GTA 5 mod The Exclusion Zone turns San Andreas into an irradiated survival zone

Los Santos and Blaine County get a new kind of threat in The Exclusion Zone, a survival mod from VelyXCore that turns the map into an irradiated hellscape. The creator describes a "slow-burn mechanic where the environment itself becomes your deadliest enemy."

The mod delivers on that description: spending too long in the most irradiated locations inflicts accumulative radiation poisoning—in the same style as the Fallout series—with an organ failure mechanic that, expectedly, stops you pretty dead in your tracks.

At the time of writing, affected areas include Humane Labs (epicenter, critical threat), Fort Zancudo Delta (high threat), Sandy Shores Airfield (medium threat), and LS Airport and Port perimeters (industrial zones). To survive those zones you'll want to seek out gas masks to prevent radiation poisoning from rising, but they are hardly found growing on trees.

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