I have searched but all I see is people talk about Hard Core mode but I do not know what it entails. For me, "Hard Core" is once you die, you die, you are dead and no saving from a previous saved game. Now I see people talking about sleeping, eating and other things. This is hard core? This dosn't sound like hard core, this sounds like real life. I can understand people want this in a game, but why is it called hard core?

Does anyone even know what "Hard Core" will be like in Fallout New Vegas or are people guessing?

Also what does hard core mean to you? As I said, it means once you are dead, game over, time to start a new character and new game. No going back to previoius saves. Just like in Diablo II where once you died, you do not continue anymore and game over. So you really had to be carefull in your decisions so you wouldn't die.

hardcoe mode isnt some 133T $h00t3r M0d3. It's more like a 'survival in the wastes' mode. Everything has weight, water and food are a must, healing is much more difficult. and a few other things as well.

I don't think you looked very hard. This forum is full of pvssyr, it's mentioned on the offical website, and here's the wiki link: http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout%3A_New_Vegas#hardcoe_mode

Thank you for the fast reply. So hard core means eating and sleeping now? Why would this be called hard core? I would call this "Real Life".

Am I getting old now? Well yeah I am, where "sick" means really good or awsome now I guess. So what do you call when you die and you start a new game and can't continue from your game because you died?

Also is this an option in New Vegas? Where was this mentioned? Anyone show a link for that?

They won't make you start again when you die. Although there's nothing stopping you from doing that yourself. Be as hardcoe as can be.

Don't believe you -did- search because putting hardcoe Hard Core or any varient will give you dozens of results of the same question being asked in the past 2-3 weeks..but you have your answer.

In hardcoe mode, you play like it's in real life. You got'a eat, you got'a drink, all at a certain time, or else you'll wither away. Medicine takes time to heal you, ya got'a sleep a certain amount of hours...hardcoe is hardcoe, unlike Fallout 3, where medicines take a second to heal you, you don't HAVE to sleep, eat, drink, or any of that.

And supposedly when you die, you stay dead :/ Ain't that screwy? XDD

But totally AWESOME :3

I have been reading about 10 pages, but I gave up once I didn't understand what people were talking about. I am guessing it's something about eating or sleeping, but that makes no sence to me. How is that hard core? So I gave up after reading and reading and nothing making any sence.

Also I can't find the search function ever since they went to the new forums.

Another one of these? How many hardcoe mode threads do we need? There's three on the front page? Yikes.

hardcoe, meh, maybe it should have been named Survival (Seriously they should have renamed the Survival skill Cooking and Crafting instead...).
Anyway.
Drink, or you die.
Eat, or you die.
Use stimpack at 10% health and expect instant heal, and you die.
Pick up too much ammo and you're glued to the spot.
And I think I heard something about:
Sleep, or you auto-nap at some point. (speculation)

Anyway, it might not seem like much but it all depends on how it's played out really.
Stimpacks not giving instant heals will surely make combat more "hardcoe".
Same with not being able to carry 2000 rounds of .44 magnum ammo.
Eating, drinking and sleeping will surely make you think twice before setting out into the wastes and if you don't, well then you're screwed.

You mean the bar across the top of your screen? The one that is visible on every page you visit here?
Do you really expect us to believe that a multi-star user that's been here since 2002 doesn't know this stuff?

And I havn't seen anyone explain what hard core was.


OH MY. Thank you. I have never noticed the search up there. I have always seen my name but I never noticed the search function up there. I just found out today how to put my avatar back. Thanks for letting me know, I didn't know that.

Well since it has explained it should be shut down, unless there's something else you wanna know about it?

Well what does hard core mean to you? This baffles me that the terminology has changed now.

Huh... I just thought about it and im wondering, does eating people count as food and is it affected by the survival skill? If so being a cannibal would make hardcoe a little easier =/

Oh, so the thread is about the word "hardcoe"?
Well..

I dunno...

I think of things along the lines of Realism Mode, Survival Mode, Normal Mode and Extreme Mode.
At best it fits Survival Mode.
So as I said, I think "hardcoe" Mode is a crap name for it IMO.
hardcoe just sounds like something a stoner or rocker would use. "That show was hardcoe man!!!"
So what does "hardcoe" mean to me?
Nothing, nothing at all.
I don't use the word.
I don't care for the word.
The mode will be called Survival in my head.

well in the last few years more and more games have been putting a hardcoe mode in them, i dont know where it started. but most of those hardcoe mode is, less health, no hud, and some other things.
its also good for sales, for some reason people see hardcoe on something it becomes cool, and its a great feature to the game, and why would they name it (real life mode) when you can name it hardcoe mode, it sounds better, and it pulls some people in , who maybe would not have bought the game, or who throught that fallout 3 was too easy

It is "hardcoe" because you don't have to worry about eating sleeping etc. in regular mode. Your character dies without enough sleep, food, or water in hardcoe mode, and you are still dealing with everything that can kill you in regular mode as well.

It changes the game to have as much an emphasis on survival as it does playing the story. It becomes game a survival of the fittest/resourceful. I saw in one interview one of the developers talked about how another developers died within 60 seconds of starting out in hardcoe mode. seems like it may be a bit tough to me.

not being able to return to an earlier save after dying and having to start over after dying is not "hardcoe, It's annoying. It's an archaic mechanic dating back to atari and NES days when they couldn't fit a lot of information on the given storage unit. They made the games harder and with little to no checkpoints to keep you playing it. Most games like that were actually only about two or so hours of original gameplay. In a game that can span over 100 hours dying and not being able to go back to an earlier save would be a game breaking defect; not a test of player skill.

Actually, it would be the ultimate game mode for masochists.
... I'm a masochist.

more power to you, but for me losing 50+ hours of gameplay because of a simple mistake or something of the sort would make me flip my wig.

I'm with you there.

Who said anything about this? As far as I know this isn't part of the hardcoe mode.

that was the OP's idea of what "hardcoe" should be.

He was talking about hardcoe in games in general, not F:NV specifically.

What recent games have you start over from scratch if you die?