“Thanks to unclean living you've learned the secrets of the lounge lizards!
+25% Addiction Resistance. +50% Health bonus from Snack Foods. Scotch, Vodka and Wine now give you Health in addition to their normal effects.”— In-game description.
Old World Gourmet is a perk in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Dead Money.
Effects
Additional health is gained from snack foods, and alcohol now gives HP when consuming the drink.
The Old World Gourmet perk provides three effects:
- Increases the amount of HP given by "Snack Foods" by 50%. This increases the healing duration of the consumbale, with a majority being changed from HP +1(5s) to HP +1(7s), except Sugar Bombs and its irradiated variant which changes from HP +1(7s) to HP +1(11s). Due to the Healing Duration increase being rounded down to the nearest whole number, most snack foods increase by only 40%, except Sugar Bombs and its irradiated variant which round up providing a 57% increase instead.
- Grants a health restoration effect to Wine, Vodka, and Scotch, as well its variants Irradiated Scotch and Jake Juice. The effect is the same for all: HP +2(10s), it scales with the player's Survival skill and is affected by the Better Healing perk.
- Reduces the player's Addiction Chance by 25%. This is a multiplicative change, meaning that (for example) items that normally have an addiction chance of 10% will instead have an addiction chance of 7.5%. This change applies to all sources of addiction, even those items not otherwise affected by this perk.
Affected items
This perk modifies the amount of health given by the following items:
Snack Food +50% Healing Duration
Alcohol +2 HP/s for 10s
| Base consumable | Variant(s) |
|---|---|
| Scotch | Irradiated Scotch Jake Juice |
| Vodka | |
| Wine |
Notes
- When stacked with Chem Resistant and Brainless, it results in a 72% resistance to addiction, which is significant enough to rarely become addicted.
- The perk picture contains the Vault Boy sitting at a table piled with alcohol and pre-War foods. Some distinguishable ones are Scotch, Vodka, Wine, Potato Crisps, and Fancy Lads Snack Cakes. There is one additional box of food and one bottle of alcohol that cannot be identified as any specific in-game item.
- The words "Unclean Living" in the description are a reference to the perk granted by Dean Domino, who has survived on junk food and alcohol in the Sierra Madre for years. All the food items affected by this perk are found in high quantities in the Sierra Madre, making it easier to survive Dead Money.
- In Hardcore Mode, the healing provided by the alcohol items is actually fairly significant for such easily-found, cheap items, allowing stimpaks to be saved for combat situations or sold.
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