Consider this if you're going for a genocide run but just like all other situational damage perks it's not really worth it. -Built to Destroy: 3% crit is not a lot, but neither is 15% weapon degradation if you have a way to maintain your weapons. Enemies level with your character in FNV and virtually all builds hit their sweet spot before lv 30 meaning further levels hurt your character as the enemies will scale better than you do. . The yield of a modern strategic warhead was, with few exceptions, typically in the range of 200-750 kT. This is important because some weapons do pure radiation damage that ignores radiation immunity. It is equal to 0.01 gray. Take this in full auto non-crit builds. After 6 months, the rate of decline becomes much more rapid. -Hot Blooded: Useful only if you're trying to hit the highest dmg possible. Another benefit of this perk is that while you are gaining rads, you move faster, attack faster, gain 2 DT and 2 STR, but given how rare irradiated zones are in FNV you won't be utilizing this portion of the perk very often. -Kamikaze: Lets you squeeze out another hit in VATS with some weapons which is nice but not always worth the -2 DT. As you might imagine, the nuclear fallout that ended the world left behind some lovely radiation as a parting gift. For example, the effects of surgical implants are counted as special perks, which are unlocked once the implant is purchased. Pure radiation damage is rare. Rank 1 now adds 10% to limb damage to simulate a weaker body. . Over the course of the storm, lightning periodically strikes and causes a brief spike of radiation in the area, peaking around five rads per second for about one second before steadily decreasing over the next several seconds. Endorsements. Consuming night stalker squeezin's now grants bonuses to Perception (+1 PER), Poison Resistance (+5), and Stealth (+5 Sneak) in addition to the normal benefits. -Fortune Finder: If you know what you're doing you will be swimming in caps in FNV, even if you don't know what you're doing this perk will not make any difference. Ways to remove radiation poisoning include: The radiation system has been retooled so that radiation decreases max health as radiation poisoning rises. 18 Best Fallout New Vegas Armors - Heavy, Medium, Light - eXputer.com - The Professional: Boosts all crits not just sneak attacks so it gives a decent damage bonus to crit pistol builds. Rad Resistance -Demolition Expert: Just a standard damage perk. The icing on the urinal cake is that BENT TIN CANS ARE NOT USABLE FOR JUNK ROUND CRAFTING, YOU NEED 5 PRESTINE SHIT CANS JUST TO MAKE A SINGLE BULLET. +1 SPECIAL point, Boomers and Powder Gangers Fame, Caesar's Legion and NCR Infamy, +1 SPECIAL point, Brotherhood of Steel and Followers of the Apocalypse Fame. +10% damage and unique dialogue options when dealing with the opposite sex. [5], The global thermonuclear war at the terminal end of the Sino-American War transformed ionizing radiation into a very commonplace risk in the wasteland. Radiation from water and food, even less so. One thing to note is that the armor piercing effects of full auto melee weapons are broken so Piercing Strike is highly recommended in the full auto melee build. If you come across a problem, first look at the perk details in datamore perksperk details folder, all perks have each of thier own perk detail.txt and the file includes specific condition and script and some abilities that are now shown in the little perk description screen. Fallout New Vegas. -Rad Absorption: As if rads already weren't a problem in FNV, this perk only cures 1 rad per 20 seconds which is insultingly low. Surgery purchased through dialogue with the. Even after the bombs fell, radiation is seen as a benefit by some, such as those who worship an undetonated atomic bomb in the Capital Wasteland's Megaton or those worshipping radiation as a deity within a religion known as the Children of Atom. Radiation damage inflicted by food or drink cannot be reduced by location DR. It includes patches for many other UI mods and fixes the gameplay and visual bugs and of the original mod as well as bringing the manner and application of the AP debuffs in line with Fallout 4's Survival mode. : +2 Radiation DR, Mutant Hound Chops: Heals 2 radiation damage, RadAway (diluted): Heals 2 radiation damage, Refreshing Beverage: Heal 10 radiation damage, Vegetable soup: +2 Radiation DR until end of scene. There is also a dial in the upper-left of the Pip-Boy that shows the approximate radiation level. Combine this perk with Run n Gun and you've got yourself a slippery gunslinger. Rad