Radiation is one of the striking factors in a series of the games STALKER and it is considered one of the most dangerous. The raised background of radiation can seriously do much harm to health of the player, and without timely delivery of health care leads to death at all. Methods of fight against radiation exists a little.
Exclusion zone around the Chernobyl NPP, it is realistic recreated in the game STALKER, it is full of dangers. Among the other factors posing a threat of life of the main character, a specific place is held by radiation. It can take place in so-called hot spots, places of concentration of radioactive stuff and old buildings, can be side effect from action of some artifacts. If the player got radiation infections, health of the character gradually worsens, up to a lethal outcome, and on the screen the corresponding icon appears. It is possible to remove radiation the game STALKER in several ways.
Use of chemical medicines
The most effective method of decrease and elimination of radiative effects is medical anti-radiation medicine. Intake of this medicine at strong radiation reduces influence of radiation in the best way. In the third part of a game, "the Call of Pripyat", effect of medicine is not instant: antirad works for fifteen seconds.
Other medicine protecting from harmful effects and accumulation of radiation is the radioprotector "Indralin-B190". This medicine intended for use by staff of the militarized structures provides reliable protection against influence of gamma radiation. It is necessary to take the radioprotector for some time before hit in a zone of strong ionizing radiation as medicine is not applied to fight against infection consequences.
Alcohol intake
In all parts of the trilogy STALKER there are special goods - Cossacks vodka. It is three times less effective than anti-radiation medicine, but enjoys high popularity at the expense of low cost. Vodka renders side effect of intoxication because of what the main character can be seriously disoriented in space that is critical in the conditions of conducting fight.
The artifacts absorbing radiation
Not all artifacts radiate radiation. Some of them have a neutral radiation background, is also such which effectively absorb radiation. In different versions of a game the same artifacts have different properties. So, in "the Shadow of Chernobyl" the artifacts absorbing radiation are all generations of anomalies "Frying" and "Rusty hair", but each artifact has the side effects. In the games "Call of Pripyat" and "Clear sky" protection against radiation artifacts "Jellyfish" can provide, "Quirk" and "Bubble" at what they do not make negative impact on the player.
Correction of a configuration of a game
Impact of radiation on the main character can be turned off, having changed configuration files of a game. It should be noted that at such corrections of system files the multi-user mode of a game can be partially unavailable. Speed of natural decrease in radiative effects is set by the radiation_v parameter in the actor.ltx file. It is possible to make changes via the normal text editor, the file is located in a game directory in the configs folder, in the creatures folder enclosed in it.