2 days), the level drops again by 90%. You can find all the perk base_ID values on the Fallout: New Vegas Wiki. Neat but not worth a perk, even on hardcore mode. Rank 1 now adds 10% to limb damage to simulate a weaker body. +4 Luck for 3 minutes upon finishing a battle with less than 25% health; immunity to critical hits, +50% critical damage. Another thing to note is I do not usually travel with companions so I may be missing some nuance with these perk descriptions. Upon getting any sort of radiation sickness, health regenerates, the effect becoming more powerful with every threshold reached. Radioactive contamination is the chief delayed effect of nuclear weapons, as it results in the creation of radioactive material with half-lives that range from days to millennia. Information included may not meet. : +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. Fallout: New Vegas 9/10 times the extra health is going to matter more than a marginal DMG increase and the drop in agility is going to make you reload slower to boot. Rad Child can grant between 2 - 8 hp/s depending on how irradiated you want to become. Even if you plan don't want to run any companions you can just make them wait somewhere while you do whatever you want to gain the their perk while still working alone. All of the regular base perks in Fallout New Vegas are below. Unless the companion is dismissed, the perk will remain in effect regardless of the distance between them and their companions. Boosts Veronica's melee attack speed 150% & gives her a 25% chance for melee attacks to knock down enemies. Rad Absorption is a perk in the Fallout 3 add-on Broken Steel and in Fallout: New Vegas. Contents 1 Overview 1.1 Broken Steel and Fallout: New Vegas Overview Broken Steel and Fallout: New Vegas Gameplay articles: Broken Steel, Fallout: New Vegas Radiation level slowly decreases automatically over time. Some areas, such as the Glow and the Glowing Sea, are still suffering from a lack of habitability, where a combination of nuclear strikes, damage to nuclear facilities, and environmental factors caused the natural radioactive decay rate to be greatly reduced. [6], Although the megaton class weapons have been largely retired by 2077, they were replaced with much smaller yield warheads. -Eye for an Eye: Just because crippled limbs are easy to deal with doesn't mean you should break all your limbs for a damage boost. +5% overall damage; more violent death animations. This reduction in yield results in a much larger proportion of the fallout being deposited in the lower atmosphere, and a much faster and more intense deposition of fallout than had been assumed previously. I've heard this perk is good in hardcore mode where you can't just jam 50 stickpacks into your arm and live anything. Never take this perk outside of hardcore mode unless you're running explosives and have decided to have a melee companion for some reason. -Just Lucky I'm Alive: Ignore the luck bonus what really matters here is the crit damage that stacks multiplicatively with better criticals. Compared to the real world, radiation in-game is greatly intensified. Hit level 50 faster so you spend less time getting molested by enemies that scale harder than you do. As such, nuclear fallout is usually deposited completely within months at the most. No need to waste a perk just to get through Vault 34. Enables you to create special explosive recipes at any workbench. +2 Intelligence and +2 Perception between 6:00 P.M. and 6:00 A.M. Eating and drinking most food items or entering an irradiated zone gives the Lone Wanderer rads. And if IIRC, it has the same Rad resistance rating as the basic Rad suit, but not the Advanced one. super mutants) and resistance (present in high quantities on e.g. -Ferocious Loyalty: This perk looks pretty bad on paper because it is bad outside of a companion build. -Kamikaze: Lets you squeeze out another hit in VATS with some weapons which is nice but not always worth the -2 DT. This does not affect weapons modded to under 10 wg. More Perks from Fallout 3 continues in New Vegas! For example, Set Lasers for Fun increases the odds of scoring Critical Hits with energy-based energy weapons; to earn the perk, a player character must do 16,000 points of damage with one-handed energy weapons over the course of their game. Do the math before taking this perk to see if you gain anything out of it. +1 SPECIAL point, Caesar's Legion Fame, NCR Infamy. Regain +20% more health from all consumable sources. Get an Advanced Radiation Suit or the Space Suit, and pop some Rad-X. -Loose Cannon: Ok in a meme grenade build but grenade builds aren't all that great anyway. -Tunnel Runner: Moving faster is always nice and when stacked with other movement bonuses you can almost sneak at your full running speed. -Plasma Spaz: This Perk + Math Wrath + Fast Shot allows you to to drop the Q-35 matter modulator VATS cost to 16 per shot. -Hunter: On crit you do extra dmg to the easiest enemy type in the game as "creature" only counts things like bighorners or molerats. Radiation damage inflicted by weapons can be reduced by locational radiation damage resistance. 