Child can grant between 2 - 8 hp/s depending on how irradiated you want to become. Notes The necessity of this perk is questionable, since it is trivially easy to temporarily boost radiation resistance to the maximum with Rad-X and various radiation-resistant armor. When logged in, you can choose up to 12 games that will be displayed as favourites in this menu. That being said, the number of deathclaw fights in the game is very low if you know where to avoid and nightstalkers aren't worth taking a perk just to kill easier. You can put a single point into any of your. Radiation damage inflicted by weapons can be reduced by locational radiation damage resistance. Temporary cloud protection, take 25% less damage. -Purifier: Normally I would rank such a niche damage perk lower, but nightstalkers and deathclaws are nasty to fight in melee builds and 50% boost is a lot of damage. A majority of ghouls are little more than shambling corpses, while a minority retain their faculties. One needs to stand in +1 rad water for a significant time and more generally it is possible to move through radioactive water dozens of times before reaching the 200 rad threshold. While radiation never directly affects the current hit point level, the player will receive progressive penalties to SPECIAl, until they reach a total of 1000 rads and die. Please enjoy and leave me a comment if you would like to see anything else ranked. In Vault 101 on July 13, 2268, the public announcement system reported the level of radiation, "Current radiation level - 0 rads, as always. You can get wonderglue from vendors or Muggy in the Sink and burnt out books are everywhere. Chemist also stacks with Logans Loophole for 4x duration on all your buffs. Sure a 60% damage boost will make you the most dangerous paraplegic in the Mohave, but it's honestly not worth the effort to keep your limbs broken and the negative effects of broken limbs are quite annoying. Fallout NV perk tier list (complete and revised) This is my comprehensive perk tier list including traits and companion perks. All of the regular base perks in Fallout New Vegas are below. Another niche use for this perk is that switching weapons will fully reload your last weapon equipped allowing you to squeeze more DPS out of weapons with lengthy reloads. This resistance is applied to all sources of radiation, from the external environment to irradiated consumables. +2 Strength and +1 HP per second while outside, from 6:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M. You do an extra 15% damage and have a 10% extra chance to critically hit with any laser weapon. -Miss Fortune/Mysterious Stranger: 10% chance when your VATS attacks end that one of these goons will be summoned to dunk on your foes. This meter is difficult to read due to the needle's constant movement. There are now downsides to being a ghoul (as there should be). You can also take EDE with any companion besides Rex who has a terrible perk so just run EDE all the time. No need to waste a perk just to get through Vault 34. 2 days), the level drops again by 90%. Fission products and irradiated particulate are lifted into the atmosphere by the rising fireball, and whether they are deposited locally or globally depends on the strength of the explosion and its location. +25% addiction resistance. Fallout: New Vegas Massive lag from Glowing Ones/glowing radiation goop DeathSnipe777 7 years ago #1 So I'm having a problem. Take if you run explosives, ignore if you don't simple as. Weapon Strength requirements are now 2 points lower than normal for you. -Heavy Handed: Take this on builds that use low crit dmg melee weapons like 2 step goodbye or Oh Baby!. Ranks: 1. Can paralyze an enemy for 30 seconds with a V.A.T.S. Fallout New Vegas: 10 Best Perks In The Game, Ranked C: Black Widow/Lady Killer/ Cherchez La Femme/Confirmed Bachelor, Intense Training, Swift Learner. Other types of perks are granted through completing various tasks and do not count against the limit of regular perks. Given that crit boosters stack multiplicatively this perk will allow your pistols to hit quite hard when they crit. Also the +5 DT against melee enemies is helpful for tank and melee builds. -Light Touch: The critical bonus on this weapon is unaffected by your weapons critical multiplier making this a solid choice for fully automatics and by combining this with Set Lasers for Fun and Laser Commander you can get a 19% critical hit rate on full auto laser weapons allowing them to shred. The damage bonus is negligible and only works against humans and ghouls so don't bother taking this perk for dmg. This means