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Fallout New Vegas Fallout New Vegas
The pip-boy 3000
Rad Meter - To the top left of your Pip-Boy is a personal radiation meter that tells you how
many Rads you’ve currently taken in radiation damage.
Sections
There are three main sections in your Pip-Boy 3000:
Stats – Information about your character’s stats and abilities.
Items – All of the items your character is currently carrying.
Data – Contains your maps, quest info, notes, and access to any radio signals you can
pick up.
Each section is broken into different sub-menus.
sTaTs menu
The Stats Menu has five menus: Status, S.P.E.C.I.A.L., Skills, Perks, General.
STATUS
The Status Menu has basic info about the health of your character. Moving up/down on the L
moves you between the three important subsections for Status:
• CND – Shows the condition of each part of your character’s body indicated by a bar.
The shorter the bar, the more damaged that body part is. When the bar is gone, that part
is considered crippled and will appear as a dotted line. If you have any Doctor’s Bags,
pressing
Y will heal all of your limbs. If you have Stimpaks, you can heal a specific limb
by pressing
X and selecting which specific one you’d like to heal. See Aid, page 16.
• RAD – Shows your current level of radiation resistance and how many total Rads
of damage your character has taken. If you have RadAway in your inventory, press to
use it to flush RADs out of your system. If you have Rad-X, you can press
X to increase
your character’s RAD resistance for a period of time.
• You can be exposed to radiation either directly from the environment, or by
ingesting irradiated food and water. A small amount of radiation will not hurt you, but
as your accumulated exposure goes up, you will begin to suffer ill effects (including death,
eventually).
• EFF – Shows all of the positive and negative effects you character is experiencing. This
could be due to radiation damage, certain clothing you have equipped, Aid you may be
using, and other effects.
Radiation Poisoning Effects
* 200 rads: -1 EN
* 400 rads: -2 EN, -1 AG
* 600 rads: -3 EN, -2 AG, -1 ST
* 800 rads: -3 EN, -2 AG, -2 ST
* 1000 rads: Death!
Pip-Boy Controls
B - Enter/exit Pip-Boy.
l or L - Scroll up/down through lists; move left and right through menus in
each section.
] and ^ - Cycle left/right through the three main sections.
C - Pan around Maps, scroll right side menus.
Rad
Meter
Stats, Items, Data Sections