The SCIENCE! Behind STIMPAKS in Fallout
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Ah yes, the era of Austin being able to swear freely. Good times ^.^
It kinda sounds forced.
@@Seth9809 agreed
did he move to game theory a few years ago?
@@ranger8155 Yup! Can't swear as freely over there.
It’s kinda annoying
it gets worse. you go through the entire game with only 1 pair of underwear, which you never remove.
Norman Banders ....
holy shit...
Norman Banders My god....
Norman Banders Jesus Christ, that smell would kill.
No wonder stealth is so difficult. And why my guy walks funny.
Why nobody talk about the best medicine in Fallout 4?
Beds
With everything crippled and hp at 1 just sleep for 3 hours and it would be like nothing happened
@@carolynrafferty1711 kinda' real thing... Especially after semester finals in quantum mechanics, that 3 hour sleep can cure a lot of things...
Also water is life
Do any of you noobs play on survival? It gets a bit harder than that (which is precisely the point).
Antibiotics is the most important shit you can have (for some reason, everything is bacterial, with no immunities to antibiotics).
“I like numbers there smooth and easy” than there is my numbers wanna make me do one gun+ 6 bullets= sucide
Alternative version: Stimpacks contain a tiny wizard which uses a healing spell to heal you.
Indeed, but a Cleric would have a much easier time casting divine healing than an arcane caster like a wizard.
@@briannorman1750 What about Leroy?
@@briannorman1750 came here to say this. Clerics best class.
Ok but does the magic follow regular physics?
@@Darthwing personally adore Rogues and Paladins but.... will admit... Clerics are great
"Dear Bethesda"
*TRIGGERED*
Hegeshdhs
THROBING
I really do like this keep doing btw I'm sick not going to school so watching your stuff
*takes out gun* TRIGGERED dam the safety's on....-.
You know what gets me triggered?
All you whiny lily-livered pansies getting triggered by mundane harmless weaksauce pansy-ass shit! Grow some goddamn leather hides you scrawny pale-skinned basement-dwellers!
You taught the healing stage of a cut better than my biology and health teacher did.
your other dad Savage!
Yessss, hombre I agree. I have learned more from youtube and google than school has ever taught me.
lol same
SlinkySlim SAME
yes same my teacher confuse me
So in fallout 3 if you help the outcasts and ask for radaway as a reward the guy straight up says it makes him get the shits “stuff goes through me like a rampaging Brahmin”
wow never knew that thanks kind stranger! but also Austin says at the end that since you only play your character for at least a few in-game years your character might be getting pancreas cancer but I can confirm with my character that's been out of the vault for 27 in-game years that no there's no cancer debuff
It basically flushes all the radiation by having it be absorbed from the body by iodine I think, and well, all that absorbed radiation waste has to go somewhere, so you poop it all out.
@@benjaminmenken5693 Well, iodine only works in one particular bodypart. It saturates iodine levels in your body to harmful levels (yes - this can break the thyroid off balance). So it only protects from one single element. In fallout there are lots of other radiating elements that you are not protected and that doesn't have any stable version (same atomic number, different qty of neutrons).
No joke, radaway in the lore actually gives you "the runs" so you actually get diheria from using it.
That must be why you get hungry when you use them in survival mode.
I remember drinking several mugs of "cheap shop"-type milk oolong, which is, essentially, a horrible mixture of oolong and unknown flavor chemicals (the real milk oolong has its characteristic taste by itself). It was a horrible case of diarrhoea.
@@markshaw270 that's the british version of saying it
@@romanpackham8471 there is an invention called Google, use it, and you will see there is only one way to spell it. Also remember British way as you put it is the real way to say anything that is English, where do you think the language got it's name? From Antarctica? No from *England*
@@markshaw270 that's how it's spelt in the UK, matpat said it himself in the taco bell video and i can prove it if you need me to
Just confirmed. Bethesda is going to send an update to Fallout 4, now whenever you use Radaway or a stimpack there will be audible fart sounds.
TheRepty818 k
Also the need to wear brown pants over every outfit in the game, seeing as every time you inject a stimpak, take a dose of RadAway, or pop some Rad-X you are going to SHIT YOUR PANTS.
and it's also come with Diaper Ready and Go DLC just incase after using the stimpack to prevent shaming the wanderer
Csongor Borbély It probably already is. There's a mod for basically anything.
1r1shOperator how did you believe that
To think, some guy in Nevada is able to make these things in a bathtub.
If you think that in depth it sounds fucking disturbing..
mattig89ch wait what lol?
mattig89ch Is that a New Vegas reference? xD
mattig89ch stimpaks ain't chems :)
so meth
I love how Stimpaks just have exposed needles when you find them.
Still think you don’t need that nap?
Exposed needles + radiation = turbo AIDS
@@desperatepsycho ultra turbo mega AIDS cancer
Gonosyphilaids.
Becoming Beiber super disease
Ahh!!! I literally never thought about that until you pointed it out 😂😂😅
The weird thing is that the actual "Stimpack" wasn't a healing item at all, it had a bunch of amphetamines and shit to get the soldier's all amped up going before the battle.
I caught that too. They're _stim_ packs. I thought that you take adrenaline or something similar to keep you going after you get injured.
Was that not pyscho?
What fascinates me is the fact that I was made in 9 moths but it take 2 whole years for my body to fix a stupid papercut.
Moth-man? is that you?
If you want to get technical, the beta version of you took only 9 months, but the finished product isn't released until you're 25.
Beta? You can’t even speak or walk when you are born. In best case you are a tech demo or technical alpha.
kiwiKaiser
Just a proof of concept.
The reply’s to this comment are probably the best things I’ve seen in months. Nice work, fellow nerds.
