you wont get a more awesome/immersive experience playing FNV than this.

only use the travelling caravans to sell loot.

dont use towns, make sure you have a high survival skill and craft all your ammo on a workbench.

Don't you have to buy the crafting material at town merchants?

simply you can breakdown useless bullets to get the lead and prime for making bullets for your current weapon.

I'll just stick with no fast travel or HUD. Choosing not to shop in towns doesn't make anything less hardcoe

I fail to see how not visiting towns makes it a more "immersive" experience. That makes it less realistic that a wastelander wouldn't take advantage of settlements.

No thank you. If I wanted to torture myself, I'd go play Fallout 3 and listen to stickys storys while travelling.

I did no HUD, 4 ST, hardcoe, No Fast Travel or Companions, and only upgraded speech, repair, and survival. It's hard, brah.

Oh yeah? Well I used console commands to set all my stats and skills to 1... Then I punched out 2 giant rad scorpions, a deathclaw, and President Kimbal's vertibird.

hardcoe!!

Seriously though, there's nothing immersive about never stopping in a town. Even the caravan merchants stop in towns. Because they're not idiots.

Unless you're particularly trying to role-play some hermit who despises civilization and all it stands for. In which case, more power to you.

I play hardcoe very hard and it's not really. Restricting yourself to the wilderness just makes you a country boy, there is no extra realism.

No saves either, if you die reroll and try again.

I would actually like a mod that disabled fast travel, but the other things you mentioned..nah

There was this massive debate before New Vegas came out over whether or not fast travel should be in the game. It basically boiled down to this*:

Position #1: I don't want to use fast travel.

Position #2: Well then don't, nobody is putting a gun to your head.

Position #1: Well, the thing is... I don't want anybody to have an optional feature because I can't trust myself not to use it. I'm weak willed, you see.

Position #2: And now the truth comes out.


*Warning: Some or all of the above argument may or may not have been highly simplified.

I know, the debate rages in Skyrim forum right now
I dont want that the devs shoudnt have don fast travel, but I want a mod that disable it, so I can try it out. Becuse you know what? Im to weak willed

I don't get what so terrible about fast travel. Especially on a map as huge as what we have in FO3 and FONV. By the time it gets to be a real bother (that is, by the time you've explored enough of the map for fast travel to really save time) you probably have no issues killing the bloatflies, rad scorps and random bandits that you might encounter along the way. Really the only bother I can see: more time walking is more time for legion/NCR goon squads to show up and ambush your companions. (lost ED-E to that on a HC playthrough. Heard gunfire, figured it was just more of the random background noise, then "you have lost the enhanced sensor perk" ... Grrr! Reload last save.)

How about this for a truly immersive game; never save. Or rather, only save when you quit playing for the day, and immediately delete that save once you start up again. Companion dies? Tough. You die? Oh well, start over again from Lvl 1.

Oh, and no VATS. Real combat doesn't pause for you to make a shopping list of body parts to cripple.

Just curious, because I'm sure someone has done it: how long does it take to walk from one corner to the other? Say, Nellis to Mojave Outpost. I know it'll vary based on agi, armor, etc... but ballpark it. We looking 20-30 min or 1-2 hours?

Just seems like wasted time to me. Why not just fast travel, guess how long it would take to walk there sans fast travel... And put down the controller for that period of time. Spend that time making a sammich or something. It'll be a really good sammich too, cuz you'll probably spend an hour on it

May have seemed like a good idea when you thought of it. One problem.

Game stability.

I've only had like two crashes with NV so far. Which makes it more stable than Fallout 3 for me. But others have had way more crashes and they save regulary to avoid losing hours of work to a crash.

@Deven: thems the wastes for you. Sometimes you die by Deathclaw or Cazadore. Other times you're just shopping in Megaton, minding your own business when some jerk sets off the towns namesake. And still other times, all the Gecko Stake you've been eating catches up with you and your world seems to freeze up before you die of a heart attack. Shoulda had some desert salad, ya fattie