Well, you could stack it with RadX(or whichever one raises Rad resistance) and some Anti-Rad perks. Could bring it down to the 10's maybe even eliminate it.

Yes, because direct exposure to an atom bomb will give you 80 years of radiation and definately won't vaporise you.

you are revoltingly fatuous about games and i hope you realize this

Yes, because direct exposure to an atom bomb will give you 80 years of radiation and definately won't vaporise you.

there are quite a few ways to survive, however temporarily (because you'll suffer from every cancer in the book at the least). houses miles away from a bomb might be destroyed but oftentimes the structures they were exploded upon were intact; how do you think we even have footage of nuclear explosions? DIGITAL ZOOM? do you think in the world of a videogame named Fallout there's not a chance a town would have a single fallout shelter or concrete bunker. it's entirely possible someone could survive a nuclear blast and live with hideous radiation burns as well. people 20 to 30 miles away will survive even a one megaton blast.

and this all ignores the fact there's no such thing as ghouls to begin with so arguing how someone becomes one and STILL being wrong reveals you're kind of a stupid dick about this.

i don't want to derail the topic too much, but i actually have statistics on nuclear weapons (go militaryfag!)

The bomb at Megaton is a traditional fission A-bomb and these designed for small cities and soft military targets.  Since the bomb was dropped right near Springvale, a little suburban area, I'm going to assume it was about 10kt which isn't that powerful at all.  A 10kt bomb will vaporize pretty much anything within 200 feet of it and destroy most buildings within maybe 1/3 of a mile.

Now here's the thing about fission bombs; unlike thermonuclear bombs, a fission bomb's destruction relies solely on it's payload.  Also, nuclear bombs explode up giving it the mushroom shaped appearance and while the explosion does travel outwards, majority of the energy goes up meaning taller buildings get the most devastating force of the blast.

In other words, it's entirely plausible that someone inside of a sturdy building can survive within ground zero.  They'll probably end up dying of radiation poison within a few minutes, but a strong, low lying building can protect you from the blast.  Also, Megaton's bomb had been leaking for the past 200 years so it only had a fraction of its original power.

Also, this is a fucking game and every time you bring real world science into obvious science-fiction (LOOK ROBOTS AND LASERS AND GIANT SCORPIONS OH MY) God kills a catgirl.

Please, think of the catgirls.

it's north of dunwich, quite a bit. It's in that general area between Dunwich - Yao Guia - Little Lamplight and west of Evergreen Mills.

If you hit little lamplight you've gone too far north, dunwich is too far south and evergreen mills is too far east.

yeah gotta be vault 87. you have two ways to get into it, both through little lamplight; one is a computer terminal you gotta hack, and the other is through Murder Pass.

it's a very important main storyline area, almost towards the end of the story.

Wait, didn't he say he completed half of her quests before blowing up megaton?  That means she did her research on radiation and probably invented some sort of protection method (she does cure you of 600 rads instantly).

but yeah i'm looking too deep into this SCIENCE FICTION

isnt that just bad fucking luck instead of irony...

Not, it's just fucking bad, full stop.
And just out of interest, what armour is everyone using here?
I'm preserving all my brotherhood of steel armour in some lockers and I'm currently using the enclave shock armour (or whatever it's called) and the regulator duster and oasis hood if I need to be more agile.

i don't want to derail the topic too much, but i actually have statistics on nuclear weapons (go militaryfag!)

The bomb at Megaton is a traditional fission A-bomb and these designed for small cities and soft military targets.  Since the bomb was dropped right near Springvale, a little suburban area, I'm going to assume it was about 10kt which isn't that powerful at all.  A 10kt bomb will vaporize pretty much anything within 200 feet of it and destroy most buildings within maybe 1/3 of a mile.

Now here's the thing about fission bombs; unlike thermonuclear bombs, a fission bomb's destruction relies solely on it's payload.  Also, nuclear bombs explode up giving it the mushroom shaped appearance and while the explosion does travel outwards, majority of the energy goes up meaning taller buildings get the most devastating force of the blast.

In other words, it's entirely plausible that someone inside of a sturdy building can survive within ground zero.  They'll probably end up dying of radiation poison within a few minutes, but a strong, low lying building can protect you from the blast.  Also, Megaton's bomb had been leaking for the past 200 years so it only had a fraction of its original power.

Also, this is a fucking game and every time you bring real world science into obvious science-fiction (LOOK ROBOTS AND LASERS AND GIANT SCORPIONS OH MY) God kills a catgirl.

Please, think of the catgirls.

thanks for gaying up the facts with a 4chan quote at the end.

Not, it's just fucking bad, full stop.
And just out of interest, what armour is everyone using here?
I'm preserving all my brotherhood of steel armour in some lockers and I'm currently using the enclave shock armour (or whatever it's called) and the regulator duster and oasis hood if I need to be more agile.

go do the quest "you gotta shoot 'em in the head" then get the T-51b power armor (by going to the fort place instead of giving the keys back to the ghoul). then like a little more than halfway through the story you can get trained to wear it. easily the best armor in the game.

go do the quest "you gotta shoot 'em in the head" then get the T-51b power armor (by going to the fort place instead of giving the keys back to the ghoul). then like a little more than halfway through the story you can get trained to wear it. easily the best armor in the game.

I've been looking it up, but I get the impression you can only get it by getting bad karma? Is there another way, or do I have to put up with it?

Yes, there is a way to do it without getting bad karma. You need to talk to everyone and make them give you the key without killing them. Also I would just kill tenpenny as you get GOOD karma from killing him. Then just go get the armor and never talk the ghoul again.

Well... Time to start question at 1:30 in the morning again!

Yes, there is a way to do it without getting bad karma. You need to talk to everyone and make them give you the key without killing them. Also I would just kill tenpenny as you get GOOD karma from killing him. Then just go get the armor and never talk the ghoul again.

As far as I know you HAVE to kill Tenpenny.