that some of the Fallout 3 perks can be added to the characters in Fallout: New Vegas with console commands, even though the associated quest does not exist in the game, like Barkskin, or Wired Reflexes. -Here and Now: A complete waste of a perk point, if you're looking for build filler take anything else that isn't F tier. Radiation (Fallout: New Vegas) - The Vault Fallout Wiki - Fandom Ghost people are more likely to die outright without needing to be dismembered or disintegrated. Explosives have a 25% larger area of effect. [18][19][20] It can also lead to sterility. This rule states that for every seven-fold increase in time following a fission detonation (starting at or after 1 hour), the radiation intensity decreases by a factor of 10. You can find all the perk base_ID values on the Fallout: New Vegas Wiki. -Nerd Rage: Grants significant durability if your health gets low, but you will usually be overkilled before you can fall into the 20% health threshold required to proc this perk limiting its usefulness to tank builds. +4 Luck for 3 minutes upon finishing a battle with less than 25% health; immunity to critical hits, +50% critical damage. -Hobbler: See what I said for sniper. This perk grants an additional 25% to Radiation Resistance. Raul's rate of fire with revolvers and lever action firearms is increased by 33%. Great, never take this. F: Junk Rounds, Friend of the Night, In Shining Armor. This 3% crit is also effected by your weapons critical hit multiplier making it a solid choice for crit builds, but not a mandatory one. -Slayer: Hit people faster, essential perk for melee builds. Every 24 hours you get 5 consumables with 1 rad/sec for 20 sec 5 consumables with 5 rad/sec for 20 sec Requirements Lonesome Road since I used one of the meshes. Do note that combat knives benefit from both cowboy AND grunt making Chance's Knife a strong melee choice if you want to invest the perks and skills into taking both. -Better Healing: You get to heal a whole 20% more from all consumables. What perks do you find useless? - Fallout: New Vegas - GameFAQs it also seems weaker than Rad Regeneration. Since most weapons will overkill your enemies by a significant amount, this perk doesn't even decrease time to kill in most fights and even if it does the maximum amount of time you will save is 5%. Traps do not activate and you are given a stealth increase. -Finesse: This single perk grants 5 luck worth of crit and has no SPEICAL or skill requirements. It's worse in FNV than in FO3 because of the ridiculous perk every two levels system (good thing mods exist). +25% accuracy in V.A.T.S. This is hands down the most insultingly bad functional perk in the game. You have come to understand night stalkers. Regenerate 2 HP per second per 200 rads accumulated. Ghouls are also uniquely healed by radiation damage. Karma reset to 0, +25% AP regeneration rate, +20% attack speed, immunity to critical hits. Level 1: +5% melee weapon attack speed. Doesn't count against the Endurance limit of original implant perks. -Sniper: VATS isn't great but if you do want to make a VATS build take this. It has the same appearance as a normal radiation suit, but has 33% higher radiation resistance. Fallout New Vegas Perks Guide - Wasteland Gamers But which one are we most worried about? Due to its nature, radiation cannot be detected by human senses, requiring special instrumentation, and is used in a variety of applications both civilian and military. Combine this with the pitiful +25 health you heal per corpse and this perk is only useful for roleplay, karma tanking or challenge runs. Chems, firearms & ammunition within a short distance are highlighted when you zoom in. with one-handed weapons. . Unfortunately, Raul's default firearm is not boosted by Old Vaquero meaning you have to arm Raul and load him with ammunition for this perk to be effective, I recommend La Longue Carabine. Sieverts, another scientific unit of measurement, is less frequently used. -Thought you Died: The worst out of the 3 level 50 perks but still a good perk nonetheless. Combine this with Travel Light for even better kiting. This perk works multiplicatively with fast shot meaning if you take both you will shoot slower while also being less accurate so don't stack them. attributes drop at certain thresholds, and radiation poisoning kills the Wanderer at 1000 rads. player.addperk [perk code] - get perk (see table below for codes) player.addspell [perk or aid code] - get perk or aid (see table below for codes) player.setlevel [number] - set level rewardXP [number] - add XP rewardKarma [number] - add Karma addtagskills [number] - add tag skill points modpca [attribute] [number] - increases SPECIAL stats Effects Highly recommend this perk if you're a "bring the right gun for the right job" kind of player. Removes any radiation taken from drinking an irradiated water source. Dog will devour the limbs of any Ghost People, preventing them from resurrecting. In my game, when Glowing Ones are around sometimes their glowing. [6], Fission products initially have a very high level of radiation that declines quickly, as short-lived isotopes decay rapidly, emitting intense radiation, with only a fraction of the isotopes continuing to emit radiation over a longer period of time. -Logans Loophole: While it may not seem like it, level cap of Logan's Loophole is actually a pro rather than a con. While wearing light armor or no armor, you run 10% faster. 30 health points will rarely make the difference between life and death, but this trait is useful in combination with trait that makes you do more damage below 50% or the companion DR perk because the health granted by life giver goes not count against your half health requirement. Running no longer factors into a successful sneak attempt. In addition, Fallout 4 features radiation damage as a damage type that can appear on weapons. Radiation damage cannot be healed by normal methods of HP recovery, but cannot kill a player character, and thus acts as a limiting factor to their max HP until healed. This gets reflected as actual damage, even if a character is at full health. A kill in V.A.T.S. As the count increases, further radiation poisoning occurs. Description: The bonuses granted by skill magazines last three times as long. I do not know if this perk works with NCR troopers called by the NCR emergency radio but that would require testing. -Lonesome Road: While not technically a companion perk, the fact this perk is deactivated while traveling with someone makes it a defacto companion perk. Can make one extra attempt to hack a locked-down terminal. -Retention: Useful for crit builds utilizing the Police Stories magazine, otherwise don't bother. Halved spread with one-handed ranged weapons while walking or running. Radiation | Fallout Wiki | Fandom Radiation is made up of energetic subatomic particles, atoms moving at high speeds, and electromagnetic waves on the higher spectrum of energy. -Four Eyes: This perk decreases your base perception by 1 while granting you +2 as a buff if you wear eyeglasses meaning that it becomes harder to hit SPECIAL threshold for perks. Gives a lot of power for its skill requirement so just by getting 50 sneak and grabbing this perk you can make any build semi-stealth. The Wattz Electronics C-Radz Geiger counter is one of the oldest and most reliable methods,[13] with Geiger counters included by default in later models of Pip-Boy personal information processors issued to vault dwellers. This perk is also useful for peace of mind in permadeath runs and making Dead Money easier (but you really should challenge dead money far before you get this perk, the ghost people scale hard with level and the weapons given in this DLC are not effective end game weapons but they're quite ok early.). If the player were to consume a bunch of RadAway, their rads would stop decreasing at 40, because RadAway only restores the damage modifier, not the permanent modifier. The player can moderate radiation exposure by increasing radiation resistance with Rad-X (effectiveness scales with Medicine) and radiation suits. [6], Although the megaton class weapons have been largely retired by 2077, they were replaced with much smaller yield warheads. Very useful for grenade and explosive builds. With all DLCs installed there are 117 regular perks. That being said, VATS still sucks and for many weapons 15 point of AP still isn't enough to squeeze another shot out requiring the second rank of this perk. Fallout: New Vegas uses the same radiation mechanics as Fallout 3, and retains several of its perks, such as Lead Belly, Rad Resistance and Rad Absorption. All non-player characters are immune to radiation. While it does have a worse skill requirement than hand loader does (repair vs science) it makes up for it by allowing the player to recycle full energy cells while handloader only recovers casings. Your attacks do 75% less damage to companions. This mod will cause radiation to damage your . Raul, return to the way of the vaquero ending of. This Perk cuts the damage to your limbs by half. Shame the interface for workbenches and reloading is borderline unusable. Rad exposure is usually limited; only very rarely will zones be so