Survival Mode + Lead Belly?

[Gutted]

Would it finally be worth it to take that perk? Or would you still get diseases from drinking dirty water and eating bad stuff?

Would be kinda nice not having to worry about cooking stuff all the time and can just eat all that cram, porknbeans, or whatever else you find while exploring.

[Yhwach]

I took it a bit early, you don't "need" it, since there's plenty of ways to make vegetable soup or other things that have little to no radiation, at full tier it's worth it, otherwise it's not; you still get diseases, but you won't gain any radiation.

[bLaCkShAd0w]

Originally posted by Scarecrow:

I took it a bit early, you don't "need" it, since there's plenty of ways to make vegetable soup or other things that have little to no radiation, at full tier it's worth it, otherwise it's not; you still get diseases, but you won't gain any radiation.

I just use rad-aways. They still stockpile faster than I use them. Last time I checked I had like 25 of them. I dont spam them though, Usually live with rads until health is down to 85/90%

[nbryant58]

You are still affected by it but to a much lessor degree, enough that I found this perk to be a life saver. Being able to drink and eat a larger selection of items, like water from open sources, allows you to not focus as much an carrying 10 bottles of water and a clean selection of food. I would recommend it.

[ghpstage]

It actually looks like it might be genuinely useful now, but in reality its not. Meats are very common and cooking removes rads, gives decent recovery and often special bonuses and clean water easily produced, plus lead belly doesn't prevent you from getting ill from eating raw meats or drinking dirty water.
To top it all off, dirty food and water don't contain all that many rads to begin with.