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. The effects of addictive Chems last 33% longer. This perk is gained by getting exposed to Critical Radiation Poisoning (600+ rads) for Moira's Wasteland Survival Guide. 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 . Fallout New Vegas Modding Guides.-Healing is slow in combat ( for example by going into inventory and healing to full has been removed). [12], A wide variety of tools have been created to monitor the presence and intensity of radiation fields. Any living creature you kill has a 50% chance to have the potent healing items. Doesn't count against the Endurance limit of original implant perks. C: Black Widow/Lady Killer/ Cherchez La Femme/Confirmed Bachelor, Intense Training, Swift Learner. Radiation is made up of energetic subatomic particles, atoms moving at high speeds, and electromagnetic waves on the higher spectrum of energy. This will grant you access to the Great Khan armory, a vendor that stockpiles ridiculous amounts of ammunition and with a barter of 25 you hit the FNV buy/sell maximum values for all items. -Good Natured: Most builds only utilize one combat skill set making the downside fairly trivial compared to the +5 to speech, medicine , repair and barter which are useful for all builds. The contents below require additional review. If you don't feel like sprouting extra limbs or going ghoul, Rad Resistance is a fantastic perk choice. -Alertness: Wow two whole perception, the most useless SPEICAL in the game rendered even more useless by EDE's enhanced sensors. It grants a 10% chance to find around 100 caps in a viable container which is nothing. After 7*2 days (2 weeks) it drops a further 90%; and so on for 14 weeks. For example, Lorenzo's Artifact has a radiation damage component that does pure damage. Rad exposure is usually limited; only very rarely will zones be so irradiated that venturing into them results in a quick death. with every subsequent attack on a given body part queued. 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. Shame this perk scales with explosives making it a chore to get the skill requirements for. Take only if there are no better perk options for your build. -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. Deal +3%/+6%/+10% damage to mutated insects. Water items hydrate and heal you 15% better. Such secondary cascade radiation has proven to be especially dangerous at the former West Tek research facility, which was known to overwhelm and kill anyone without the proper precautions. Safety barrels, chemical barrels and general. The Pip-Boy 3000's dosimeter will appear in the upper right during exposure. Description: The bonuses granted by skill magazines last three times as long. -Run n Gun: This perk is nice in pistol builds since pistols get to move around at full speed when drawn unlike rifles making them great for kiting melee enemies. All melee (except thrown) and unarmed attacks have a chance of knocking your target down. Requires Nuka World DLC. 00031DA9. The add-on The Pitt introduces the most irradiated food item in the game, Slop, having 25 rads per serving. RETENTION. Each level of this perk will increase one's Radiation Resistance by 15%. Ranks: 1. You do an additional 50% damage every time you attack a mutated insect. -Splash Damage: Great perk for explosive builds, but I recommend pairing it with Hit the Deck to avoid embarrassing deaths. [17] Even if treated, radiation exposure can also lead to persistent mutations at a genetic level. unarmed attack. Great, never take this. This series details the full list of Fallout New Vegas Perks. Can make one extra attempt to hack a locked-down terminal. And this perk has the gall to have two equally useless ranks. -Laser Commander: 15% damage and 10% crit in a single perk makes this core for any laser build. Useful if you want your character to be a master of everything. When atoms fission they can split in some 40 different ways, producing a mix of about 80 different isotopes. Thus after 7 hours, the residual fission radioactivity declines 90%, to one-tenth its level of 1 hour. 