Goonhub
04-16-2019, 08:55 AM
I haven't played in a while, and there have been numerous updates to the game mechanics for things like stamina, stand/prone, stunned and unconscious.
Perhaps I just failed to act properly working with the new mechanics, but I had a bad experience that seems like it was an unintended side effect of these new mechanics coming together. And I think I've found myself in the same situation more often (though not quite as conspicuously as described below). So do I need to learn something new, or should I make a bug report?
So I was stunned, cuffed, gurney-d, "stuff happened" and dragged to the medbay lobby. When I was able to move again, my legs where gone, my health was poor, but far from critical, and was slipping in and out of 'fallen over' status. It was ASS-Day, that happens.
I figured: Brain damage, blood-loss, suffocation will set in soon -> get some anti-stun chems and drag myself to a med-vendor to get some mannitol and other happy stuffs. Then limbs. There will be plenty to spare, after all, some loony is going around chopping them off all over the station. Fortunately, I had a full medkit, so could open that and liberally apply all of it's contents on myself.
But I could not. I had no legs, I could not 'Stand' and kept falling over. Every time I fell over: Anything I held would fall to the floor. Any container interface would close. And I would be 'fallen over' for a second, unable to do anything.
I figured: Ofcourse, I am trying to stand, but I have no legs -> I need to do all this lying down.
But I can not. When the 'Rest'-option is selected, you can't hold on to anything or open any containers. You can technically grab items, but as soon as the next client-update arrives over the internet, it falls to the floor and any container interface closes.
So even though I had the tools and was in decent health, I could do nothing for about 3 minutes, until 'something' put me back into critical condition. And then I could only succumb (or wait to die).
What could I have done to 'not die'?
I've had other situations where I was only slightly injured, but unable to apply medical items, presumably due to myriad minor status effects, and then suddenly going into crit and dieing. Does anybody relate to that, or were there other (unknown) penalties (poisons, mutations etc) that (could have) made the situation much worse then I think it was?
Perhaps I just failed to act properly working with the new mechanics, but I had a bad experience that seems like it was an unintended side effect of these new mechanics coming together. And I think I've found myself in the same situation more often (though not quite as conspicuously as described below). So do I need to learn something new, or should I make a bug report?
So I was stunned, cuffed, gurney-d, "stuff happened" and dragged to the medbay lobby. When I was able to move again, my legs where gone, my health was poor, but far from critical, and was slipping in and out of 'fallen over' status. It was ASS-Day, that happens.
I figured: Brain damage, blood-loss, suffocation will set in soon -> get some anti-stun chems and drag myself to a med-vendor to get some mannitol and other happy stuffs. Then limbs. There will be plenty to spare, after all, some loony is going around chopping them off all over the station. Fortunately, I had a full medkit, so could open that and liberally apply all of it's contents on myself.
But I could not. I had no legs, I could not 'Stand' and kept falling over. Every time I fell over: Anything I held would fall to the floor. Any container interface would close. And I would be 'fallen over' for a second, unable to do anything.
I figured: Ofcourse, I am trying to stand, but I have no legs -> I need to do all this lying down.
But I can not. When the 'Rest'-option is selected, you can't hold on to anything or open any containers. You can technically grab items, but as soon as the next client-update arrives over the internet, it falls to the floor and any container interface closes.
So even though I had the tools and was in decent health, I could do nothing for about 3 minutes, until 'something' put me back into critical condition. And then I could only succumb (or wait to die).
What could I have done to 'not die'?
I've had other situations where I was only slightly injured, but unable to apply medical items, presumably due to myriad minor status effects, and then suddenly going into crit and dieing. Does anybody relate to that, or were there other (unknown) penalties (poisons, mutations etc) that (could have) made the situation much worse then I think it was?