How do we make artifact bombs better?

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3. hard no!
Look - use a monkey on it first; that is the way of science. Be cautious. Do not touch everything by hand.

There is examination text for borgers...and after having played enough it is quite unlikely you'll get yourself borged by accident.

Also is half the fun of being an artifact science traitor to put those touch artifacts with negative aspects to good use.
But non-traitor scientists still have the fun time to figure out how to not kill themselves by accident through an injector artifact.

I think they clearly just meant removing the touch triggers for bomb artifacts.

I think removing touch triggers devastating bomb artifacts, giving them a station wide scary sound, and making it so that you can tell them apart from regular bomb artifacts would be good!
That would mean less accidental activations, and if you still had one, the entire station would know, because of the global distinctive noise.
It would also mean that a traitor could know if a thing would just blow up a small area or if it would be a big threat, so they could plan around it before activating it.

Also, devastating bombs already have a longer timer than regular ones, I believe. Maybe they could have an even longer one?
We have an old comment on that part that states that the timer was so long, noone would be aware it was a bomb anymore. Maybe we could give bombs that are currently ticking down some kind of animation exclusive to them, like shaking or something!

Actually, the issue with a global noise is that people would still not know where the bomb is, so they'd have no way to find it if it were hidden, really. So going with an announcement with the general location sounds better?
Then people could go there similar to the nuke gamemode, identify which artifact is the bomb via its unique animation and then try to dispose of/disarm it.