No wonder all the toilets are broken
Haley Russom I burst out laughing. Why, I don't know.
So this explains the reason we keep seeing blown out toilets in game
LOL . now u know .
lmao!
:)
I can't stop giggling 😂😂😂
In fallout 2 Radaway is said to give you the runs.
Makes sense to why in survival you get hungry when you use them
@@brainslimedb686 i never put that together lmao makes sense tho
goes to show the attention to detail that interplay and black isle actually put into their games compared to bethesda.
Julie Farkas also says that it burns as fuck.
@@pixeltiger4204 ok "true fan"
I just assume Stimpaks are stem cells that repair damaged tissue.
As for Rad-X I assumed they were iodine tablets.
PunkxRockxJesus Iodine tablets only work for the thyroid, which consumes a crap ton of Iodine. Radiation can contaminate surrounding iodine pretty easily so taking the pills flush only the irradiated iodine out of your system, it won't do anything to prevent any other sort of radiation
Random Guy
Yes it does protect the thyroid gland which absorbs radiation. It protects against gamma and beta radiation. Gamma being the harmful rays from nuclear bombs. Its sort of like a immune system booster.
I thought Stimpaks contained type O blood with lots of platelets and different stuff.
@@saturniidspectre well in new vegas you craft them with an empty syringe and some plants, soooo no blood? Lol
@@xxportalxx. I haven't played New Vegas, so I didn't know that. Cool fact, though!
Simple, stimpacks are filled with healing potions from the elder scrolls universe, brought over by a secret government alternate universe portal project that allowed them to mass produce the formula, because magic.
jefthereaper there are theories that say that based on several factors in fallout four and the elder scrolls including the multiple moons in Nirn's sky, and the evidence of magic and enchantments in fallout, that Nirn (the name of the planet that Tamriel is on) is a planet in the fallout universe, and the people in fallout have called upon forces from the elder scrolls franchise such as magic and even a daedra. I can explain more if you want.
jefthereaper ILLUMINATI CONFIRMED
Well, you're half right. There's evidence that shows that The Elder Scrolls series takes place in the same world, likely after the Fallout series.
I know right magical jizz Skyrim had magical jizz in a bottle now the government put it into a syringe like heroine
@@thetrashmammal7389Damn, Im 6 years late.
who else "lost their shit" at the end?
i love this XD it so funny
eeup
i could believe i shit my pants in fallout..
DarkBloxxorsGaming I have stabbed 847 in FO3, 643 in FONV, 113 in FO4. Well... I shat 1603 times. Yeap...
I laughed myself to a hernia. Healed it. Shit my pants. Laughed again.
Did you know that if u take a stimpack on survival, it will dehydrate you
Yos
And Rad-X and Radaway fuck with your immune system
Did you know if you put a cookie in milk, it gets soggy.
@@Master_Of_The_Universe the more you know
@@vermark8719 Indeed
Body: Fully develops into a baby in 9 months
Also body: can take 2 years to heal a cut...
Wtf
The issue is if your body does the healing process too quickly. You can get all kinds of nasty back bacteria in that wound which could be very problematic, so basically the entire process is focused on not allowing bacteria to replicate in the wound, which is usually a pretty ideal place for bacteria to replicate
To be fair, humans are all born premature. That's why we can't walk 10 minutes after birth like everything else can. It's part of an evolutionary trade-off: our brains are too big for our birth canals so to be smart later, we have to be premature and useless early.
So that's what the doctor in Fallout 4 means by "flushing your system" when you ask him to heal you from rad damage
XD
Huh, I thought it meant replacing your blood
yup, thats the most efficient way we have to deal with radiation poisoning mind you just making yourself constantly piss is also somewhat efficient especially if you are drinking stuff that has materials that bind particals easier like some types of beer
I Think theyd just pack you full of saline when they mean flushigg your system
It also explains why toilets are always radioactive.
Fallout 5 is going to have a new innovative shitting system now.
The more meds you take the higher you can jump for a limited time.
Vat aim into the toilet
So my guy shat 29 times during that fight with supermutants in his only underwear
"You're absolutely, POSITIVELY, Gonna Shit your pants."
Lol best. delivery. ever.
The "Shit your pants" part was the best.
I lost it on that part XD
When bethesda finally talks about this, Fallout players will 'SHIT THEIR PANTS!!!'
ThatGamingSoup Ooooh ya they will.
Thank God Bethesda took the time to add toilets in game for the Fallout series!
You're gonna shit your pants
-Austin 2016
I need to bring up the fact that you can use stimpacks on Dogmeat. So stimpacks also works on animals.
And a Synth and super mutants
My guy you can use them shits on robots wtf
@@mackipacki2528 yeah, I thought robots would use some kind of other thing. Like a robot repair kit
Biological matter and living tissue is affected by stimpacks and other chemicals/agents/whatever. It's kinda obvious :/
@@ravencollins5638 synths are technically human, and super mutants are still living biological matter. Animals/mutants and WHATEVER still have healing capabilities.
