Radioactive mushrooms should be more useful

[Riamus]

It would be nice to have some kind of radiation protection potion that requires these mushrooms to make. The green screen can be really annoying sometimes.

It would be nice as a way to avoid the radiation damage from the mutated zombies or the yellow barrels. It is definitely a pain to see when you are taking radiation damage. You'd would need a pretty long timer on the protection for them to be useful, though. 30-60 minutes, probably. They aren't much use if you're already taking damage, and if you have to keep drinking them throughout a long quest just in case, that ends up not being worth it.

 

[Suxar]

It would be nice as a way to avoid the radiation damage from the mutated zombies or the yellow barrels. It is definitely a pain to see when you are taking radiation damage. You'd would need a pretty long timer on the protection for them to be useful, though. 30-60 minutes, probably. They aren't much use if you're already taking damage, and if you have to keep drinking them throughout a long quest just in case, that ends up not being worth it.

30 minutes isn't necessary. 12 minutes, like with steroids, would be enough.

 

[Riamus]

30 minutes isn't necessary. 12 minutes, like with steroids, would be enough.

Having to keep taking them just in case you might get hit by radiation wouldn't make them that useful, imo. Same reason I don't bother with vitamins to prevent infection. The time is so low that it just isn't worth bothering. If it's long enough to complete even a tier 5 POI, then it's worthwhile. Otherwise, they could add it, but I'd never use it.

 

[Sapient6]

Having to keep taking them just in case you might get hit by radiation wouldn't make them that useful, imo. Same reason I don't bother with vitamins to prevent infection. The time is so low that it just isn't worth bothering. If it's long enough to complete even a tier 5 POI, then it's worthwhile. Otherwise, they could add it, but I'd never use it.

If vitamins show up in loot during a T6, and I'm not already infected, I eat them straight out of the box. The effect stacks so if they're showing up a lot then I'll get their benefit. The only time I ever take them as a planned action is early game when I haven't found any safe drinks recently.

Doesn't mean much coming from me. I'll typically end a standard rpg playthrough with stacks and stacks of whatever buff potions are in the game because I always pick them up but I never take them.

 

[8_Hussars]

Radioactive mushrooms should be more useful; currently, they're only needed for crafting anti-radiation medication, which is quickly becoming almost irrelevant. Food/medications using these mushrooms and the ability to grow them would add further value

I am in favor of more crafting recipes.

It would be nice to have some kind of radiation protection potion that requires these mushrooms to make. The green screen can be really annoying sometimes.

Much like the liners and armor mods for temperature protection, I think many players anticipated needing a widget (e.g. liners/armor mods/hazmat gear) for the wasteland, at least I did. Although the wasteland may be "higher difficulty" the lack of similar environmental affects to temperature makes it "easier", IMHO.

A generalized radiation poisoning danger in the wasteland mitigated by a widget or a drink would fit nicely. Radioactive Mushrooms could/should be used in those recipes...