-5 energy resistance?!

[Icedfate]

I noticed something.

when I'm wearing no armor at all and not counting the toughness perk, I have 0 base damage resistance and (apparently) 0 energy resistance.

however, every time I put on an armor, no matter what combination I do, it always results in 5 points less energy resistance than it should.

if I put on a certain piece of clothing that had 10/10, I end up with 10/5

if I put on the black ops chest 34/34, I end up with 34/29

I put on a combat helmet rated at 13/13 and I have 13/8

I put on the mantis armband that says 17/26 and I get 17/21


somewhere in there, there's a -5 energy resistance being applied.

is if my base stats are 0/-5 and not 0/0

what gives?

[Bored Peon]

I have heard of debuffs and buffs that remained permanent.

Liek the radstag buff being permanent soemtimes when it combined with some other buff/debuffs.

Players had a lot of issues with the permanent headwound reducing their perception permanently to 2 perception or something on survival. Lot of complaints due to consoel removal and being unabel to fix it.

It really would not be that surprising to see you found some new debuff that became permanent.

What I would do in your case would be save that game (if on survival and NOT using mods) and copy that file so you have a bakcup. Then go to normal difficulty and use some console commands to see what debuff is affecting you permanently.

If you are using mods then it almost sounds like you got a piece of metal gear permanently equipped. This could be caused by some mod you might be running. There were gear oriented mods in the past that left behind permanent stat changes.

[Icedfate]

I only have 4 mods. I'm trying not to mess with mods too much because my rig barely meets the requirements to run the game. at least that's what the websites say. . .the sys requirements lab site even says I can't even run the game but I'm running it just fine with all the settings turned down. I did have a few CTD's, only seems to be when if I try to go into VATS during a settlement attack, the game crashes. anywhere else I go into VATS, just fine, with no slowdowns or lockups or anything.

as for the mods

2 of them are clothing mods. the clothes mods were for dressing up my settlers mainly.
one of the clothings, if worn, adds 25 damage resistance and 25 poison resist.
the other outfit has 10 damage and 10 energy resistance.

when I wear the outfit from the second mod, it does exactly what it says it should do. it raises my DR and my ER both by 10. I'm wearing it under my armor, I figured an extra 10 and 10 wouldn't break the game too much, especially on very hard, I would have been fine if the outfit had no stats but the modder put the stats on there, so ok.


the other 2 mods are one to add track for the ambient music (not even sure if it's working. .. ) and one to change the battle music to something more metaly.

[Zu]

Try
help energy 4
for a list of possible variables for energy resistance. (You can scroll up in the console btw)
Then
player.modav ExampleResistanceWord 5
to add 5 points of energy resistance.

I'm sure you'll find the right variable eventually. It's such a small deal that I don't think figuring out the cause for this is worth the trouble. I mean, yeah, it's half a perk, but it's like whatever.

[Nish-Ki]

Originally posted by Zu:

Try
help energy 4
for a list of possible variables for energy resistance. (You can scroll up in the console btw)
Then
player.modav ExampleResistanceWord 5
to add 5 points of energy resistance.

I'm sure you'll find the right variable eventually. It's such a small deal that I don't think figuring out the cause for this is worth the trouble. I mean, yeah, it's half a perk, but it's like whatever.

Don't have to worry about lasers if you sneaky sniper everything

[Icedfate]

yeah well, okay, I gues I could just use console commands. I've done it before. I'm just baffled as to the cause of this.

[leem]

If you already have several hours into this character +/- 5 resistance is small enough to let slide. You could look into correcting it but I would wait you may discover the reason. Since you got it running stable under requirements just have fun in the game.

[Bored Peon]

I would keep an eye on that clothing mod and your resistances. Simply because whatever you did that caused that -5 in the first coudl ending up stacking.

The bad thing about clothign mod causing that is if you remove the mod you will be stuck with the stats because the mod edited your AVs (actor values) in your stats. Perfect example of how a mod can cause damage even after being removed.

I vaguely remember the issue from the last time, except it was in reverse, the mod was causing a bonus to an ability score that should not have been there after the clothing was removed.

[brigigitte]

Hey,
Sorry to revive a dead thread but if someone still has the same problem years later here is a potential fix:
#Unequip all your current items
#"player.getav EnergyResist" - check to see if the value is -5.00
#"player.forcevalue EnergyResist 0"
And it should be good, I don't know what causes this bug, modav and setav don't make the change permanent, only forcevalue works.