15 Lies The Fallout Games Taught Us About The Real World
2. Drinking Water Is An Effective Remedy For Drowning
In Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas, drinking water is vital to survival in the wastes, but it can also be deadly for the unprepared. If the radiation doesn't kill you, drowning still can. Though it doesn't happen often, when it does you'll lose a huge chunk of vitality very fast. This being an RPG, damage taken from drowning drains your overall health, which is the same metre used for all physical trauma, including bullets and baseball bats to the face. A little obtuse, but what do you expect, a CPR mechanic? Since water has convalescent properties, we can safely assume that drinking lots of water is an effective remedy for someone who's almost drowned. If you barely survive such an incident in which you almost died from intaking too much water, consider drinking yet more water to offset the damage.
Ken was born in 1994, and before the turn of the century, he was already a gamer for life, starting with Pokémon Blue Version. He has a passion for storytelling, especially in the gaming medium. Growing up on a healthy diet of JRPGs and point and click adventure games, young Kenny grew up playing Nintendo and Sony consoles, before becoming a snobby member of the PC Master Race. Nowadays, he resides in a time warp, refusing to believe the nineties ended as he fills up his Steam library with old point and clicks and cRPGs.
