Dark Future Core

DARK FUTURE CORE is a condensed Dark Future experience that focuses on the core essentials of Basic Needs and enhanced gameplay challenge. It encourages engaging in the world around you in order to stay physically fit. Dark Future Core incentivizes returning to one of your apartments to periodically rest.

Like the full version of Dark Future before it, the goal is a survival mod that feels like a seamless part of the base game. If you love survival gameplay, this mod was made especially for you. You can fine tune to your heart's content in Mod Settings. Nearly every feature can be configured or even disabled.

I encourage you to skim over this page, install the mod (check the requirements!), and jump straight into the game without worrying too much about whether or not you've got it all down. New tutorials will appear that cover each of the mod's most important features, so you can learn as you go. Don't worry, I gotchu, choom.

Dark Future Core is a simplified version of Dark Future for those who are looking for a simple, stable, relatively bug-free, high-performance survival system that is mechanically in line with Fallout New Vegas' "Hardcore Mode". In general, Dark Future Core is more accepting of the base game as CDPR designed it as it relates to consumables, with an added layer of survival gameplay on top.

The reduced code and simplicity may lead to improved performance and FPS for some users who have trouble running the full version of Dark Future. Note that Dark Future (full) has had a number of significant performance improvements published very recently, so give it a try if performance issues stopped you in the past.

My development time will continue to be focused on the full version of Dark Future. This mod will not receive new features, or features unique to Core. It will always be a strict subset of Dark Future. At this time, you can consider Dark Future Core to be feature complete.

That said, as bug fixes and enhancements are made to the full version of Dark Future's systems and codebase, those fixes and enhancements will be merged with Core on an ongoing basis if they are a Core feature.

FOR TRANSLATORS: Dark Future and Dark Future Core utilize the same localization file. Any up-to-date translation of Dark Future will function as a fully-functional translation for Dark Future Core. For localization details, please see this page.

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