Austin: Attractive group of gymnists...while has girlfriend
Bad Karma gain
Laughter as well
Still makes more sense than healing with an apple pie
lol
cyle moore eating any food you cook or find in the game heals you.
cyle moore hey man, no reason to be rude. maybe he's getting his Bethesda games mixed up.
cyle moore nah there's not. There are Dandy Boy Apples, perfectly preserved pie from those port-a-diner things, sweet rolls and 1 birthday cake in that seperated family bunker I believe. But no apple pie. :)
I'd always thought of Stimpacks as a big ole' shot of pain-killers and adrenalin. xD
adrenalin yes pain killers no med x is the pain killer its really morphine but australian made them call it something else
med x and psycho
TeensierKitty42 i thought psycho was liquid meth.
hardwire well psycho is more of an inhalant but Adrenalin could be liquid meth
+TeensierKitty42 you inject pyscho,jet is an inhalant
"Mystery Jizz"
“O-negative ask you mom why”
All science should be taught with cussing in it. lol
*YOU'RE GONNA SHIT YOUR PANTS*
Daniel hall YES
Daniel hall
And screaming
Daniel hall Who wouldn't love to see their biology teachers pacing the room going YOUR BODY MAKES YOU HEAL BY MAKING YOU SHIT YOUR PANTS!
mat pat put an end to all the swearing :(
I'm imagining Todd Howard watching the beginning of this video and looking on in horror as a CZcamsr fantasizes about caressing his face.
The internets a weird place.
or tod hoard is doing the same about shoddycast's face.
These videos were the bomb 4 years ago, loved them so much. The consistent intro, the email format, the classical Music (love the Bizet) it all coalesces into a fantastic series.
Years later, I still rewatch these. Your videos make me happy. Thank you, Austin.
"Without stimpacks and rad-away your games would be really, really short because we'd... be dead." Jon from Many a True Nerd begs to differ....
Ceveric YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE!
Stefan Lucian NO DEATHS
Ceveric waiting for Fallout 4 YOLO
Ceveric jon's characters tend to resemble crippled ptsd riddled messes by the end though. (if hp=general physical condo futon)
Ceveric ayyyy matn
With all the monsters and irradiated creatures in the Fallout series, which ones could potentially exists and which ones are improbable - like in a biological sense?
I would like to see that
Very few because sadly radiation DOESNT work like that. The IDEA is that mutation from radiation causes advanced degridation of the safeguards between a body's DNA and changes...but in reality most of the mutations from this change are for the worse and rarely cause enlargement. Three legs are possible but growing 2x as large is...rare. It's also nearly impossible for radiation to CONTINUE making a creature grow once it starts. The more radiation you pump into yourself, the more chances one of these shitty changes happens instead to the next of kin. Also, you'll probably die before reproduction.
Radroaches.
Apparently birds the haven't changed a bit for some reason
Jacob Applehoof Insects and roaches reproduce fairly quickly, much much less so than human. Radroaches and other giant insects could have arose out of many generations of irradiated insects, where the maladapted traits killed off the majority of the roach population and those that survived (some of which carry the mutated genes to allow more growth than is usual for the species) could repopulate. This could continue in a cycle until the newest species of roaches that finds stability in its structure and thrive like the radroaches that we see.
Dear Austin,
I really enjoy your work and all the thorough thoughts you put into the BS-Science of the fallout franchise. While I was already quite impressed by your insides into the biology of viruses and your understanding of genetics and gene-splicing through CRISPR-CAS, it is apperant that you do not have any medical-scientific background. Which is Ok, not everyone can be a Doctor after all. Now, the explanation of how your body heals wounds is correct, and I am impressed how easily and precise you can describe the steps and processes involved, explaining a rather complex matter to a wide audiance, focussing on the relevant aspects and not deviating from the underlying science too much (you should really teach ppl, none of my biochemistry or physiology books were as clear in their explanation...plus all were a lot less entertaining), I do believe that your premise on what stimpaks would or wouldn not do in order to keep the fallout 4s player character alive is wrong. And therefor the conclusion is wrong. And there are several smaller things I could also claim to be wrong or at least not correctly contextualized (the growthfactor wouldnt work in the way you would want it to for example) but they are unimportant in the larger scheme.
So, you claim that in order to keep the player healthy, the stimpak would need to immediatly or at least very fast heal the most recent received wound. I do understand the interpretation of the HP-Bar, however I do not think, from a medical point of view, that thats a viable way of keeping the player alive. You see, when you receive a wound, you do not die of bleeding out necessarily, in fact, even with a major artery burst, it takes some time to really bleed out (exception would be the Aorta, which could easily make you die of bloodloss in a few minutes or a direct rupture of the heartmuscle). In most instances, you die or pass out to a major wound, because of shock.Now a shock has 3 potential causes: 1) Lack of blood/fluid in your bloodvessels (hypovolamic shock); 2) heartfailure; the heart can not build up the required bloodpressure to pump blood into your brain (kardiogenic shock) and 3) a systemic vasodilation, leading to a rapid and severe drop of bloodpressure (distributive shock). It is possible for 2 or all 3 of these causes to happen at once.
While a light shock-symptomatic might only cause dizziness, nausea, desorientation and loss of concentration and focus, in most cases a shock leads to a rapid loss of consciousness. Thats what I would think is symbolized by the HP-Bar: How much more can you take, before your body goes into shock and you loose consciousness or die? This theory is reinforced by the fact that if you drop too low in health, you will start to experience symptoms of a light shock: you will hear an elevated heartbeat, your vision gets blurry, your breathing gets faster. All these symptoms are physiological reactions of your body to prevent you from going into a shock: 1) elevated heartbeat: if the bloodpressure is not high enough or there is not enough fluid in your system left, your heart can not simply produce more pressure with each heartbeat, in fact your heart measures between two beats how much blood is filling up the heartcaverns by measuring the dilatation of your heartcaverns by specialised nervcells. If your heart is dilatating a lot (because a lot of blood is going/bloodflow is increased) it will pump stronger (Frank-Sterling-Mechanism); so if its not dilatating enough, the heart will build up less pressure and beat weaker. However, to compensate for the lack of pressure, and because its relaxation is much faster achieved after a weak heartbeat, the heart will pump faster to ensure that a steady volume of blood is pumped over the same time. Its ineffictient, but ensures that all organs are receiving enough oxygen. Also: trauma and pain are alerting your body, they are activating the sympathic-nervous-system, which elevates heartrate on its own (to keep you in a fighting or fleeing state), it would also try to increase your bloodpressure by increasing the heartmuscles contraction (strenght of each beat, positive inotropic effect). All countermeasures to shock.
