This mod allows you to upgrade your Pip-Boy so that it will give you audio warnings when faced with a wide variety of environmental, combat or health hazards, similar to Half-Life’s HEV suit. You may be given warnings when faced with situations like:
- drop in health
- being poisoned
- being exposed to radiation
- being caught within the blast of a mini-nuke
- being exposed to freezing/high temperatures
- fracturing your limbs/skull/ribs etc.
There are also internal cooldowns so that you do not get these messages excessively.
You’ll also gain some very minor defensive perks, but this is mostly cosmetic and won’t significantly alter the game balance:
- 1% reduction of all damage taken (2% if wearing Power Armor)
- tiny amounts of periodic healing when dropping below certain health levels (for comparison, a single bottle of purified water is significantly more effective, even on Survival)
The HEK is customizable and comes with a control holotape. You can choose:
- volume (Normal, Low or Very Low)
- activation of silent mode (defensive perks will still work)
- shutting down the HEK until you re-enable it (perks also stop functioning)
- voice type (2 choices: RaDOS and Crissa Nog)
If you lose the HEK’s control holotape you can craft another for a few simple materials. You don’t need to rebuild the entire HEK system.
To get started, be rank 1 in Medic and Science and then check out the chem station to find out what materials you need to craft the upgrade. After crafting it, use it as if it were a chem or a food item or a stealth boy and your Pip-Boy will be permanently upgraded.
