Radiation Is My New Best Friend: Fallout 76's Ghoul Perks Make Wasteland Survival a Beach

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Radiation Is My New Best Friend: Fallout 76's Ghoul Perks Make Wasteland Survival a Beach
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The new Ghoul character in Fallout 76 embraces radiation as a healing force, turning perilous Wasteland dangers into opportunities. The author shares their experience using irradiated water to survive and fight, embracing a unique and unexpected approach to Wasteland survival.

It may go against everything I've ever known about surviving in a Fallout game, but after turning myself into a Ghoul in Fallout 76 , I've decided radioactive pools of water are my new best friend. The new Ghoul character, which is launching today in Fallout 76 , has a bunch of helpful features. You can use human perks alongside new ghoul perks, and you don't need any food or water to keep you going.

But the best trait is how radiation will slowly heal you and can even turn you into a deadly close combat brawler if you expose yourself to large amounts at once.Setting off on an adventure as my newly ghoul-ified self, it wasn't long before I found trouble walking around the Wasteland. Luckily for me, a bunch of troublesome blood eagle grunts made camp near a pool of irradiated water. I decided to test out my new skills to see just how helpful radiation can be for a ghoul. Before long, I had wiped out the entire camp, leaving just one special grunt in power armor with a minigun for me to deal with. Using a shotgun I'd picked up, I began luring the last grunt towards the water. Once I finally got her to the shore, I started swimming around like a fish and occasionally popping out to shoot at her. I may have been riddled with bullet holes, but the irradiated water was healing me fast enough that it wasn't much of an issue. I used this new aquatic style of fighting any chance I could, running into lakes and drinking out of dirty puddles anytime my health bar got dinked even a little bit. It's not the quickest way of fighting, and definitely cowardly, but it works wonders in the Wasteland.Becoming a ghoul completely changes the way you look at the Wasteland—areas that were once strict no-goes are now the only places I want to explore. Before I shed my fresh, supple human skin, places like Thunder Mountain Power Plant were too stressful to just waltz int

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