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. Light Step . Download: Manual; 0 of 0 File information. Gamma rays are bad. Even then you still probably shouldn't take it. This console enables the ability to cheat, but it also is a tool for fixing glitches, learning about the game, and troubleshooting quest and companion problems. Fantastic perk for any build. Combine this perk with Run n Gun and you've got yourself a slippery gunslinger. Also allows access to the cheapest craftable grenade in the game, MCF grenades that only requires 3 microfusion cells to craft. +1 Luck, Strength, Charisma and Intelligence for 60 seconds each time a corpse is consumed. While in Fallout 3 this was limited to the creation of custom weapons, Fallout: New Vegas takes this a step further by allowing the creation of weapon variants based on basic weapons by adding weapon mods. Maybe this is an ok quality of life perk for hardcore mode, but maybe you should get good and not break your bones in the first place. Furthermore, the closer an explosion happens to the ground, the greater the amount of fallout generated. As soil is not vaporized, but aerosolized by the explosion, this heavy particulate matter tends to deposit within minutes or days, with downwind contamination spreading it across hundreds or even thousands of kilometers depending on weather patterns. -Meltdown: The explosion of meltdown does equal damage to the damage of the shot that caused said meltdown ,can critically hit, apply on hit weapon effects and will cause other enemies to meltdown if they are killed. Sure this perk also helps you kill other bugs faster but we all know that cazadors are the only reason to take this perk. Accumulationg 1000 Rads in fallout 3 and New Vegas will kill you instantly, while other fallout games do it differently. -Heavy Handed: Take this on builds that use low crit dmg melee weapons like 2 step goodbye or Oh Baby!. It has the same armour rating as Reinforced Leather and you can use ordinary Rad suits to repair it. 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 . This resistance is applied to all sources of radiation, from the external environment to irradiated consumables. However as the intensity of radiation drops, so does the rate of decline. 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. I am also not rating companions on their combat ability or other qualities besides the value of their companion perk. Although most will die after exposure, a combination of factors can cause them to become ghouls, humans who resemble walking corpses and have extended lifespans. The Space Suit you find during the Come Fly with Me quest comes in handy. Running no longer factors into a successful sneak attempt. Fallen Rock cave terminal entries; terminal, Year 2078. There are 86 regular perks included in the base game of Fallout New Vegas. -Terrifying Presence: This perk grants you a whopping 18 extra dialogue options, half of which just lead to combat and all of which have better ways of resolving themselves. Weapons with a weight of more than 10 are cut in half. Some call it the Phantom Death, 'cause that's what it is. Most of the perks obtained this way are related to the skill or task that was completed to earn it. -Light Step: All mines are scripted in FNV meaning with enough playthroughs you'll remember where they are rendering this perk pointless. The lock picking minigame is a joke so there is zero reason to force a lock and the hacker minigame can be exited before the lockout and restarted with zero cost. Nearly any puddle of filth-infested liquid will contain at least some rads per second, while most of these similar puddles in Fallout: New Vegas do not contain any rads at all. -Unstoppable Force: If this perk prevented melee stagger from hitting a blocking enemy it would be C tier but it doesn't so it gets D tier. 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. Fission products thus initially have a very high level of radiation that declines quickly, but as the intensity of radiation drops, so does the rate of decline. Last updated 14 January 2023 7:57PM. -Hit the Deck: While enemies that use explosive weapons are fairly rare, the ones that do usually cause instant death if they catch you unaware. The perk remains in effect so long as the companion is currently following the player character. Or Rad Child Perk. These perks are great for comedy, not so great for combat. -Rad Resistance: Unless you plan on being Rad Man of Rad Land don't take this perk, radiation is a non issue. Effects [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. When passing through a radioactive zone, or being attacked by an enemy with a radiation attack, the players can obtain rads, except for The Ghoul who instead heals HP equal to Rad damage. This mutation is a result of Moira's experimental radiation treatment. 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. One thing to note is the critical bonus granted by this perk is NOT effected by your weapons critical hit multiplier, which sucks for weapons with high crit multipliers like the AER14 prototype but is absolutely broken on weapons with small critical multiplier like the Gatling Laser.