Radiation shielding 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 (for instance, in E3M7: Limbo, the player may inadvertently run into additional radiation suits while navigating the blood tunnels).

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 &asymp; 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.

Appearance statistics
The IWADs contain the following numbers of radiation suits: