Very Hard with hardcoe : Fallout: New Vegas

» Thu Dec 09, 2010 7:27 pm

Yeah probably don't want to forget the companion one. I forsee alot of OMG i played on hardcoe mode and (insert companion name) got killed HELP.

Yeah. My advice already. Load an earlier save. Haha.

» Thu Dec 09, 2010 7:48 am

Holy Crap, i'm probally not using hardcoe on my first playthrough then. Just Very Hard. Does anyone know how many skill points you get when you level up?

» Thu Dec 09, 2010 6:10 am

Holy Crap, i'm probally not using hardcoe on my first playthrough then. Just Very Hard. Does anyone know how many skill points you get when you level up?

Depends on your Intelligence/perks

» Thu Dec 09, 2010 4:04 pm

Holy Crap, i'm probally not using hardcoe on my first playthrough then. Just Very Hard. Does anyone know how many skill points you get when you level up?

A base of 10 points and every point of intelligence gives you 0.5 skill points. So 10 intelligence will give you 15 skill points and taking educated will give you a total of 17.

Just deck out your campanion in some armor with high DT and feed them stimpaks that should keep em alive. Me i like going solo.

» Thu Dec 09, 2010 2:06 pm

awesome well i'm going to bed, gotta pass as much time as possible for the next 23 hours.

» Thu Dec 09, 2010 6:29 pm

FO3 on VH was too easy :/ so hell yes I'm ready.

too easy,.. but ultimately boring and annoying
I wish you luck, and more patience than I

» Thu Dec 09, 2010 5:45 am

No, not on my first playthrough, probably never even. A challenge is fun but not too much. The perfect challenge for me is imbetween hard and very hard, but with hardcoe it would be pretty hard with bullet sponge enemies.

» Thu Dec 09, 2010 10:50 am

I just heard difficulty increases the number of mobs. So im guessing they tonned it down. I'll confirm in 22 hours and let you foreigners know

From another thread- he was saying instead of hard difficulty making enemies tougher, it made more of them.

if this is the case,... i'll be playing hard difficulty as well

» Thu Dec 09, 2010 10:18 am

i don't think choosing a high difficulty is fun because all it does is makes enemies hugely unrealistic to kill, ie you could empty a pistol's clip on somebody's head and still nothing. but hc i love.

From another thread- he was saying instead of hard difficulty making enemies tougher, it made more of them.

if thats the case i'll be playing the highest difficulty level, but i doubt it'll be the case...

» Thu Dec 09, 2010 5:41 am

From another thread- he was saying instead of hard difficulty making enemies tougher, it made more of them.

if this is the case,... i'll be playing hard difficulty as well

Ya the guy said normal packs of 6 changed to 7-8 on hard, and more on very hard (gave no number). I dont know the guy, but he wrote a long review that sounded legit on gamefaqs.

» Thu Dec 09, 2010 6:54 am

Yeah the whole bullet sponging is why i don't like Bethesda games difficulty. If your damage remained the same and enemy damage was increase i probably wouldn't mind. I just don't see the game being harder or more fun by having to put multiple shotgun blasts to an unarmed enemies head to kill them.

on very easy in FO3 you can obliterate a deathclaw with 3 shots from the A3-21 plasam rifle with an energy weapons level of 30.

THATS why it doesnt work like that

» Thu Dec 09, 2010 3:30 pm

No...Unless there is a way to fight cheese with cheese (CSA+Shishkebab, or some hilarious unlimited money glitch).

Hardecore mode alone is going to do way more to make the game harder than that stupid difficulty slider ever could.

» Thu Dec 09, 2010 8:04 am

If you're worried about wasting too much ammo on vh+hardcoe you can always choose a weapon (skill) that doesn't rely on ammo, e.g. some energy weapons.

» Thu Dec 09, 2010 7:28 pm

If you're worried about wasting too much ammo on vh+hardcoe you can always choose a weapon (skill) that doesn't rely on ammo, e.g. some energy weapons.

you mean unarmed and melee?
energy weapons have always had an ammo requirement,... unless New Vegas changed this?
i mean, i heard of that recycling ammo thing,.. but... it still uses ammo

» Thu Dec 09, 2010 9:37 am

you mean unarmed and melee?
energy weapons have always had an ammo requirement,... unless New Vegas changed this?
i mean, i heard of that recycling ammo thing,.. but... it still uses ammo

There is a self recharging gun.

» Thu Dec 09, 2010 1:24 pm

I actually play on Easy believe it or not, I just find it makes the combat more realistic. I can kick ass in Very Hard by just aiming for the head with the best gun I can find and I've done so many times, but it ruins my immersion to see a Raider taking 5 headshots from a .308 and still coming at me with a lead pipe. I honestly don't mind being a god because I play as a sniper usually, and get one shot kills regardless of the difficulty, obviously unless it's on Very Hard, so I still have fun despite being a wimp. It works for me :fallout:

» Thu Dec 09, 2010 7:24 am

I play on very hard just to level up fast, so I can start a new character.

» Thu Dec 09, 2010 9:49 am

I prefer normal, if Very Hard increased the enemy numbers and A.I. i would play on it, but nope, it just sets their HP too high.

» Thu Dec 09, 2010 1:54 pm

GL on VH hardcoe at the starting lvls.. try not to eat your mouse/controller XD

» Thu Dec 09, 2010 9:13 pm

I will play normal hardcoe. I like the added realism and increased roleplaying of the hardcoe mode but I can live without the cheap and cheesy difficulty of bullet-sponge enemies.

» Thu Dec 09, 2010 8:18 am

Nay, I plan to go for normal + hardcoe. Normal is just high enough to be a challenge and with hardcoe mode, it means I'll have to put quite some thought into what I'm doing and all...

» Thu Dec 09, 2010 10:04 am

I find normal to be the most enjoyable, so on my first playthrough, I'll be playing Normal-hardcoe.

» Thu Dec 09, 2010 7:45 pm

Depends on how the diifculty is implemented. If it is the same system as in Fallout 3, no.

» Thu Dec 09, 2010 10:14 pm

Hello no.

If it is anything like Fallout 3, then Very Hard=bullet sponge enemies who can take multiple shotgun rounds to the head and deal a crapload of damage. With hardcoe, you are going to have to use ammo tactically. I do not want to waste all my ammo on one encounter.

Way I see it unless your enemy is made out of carbon steel they shouldn't be able to absorb every single round you put into them while hardly getting a scratch. :facepalm:

» Thu Dec 09, 2010 10:45 am

I read a post by someone on another forum talking about him knowing a person who has the game already, and the guy said hardcoe mode is not available on the first playthrough; that you have to unlock it or something.

As I'm sure (and hope) this isn't true, I just had to confirm this with you guys.