Every couple of days or so a huge Radiation Storm blows through the area that I'm currently in. How do I decrease my chances of contracting RADS if I'm outside?
Fallout – What do I do in a Radiation Storm
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You're also able to do this from within your inventory on the junk tab by selecting the "Component View" option. This also allows you to remove items from the search list:
Additionally, when you're in Workshop mode and building, if you do not have all of the required component parts to build an item the "Tag for search" option will enable on the bottom menu bar:
This will add the missing items from the item list to the search list and when you hover over an item that scraps into components including the parts on your search list the item name has a magnifying glass next to it.
I found the solution while tediously studying the pip boy.
While it doesn't give an exact number, there is a gauge to the right of the main pip boy screen that reflects how much radiation you've contracted.
You cannot really determine it down to the exact rad, but should be able to guess to within 10 or so rads. As far as I can see, there is no rads bar or anything in the actual pip boy screen itself (as there was in FO3 or New Vegas).
If anyone finds it difficult to read the gauge, zooming in a bit (with the touchpad on a dualshock) makes it a little easier.
And as rpmerf commented, right click zooms on PC.
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The best solution I found to this is to use fast travel to travel to the nearest thing you've discovered. Or perhaps the second nearest. The point is to use it as a way to pass time, but not to make you travel far away from what you're doing.
So far for me, that makes the storm pass and no rads are absorbed.
Per your comment about being hit by these storms in gun fights, this won't help in those cases since you need to be a little ways away from hostiles in order to fast travel. But if you can break off from the fight (become hidden) or end it quickly, the fast travel will still be of use.
Also, as kalina mentioned in their answer, a radiation suit will help. There's a free Hazmat Suit with 1000 Radiation resistance in the Cambridge Polymer Lab. Here's the CPL's location:
I didn't think to take a screenshot of the Hazmat suit's specific location. The Hazmat Suit itself is on the first floor, in a room across from Ericka's lab(where you mix ingredients plus an isotope), and sits on top of a shelf in the corner. Below is where I think the hazmat suit was, but again I forgot to screenshot before picking it up.
Having such a suit will allow you to do some exploring in the open world during a rad storm, but as mentioned in the other answer it comes at the cost of your armor stats.