Steroids
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The Steroids are an inventory item in Duke Nukem 3D and its ports. It is named "Vitamin X" in Duke Nukem 64 due to censorship.
[edit] Description
The Steroids will double a player's speed, and multiply the damage dealt by the Mighty Boot and Quick Kick by 4. They will also instantly restore a shrunken player's original size, and render the player immune to shrinking while under the effect of the Steroids.
The effect of Steroids cannot be deactivated once activated. They will drain completely
If a player picks up a new bottle of Steroids while they are draining their currently held bottle, the effect of the Steroids being used will immediately disappear and the new Steroids will be added to the inventory (as unused).
[edit] Trivia
- With the exception of the Protective Boots on purple radioactive waste, the Steroids are the fastest-draining inventory item. They are also the only inventory item that can be activated manually but not stopped.
- The Portable Medkit's effect doesn't run for any length of time, being instantaneous, so it doesn't count here.
- The Steroids are the only inventory item to have multiple unrelated effects. The user's speed increases, their kicking damage is increased dramatically, and they become immune to shrinking effects.
[edit] The Steroids in other games
- In Duke Caribbean: Life's A Beach, the Steroids are renamed Hot Sauce.
- In Duke Nukem 64, the Steroids are renamed Vitamin X and given a minor change to their sprite (a large black "X" is drawn on the label). This is just one of a number of examples of censorship in the game, all removing foul language or references to drugs and sex.
