


Now, if you buy plenty of ammo and break it down, and convert it to the better, hand load ammo recipes you’ll reap the benefits. For instance, the 50mg rounds you can build with this perk deal x1.2 damage and increase spread. These, in turn, do wonderful things, typically giving a damage boost as well as altering the ammo in some other wonderful way. It does, however, unlock all the ammo recipes for guns, which includes the hand load ammo recipes. This perk allows you to recover ammo cases in hulls, which in and of itself isn’t worth much.

You also have all hand load recipes unlocked at the Reloading Bench. When you use guns you are more likely to recover cases and hulls. Hardcore reverts back to Fallout 3's harsh system, in which a Deathclaw's first swipe will send your beloved companion's head sailing - and it's not as funny when happens to one of your guys.You know your way around a reloading bench and don’t let good brass and hulls go to waste. In normal, your companions might get knocked out in a fight, but they'll get back up again once combat's over (assuming you survived). Recommended Perks: Cannibal, Ghastly Scavenger 5: Companions stay dead Just an hour or two of shut-eye every day or so keeps you bright-eyed and bushy-tailed as you can be. As for sleep, you don't exactly need the recommended eight hours a night. The worst that's likely to happen to you is getting irradiated due to drinking dirty water and eating too much Radroach meat, but a quick fast-travel trip to the doctor's office will fix you up lickity split. Whenever you get a notification that you're suffering from minor starvation, just eat something. You can't swing a dead iguana without hitting something to eat - and even if you could, you could eat the iguana. This aspect of Hardcore mode is disappointingly un-hardcore due to the abundance of tasty food, fresh water and comfy mattresses. In effect, your health bar is diminished from near-immortality to frighteningly finite. But Hardcore mode changes all that: now a stimpack will take several seconds so to work its magic, and in the heat of battle you're almost certainly going to take damage faster than you're healing. Those syringes full of magical juice, both the normal and super varieties, can stimulate your body from battered bones and shredded flesh back to Isaiah Mustafa -like condition in the blink of an eye, meaning that your health bar is basically infinite until you've exhausted your supply. In normal mode, you're basically invulnerable until you run out of stimpacks. This is the biggie - all the rest of the changes combined won't affect you as much as one. More like "HELL Yes!" 1: Stimpacks don't heal instantly What's Hardcore mode, and are you hardcore enough to play it? Don't jump in blind: read our guide to the five big differences, and tips for how to survive the increased deadliness of the Hardcore Nevada wastes.
