“Your regenerative ability has been enhanced by the PHOENIX Monocyte Breeder implant, causing you to slowly regenerate lost hit points.”— In-game description
The PHOENIX Monocyte Breeder is an implant perk in Fallout: New Vegas.
Requirements
This perk is not available during level up, but rather must be purchased from Doctor Usanagi at the New Vegas Medical Clinic for 12,000 Caps, through the use of an Auto-Doc. It is designed to gradually heal damage over time by speeding up the user's cell regeneration.
Effects
- Regenerate 1 HP every 10 seconds.
Notes
- In Hardcore Mode, sleeping on an unowned bed (or did not rent) does not heal the player character, and thus consumables are the only source of healing; with this perk sleeping and waiting will heal based on the equivalent in real-world seconds to the in-game time passed. Fast-traveling will also heal the player character for the estimated amount of game-time that the player character travels through. Therefore, the healing rate is almost instantaneous, save for the loading sequences between each fast-travel.
- Since it takes so long to fully heal the player character, this effect is only valuable outside of battle.
- One will find that this implant is very useful during the Dead Money add-on because of the short supply of Stimpaks. In Hardcore Mode, it partially counteracts the slow health drain that the Cloud inflicts.
- Waiting 1 in-game hour will restore 12 HP.
- Individual limb health is not affected by the regeneration; these must still be healed by normal means.
Behind the scenes
- Monocytes are a form of white blood cell (leukocytes) which react to inflammation signals and differentiate into infection-fighting cells to protect the body from disease.
- The actual implant name is similar to Phoenix implants that can be installed in Fallout 2.
