Turbo

Turbo is a consumable item

Background
Turbo is an inhaler of Jet taped to a can of HairStylez hairspray. The effect of Turbo is a brief slowdown of the surroundings (time goes at about 35% of its original speed), including everything from enemies' movements, to projectile speeds (the Courier's projectile speed included), and even the duration of the drug itself. However, the player character's own movement speed and fire rate will remain the same.

Characteristics
Turbo will not slow player character collision physics, movement, or actions. Non-player characters will experience the opposite effect and suffer heavy speed penalties to the aforementioned stats for the duration of Turbo, as well as to object physics. However, projectile speed from guns or thrown items will be slowed for both the player character and non-player characters since bullets, grenades, or thrown melee skill weapons are under the effect of game physics once shot or thrown. This same physics effect applies to manipulable objects as well such as loot-able items or objects that can be moved with collision effects.

Periodic status effects have longer delays between each tick or application of the effect and a longer overall duration while on Turbo. A poison that would normally inflict 6 damage every 3 seconds would have a longer delay between periodic applications of damage and would have a correspondingly longer duration. The duration extension of status effects also applies to non-periodic status effects such as the duration of a Stealth Boy if one were to compare its duration while in a constant period of Turbo to the duration it would have without, the Stealth Boy worn on Turbo would last longer. This does not mean that taking Turbo would extend status effects after its duration. The game only matches the duration of the effects and periodic timers to the slowed "Turbo clock."

Related quests

 * Aba Daba Honeymoon: The Turbo recipe can be acquired from Diane as a reward for completing the first part of the Aba Daba Honeymoon quest. The player must complete the "Convince Jack and Diane..." objective of "Oh My Papa" by receiving and completing the additional quest objective given by Diane before completing the "Convince..." objective through conversation with Jack. After the relevant part of either quest is complete, if the player chooses the recipe Diane offers as one of two possible rewards, Turbo can then be crafted by the player character. If the player fail the quest or the quest become unavailable, the recipe can still be obtained as long as 1) Anders can still be rescued and 2) the Oh My Papa quest can still be started—since the same reward can be acquired by fulfilling Diane's objective during Jack and Diane's portion of the "Oh My Papa" quest.

Locations

 * Red Rock Canyon - Three can be found in the tents.
 * Nipton Hall - Behind a Hard locked door a short way along the corridor to the right of the entrance. The key to the door is to right just after entering, behind a counter near an armed frag mine.
 * Hell's Motel - Found on Doctor Rotson.
 * Boulder City - In the building where first meeting Jessup, a Turbo can be found on the shelf, or on the floor to the left of the door, as it may have fallen down. However, the only way to obtain it is to steal it, which may make the Great Khans in the area hostile.
 * Gomorrah - Can be purchased from the bartenders.
 * Black Mountain - One can be found by the two suitcases, near the radioactive area on the left of the mountain path.
 * NCR Correctional Facility - Can be found on numerous Powder Gangers.
 * Red Rock drug lab - Sold by Jack.
 * Novac - Sold by Doctor Ada Straus.

Bugs

 * Turbo seems to have some adverse effects on the incinerator and the heavy incinerator, causing the projectiles to have up to double their normal velocity.
 * It may also critically slow down the player's reload speed (as if it never wore off). The only known way of reversing this is to reload a previous save (not tested). Treating this glitch as addiction and seeking medical aid from a doctor is another known way of undoing this glitch.