Hi !

I know this is something that not most of the players might be interested, but I would really love to have an Iron Man or permanent death mode in this game, like with only one save that auto saves constantly and that will not let you load it again if you die.

Personally I just love this kind of feature because it increases exponentially the tension, the immersion and the feeling of achievement. Specially for a game in this kind of post-apocalyptic setting with so much emphasis survival.

Yes I could just play the game with one save and delete it if I get killed, but it is just not the same, because by giving myself control over that, there is no real danger of loosing it anymore.

Can′t wait for the release...

I wouldn't mind seeing that myself, but you probably shouldn't expect it. The player can impose such a restriction upon himself, and I don't believe that there's much support for such an option.

Dead-is-dead is a really popular way of playing all of Bethesda's games. But it does require self-control.

that de-escalated quickly.


DiD mod?

I've never tried to play this way and it would be interesting. I doubt you'll see it officially from Beth though so I think self control or a mod will have to be your solution

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Real hardcoe players reformat their HDDs and sell the game on death

You only do that? You aren't a real hardcoe player unless you destroy the computer/game console your character died on.

You're not a real hard core gamer unless you retire from playing videogames forever when your PC dies.

I bury my console in a grave and have a priest say a few words

You're a bunch of casuals... If you die in the game, you die in real life.

but...but...but...

Filthy casuals.

normally a game with Iron man mode offer better rewards or something to make the player play that mode, i dont think Bethesda will put that mode they normally dont put any loot behind any mode.

Plus u always can play that mode w/o be introduce on the game.

Todd Howard is Kayaba Akihiko!?

i will love to see a improve version of the hardcoe mode from NV that a Permanent death mode

That is precisely my point, the expression by itself says it all, self-control; which means that YOU are yourself still in control and that at any moment you could choose not to delete the save or whatever. I used to play Skyrim that way, but the tension was not half of what I felt while playing games with an actual Iron Man mode like Diablo or Xcom.

My only problem with an Ironman mode in the game itself, and not just self-imposed, is that the bugs in Bethesda games make it untenable. How frustrating would it be if your one Ironman save got borked because of a bug you had no control over? Most of the bugs I saw in Skyrim that stopped me in my tracks could be fixed with a simple reload of the save.

Ya op I highly doubt there going to add an ironman mode or any other modes so your best bet is doing what the dead is dead players do.

In a game this size?.. I don't see it as being that fun unless all your doing is a pure main mission only run and I doubt I'll be doing that any time soon. With all the exploration I plan to be doing I'm sure to die quite a lot simply by falling off crap and meandering into areas I know nothing about. Imagine the terrible feeling you'd have if you'd been doing an iron man run for 200 some odd hours and then died.

I'm old so I actually remember when you played a game and had maybe 3 lives and if you lost them you had to start over from the beginning. I also remember finally getting my characters in D&D up in levels and them getting eaten by dragons or whatever. I still have a moment of silence when I think of those fallen heroes. I think I'll just continue going the DiD route.

uhhhmm....just delete your character when you die? And you might want to make back ups of your saves, sometimes bethesda games get a little buggy (especially when you throw mods at the game) and you'll need to reload.

As a side note where are people getting that fallout is about survival? Fallout new vegas had food coming from everywhere, and you're practically drowning in stimpacks by level 5. Fallout three didn't even have tedium mode, the biggest survival problem i had in it was running out of bullets for for the fun guns, and having to switch out to the ol' hunting rifle.

I'm not sure a mod can disable save capabilities like would be required to make it anything other than what it already is....purely self-imposed rules.

Eh...if that's how a person wants to play, more power to them. I leave that kind of hot mess alone.

A friend of mine named every (A)D&D character he made "Dead Bob" until they hit level 5. Then he'd give them a proper name. Figured there was no sense in putting any effort into a character that was likely going to end up worm food anyways.