Ill spare the details on breathing and blurry vision (the latter is probably only supposed to reflect dizziness and desorientation)....
So....if we establish, that the HP bar is showing you not how healthy you are or if you have wounds or not, but how far away from a state of shock your body actually is, a stimpak in its name would make much more sense than a conglomerate of wound-healing factors. A mix of adrenalin, noradrenalin, dopamin, sugar, insulin, some clottingfactors (only FX would be really needed in the acute situation) and maybe a protein with a high colloid osmotic pressure in a physiological Na+ K+ solution would ensure your body to keep going and not fall into shock. The adrenalin would tell your heart to beat faster and stronger, thus rising your bloodpressure, the noradrenalin would constrict your arterys which would 1) lower the bloodflow to any bleeding wound, 2) further rise your bloodpressure, the dopamin would constrict arterys in your splanchnicus-area (around your intestines and stomach), thus fewer blood flows through these large areas and instead delivers oxygen to your muscles and brain (pretty much shifting volume from an unneeded compartment of your body in an acute stress-situation), and the colloid-osmotic pressure would force fluid out of your millions of red bloodcells into the bloodvessel, while the cells are being compressed and getting smaller, the volume in the bloodvessel itself actually rises signifacantly, a high enoug colloid-osmotic pressure would also force water in your extracellular matrix, surrounding the bloodvessel, to migrate into the bloodvessel, thus further increasing the available bloodvolume and countering the effects of bloodloss. The loss of cells is not that immediatly dangerous actually, we have a very huge tolerance for loss of red bloodcells before our oxygen-deliverysystem collapses, the loss of volume in your bloodvessels is what is killing your bloodflow and sending you into shock, thats why a high colloid-osmotic solution would make perfect sense for this scenario. The clottingfactor FX is activitating Factor II to Factor IIa, factor IIa, factor IIa is activating Factor I, which is called FIBRIN. Thats what closes your wound initially, its the most important thing in haemostasis! I will spare you the details why I would give Factor X (Stuart-Prowling Factor) instead of Factor II. Lets just say its complicated and Im getting tired of typing about this stuff in a foreign language, but Factor X makes a lot more sense than FII in this reagard!
Now that method wouldnt be without risk, as it could raise your bloodpressure to unsafe hights, burst aneurysms, cut off bloodflow to some areas (like the splanchnicus area, thats why dont use dopamin anymore in intensive care) and cause organfailure (but only to the digestive tract...who needs to digest and shit anyways???), cause a stroke and send you in a hyperdynamic shock, crush your redbloodcells by a too high colloid-osmotic pressure and so on...buuuuuuut....its Fallout, Sci-Fi, right? So lets just assume, you do not inject yourself with pure adrenalin, noradrenalin and so on. But instead, an analogue substance that activates alpha- and betareceptors but has a different, for acute response maybe more suited receptorkinetic. Its not that far fetched, we are replacing monoamines like dopamin already with artificially created substances that activate the same receptors but with a different kinetic towards them or only a affinity to specific subfamilies of said receptors (we have more than one type of each receptor, specific to their originating tissue and with a variety of functions), thats how modern parkinson-medication works (and why its causing delirium a lot more often than regular dopamin) for example. So lets suppose, that in the future of fallout, medicine is advanced enough to have created substances, that interact with receptors for adrenalin, noradrenalin and so on, but in a much safer way than the original substance, maintaining a physiological balance of heartrate, bloodpressure and bloodvesselconstriction/dilatation instead of just increasing the effect further and further the more receptors are activated. Thats also not that far fetched, with aripiprazol we have a neuroleptic agent, that blocks the D2-Dopaminreceptor just like other neuroleptics. But also activates it. Just a lot less than dopamin would. This way, we get the neuroleptic, antipsychotic effect of blocking the dopamin D2-receptor, while not causing the sideeffects and keeping a low dopaminerg activationlevel in your brain present. The science is all existant today already. Till 2077, we should have figuered it all out (its not that hard actually, its biochemistry to the most well known and most researched receptorfamilies in all our bodies...we can paint them aminoacid by aminoacid in their quartary structure).
So yeah.... closing a wound immediatly and healing the skin above it however....is not necesseraly helping you to stay in a fight, if your loss of blood was already too significant it wont get you anywhere. And the application of half a liter of blood would require you to inject the needle into a vein. Something you are clearly not doing. Everything I described can be injected into the muscle or below the skin and will find its way into your bloodflow safely via the capillaries below your or between your fatcells. And everything that I described would fit into the syringe.
Sincerly,
an ordinary psychiatrist from germany.
Jesus christ
How long did this take to type dude, jeez
S C I E N C E
Good job
Nerd
I always though stimpacks used to be morphine, but they were like naw that's too druggy so they made up somthing new.
Med-X was originally named morphine but Australia did the baby crying bs and forced bethesda to change its name to med-x
@@vexile1239I kinda like that morphine got renamed to Med-X. Fits in with the theme that everything in the pre-war Fallout universe was owned by corporate organizations - some pharmaceutical company probably made a new type of morphine and patented the thing.
We're seeing something similar these days with the EpiPen.
20 minutes? God damn this is gonna be good
I looked at the title and thought by my self: oh god.. This is going to be something... XD
It wasn't
+VolaxHD I laughed.