irradiated that venturing into them results in a quick death. Fourth "tag" skill: +15 points to that skill. THAT BEING SAID, you can manually trigger this perk by consuming coyote meat since it will irradiate the player for 3-9 seconds per steak. S: Ain't Like That Now, Just Lucky I'm Alive. While the special loss from rad poisoning sucks, the quality of life improvement from never needing healing items (outside of doctors bags) is quite large. Throw in Melee Hacker and Rushing Water to become speed. : This perk effects all weapons that fire in an arc including fatmans, grenade launchers and incinerators. Rank 2 reduces all charisma checks by 10% (and an additional 30% with Brotherhood of Steel) to . [10] The entire region surrounding the Glow was contaminated, as discovered by a Hub trader who tried to explore the region in 2158, only to perish. The game helpfully displays the current irradiation at the status screen and on the Pip-Boy 3000's dosimeter in the upper right on the HUD and on the Pip-Boy itself when the player accesses it. -Spray and Pray: I'm only putting this in C because of hardcore mode. Enhanced Sensors is like having 10 perception all the time and lets you VATS cloaked enemies. This perk does require AG 8 which is quite the investment if you don't use vats or need the reload speed. -Intense Training: SPECIAL in FNV are much easier to come by than perks, so using a perk to get more special is pretty questionable. Also lets you recover casings more often which is useful if you love reloading. When using Energy Weapons, you are twice as likely to recover drained ammunition. However, radiation will continue to build up in the person's system, and can still kill them at the fatal threshold as normal. Unless you're looking to suck down some sieverts, I recommend we move out. Combine this perk with Set Lasers for Fun and Light Touch for a 19% crit chance on the gatling laser turning it into one of the most over powered weapons in the game. -Weapon Handling: Ideally you should already know what weapons to build your character around during creation and just hit your strength requirements there but if your SPECIAL is stretched thin I can see uses for this perk. Most doctors will flush the rads for 100 caps. When atoms fission they can split in some 40 different ways, producing a mix of about 80 different isotopes. You could combine both the cannibal perks and I would still chose Here and Now over the cannibal perk. Plus you can just sleep in your own bed to gain well rested so the usefulness of this perk is quite limited. Vault 87 GECK chamber peaks at roughly 400 rads per second, as does the blast furnace in the steelyard. Each level of this perk will increase one's Radiation Resistance by 15%. remnants power armor) to save a ton of money on repairs. No Sneak penalty for using Pip-Boy light. If a weapon applies radiation damage and another type of damage (such as with the Radioactive damage effect), resolve the other type of damage first and then resolve radiation damage. The dialogue options they grant usually have other ways of resolving themselves and the DPS bonus isn't really that noticeable. Items with a weight of two pounds or less now weigh half as much. Never take this perk outside of hardcore mode unless you're running explosives and have decided to have a melee companion for some reason. Nuff said. Fallout: New Vegas console commands - pcgamer This measurement is reported to the residents over the PAS (public announcement system). Radiation does not directly affect hit points, through penalties affecting Endurance, Maximum Health may be lowered. -Old World Gourmet: You get some bonus health out of specific food and drink items. 1 fission battery + 2 scrap metal = 50 Sierra Madre chips. You truly are a rad child. The storms don't last long, typically around one hour. Floor traps or mines will not be set off. As such, nuclear fallout is usually deposited completely within months at the most. [2][3][4] After the war, humans can receive automated medical treatment with Auto-Docs, Sympto-matics, makeshift archways, and preventative inoculations that bolster their bodies' innate resistance to radiation. -Skilled: FNV is more than generous with EXP and even if it wasn't, skilled grants 65 skill points which is between 6-5 levels worth of skill points. Also allows access to the cheapest craftable grenade in the game, MCF grenades that only requires 3 microfusion cells to craft. ", The rad is a real unit meaning radiation absorbed dose. [26], Its presence has induced widespread mutations in flora and fauna, leading to the emergence of giant