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Thanks to unclean living you've learned the secrets of the lounge lizards! +25% Addiction Resistance. +50% Health bonus from Snack Foods. Scotch, vodka and wine now give you Health in addition to their normal effects.— In-game description.

Old World Gourmet is a perk in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Dead Money.

Effects[]

Taking this perk grants a permanent +25% resistance to becoming addicted, a 50% increase to the amount of HP restored by consuming pre-War food items as well as the ability to restore HP by consuming certain types of alcohol.

Affected items[]

Snack Foods
Alcohol

Notes[]

  • The perk stacks with Chem Resistant and Brainless Old World Blues (add-on), resulting in a 75% resistance to addiction, which is significant enough to rarely become addicted.
  • The perk increases the amount of health given by the various types of so-called "Snack Food" by 50%. This increase is done by modifying the duration of health restoration; for example, the health restoration effect of junk food is changed from +1(5s) HP (one Hit Point per second for five seconds) to +1(7s) HP (one Hit Point per second for seven seconds).
  • The 50% health increase for snack foods is rounded down to the nearest whole number, meaning that, for most snack foods, the actual health increase is 40%. The only exception is for irradiated Sugar Bombs, which round up, providing a 57% increase in health restoration.
  • The perk modifies the chance of addiction, reducing it by 25%. This is a multiplicative change, meaning that (for example) items that normally have an addiction chance of 10% will instead have an addiction chance of 7.5%.
  • The addiction resistance applies to all sources of addiction, including chems that would seem to be unaffected by this perk.
  • The perk picture contains the Vault Boy sitting at a table piled with alcohol and pre-War foods. Some distinguishable ones are scotch, vodka, wine, Potato Crisps, and Fancy Lads Snack Cakes. There is one additional box of food and one bottle of alcohol that cannot be identified as any specific in-game item.
  • The words "Unclean Living" in the description are a reference to the perk granted by Dean Domino, who has survived on junk food and alcohol in the Sierra Madre for years. All the food items affected by this perk are found in high quantities in the Sierra Madre, making it easier to survive Dead Money.
  • The healing granted by alcohol is improved by a higher Survival skill.
  • In Hardcore mode, the healing provided by the alcohol items is actually fairly significant for such easily-found, cheap items, allowing stimpaks to be saved for combat situations or sold.
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