Radiation shielding suit

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Radiation suit in E1M4: Command Control
Greenish view of E1M4 while wearing radiation suit

The radiation suit (often shortened to radsuit) is a powerup that appears as a white hazard suit. Picking one up will make the player immune to damaging floors for 60 seconds and fill their vision with a green haze. When 5 seconds remain, the green haze will begin blinking, signalling the end of the suit's effects. The suit has no armor value and does not protect the player from monster attacks. Picking up one radiation suit while another is still in effect does not shield the player for an additional 60 seconds, but merely resets the protection time to 60 seconds.

A radiation suit can also be obtained with the cheat code idbeholdr.

For the 20% damaging floor types, there is a small chance (6/256 ≈ 2.3%) that the damage will penetrate the radiation suit during a given second, thus reducing health (or health and armor combined) by 20%. Due to the periodicity of the pseudorandom number generator used by the Doom engine, however, the probability of this occurring more than once during the lifetime of a given suit is extremely low.

Radiation suits are not included in the items percentage displayed at the end of each level.

Radiation suit data
Thing type 2025 (decimal), 7E9 (hex)
Appears in Shareware Doom
Registered Doom
Ultimate Doom
Doom II/Final Doom
Radius 20
Sprite SUIT
Class Item
Pickup

Appearance statistics

The IWADs contain the following numbers of radiation suits:

Game ITYTD and HNTR HMP UV and NM
Ultimate Doom 53 52 48
Doom II 36 33 31
TNT: Evilution 27 26 26
Plutonia 24 24 24

See also