versions of regular species. Massive lag from Glowing Ones/glowing radiation goop - Fallout: New Vegas -Piercing Strike: Armor stops your damage so take piercing strike to stop their armor. RAD - Radiation (is) Actually Dangerous - Overhaul - Fallout New Vegas The -25% crit chance from enemies is also useful, making light armor better defense against high crit enemies since crit dmg ignores DT. S: Amazing perk for virtually every build, A: Strong perk that will be essential to some builds, B: Decent perk, take this if there is nothing better to grab, D: Terrible perk, only useful for roleplay or challenge runs, F: Doesn't work or makes your character worse, A: Fast Shot, Good Natured, Built to Destroy, C: Loose Cannon, Wild Wasteland, Kamikaze, Small Frame, D: Claustrophobia, Early Bird, Hoarder, Hot Blooded. -Small Frame: +1 agility for a relatively minor downside isn't bad, but given the opportunity cost of missing out on other traits I wouldn't bother with this one. Doesn't help you see at all just makes everything less pleasant to look at. The rule of sevens corresponds to an approximate t^-1.2 scaling relationship. Does anybody know how to add radiation via the console? :: Fallout: New Your crouched movement speed is increased by 20%. Since crit dmg perks are multiplicative even if you take Better Criticals and Elijah's Ramblings you will still only do 90% of your weapons crit dmg. For another, deal 10,000 damage with two-handed melee weapons. 2. Fallout is a series of post-apocalyptic role-playing video gamesand later action role-playing gamescreated by Interplay Entertainment.The series is set during the 21st, 22nd and 23rd centuries, and its atompunk retrofuturistic setting and art work are influenced by the post-war culture of 1950s United States, with its combination of hope for the promises of technology and the lurking . Useful if you want your character to be a master of everything. (Level 6, EN 5 Required) ? Please enjoy and leave me a comment if you would like to see anything else ranked. Fallout New Vegas: 10 Best Hardcore Builds, Ranked - Game Rant What do you think of the Rad Child perk? - Fallout: New Vegas - GameFAQs Fallen Rock cave terminal entries; terminal, Year 2078. Deal 16,000 damage with pistol grip energy weapons for one rank and 25,000 damage with rifle grip energy weapons for the other. Skill magazines last for 3 real-time minutes. +10 Health per 100 Karma; Karma reset to 0, +10% damage, immunity to critical hits. B: Nerves of Steel, Voracious Reader, Tunnel Runner, Burden to Bear, D: Rad Absorption, Irradiated Beauty, Nuka Chemist, Roughing it. 2. In a companion build however this perk is pretty good granting your companion 50% damage resistance. With this perk, your radiation level will decrease by one rad every 20 real-world seconds so long as the player is not currently being exposed to radiation (standing in radioactive water, for instance) - the perk will still be reducing the radiation but the new accumulation of rads will more than overpower . Download: Manual; 0 of 0 File information. Health loss from radiation poisoning as well as the radiation poisoning itself is unaffected by difficulty settings. Do note that to make up for the endurance lost from radiation poisoning you will have to spend 10 seconds in combat (slightly less for the last stage of rad poisioning) so in short fights this perk hurts you. Mandatory in crit builds, ignore in no-crit builds. Radiation (Fallout 3) - The Vault Fallout Wiki - Fandom It is also more durable (25 item HP, compared to the ordinary radiation suit's 15) and has a higher DT (8 rather than 4 . Can make one more attempt to pick a broken lock. As such, the reduction in aggregate strategic arsenal yield that occurred when high yield weapons were retired in favor of more numerous lower yield weapons has actually increased the fallout risk. This does not affect weapons modded to under 10 wg. D: Animal Friend, Mr Sandman, Miss Fortune, Mysterious Stranger, Night Person, Fight the Power! Any living creature you kill (people included) has a 50% chance to drop blood sausage or thin red paste which are decent healing items that sadly do not count as food for hardcore. Most of the perks obtained this way are related to the skill or task that was completed to earn it. Only take for the funny dialogue options given in Honest Hearts. -Shotgun Surgeon: Shotguns get gimped by armor since smaller dmg instances are resisted better by armor. You gain a non-addictive subdermal turbo (chem) injector. Fallout: New Vegas Cheats and Console - ETCwiki

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