Nuclear Anomaly Won't Kill You

Nuclear Anomaly Won't Kill You

This mod fixes the flaw with Nuclear Anomaly that permitted the explosion to outright kill the player character.  There's also an optional, highly recommended version of the mod that makes the player character's limbs and armor immune to the explosion's damage, among other things.

The problem Nuclear Anomaly, in its vanilla iteration, is considered a waste of a perk for several reasons:

• []At level 30, one has to choose between Nuclear Anomaly and Almost Perfect, the latter of which carries the potential to cap every SPECIAL stat.  For many players, that settles the question right away. []One has to find their hitpoints somewhere between 0 and 20 for Nuclear Anomaly to trigger.  Given that players can end up with over 600 hitpoints by the time Nuclear Anomaly is available, 20 hitpoints is already an absurdly narrow range. []A disappointing proportion of the time, Nuclear Anomaly's explosion will outright fail to damage the player, nearby NPCs, or both. []Most dealbreaking of all, on any difficulty higher than Easy, one is almost guaranteed to be outright killed by Nuclear Anomaly's explosion, in spite of safeguards put in place specifically to prevent that.

I personally found the idea of Nuclear Anomaly to be very appealing, within the context of Fallout's world: If combat gets so intense that you drop precipitously low in health, you literally explode like a small nuke.  You become a being that your enemies will truly regret trifling with.  Having a couple more stats capped is really just bragging rights compared to such a unique and menacing power.

But obviously the perk was designed in a hurry, somewhat ill-conceived, and barely tested.  This is so obvious, in fact, that there really cannot be any arguments against fixing and tweaking the perk to perfection, or as near to it as the game will permit.

The solution The most immediate flaw is the main one this mod fixes:

• The player character will no longer die from Nuclear Anomaly's explosion.

That is what the "Vanilla Version" of this mod does.  Everything else is the same as vanilla.  But I strongly recommend the "Corrected Version[/colo