Getting poisoned, never happens? : Fallout: New Vegas

» Mon Dec 28, 2009 9:08 pm

In short I never seem to get poisoned. Radscorps or whatever damage me but I dont get any indicator that I am poisoned.
Is enemy poison implemented?
Have I just missed it in the gneral mayhem?
Or am I just lucky (I do my best to not get hit at all!) :gun:

» Mon Dec 28, 2009 10:23 pm

In short I never seem to get poisoned. Radscorps or whatever damage me but I dont get any indicator that I am poisoned.
Is enemy poison implemented?
Have I just missed it in the gneral mayhem?
Or am I just lucky (I do my best to not get hit at all!) :gun:

I've also never gotten poisoned in my many hours of play. I've even stopped carrying around the antidote to poison since it never seems to happen.

» Tue Dec 29, 2009 1:10 am

Yeah you can get poisoned. Cazadores are the worst.

» Mon Dec 28, 2009 12:17 pm

If you take on a large number of cazadores you should get the opportunity to use anti-venom

» Tue Dec 29, 2009 12:54 am

I get poisoned alot...

» Mon Dec 28, 2009 12:29 pm

Run into a group of Cazadores and you'll know about needing antivenom.

» Mon Dec 28, 2009 4:11 pm

If you are being hurt by radscorpions or cazadore then I'm pretty sure you are being poisoned. In combat it will just look like you are being hit and hurt. If you go into your pipboy after being hit, look at your 'Effects' section, under your Condition somewhere. It will show your buffs etc, and also show that you're poisoned. Poison is damage over time, and will go away on its own, but not before doing a bunch more damage. You can stop it in it's tracks right there by going to Aid and using the anti-venom. You probably can survive a bit of poisoning, but after a few hits it'll kill you, even after you kill the 'bug'.

» Mon Dec 28, 2009 6:48 pm

I believe the only radscorpiion that poisons is the Bark Radscorpion. You will know it when you do get poisoned. First a message appears saying something like "you feel queezy" and your health bar starts to go down despite eating, drinking, stimpaks, etc. You;ll also see your vision blur momentarily. It's not fun. Anti-venom is a very good thing at lower levels especially.

» Tue Dec 29, 2009 4:09 am

Bark Scorpions aren't radscorpions. I have definitely been poisoned by them, not sure of Radscorpions though.

» Tue Dec 29, 2009 3:03 am

I have been poisoned a lot. Cazadors and Bark Scorpions. I'm also not sure about Radscorpions.

» Mon Dec 28, 2009 11:19 pm

I've only been poisoned by cazadors, so far. The bark scorpions are a lot easier to kill! But I have tons of anti-venom and always take it anyway, just to be safe.

» Mon Dec 28, 2009 4:26 pm

All the Scorpions and Cazandors can poison you. When it happens it can easily mean the difference between survival and death, especially on hardcoe.

» Mon Dec 28, 2009 2:12 pm

I get poisoned regularly. End might have something to do with it. I usually have it between 4 to 6, and rely on DT, avoidance, sniping, or grotesque alpha-damage to keep my HP up. Med-X and Slasher in a pinch.

But I try not to go anywhere at all without two doses of antivenom on me. Nothing worse than using a dose to cure scorp poison, and then getting bloody cazador poison right afterwards. That happened enough times that I set my two-dose policy.

» Mon Dec 28, 2009 4:06 pm

You'll know when it happens

» Mon Dec 28, 2009 1:17 pm

I don't fight radscorpions a lot, but the giant ones apply their poison on nearly every sting against me. >_<

» Mon Dec 28, 2009 9:54 pm

I suppose it depends on difficulty, combat style and such. Poison is definitely in the game as many have mentioned, Unarmed/Melee vs Cazadors will almost certainly get you poisoned.

» Mon Dec 28, 2009 4:24 pm

I've been poisoned by the large Rad Scorpions and Cazandors :cryvaultboy: but I'm surprised enemies that use melee weapons especially the Legion boys don't use poison though :shrug: I think it would be cool if they did :nod:

bigcrazewolf

» Tue Dec 29, 2009 5:37 am

I been posioned many times with my unarmed/melee character bark scorpions, cazador and giant radscrops are the worst.

» Mon Dec 28, 2009 7:23 pm

It does seem as if it's harder to get poisoned than in Fallout 3. My recent two builds I've been pretty much minimizing END. (2 or 3), mixed with hardcoe and Extra-Hard. The only real threats have been Deathclaws and Cazadors. (And RadScorpions VERY early on)

I think in 3 builds, I've only had to use Antivenom ONCE. Given, I also haven't done a melee build, so very few things have gotten close enough to poison my char builds in the first place

» Mon Dec 28, 2009 6:29 pm

Note: poisoning is cumulative, that is, you can have multiple doses of poison active at one time. Luckily you only need one anti-venom to cancel it. Max for me has been 3, I think. It wears off, after a while, so if you've stocked up on food and are in a safe place, you can keep eating stuff until it's worn off, and save the anti-venom for emergencies.

» Mon Dec 28, 2009 6:05 pm

i always seem to get poisoned. i make sure to carry around at least 10 antivenoms no matter where i go...

» Mon Dec 28, 2009 5:37 pm

you can hear sort of a...splash sound for around 5 mins.in intervals and when u do u take a slight health damage....

» Tue Dec 29, 2009 12:58 am

I get poisoned all the time, but then I tend to have low combat skills for quite a while which means critters have more opportunities to apply it. Sure, I go through a lot of anti-venom, but that just adds to the 'survivalist' aspect of play since I have to be careful about picking fights with poison-users until I'm in a position to not worry about getting swarmed and stung to death.

» Mon Dec 28, 2009 10:54 pm

I got mobbed by cazadors once idk how many times I got poisoned in that one instance but I distinctly remember stim-packing myself to full health (this was on my 1st playthrough on normal) after most of the cazadors were dead and dying only seconds later just from the poison effects. Cazador poison (especially when stacked) is lethal...

» Mon Dec 28, 2009 7:14 pm

I get poisoned all the time. When I get poisoned by Radscorpions my view keeps going crazy very often and im basically blind for a few seconds when it happens.