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Causes Solar Powered level two to work even while receiving radiation damage.
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Solar Powered Radiation Damage Fix
Causes Solar Powered level two to work even while receiving radiation damage.
If you've already acquired the Solar Powered perk, please carefully read the caveat below.
The problem:
Level two of the Solar Powered perk is supposed to reduce radiation damage by a set amount during daytime hours when outdoors. But due to a quirk of the game engine, this ability shuts off whenever the player character is taking radiation damage, no matter how little, including "<1 RAD".
Is this a bug, and not merely an annoyance and an undocumented limitation of the perk?
Yes, it is. The evidence comes in the form of level four of the Ghoulish perk, which was added with the Nuka World DLC. Said perk level tosses in another passive radiation damage reduction, considerably lower than Solar Powered level two, but active at all times, including indoors and during the night. This time, the developers obviously recognized the problem inherent in Solar Powered level two, and deliberately forewent the built-in and very convenient radiation damage multipliers and instead implemented the radiation damage reduction via a script. Thus the reduction properly takes place regardless of whether or not the player character is currently receiving radiation damage.
The solution:
Quite straightforward. In the same fashion as the belated Ghoulish level four, Solar Powered level two now implements its reduction via a script, bypassing the engine bug.
"This trivializes the Glowing Sea."
This was actually my primary motivation in fixing this issue. It was an honest to goodness ripoff that a perk point spent at 10 Endurance was, thanks to an engine bug, completely worthless in the one area of the game it was practically designed for. Yes, this does mean that one can traverse the Glowing Sea more or less naked. But one still has to do it during the daytime, and more direct radiation hazards are still the threat they've always been. Also, Rad-X, Rad-Away, hazmat suits and power armor already trivialize the Glowing Sea, and all far earlier than the level 27 required by Solar Powered level two. Arguably, the only people who will be interested in this fix are the ones invested in immersion and/or looking for the answer to the mysterious radiation immunity enjoyed by the denizens of the Crater of Atom. Everyone else will just ingest the occasional Rad-Away.
Caveat:
If one's player character already has the Solar Powered perk (including just level one), they will need to manually remove the perk from their character before installing the mod, and then manually add it back afterward.
There are two reasons for this. First, the script will not enact if the perk is already active, meaning there will be no change in perk behavior. So you may be thinking: Make the mod do the perk removal/addition itself. Which brings us to the main problem. For reasons that remain a mystery to me, if one makes changes in that order, the preexisting radiation damage reduction (which is engine-driven and not scripted) does not get replaced, but rather gets supplemented, so that one gets both reductions at the same time. Even though the vanilla effects are now completely out of the game. Thus the whole idea of making the mod remove/add the perks is moot, and the only method for avoiding this scenario is to manually remove the perks, save the game, install the mod, and then add the perks back.
This is done by typing the following into the console:
Without mod installed:
player.removeperk 1d2485 (If the player character has Solar Powered level 3)
player.removeperk 1d2484 (If the player character has Solar Powered level 2)
player.removeperk 4d8a7 (If the player character has Solar Powered level 1)
Save game.
After mod installed:
player.addperk 4d8a7 (If the player character had Solar Powered level 1)
player.addperk 1d2484 (If the player character had Solar Powered level 2)
player.addperk 1d2485 (If the player character had Solar Powered level 3)
Causes Solar Powered level two to work even while receiving radiation damage.
If you've already acquired the Solar Powered perk, please carefully read the caveat below.
The problem:
Level two of the Solar Powered perk is supposed to reduce radiation damage by a set amount during daytime hours when outdoors. But due to a quirk of the game engine, this ability shuts off whenever the player character is taking radiation damage, no matter how little, including "<1 RAD".
Is this a bug, and not merely an annoyance and an undocumented limitation of the perk?
Yes, it is. The evidence comes in the form of level four of the Ghoulish perk, which was added with the Nuka World DLC. Said perk level tosses in another passive radiation damage reduction, considerably lower than Solar Powered level two, but active at all times, including indoors and during the night. This time, the developers obviously recognized the problem inherent in Solar Powered level two, and deliberately forewent the built-in and very convenient radiation damage multipliers and instead implemented the radiation damage reduction via a script. Thus the reduction properly takes place regardless of whether or not the player character is currently receiving radiation damage.
The solution:
Quite straightforward. In the same fashion as the belated Ghoulish level four, Solar Powered level two now implements its reduction via a script, bypassing the engine bug.
"This trivializes the Glowing Sea."
This was actually my primary motivation in fixing this issue. It was an honest to goodness ripoff that a perk point spent at 10 Endurance was, thanks to an engine bug, completely worthless in the one area of the game it was practically designed for. Yes, this does mean that one can traverse the Glowing Sea more or less naked. But one still has to do it during the daytime, and more direct radiation hazards are still the threat they've always been. Also, Rad-X, Rad-Away, hazmat suits and power armor already trivialize the Glowing Sea, and all far earlier than the level 27 required by Solar Powered level two. Arguably, the only people who will be interested in this fix are the ones invested in immersion and/or looking for the answer to the mysterious radiation immunity enjoyed by the denizens of the Crater of Atom. Everyone else will just ingest the occasional Rad-Away.
Caveat:
If one's player character already has the Solar Powered perk (including just level one), they will need to manually remove the perk from their character before installing the mod, and then manually add it back afterward.
There are two reasons for this. First, the script will not enact if the perk is already active, meaning there will be no change in perk behavior. So you may be thinking: Make the mod do the perk removal/addition itself. Which brings us to the main problem. For reasons that remain a mystery to me, if one makes changes in that order, the preexisting radiation damage reduction (which is engine-driven and not scripted) does not get replaced, but rather gets supplemented, so that one gets both reductions at the same time. Even though the vanilla effects are now completely out of the game. Thus the whole idea of making the mod remove/add the perks is moot, and the only method for avoiding this scenario is to manually remove the perks, save the game, install the mod, and then add the perks back.
This is done by typing the following into the console:
Without mod installed:
player.removeperk 1d2485 (If the player character has Solar Powered level 3)
player.removeperk 1d2484 (If the player character has Solar Powered level 2)
player.removeperk 4d8a7 (If the player character has Solar Powered level 1)
Save game.
After mod installed:
player.addperk 4d8a7 (If the player character had Solar Powered level 1)
player.addperk 1d2484 (If the player character had Solar Powered level 2)
player.addperk 1d2485 (If the player character had Solar Powered level 3)