Talk:Rad Resistance

[fallout 3] This perk is useful if you're low on radx and/or don't have a radiation suit/environment suit and no power armor. If you are any of the above, it's your own fault.-Accountless Avenger.
 * If you take this, have 10 Endurance, use an Advanced Radiation Suit, and get the Survival Expert Perk (any of them), then you end up with the max rad resistance, 85. (25+18=43; 43+40=83; 83+2/4/6=85). However, if you have a high Medicine skill the up to +75% of Rad-X renders this near useless. I simply took it because I'm lazy and to make up for the low base rad resistance I have.Fiddlesoup 18:41, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't think I've ever had a problem with radiation. Ever! Plenty of Rad-X will end up stockpiled since you rarely run into significant radiation exposure, and even then you should have enough RadAway (as in, 2 or 3) that it isn't a problem. Unless you try to swim from one end of the wasteland to the other, you're just not going to get that irradiated. Combine this with your house (remove Rads) which also gives you purified water (100hp worth of rad-free instant heals right there), as well as Ice-Cold Nuka (20hp/5rads) and you'll never be irradiated via healing. (Then there's Cave Fungus, which you should always trade for even if you don't want to eat it (5hp, -10rad) since it's value 50, worth more than Buffout or Strange Meat.) The perk isn't worth it, ever. Just don't read War and Peace while sitting in radiated water, and you'll be fine. --DarkJeff 18:51, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
 * And you will also need to carry like half your weight in food to heal any decent health, because at like level 10 your health is already 300s, while food heals 5hp. Crimmastermind 09:11, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

aye this perk is complete crap unless u want to walk into vault 87 through the front door...

If You have 7 Endurance (12 res), take the cyborg perk (10 res), do the full wasteland survival guide quest (6 res) and wear the Advanced Radiation Suit (40 res) you will not get any radiation from basic food, since 67 rad-resistance is needed for that. --Ra1n 22:59, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

This perk isn't totally useless, with it 85 rad resistance can be reached with hellfire armor, so you could have max DR and rad resistance without drugs. 68.192.9.90 03:39, October 12, 2009 (UTC)

72% base resistance + 40% Adv. Rad. Suit? = 112%
If you have 10 Endurance which should be 18% (according from the main page 2% per point), get the Survival Guru Perk 6%, Use the Pitt Add-on Booster Shot 10%, another Pitt Add-on Pitt Fighter 3%, get this perk 25%, get the cyborg perk 10%, and use the Advanced Radiation Suit 40%. You should achive 112% resistance of radiation. Is that possible or atleast 100%. Or is the max you can get is 85%?GodsHand 19:59, March 19, 2010 (UTC)

can you go less than 1 rad a second?
if I am consistently taking 1 rad a second then add something with resistance to radiation will it go into low decimals or will I still be taking 1 rad per second?
 * It will display 1 rad/sec even if the exposure is less than that. With 4% radiation resistance I stood near the edge of an irradiated area and took about 1 rad/4 sec, but it still said 1 rad/sec. So yes, radiation resistance is effective even at 1 stated RAD. -- 19:23, November 16, 2010 (UTC)

NV Hardcore Mode
This perk is incredibly usefull in NV hardcore mode, depending the way you play and your character build. I like to explore the entire map mostly and with this perk + medicine at 45 points + Rad-X + Strengh at least at 5 you don't need a radiation/space suit in your inventory, wich will save at least 5 pounds if you use the most simple anti-radiation suit. Usually is more (10 pounds), because of the Space Suit, since I use head gear + four eyes trait mostly and with any radiation suit you loose this benefits.

Really neat to roaming Vault 34, Devil's Throat, Camp Searchlight and other high irradiated areas in your highly protective Leather Armor Reinforced, Combat Armor, Recon Armor and so on. :D Brfritos 02:38, November 18, 2010 (UTC)