Hazmat suit (Old World Blues)

The hazmat suit and the matching hazmat darklight cowl are pieces of armor in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Old World Blues.

Background
The experimental hazardous material suit and hazmat darklight cowl were created at Big MT before the Great War. Described as an "experiment within an experiment", the new hazmat suits were issued to the Sierra Madre villa workers when the Cloud, a toxin also originating from Big MT, became a major impediment for the construction crews and to general health. Due to unforeseen interaction between the two experiments, the Sierra Madre villa workers slowly mutated soon after the Great War. The ghost people resulted, an atypical mutation and terrifying perversion of humanity.

The hazmat suit is known to be bulky and would grow stiff with use. It is not protected from corrosion; when exposed to the Cloud, the hazmat suit had to be opened with an extremely sharp blade like the cosmic knife. The hazmat darklight cowl has an integrated night-vision setting which makes the vision of the wearer lighter and green-colored. The eyepieces are bright yellow in the center and glowing green around. The cowl is also known to create difficulty when speaking, making construction workers communicate through nonverbal means. Despite its quality and its high protection against poison, the hazmat suit did not protect against the poisonous gas cloud of the Sierra Madre villa which later became the Cloud.

Characteristics
The hazmat suit gives an astonishing +85% to poison resistance, yet its bulky size of 18 pounds makes it a questionable addition to the players equipment if not used regularly. It additionally has a Damage Threshold of 11 and the cowl has one of 2.

Wearing the cowl will give you a night-vision effect. Unlike night-vision scopes, it does not turn off during the day. The effect is similar to Ghost Sight.

Locations

 * At the Hazmat testing ground, the suit and the cowl can be found in a protected pod. The player must either find the Hazmat Pod Security Code in the Z-43 Innovative Toxins plant or shoot the field with an upgraded sonic emitter to gain access to them.

Bugs

 * Wearing the cowl while viewing any ending slideshow will cause the night vision effect to persist throughout the slideshow.