I doubt many people will see this, but this mask isn't as overpowered as it might seem. While it works fine for most things that lead-lined armor would protect against, really strong sources of radiation seem to penetrate this mask more easily than power armor or hazmat suits because of the localized protection.
If you wear a hazmat suit and in your item equip screen cycle to show radiation resist, you can see every body part gets 333 or higher rad resist. However, with this mask, you get a lot more applied, but only to the head.
I didn't think non-weapon radiation damage checked for body parts, but apparently it does. For example, with the hazmat suit you can stand in the Nuka World Kiddie Land sprayers and still take <1 rads/sec. But with this mask, you'll take 5+, and 1-2/sec even just walking around the park, making it difficult to complete this area without a hazmat suit.
Not sure how to fix it, but I guess it's easier to consider it to be more balanced this way.
Id imagine this is a dead forum at this point but unlike the rest of the folks on here id just like to ask one thing, could you perhaps take the fix from the Gas Mask hat fix mod and switch that over to here? Or generally do the same thing? I want the protection of the gas mask but be able to wear it with helmets.
To support the other guys though id make an optional file with it cut down to around 500 so that its still blocking most radiation but isnt rad suit material as a gas mask will take care of Alpha radiation which is mostly breathed in, on dust, etc. But Beta and Gamma... not so much.
bladexdsl wrote: also if you wear the rad suit with PA you still only get max 1000 RAD protection. my PA also has 1000 rad RES but if i wear the rad suit in it it doesn't go to 2000.i think this is locked in the game i've never been able to get it over 1050?
When you go into power armor, the stats from the armor you're wearing don't count anymore. It basically removes everything and puts PA in it's place, and takes the PA off and your old gear back on when you exit.
well i also have a full set of fully upgraded x01 PA that alone should push it above 1050 but it doesn't
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If you wear a hazmat suit and in your item equip screen cycle to show radiation resist, you can see every body part gets 333 or higher rad resist. However, with this mask, you get a lot more applied, but only to the head.
I didn't think non-weapon radiation damage checked for body parts, but apparently it does. For example, with the hazmat suit you can stand in the Nuka World Kiddie Land sprayers and still take <1 rads/sec. But with this mask, you'll take 5+, and 1-2/sec even just walking around the park, making it difficult to complete this area without a hazmat suit.
Not sure how to fix it, but I guess it's easier to consider it to be more balanced this way.
To support the other guys though id make an optional file with it cut down to around 500 so that its still blocking most radiation but isnt rad suit material as a gas mask will take care of Alpha radiation which is mostly breathed in, on dust, etc. But Beta and Gamma... not so much.
Massively need this mod... Rads even with 1000 resist hit 15 a second with some of my mods... So this helps... Alot...
100-150 would be better (in my opinion)
well i also have a full set of fully upgraded x01 PA that alone should push it above 1050 but it doesn't