You will constantly face radiation hazards, when eating certain food or being in certain areas. Avoid spending time eating and sleeping in contaminated areas when you could easily reach a safe area nearby.
Geiger counters aren't needed anymore to detect radiation.
When your radiation level is 10, the numbers turn yellow, once it is 20 it turns red and once it reaches 30 or higher, the numbers start flashing.
Increase
- Being in a city
- Being in a radioactive wasteland (areas within red circles on the map, with the trefoil in the center) (Ufa radioactive area : +11.3 rad/h with 0 rad. resistance, 0,6 rad/h with 95% rad resistance)
- Eating certain mushrooms or certain foods
- Drinking Toxic lamp (100 Pts)
Decrease
- Being anywhere that's not a radioactive place listed above (decrease rate -0,75 rad/h)
- Being on water (water areas are never radioactive, even within radioactive wasteland zones)
- Being in bandit camps (even within radioactive wastelands zones)
- Drinking alcohol (Vodka, Red wine, Diluted spirits etc)
- Using certain drugs (Tidocycline, Tratodonide, Chlorcystamine)
- Drinking clean water (-1 radiation)