Radiation Perk Changes
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📋 About This Mod
Makes Changes to Rad Resistant and Ghoulish perks for balance and role play.
This is currently two mods (one for each perk). Choose one or both.
Reasoning: Since the Children of Atom have a natural resistance to radiation, this feels lore friendly and offers a better role play explanation for this otherwise boring perk. The vanilla stats of the perk made them borderline useless due to how radiation damage is calculated.
The level of radiation resistance offered by the perk is quite high, but consider this: Rad-X offers 100 rad resist and stacks, so you could take multiple doses and get the same effect.
Rank 1 now adds 10% to limb damage to simulate a weaker body. Rank 2 reduces all charisma checks by 10% (and an additional 30% with Brotherhood of Steel) to simulate prejudice in the wasteland against ghouls. Rank 3 unchanged Rank 4 adds a 10% chance that unarmed attacks will produce a modified Glowing One radiation explosion (complete with the ability to reanimate nearby ferals!). To simulate becoming closer to a glowing one you get a 10% stealth penalty.
Notes: Reanimated ghouls are always friendly. I haven't tested this enough to confirm whether or not the radiation explosion will agro non-feral allies (I assume so). As much as I would like to, it is beyond my ability to visually change the player into a ghoul. The downsides might sound like a big deal, but they are easy to counter and Rank 4 is so OP the perk needed some negatives.
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Fallout 4 Mods
- Author
- Moonracer
- Version
- 1.0
- Downloads
- 1,329
- Endorsements
- 71
- Category
- Perks
- Created
- 5/13/2017
- Updated
- 5/13/2017
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