Stealth boy doesnt' work?

[DrakenKin]

Trying to use it in big fights so i can heal (on survivor stimpacks work really slow) but it really doesn't work...

I go into cover, use it, wait a few seconds, move... and all types of enemies fire at me while i am invisible, just like i wasnt stealthed at all.

Stealth boy doesn't work at all or am i doing it wrong?

[Andrius227]

It does not make you 100% invisible. Just much harder to detect while you are sneaking.

[Solverbolt]

Actually, I have found it does not even do that. I had one character with max sneak and agility, using a stealth boy, and a raider who was at least the length of the interior of the steelworks could see me as if I was standing in front of him when he turned around. the Stealth boys do absolutely ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

[ironhead1969]

If you were detected before using it, It won't do anything.

[Bansheebutt]

If enemies know where you are, then turning transparant isn't going to make them suddenly forget.

You need to at least wait for [Caution] status, and then you need to be careful about making noise.

[FauxFurry]

Fallout 4's Stealth Boys are equivalent to the Elder Scrolls 4's Chameleon spell but only around 50% magnitude. The Railroad's Stealth Boys not only deploy their cloaking effect instantaneously, they are close to 90% Chameleon. That is as good a reason as any to keep them around or, at least, to stock up on them before killing Tinker Tom.