I'm using this to help me wait for Nuka World to come out
+legandaryhon Watts hey man just an hour and 19 minutes as of now
What's inside a stimpack?
*Nanomachines, son!*
mitichlorians
That would make sense.
+Bravo Pedraza there's electrolytes?!
Nice avatar
what about.. nanomaTERIALS that'll cover the wounded area when exposed to air?
On a real note… did Austin think about Rad-X just transferring a man made mineral or compound into the body to eliminate the output of the radioactive fallout occurring inside the body, basically balance out the radioactive particles with a pill that only targets the atoms which are producing the radiation?
I think a brotherhood of steel outcast in Fallout 3 mentions how Radaway gave him the runs.
Lots of swearing here, reminds me of old youtube before they put that damn rule because of kids
Swearing a thing of the past unfortunately be careful and not offend someone feelings then you’re like a nazi
Well fuck...
Edit: Oh shit I swore.
Edit: Oops I swore again.
Well shit.
Catnip
Yall are dumb. Swearing was basically "punished" because rich corporations run by the generation BEFORE the millennials decided they didnt want their ads in videos with people swearing. It's all the adults born before the 90's that are a bunch of pussies worried that their "Image" will be ruined by swearing, not millenials XD
Fallout: Pants-shittingly awesome.
Amusingly enough, Tim Cain and company covered the "after effects" you mentioned. I still remember, in fallout 2, there was a minor side quest to get an NPC some Radaway. When you complete the quest, as the NPC walks off, he says: "I hate how Radaway gives me the runs".
All the Otakus and Weeaboos out there, when he was describing the inflammatory stage of healing, you were thinking about Cells at Work.
Don't lie to yourself.
5:23 I can only picture U-1146 as soon as he says neutrophil
Lol I was wondering how many people thought about CAW when he was explaining it
The white blood cells act like how you would act when you get your first minigun in fallout 4
I have seen "Cells at Work".
More like a psychotic melee run. With Pickets combat knife. And a lot more blood.
@@Gilhelmi same
Or first time getting a Nutella Jar after 2 years...
Basically, they're just white guys with guns
@Bili Warren Cold, calculated, top teir killers with occasional nutters.
I think that in order to discuss what Stimpacks are, we need to first discuss what HP truly is. In my mind, HP is the capacity of the body to suffer damage before collapsing. When it hits 0, the body has suffered too much damage and you presumably die of heart failure\stroke. So having a full HP bar, does not represent being completely healthy, it doesn't mean you're healed, it just means you can take that much more damage before you die.
So what DOES a stimpack do? Well Stimpack is short for "Stimulant Delivery Package" I don't think it heals your body as much as it pushes death further away. In Fallout 1,2 and New Vegas' Hardcore mode, Stimpacks COULD NOT heal broken bones.Which leads me to believe Stimpacks DO NOT heal you. They simply allow you to keep functioning with the damage you've taken so far and be able to sustain more damage before dying. In Fallout 4, all limb damage auto heals to 1 after battle, but it can be healed with a Stimpack, that isn't to say that a stimpack necessarily heals the damage, as much as it makes you able to use the limb (despite any pain or damage it's suffered).
All in all we need to keep in mind that many functions are not displayed to us as players and are implicit. For example, I believe any bowel movements happen while you're "resting" or "waiting" (fast travelling, if you don't play on Survival) or also possibly that power armor comes equipped with a built in disposal system for urine that can be emptied, just the same as it is implied that any and all "romantic" interactions with your lovers take place while you rest. So resting does not necessarily represent the act of sleeping, but a period in which the PC is resting.
Went on more of a tangent than I thought I would. But I hope I was able to bring my point across and I would be more than happy to have a discussion about it.
Joe The Amazing Camel that could explain why you recover health while resting, as well as taking a nap, you’re bandaging your wounds, taking care of your bodily functions, and cleaning up a little bit maybe.
Joe The Amazing Camel too long com to read brht
Wow nice work I saw this and it caught my eye straight away nice
So you're basically saying stimpacks = Guts' Berserker Armor's ability to let you keep fighting despite the damage you take.
Joe The Amazing Camel
I don't know. A lot of the cartoon that Bethesda shows is that a dude with a broken arm being repair instantly when injected with. a stim pack. I always viewed it as wolverine juice in a syringe and the cartoons with vault boy kinda hammers that out. Just increases our regeneration to the extreme
Notice at the end how he said we haven't seen his face yet but during the vid we did
I learn more in these videos than I have from 12 years of school.
Archery Parker that's cause modern education teaches more useless shit
LOL same here . all i got form school was a tone of feminists bullshit .
Sharing is caring is what we learned hhhhmmmmmm sounds familiar
Where have I heard of this concept
The gag was not getting hold I was enjoying it a lot actually :( 3:37
same i laughed my ass off
I know right
it's not getting old it is still funny it's as funny as deez nuts in its prime
Fun story to go with that healing timeframe I detached a finger on a bad Friday with a power saw. 6 months of therapy was needed before I could even move it safely without possibly destroying it forever and it took 6 YEARS before the nerves grew back which surprised everyone as it was expected to take somewhere between a decade and never for that to happen.
Glad your finger is back in one piece! I had something similar with a surgery - my upper jaw needed to be moved, and I couldn't feel a thing in the row of my mouth for about 4 years after that. Nerves regrowing is such a strange feeling.
(me) "uses a stimpack" hmmmm something does not feel right
(Stimpack) "blows a hole in my arm"
(Me) AHHHHHHHHHHH
“Nanobots man.” -Tinker Tom
NANO MACHINES SON
*Crysis intensifies*
Metal Gear intensifies
@@girf4233 you beat me by 4 months...
Except that in the Fallout universe they never moved away vaccuum tubes and therefore don't have access to miniaturized technology that advanced.
Man, I remember in high school when my principal stopped my friends and I and told us to stop swearing. Because, "You can't have intelligent conversation while swearing." And that's bullshit. You prove that really well. I love your videos man. Good on you.
7 years later, still watching Austin‘s videos saved in the playlist and i love them
Bio-nano bots with raw biomass ingredients to directly fill wound tracks and repair organs.
Broc flower + xander root + empty clean syringe = stimpack , enjoy
Also , most of your shit might go to your ass , but some of it goes out sweat or just fall off , thats the little white stuff you clean your mouse from from time to time , dead cells
dont forget the nuka cola..... for the citric acid
i have other "white stuff" ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Does not apply to Commonwealth stims
+SlunkSwarm Kappaaaaaaaaaaaaah
I've always thought of stimpacks being less of a "healing item" and more of something that something that kickstarts JUST the coagulation process to prevent you from bleeding out, along with powerful painkillers to make the wound feel like less of a problem.
Agreed. Throw in healing factor stimulants to get the mobilization of resources going and some antiviral and antibacterial medicines too, for good measure.
Like Adrenaline
the thing is that ingame, it repair your vision when you get hit in the head, and bones when they are broken and all of that.
but it's a game anyway so whatever
Search "stem cells" and you'll learn how stimpacks work Also fun fact! YOU CAN REGROW BONES BY USING STEM CELLS!!!
Nanobots...
Austin: “cause you would be dead”
Jon in YOLO challenges: “you fool”
3:40 every indie horror game ever
I always assumed stimpacks just stopped you feeling pain and made you super alert and awake - i.e. stimulated you - so you could keep going despite your wounds.
I mean, Med-X doesn't make your skin tougher, it's just morphine, it just means you feel less pain so you can keep going despite greater injuries.
Pretentious Elizabeth I doubt stimpacks are painkillers. I one of the terminal entries of Scribe Haylen (FO4),she states that she administered stimpacks to one of team members to "stimulate healing" or something like that. Painkillers don't really do that.
Pretentious Elizabeth
A lot of the docs say it stimulates your healing so it is kinda implied it increases your natural regeneration to wolverine/Deadpool level. They even have cartoons of vault boy getting shot or having a broken limb get injected and magically healing.
There is a middle ground, though it still gets cartoonish- Stimpacks basically contain a mixture of stem cells, organic resin, and painkillers. You don't just stick it anywhere, you stick it in your actual wound, and the resin fills in whatever physical trauma you have, while also giving stem cells a headstart on where they go, while the painkillers, well, kill your pain and make sure you don't go into shock so you can jump back into killing raiders and deathclaws while you've got a giant plug of resin in your side.
This gets cartoonish when you have to heal back to full from a completely crippled body, making you essentially a drug-filled skeleton coated in bioresin. Walking around and popping caps in people.
But at least you don't shit your pants.
Korbl K. I think pcp would be more realistic
@@koomori That would make sense for most injuries, like a single gunshot where the bullet went straight through, or a slash from a blade that failed to hit major organs or arteries. However, it makes absolutely no sense once you consider the more extreme injuries a single stimpak can cure. Things like a 12 gauge shotgun blast at point blank range or being crushed with a fire hydrant swung by a literal giant or a fucking anti-material round to your head. No amount of stem cells, organic resin, or painkillers, are going to help you recover from a .50 BMG to the head, which will practically vaporize your skull
the vitamin alphabet:
A B B B B B B B B B B B B B B C D E K
Herohalv4 You gotta get a lot of that vitamin D if u know what I mean
u know... get some sunlight
I all but immolate in the sun :c
A 🅱️ 🅱️ 🅱️ 🅱️ 🅱️ 🅱️ 🅱️ 🅱️ 🅱️ 🅱️ 🅱️ 🅱️ 🅱️ 🅱️ C D E K
Swedish Alphabet: A B B A
_I'know what you mean bruh but that "D" needs a lot of baby oil in order for the "D's" tip to not overheat,If you know what I"mean1_
17:10 The huge problem that, even if all of this were possible, still remains:
I always thought stimpacks were some kind of blood clotting medicine combined with an opioid, the gauge on the top would show the blood pressure of the patient and the syringe held the clotting and opioid medicine, depending on the blood pressure it would inject a certain amount because a wound would cause blood pressure loss.
Few things wrong here, while a lot of it is correct, bilary excretion isn't used to dispose of dead cells (red blood cells/eurythrocytes do however get somewhat disposed in this manner as haemoglobin is broken down into the bile pigment bilirubin) dead cells are mainly a collection of proteins, nucleic acid, glycoproteins (peptide chains with carbohydrates attached), and a lot of lipids, for most part these will often be broken down by phagocytes in the are such as monocytes and re-released as free nutrients, any of the toxins produced in such process like possibly ammonia, and sulphuric acid from break down of amino acids (the latter is for sulphur containing amino acids like cysteine and methionine) are all water soluble, while they are capable of crossing into the colon by simple diffusion the majority is excreted by urination, however due to stimpacks most likely increasing certain hormones that are hydrophobic they would also likely be excreted by bilary means, though the majority of the problems would be excessive urination rather than chronic shitting.
I had to scroll down a disturbingly long way before finding this posted. Thank you.
Either way, this explains why restrooms are hard to come by in Bethesda games.
Loved the great science breakdown ending in "chronic shitting" instead of a more scientific term like defecation. lol
Caylon Gorell what would also make you laugh more is I used chronic in layman manner as in really bad, rather than scientific which means long lasting.
this is what I heard: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah science stuff blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
lol, and I thought stimpacks were supposed to be stemcell injections
DangerMou$e stimpaks*
DangerMou$e I thought so too. just very rapidly growing ones.
