I know that a doctor kit will heal the crippled limb. However, the limb comes back with just a sliver of health - how do I then add health to the limb?

I haven't played on hardcoe before and I keep getting re-crippled even after using a doctor bag b/c I then have a barely functional limb???

Would someone please explain how this works?

Thank you.

J

You could pay a doctor to heal you, which fills up all your limb health meters. There may be a way to select the limb in your Pip Boy and apply a stimpack to the selected part, like Fallout 3, but I haven't tried that method yet in this game.

You can also use a doctors bag to further heal the limb, or some hydra.

If you're on 360, go to Pipboy

Choose Stats

Condition

Press 'x' to target individual limbs

Heal up with doctors bag

In hardcoe, you can't apply stimpacks to limbs, only Doctor's Bags (from the Stat screen in the PIPboy).

I've found that sleeping in a bed owned by you (rented motel room in Novac, for instance) gives you full healing (including limbs) as well as the well-rested XP bonus. This may be a glitch, as random beds give you NO healing in hardcoe.

click directly on the limb to apply the doctors bag to that limb and it will heal a decent amount. only click on "use doctors bag" if you have several busted limbs and want to regain some limited use of all of them. also, doctors and any bed labelled "my bed" - try the hotel room in novac or the lucky 38 suite in new vegas.

If you're playing on hardcoe mode you can't use a stimpack on your limbs, period. The amount of health restored to your limb with a Doctor's Bag is dependent on your Medicine skill, so the higher that skill is then the more health will be restored. You can either pay a doctor to heal all your limbs, Doctor's Bags someone suggested (never used them for anything more than the initial restoration of a limb), or you can just pop some Hydra. I hold on to Buffout (for hauling gear to the vendor), Hydra (for healing limbs easily), and Fixer (for removing the inevitable eventuality of addiction) and I'm good to go. :laugh:

This has helped me as i have just got the game and couldnt understand why i wasnt been healed when sleeping...it definetely has to be your own bed and not a random one around the gaming world?

Good to know, Thanks. Will save me a bunch of caps in the early levels where every cap counts...

I am playing on hardcoe mode but I never tried selecting limbs for stimpack use so it helps knowing you can't heal broken limbs as well as fill up the health meter. Really does seem like a waste to use the Doctor's bag however. Full recovery from an actual doctor only costs around 50 caps.

I'm guessing the bags are mostly for emergency situations, like if you get both your arms crippled in the middle of a big fight.

Oh yeah, definitely. I was talking about using the bags simply to fill up a limb's health meter, not fix a broken leg or arm, which would be a big deal when out exploring.

Usually I apply a Doctor's Bag directly to a limb, then drink a bunch of Sunset Sarsaparilla for overall healing. It ends up providing more HP than I can hold for the rest of my body, but hey, free caps.

You can click on individual part of the body to heal it with doctor bag. I noticed this only at the end of the game though ha.
On my first playthrough on vh/hc I took small frame and got crippled constantly until mid levels and adamantium skeleton perk. And I was sneaky head shot sniper, I guess things would be much harder with more in your face playstyle. On my 2nd playthrough now with flamer/explosives dude with medicine and it isn't as bad as I thought.