OMG?!?!
Yo Caliber. Just noticed something. If you are currently radiated e.g. there's radiation in your body, and you go into the inventory screen, your health still drops. LOL.
I was standing on top of the railway tracks in the Zone level, and was fiddling around with my inventory. Noticed the red bar dropping, but didn't think much about it. Then suddenly I'm dead. HAHA. OMG. This was even with the No Radiation Damage option turned on.
Hell luckily I had the good sense to save my game before that.
Managed to reproduce it even if I'm far away from a radiated area. So long as you have radiation on your body, your health bar drops when you enter the inventory screen. It immediately rises back to maximum when you exit the inventory screen though.
Did more testing, and found out that even gunfire affects you while in inventory. Shot at stalkers at my base, and went into inventory screen. In a few minutes I was dead. 0.o.
The moment I leave my inventory screen everything went back to normal, but while in inventory you still can get radiated, and you still can get damaged. Just thought you might wanna know and see whether you can reproduce this as well. =) Not too much of a problem though, just gotta make sure that you don't stand in the middle of a firefight to fiddle with your inventory (which you shouldn't be doing anyway 0.o). Don't bother with it too much if you don't have the time to. =)
[Edited by RaZoRb0iz, 8/25/2007 3:30:43 AM]
As far as I know it's due to the fact that the game isn't paused when you open your inventory. I have no idea if it uses different memory addresses for health while inventory is open and closed, though.