In Fallout 3 Radiation affects your character's statistics and threatens your health. Fallout 3 takes place in a world destroyed by nuclear disaster, where the landscape is covered in radiation and certain people have been mutated by extensive radiation poisoning, turning them into Ghouls.Planet Fallout: Fallout 3 Ghoul
Fallout 3 Radiation Ghouls
In Fallout 3, some humans have been exposed to so much radiation that they become mutated, turning into radiation-immune zombie-like creatures called Ghouls. Ghouls thrive on radiation, and are classified into three types:
- Ghouls: These ghouls still possess human intelligence and for the most part like any other human, aside from their horribly mutated appearance. Shunned by the normal human population, many of these Ghouls have settled at Ghoul City.
- Feral Ghouls: Feral ghouls lack any semblance of human intelligence and act on instinct and aggression, like animals.
- Glowing ones: Glowing ones have absorbed such a large amount of radiation that they glow in the dark. These ghouls emit radiation and can infect normal people.
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Fast Facts
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Radiation harms your character, lowering stats depending on the amount of poisoning
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You will die at 1000 radiation
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Eating food recovers health but increases radiation
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Anti-radiation medicines lower radiation poisoning, like Rad-X or Rad Away
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Some quests demand that you have a certain radiation level
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Certain areas of the game world are completely radioactive, like the Potomac RiverPSU: PSU Interviews Bethesda on Fallout 3 (September 5, 2008)
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Radiation poisoning has mutated some humans into Ghouls