DangerMou$e SAEM!
I though Stimpacks were spelled Stempacks, and it would, in-turn, help me find my endorsement for high school next year...
Crazy Craz3R uh duh STIMpack
"stimulant"
Another problem with stimpacks I recently realized. Heat. The chemical reactions involved in healing spends energy. Over three months, the resulting heat is insignificant, but Condensed into a few seconds and it's going to get spicy. I don't know enough bio-chem-physics to know if the heat would be uncomfortable or set you on fire, but I'm guessing it would be a problem
One of the most entertaining and educational videos I have watched in a long time and it's all fallout related.
Im actually very surprised he didnt talk about the fact that all these "increases cellular regeneration" medicines basically translate to "shortens your lifespan" by an equivalent amount. By forcing your cells to regenerate 3 months worth of healing that means 3 months worth of cell division as well as 3 months worth of degradation, continually shortening the characters alleles and quickening his inevitable death.
actually I think that cellular regeneration is somewhat different in fallout games, because if cells regenerated realistically, with shortening of chromosome protection and all that then there would be the chance for cancer, which may not even exist. If cancer existed, ghouls would be giant amorphous blobs of tumourous mass and fragmented DNA.
Yeah what are Ghouls even made out of? Like, that's quite interesting considering radiation heals them and makes them more feral so it affects them but they don't seem to age all that much and they don't really eat or drink too much either like, one ghoul actually says he has no idea if he even has to eat to live at that point and he's really friggin old too, pre-war in fact. So what makes them alive if they were degrading at that rate for that long? What regenarates their cells tirelessly?
Hmmmm perhaps -due to the virtues of massive doses of radiation and perhaps mutagenic elements?- Ghouls and mutants have some sort of.... master copy of their chromosomes from for regeneration? One that rather than splitting and thus getting degraded, it is scanned by other cells who instead carry out the replication
Matt Mulhall
Dude, that's exactly the point of this series :)) checking if something from a game can be viable/realized/possible in real life or not...
+Diego Villatoro en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayflick_limit
Science behind the power fist or power sledge?
Hydraulic pistons and a micro jet, respectively.
The power sledge just has rockets....
Codysir wouldn't using a piston from your hands cause possible damage to your shoulder?
It's a hydraulic assisted device that acts like an exo skeleton for your fist. There really isn't that much to it.
that's probably why they usually equip power armor... so that that takes the punishment
I saw this awhile back, and gave it some thought: what if stimpacks are essentially a mixture of NuSkin, and stimulants? It helps seal the wound quickly, much quicker then your body would seal, say, a gunshot, then dumps adrenaline into your system, giving you the ability to continue fighting? Its false health. You're still shot, but you don't realise it. You can power through. Its a bit weak, but fits, and doesn't require injecting yourself with the force of a cannon.
I imagine in the Back When Times stimpaks probably were something used very rarely. The vast majority of the time if you were seriously injured you'd just be treated normally. Stimpaks were probably something of an "Oh shit! We need to heal this guy RIGHT NOW or he is going to DIE!". Basically, if you were in a condition where you wouldn't make it to the hospital for proper treatment, they'd use a stimpak.
But in the Post-Apocalypse there's no one to tell us not to use them ALL THE TIME. So we use them all the time.
Ever gonna do the SCIENCE behind Deathclaws?
I want this to happen
+RuzzyShuya same
mutated chameleons
Desert Lizards + FEV + Radiation.
Most likely Chameleons, but this whole thing is covered by the intelligent Deathclaws in Vault 13 in Fallout 2.
if I saw one IRL, I'm running, and maybe shoving someone down along te way
ShoddyCast is the Game Theory we deserve
In fallout 1/2 I forget which one a man has Rad sickness and asks for a Rad-away. When you give it to him he thanks you and comments that Rad-away gives him the Runs.
Same thing in Fallout 3 - if trading tech to the BoS outcast you have the option of being given RadAway - the Outcast member comments on how it gives them the runs
it's been so long (a year,or two) since I've seen a video with Austin's voice in it and instantly I recognise it
So wait, every time you heal fast you load your pants?
Soooo... does that also apply to Wolverine and Deadpool? That would explain the former’s anger issues and the latter’s insanity.
Edit: over 100 likes!? WOW!
Bentron88 thanks for the mental image
To answer your question in a serious note, it depends on how the healing factor works. Do the cells in those two actually die and get replaced or just repair themselves and only replace the cells that are actually gone? Either way it would still be significantly less than the fallout example because its ONLY the cells and not the left over stuff from the medicines.
@@Blasted2Oblivion It seems like replacing dead cells to each.
Whats in a stimpak??
Fiction, pure unadulterated fiction.
Hey, scientists are listening and thinking how to get this irl.
well,if I was a scientist (and I am studying pharmaceutical medicine so I'm actually working towards this) I wouldn't tackle the "combat drug that keeps you going mid combat" as something that accelerates your bodies functions,but rather as something that does your bodies job instead of your body,albeit it shittier,just need to close the wound real quick to stop bleeding and get some structural integrity back in
So, superglue in a spray bottle.
i always thought the stimpak was just a super powerful painkiller/stimulant. basically it stops your wound from hurting and allows you to focus on other things, like the hail of bullets flying towards your direction. it still wouldn't realistically keep you alive due to the ever-growing number of 5.56 millimeter holes in your chest, but it might take your mind off it for a few minutes as you bleed out on the ground.
I'm gonna go with stem cells.
