cost Action Points and one can target specific body areas for attacks to inflict specific injuries. Use of one's weapon can be seen in slow motion and greater detail. While using V.A.T.S., the otherwise real-time combat is paused. The Vault-Tec Assisted Targeting System, or V.A.T.S., is an active pause combat system implemented in the game. Main article: Vault-Tec Assisted Targeting System The Courier must drink, eat, and have proper sleep cycles or will suffer increasingly negative effects, up to immediate death. No Dehydration, Starvation, or Sleep deprivation. However, they still heal without needing or using any stimpaks after battle. Only a doctor, a doctor's bag, sleeping in certain beds, healing poultice, weapon binding ritual, Auto-Doc, or Hydra can heal a crippled limb.Ĭompanions cannot die, instead getting knocked unconscious for a short time.Ĭompanions can die.

Radaway heals radiation poisoning over time.Ĭrippled limbs can be healed with stimpaks, or by sleeping in any bed or mattress. Radaway heals radiation poisoning instantly. The Casual/Hardcore mode distinction is independent of difficulty settings. In order to earn it, the entire game must be played in the mode from the point first prompted until the endgame sequence, without ever turning the setting off. Either a trophy or achievement is awarded for completing Fallout: New Vegas on Hardcore mode. Hardcore mode is an optional setting that attempts to make the game more realistic, with gameplay elements such as dehydration, and non-instantaneous healing.

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