Lost Perception to using Powder

[Gruet_garbo]

I used 2 healing powders to recover since I don't have any money. Problem is that this lowered by Perception by 2 points. Can I recover this without spending a levelling up resource? How?

[Hopper]

Yeah, the perception loss is only temporary. It'll clear up when you rest or travel.

[Gruet_garbo]

Thanks. What do you mean by travel?

[Hopper]

On the world map. It's the best way to lose the negative effects from healing powder and other drugs.

[kud1]

Identical is the case after consuming alcohol, which afterwards gives us nothing. Depending on the strength of the liquor, we temporarily lose 1 or 2 points of perception.
Therefore, it is not recommended to use medicinal powder during combat. It is best not to use it at all, but when there is nothing else at hand....

[Gruet_garbo]

That is a relief. Glad to know I wasn't making my charac blind little by little.

[Gruet_garbo]

Originally posted by Hopper:

Yeah, the perception loss is only temporary. It'll clear up when you rest or travel.

How do you rest? I was able to pay for a room in the first town, but I don't know how to use the room to rest.

[kud1]

Turn on Pip-Boy, press "P". There is a yellow bell at the top of the screen. You click on it and set the time. Alternatively, click "Z" and go straight to the alarm clock.
There is no point in renting rooms because you can relax anywhere.

[LeoBerlin]

Btw. the Pip-Boy can also load holo-dist information into it. That might help sometimes.
I discovered that very late. :D
Its under "Status"

[Kalameet]

Healing Powder is a very early stimpack replacement, where you're still supposed to melee your way in because you don't have enough bullets.

Healing Powder works best for melee attack(ers), where PER (perception) is not much of a variable to determine a hit/miss.

(Very) (high) PER helps best to determine skill modifies for ranged attacks

[Kalameet]

Originally posted by Sidewalker_42:

That is a relief. Glad to know I wasn't making my charac blind little by little.

The only true danger is developing an addiction to chems (semi-permanent stat loss).

"regular" chems have an addict status that wears off after an ingame week.
a Jet addiction never wears off, unless you use a special item (a cure) that's very scarce.

By the way, chem works like this:
Active phase: +X to stats (eg: STR 6->8)
recover phase: -X to stats (eg: STR 8->4)
several time after recover phase: you stats returns to normal (eg: STR 4->6)