Radiation shielding suit
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The radiation shielding suit (shortened to radiation suit in the manuals) is an item that appears as a white hazard suit. Picking one up will make players nearly 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, signaling 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 (for instance, in E3M7: Limbo, the player may inadvertently run into additional radiation suits while navigating the blood tunnels).
The effects of a radiation shielding 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 protective 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.
This item is not included in the items percentage displayed at the end of each level.
Radiation shielding suit data | |
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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 shielding suits:
Game | 1-2 | 3 | 4-5 |
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The Ultimate Doom | 53 | 52 | 48 |
Doom II | 36 | 33 | 31 |
TNT: Evilution | 27 | 26 | 26 |
Plutonia | 24 | 24 | 24 |
See also
Items from Doom, Doom II and Doom 64 | |
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Health: | Health bonus • Stimpack • Medikit |
Armor: | Armor bonus • Armor • Megaarmor |
Powerups: | Berserk • Computer area map • Invulnerability • Light amplification visor • Megasphere • Partial invisibility • Radiation shielding suit • Supercharge |
Keys: | Keycard • Skull key • Demon Key |
Weapons: | Fist • Chainsaw • Pistol • Shotgun • Super shotgun • Chaingun • Rocket launcher • Plasma gun • BFG9000 • Unmaker |
Ammo: | Backpack • Clip • 4 shotgun shells • Rocket • Energy cell • Box of bullets • Box of shotgun shells • Box of rockets • Energy cell pack |