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For a cross-game overview of this perk, see Rad Absorption. |
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“With the Rad Absorption perk, your radiation level slowly decreases on its own over time.”— In-game description
Rad Absorption is a perk in Fallout: New Vegas.
Effects[]
Taking this perk grants a passive effect of radiation sickness being removed at a rate of 1 rads every 20 in-game seconds.
Notes[]
- The perk is functionally identical to its counterpart in the Fallout 3 add-on Broken Steel.
- The Irradiated Beauty perk can serve as a possible alternative to this one, as it clears away all rads at once (only 100 in Hardcore mode), provided one has a bed to sleep in.
- The perk does not pair well with Rad Child and/or Atomic!
as it can cause one's rads count to drop below the thresholds necessary to gain the benefits of those perks. - The perk's rate of removal does not fare well when walking through most radioactive environments since it takes 20 seconds to remove 1 rads whereas even the smallest of irradiated sources inflicts 1 rads every 1 second. That said, it does have use in the early game when RadAway and/or caps to pay a doctor to treat rads are more limited, helping to prevent the "death from a thousand paper cuts" rad build up, which combined with a high radiation resistance can reduce incidences of serious radiation sickness to few and far between. It is especially useful in Hardcore mode as it effectively eliminates the slow but steady buildup of rads from most food and water.
