Poison
Effects of Poison
Poison lowers some of your stats. Those are: Healing Rate, Bleed Resistance and Critical Resistance.
Poison goes from 0 to 10000. This value is mostly just arbitrary, as the effects scale linearly from 0 to 10000.
Healing Rate
Healing Rate is lowered to a -20.
This value is applied linearly up to the highest poisoning value level (10000).
Example
Zmeja has a Healing Rate of 12. He currently has 5000 Poisoning. If he would have 10000 Poisoning, he would have -20 Healing Rate. But because he only has half the poison value, he has half of the malus - thus having only -4 Healing Rate.
Bleed Resistance
Bleed Resistance is lowered up to 30 on the highest poisoning level. (For example, Improved Hemostasis adds 20. So it is as strong as 1.5 negative Improved Hemostasises)
Critical Resistance
Critical Resistance is halved on the highest poisoning level. However, only the natural Critical Resistance gained from Luck (and Man of Steel), as well as the Leadership Boost are affected. The Critical Resistance you get or lose from Drugs, as well as from an Artifact, are NOT affected.
Poison Resistance
Just like Radiation Resistance works for Radiation, Poison Resistance works for Poison. Currently, the only reliable way to get Poison Resistance is through your Endurance as well as the Lizard Limbs trait. Each point in Endurance will give you 5% Poison Resistance, which means that with 10 Endurance, you will already have 50% Poison Resistance.
While a gas-mask does not give you Poison Resistance directly, it does still lower the amount of poison (and bleed) damage you get from standing inside gas.
| Modifiers | Poison Resistance |
|---|---|
| Fast Metabolism | -25% |
| Lizard Limbs | +25% |
| Droplet Artifact | +20% |
Poison Removal
Unlike Radiation, Poison will go away on its own. In order to remove Poison, you are advised to take Antidote (Drug), which will remove 1000 Poison every 30 seconds for 120 seconds.
You heal 166.66 Poison every 5 seconds.
Sources of Poison
Gas
A very popular way for players to apply poison onto you is through the use of gas-grenades. These are especially prevalent in the middle of the season, where gas-masks might still not be used and the advantage you gain from flushing enemies out of entrenched positions can be massive. You will quickly notice the presence of green-ish gas once a gas-grenade is thrown. It expands quite far and also has a longer life-time then your average fire or smoke. It does however NOT block vision, even though it might look like that.
Attacks
Some NPCs attacks, as well as some very specific weaponry, can apply Poison Damage on hit. This is especially noticeable in Hospital, where the monstrosities there can not only poison you, but also radiate you.
Venomous Hands
This perk is almost exclusively used by Melee characters - which makes their Melee attacks apply Poison on hit. This can add up to quite some numbers, especially if you let them poke at you for a longer time.
