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AID STEALTH
Your stealth state is displayed when you crouch (press L-Ctrl). [HIDDEN] means nobody
detects you. [CAUTION] means someone is searching for you. [DANGER] means you have
been detected by an enemy.
How stealthy you are is affected by many factors:
• Sneak skill: Your Sneak skill only helps you when you are crouching. The higher your Sneak
skill, the easier it is to remain undetected, steal an item, or pick someone’s pocket.
• Enemy’s perception: Some enemies are less perceptive than others, and therefore less
likely to detect you.
• Line of sight: An enemy is much less likely to detect you if he can’t see you.
• Light level: You are harder to see in darker areas.
• Movement: You are hardest to detect when motionless, easiest to detect when running.
• Apparel weight: Heavier apparel makes more noise when moving.
• Sound: Most melee weapons make very little noise; bigger guns make a lot of noise.
Successfully attacking while undetected gives you an automatic “sneak” critical.
REPUTATION
Your actions in the Mojave Wasteland contribute to your Reputation with each of the major
towns and factions in the game. At any time you can check your reputation with every faction
and town by going to your Pip-Boy and selecting the General tab (for more on the Pip-Boy
3000, see page 6).
Reputation numbers increase and decrease as you help or harm each individual faction or
major location, and you are given a title for your current status. Having a positive reputation
with a faction will enable different dialog options and people will be more likely to help you. If
your reputation is overly negative, members of that faction may attack you on sight.
In addition to your reputation, simply wearing the uniforms of an opposing faction may affect
how characters react to you. Members of one faction may decide to shoot you if you’re
wearing the clothing of their hated enemy. Be careful!
When you are hurt, there are several ways to restore your health:
• Visit a doctor and pay for healing.
• Use a Stimpak, Super Stimpak, or Doctor’s Bag.
• Eat food or drink water.
• Sleep in a bed.
Each time you take a chem or drink alcohol, your chance of becoming addicted to it goes up.
If you stop using the drug for a while, this chance will drop. Each drug has its own addiction
chance, so using one type will not increase your chance of becoming addicted to another.
Addiction will hurt some of your S.P.E.C.I.A.L. attributes. These penalties go away temporarily
if you take that drug again. A doctor can cure you of any addiction, for a price.
In order to heal a crippled limb, you have three choices: sleep in a bed, find a doctor, or use a
healing item to heal yourself.
Stimpaks can be used for general healing (which will also slightly heal crippling damage),
or they can be applied directly to a limb to heal crippling damage. Doctor’s Bags can heal
multiple crippled limbs, however they are much rarer in the world than Stimpaks.
To heal a crippled limb directly using a Stimpak, navigate to the Stats screen in your Pip-Boy,
then select the limb and use the Stimpak directly on that limb.