

You may end up waiting, only to emerge into an entirely new storm, but this is not a common occurrence.Ĭarry a radiation suit with you everywhere Storms can vary in duration, and are fairly frequent. The downside of out-map areas is that you can not tell if the storm has passed. There are very few exceptions, such as areas that require a load, where you remain outdoors. Structure interiors, vaults, certain caves, etc. Fusion core power is only drained by movement and combat actions, so if you sit still and refrain from doing anything, you can sit through the storm without depleting your valuable cores.Īn out-map area is any area that requires you to load out of the "Commonwealth" over-map. Most storms pass in about 60 seconds or so, so just buckle up and wait it out. Whether it has a charged fusion core or not, any power armor will add hundreds to your RAD Resistance, which is more than enough to completely negate the minor bursts of radiation from a storm. If you are earlier in the game, the best things to do are: Easily curable with a paltry 40 caps at a settlement doctor. At most, I usually soak up about 60-100 RADs. Radiation storms are not all that dangerous. Having such a suit will allow you to do some exploring in the open world during a rad storm, but as mentioned in the other answer it comes at the cost of your armor stats. Below is where I think the hazmat suit was, but again I forgot to screenshot before picking it up. The Hazmat Suit itself is on the first floor, in a room across from Ericka's lab(where you mix ingredients plus an isotope), and sits on top of a shelf in the corner. I didn't think to take a screenshot of the Hazmat suit's specific location. There's a free Hazmat Suit with 1000 Radiation resistance in the Cambridge Polymer Lab. But if you can break off from the fight (become hidden) or end it quickly, the fast travel will still be of use.Īlso, as kalina mentioned in their answer, a radiation suit will help.

Per your comment about being hit by these storms in gun fights, this won't help in those cases since you need to be a little ways away from hostiles in order to fast travel. So far for me, that makes the storm pass and no rads are absorbed. The point is to use it as a way to pass time, but not to make you travel far away from what you're doing. The best solution I found to this is to use fast travel to travel to the nearest thing you've discovered.
