Improve the bodyheat indicator

[Frank_Stein]

Maybe I don't understand the system, but it seems like the bodyheat thing fluctuates and makes no sense to me.

For one thing, thing, you seem to lose/gain all your normal body heat if you don't have 100% heat or cold protection within a few seconds of touching a rather hot or cold environment.

Another thing is the heat indicator itself has no apparent scale. Eating spicy pasta makes the heat indicator cap out, so does standing in a furnace surrounded by hellfire.

I think it might be more useful to have something show the apparent heat of the environment around you, and one of how hot you actually feel. I can stand in a snowstorm in a thick coat and pants and feel perfectly fine, but know that it's 32° f outside.

Yeah, I feel like the system could use more complexity. Right now it seems most things that protect you from temp block a certain amount of it at a fixed amount.

I could imagine things like coats and uniforms instead affecting the rate at which temperature rates progress to meet the ambient air temp. I.E. being trapped in the freezer still taking you to frozen, but at a much faster rate without clothing.

There could even be a targeted damage aspect to it as well, where your extremities like your limbs and head absorbed some thermal damage away from your core body, and temp damage to individual limbs have their own effect, like getting frostbite on your arms and legs in cold temps, or dizzying heat exhaustion when your head heats up too much