Your Stimpaks also do not heal instantly but overtime and your bullets can add weight to your inventory.
Hardcore mode is where the developer Obsidian decided on making New Vegas that bit more difficult and interesting or annoying? You consistently have to keep hydrated, eating food, sleeping and you cannot fast travel if the distance will make you sick of dehydration. To switch Hardcore mode on (which isn’t recommended) or keep it off and play the game Fallout 3 style. After being patched up by the doctor while simultaneously creating your character, you’re left with an option before heading out of the operations room. New Vegas is about the player being betrayed and left for dead. Fallout: New Vegas was released just Tuesday in North America and just yesterday in Europe.