
Eating from communal pots of food only provides 5 Nourishment.Repair kits and repairing at vendors will cost significantly more.Items purchased from vendors are much more expensive.Health potions take much more time to take effect.Combat is much deadlier for both you and enemies.Auto-saves from quests are disabled saving only occurs if you drink Saviour Schnapps, sleep, or go to a Bathhouse to heal.You will still have access to the remaining contents of the chests though. George's sword or Augsburg plate chausses. The chests of the non DLC Treasure maps will be missing the high end gear like St.Upon "surviving" these odds, you are prompted to select at least two negative perks, which will stay throughout your entire playthrough, without hope of relinquishing them. You can unlock easier locks automatically.Hardcore mode is brutal for even the experienced players because although the changes to actual gameplay are few, as they are mostly stat tweaks, there are some changes that severely impact the way that players will actually have to play it.įunnily enough upon starting a new hardcore playthrough, you have a 90% chance of dying in the menu screen, which is followed by a small text describing how it occurred. If you lockpick breaks you'll have a 10% chance of opening the lock instantly. Your sixth sense will warn you if someone is about to catch you in the act of lockpicking, so you'll have more time to escape. The noise a snapping lockpick makes is reduced by 90%. You're able to work almost silently with a lockpick, even if the lockpicking isn't going well. It'll be 30% easier to open locks when drunk, but it will also be 30% noisier. The starting position when lockpicking will be closer to the end of the lock, making it easier to open. Your lockpicks will be more durable and last twice as long.Īfter successfully picking a lock, you have a 20% chance of any broken lockpicks returning to your inventory. Very Hard locks can be accessed sooner with the use of the Luck of the Drunk perk of the Lockpicking tree, and it is for that reason that it is considered one of the best perks in the tree.



Players will find that there are four categories of locks, here are the thresholds of level one must have, in order to unlock said locks:

Any damage to the lockpick will produce a noise, which canĭraw unwanted attention, and breaking it will cause an even louder snap. Which will damage the lockpick or even break it. If you try to turn the mechanism without having the lockpick in the correct position, the mechanism will stick,
