What unit does the radiation indicator show?
According to this wiki entry radiation has the following effect:
The rate is 1% of HP per 10 rads;
But what does +2 RADS (as an example, see on the screenshot) stand for? Does it mean, that you get +2 RADS every second and so you would die after (10/2)*100 sec? (Example provides that the radiation doesn't change in this time and that you are full-life in the beginning of this experiment.)
I haven't found anything about units regarding this topic.
Best Answer
The lethal radiation dose is same as in previous games 1000 rads. So you will be dead after 500 seconds of exposure too +2 rads a second.
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If I remember correctly, then on the pipboy in Fallout 3, you have a radiation meter in the Stats section, which maxed out at 1000. Thus, a lethal dose of radiation would be 1000. So, it would take 500 sec of 2 Rads per second to kill you. Likewise, it would take 200 sec of 5 rad per second to kill you, etc.
Also you can eat 200 of something that gives you 5 Rads. And only 100 of things that give you 10 Rads, etc.
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