10 years ago i fell and hit my eyebrow on the corner of a table and i still have a scar ;-;
Laughed my ass off, with shit your pants part. Thank you, needed that laugh. Cheers mate ))))
My stimpack is a 20 ounce bottle of Sprite/ Coke and a line of Pure Columbian cocaine.
lucky you send some to the UK Columbian cocaine sounds nice.
+Rob Dunhill I would love the visit the americas for some of that pure. gear here in the UK is shite!
Aint it just the worst cut down crap and costs more than it does it the usa. Our country has gone to shit. Lol
+Rob Dunhill Tell me about it. BRING BACK COKE TO THE UK!!!
you mean Colombian cocaine
Austin, here's a mathematical problem for you! Take a gander at the grappling hook system in Just Cause! I mean, how does that shit not yank off his arm and destroy his internal organs? Check out the physics in it!
Yes that would be a very good video
same for batman in the arkham games, and this kind of was already covered for the legend of zelda hookshot on game theory, Austin already jokes about copying that channel but covering literally the same topic would be too much
Ppl of the youniverse...upvote this comment! It needs to happen! Never thought of that before, but yeah, I mean it can pull 2 fucking cars into eachother in seconds and do the same with Rico and the top of a water tower...Is he using some kind of suit to support this action? Never checked tho.
Well only one of those 3 is your mostly-average joe, one trains himself to withstand things like that, and one is an elf (Or Hylian if that triggers you). Not a great comparison.
Raging Gamer because hylians have adamantium skeletons and muscles made of carbon fiber? i doubt it
17:31 I was not expecting this video to go there
Just when I thought Austin couldn't get any funnier, I found this channel... And this video... I can die happy now...
"IT'S ME, AUSTIN".......I want that as a ringtone.
THAT, my friend, is a PERFECT idea
Or a text notification
Put that as the 'last person I want to hear from at the moment' ringtone.
Bethesda Ececutives "Oh my fucking god. He's back."
How they work, three words: fucking nanomachines son!
thelaughingrouge let me explain biology to you; nanotech does NOT work the way it does in movies and you'd still need all of the vital materials, in fact, adding nanotech would make things more difficult.
thelaughingrouge It's just healing powder in an injector
It's a joke.
Cool, my comment isn't.
547265626f72 ur a joke
Know you're finding it hard to keep making these man, but listening to these classics helps me chill out and chuckle enough to get to sleep. They are truly appreciated
*Injects stimpack
*INSTANTLY DIES OF STARVATION
I can imagine the EMS people seeing him fall while they're eating corndogs and funnel cake and saying, "Dude. Really? How did you even- OK we need to take you to the hospital." That would be hilarious to see.
Positive Viber as a Paramedic, I can honestly say that, if this happened in front of us, we'd be asking;
"Seriously? You want me to take you to the fucking *EMERGENCY* room because you fell over and bumped your widdle noggin"?
You don't need an Ambulance just because you "passed out", bumped your head, or "feel weak".
The guy who's standing in triage covered in bandages just drove himself and *so can you* .
Besides, we're not going to do shit for you en route to the ER anyway before we drop your ass off in the front lobby (triage). So you might as well save yourself a few hundred bucks and drive yourself.
Tell your friends. And make sure you punch any dumb ass who wants to call 911 for a stubbed toe, nausea, feeling sick, or "knee pain" he/she is experiencing from an accident they had years ago before they can even pick up a phone.
99% of the time you do _not need an ambulance_ .
@@medotaku9360 I'm thinking this person is meaning the playable character(s) in fallout.
i fucking love this channel with everything in my being
SAME
AYE armageddon
the music...missing half o the vid cause of it
fucking same
fucking same
"How do they work?" Nanomachines son... nanomachines
I am so happy you're back to this channel.
I always assumed stem packs used a mixture of stem cells and nano bots, the nano bots immediately transport and deposit the stem cells in the damaged location where they are converted into the needed tissue.
it's not "stem" pack it's "stim" pack
sorry, i guess i always miss spelt it, but my point still stands
"Stim" is short for "stimulant," though. On that, it is likely filled with many stimulants. Also, Stimpacks are made in back-alleys by the untrained. How in the hell would they be able to make nanobots to put into stimpacks?
Deimos kai Aischylos idfk, im just making a hypothesise, how would people in back alleys have access to extremely large amounts of sterile nutrients to put in the stimpacks the way explained in this video, and how does everyone in the game not have tennis and many lethal diseases from using them? I guess the only answer is its a video game and FUK LOGIC! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Syd R Tetanus? Idk, I think Stimpacks were never meant to be a primary healing solution, I don't think the military would use them, because of the chance that they wont recover and will just get sick, and be more of a drain on supplies. But as I said, Idk.
Dear Austin.
I work at Bethesda. Please stop sending us emails. We have enough on our plate trying to change everything to suit your needs for the next fallout.
Thanks.
If you really do work for them could you please try talking the team into making an alien related DLC for Fallout 4 like Mother Ship Zeta was for Fallout 3?
Lmao bullshit
while a semi-valid point i think that if any developer would care about fan criticism it would be bethesda
OY, give us Mods first
Focus on getting us PS4 mods!
Hilarious and informative. Good shit brother!
Courier: Uses _AAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLL_ the stimpacks. Then confronts Benny. And shits _AAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLL_ the shits, right on Benny.
Love your user name
This shoddycast is getting shoddier and shoddier with each episode.
They do multiple things. Because waiting for the tech to make the Storyteller in Fallout 4 would have left them redundant for a long time. And because people like me prefer this to the Storyteller. It's a good decision in that case.
I miss the elder scrolls lore
how do you do that with your name
this narrator seems more humble than the story teller, also would love Bethesda reply to the browned pants effect of healing items.