“Your heart is back in your body, but some advanced technologies remain: You are more resistant to poison (50%) and robots are only somewhat confused by you (25% less likely to score a critical hit) now. But on the bright side, healing items (chems) are even more effective!”— Fallout: New Vegas description
Cardiac Arrest is a special perk in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Old World Blues.
Obtaining
The Courier must convince the Brain Tank to unite the Courier's brain with their body or convince it to come back to The Sink. After that, one can have their heart reinserted into their body. This perk replaces Heartless.
Effects
Poison Resistance +50%. Critical Chance -25% for Robots against the player. Consuming Stimpaks or Super Stimpaks grants an additional +15 HP. Consuming any healing item in the table below grants an additional +7 HP.
Affected Healing Items
Notes
- Compared to the Heartless perk, it gives slightly more healing at the cost of +25% critical chance from robots and +50% poison resistance rather than immunity.
- Grants the full 85% resistance to poison when combined with 8 Endurance, the maximum achievable in derived statistics. Of course, this is still outclassed by Heartless's poison immunity.
- Cardiac Arrest shares the same Vault boy image as Heartless.
Bugs
This perk grants -50% critical chance from enemy robots, rather than the listed -25%.
This is fixed in version 1 of YUP.
See also
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