for Survival Mode:

- 5 Stimpacks

- 1 Psycho

- 1 Med-X

- 1 RAD-X

- 1 RAD-Away

In my case it' a power armor, without it who knows if I wouldn've gotten far. The game is still difficult for me at level 17. But I am getting as many power armors as I can.

I an currently trying to move 3 power armors to my base at red rocket station, and it's being annoying so far because I don't use fast travel, so I go switching PA along the way, while I encounter deathclaws, mirelurks, and mutants, first a deathclaw killed me, then a bunch of mirelurks appeared out of nowhere and I had to jump in the water like I usually do to avoide enemy damage, but it turns out they can attack you underwater as well, I was trapped under a bridge because they were blocking my way out, and I couldn't attack them back because I was underwater, so I was just there slowly waiting for my death; then after I revived and avoided all those [censored], I went back to switch my power armor and found about 7 or 8 super mutants, I don't even know how I killed them all, but 1 survived and he finished me. It's been a slow progression for me.

Ah, and don't forget to get one companion with you all the time too, they are strong in survival mode and they can divert the attention of strongest enemies while you worry about throwing grenades to cripple their limbs, or simply shot them from a safe place.

Up to this point I am still relying on the Fatman.

Really!?

My suggestion is to do whatever you feel is about right.

Here are some tips

- Like keeping only one or two weapons and keeping only a limited supply of ammo for the weapons. You might want to take a melee weapon as a back up.

- Do not use fast travel and walk. Do not sprint or run unless you are in combat.

- Play Dead is Dead if Character dies you have to delete the character and start from scratch. Which for many games this is hardcoe

- Eat and Drink on regular time schedule or close to it. Also Drink water after combat or if Running

- Sleep about 6-8 hours everyday. You can choose if you are a night person or a day person and try to keep to that schedule.

There are others as well but just a few suggestions.

Remember with whatever you decide to use just have fun playing the game. If you are not having fun with those rules than try other ones or make adjustments.

Go play New Vegas, becaouse in Fallout 4 is impossible to have survival difficutly as it shoud be

I just needed to get some crafting perks up and now I pretty well own it. On Survival of course. I have not died in almost a week.

It's tactics of course. I have guns that are good enough and I run from any fights I don't control. Running away is your most powerful tool.

No VATS at all.

Sounds like suicide mode!! lol

10 of all HP and Rad chems.

As for the others... up to you. Personally, I stay far away from drugs irl, so my play style is to sell all my Jet, Buffout, Psycho, etc and never use them at all.

Try this...


Before heading out anywhere (missions or exploring) run into a room and drop a grenade...then carry on with your adventure


Bring 2 stims no radaway..no chems..2 guns 1 combat knife and wear the vault suit only..


Turn off floating quest markers..



Oh and save often..

Limiting fast travel is good for immersion, also you don't need to carry 6 rifles and a fat man. I just try to imagine my character trying to haul all that across the wasteland. So I just play with one, two handed rifle, and one pistol. Mixed in with a few explosives and one small melee weapon like a machete. Usually carry a couple items of food and water, and I always have some food and water when my character wakes up from sleeping.

Hoping someone makes a mod like New Vegas's hardcoe mode, and it becomes available to consoles. New Vegas had it right, just need to add some weight to all chems now.

This part of why I have a Power Armor focused build. I play on Survival and am expected to fight and defeat, literally hundreds of enemies in an average day. I am expected to return from all this in basically untouched shape.

I do, but I use the best weapons and armor I can arrange.

I play with 2 weapons. 1 melee. 1 molotov or nade.

Good,Crazy,and insane stuff! Thanks!!

10 stims rad x and rad away, bring food. Carry minimal ammo and use melee. Play from scratch and head directly to Goodneighbor, congrats now youre in hell

Limit everything in your aid section to five units. thats it and carry only up to 200 of every different ammo types like 200 10mm, 200 .50 etc dont fast travel play on survival and of course this game will be easy peasy no matter what rules you follow if your a heavely invested sneak character so dont rely to much on it and have a balance between john woo style and ghost recon style.

I tried playing on Survival. It was really rough whenever you encountered the bloatflies or bloodbugs. Their poison did damage faster than a stimpack could heal it. That first deathclaw you encounter in Concord I think it took me almost 90 minutes to kill it. It would basically one shot you even in power armor. Then it got easy for a while. Then it just became outright annoying to get a stealth ambush shot to the head on a mob and they lost maybe 20% health.

The biggest problem is the jumps in mob levels because of the way the system works for mob levels. You enter an area the first time and all mobs within the mini-areas are given a level base don your current level. So the current area gets easier, but when you enter that new area for the first time it goes right back to being ridiculously hard because of the level scaling. Mobs go back to killing you in a couple hits and you unload loads of ammo on them just to kill one mob.

Honestly, the game is fairly well balanced, depending on how you spend your perks and weapons you use. Yes, a large caveat, I know. For example, Imo, playing on survival you will need legendary weapons fairly fast early on. Why? because you do .5 of your normal damage, and their damage is 200% of normal. You will blow through obscene amounts of ammo fast.

Things to keep in mind,

if you spend all your perks in damage % increases, don't be surprised if the game goes easy mode on you. A point or two invested will keep things interesting. Just avoid going all out until your sure its not going to gimp your game.

Avoid legendary with + dmg abilities on automatic weapons. For example, a minigun with explosive trait will shred anything. (Which is a shame, since miniguns are the only gun utterly useless without a legendary prefix) - Side note: Some lower caliber weapons are not bad with that perk -- just keep an eye on it, and ask yourself, is this balanced?

Avoid the companion Maccready. - His companion perk, is flat out broken, and will give you 95% chance at a vats hit no matter what. (If you are on a pc though there is a patch)

Decide what type of weapons you want to use and get the skills that apply to them first. i.e. automatic, pistol, rifle.