Goonhub
05-06-2021, 05:38 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-06-2021, 05:39 PM by virvatuli. Edited 1 time in total.)
"I don't think you can call an intentional feature a bug."
Assuming it actually is intentional, then I'll call it a bad feature then. Judging from pretty much everyone's reactions in this thread thus far, on the PR itself, and a cursory discord search on the matter leads me to believe this is one of those old things that were poorly thought out to begin with but only stuck around because barely anyone realized it existed, and once people find out about it they go "oh that's silly and makes no sense". I see the same kinds of arguments when people go on for ages about "soul" when it comes to sprites and other bad game design. There is no clear indication that gas masks are spaceproof, and when someone looks at a gas mask, it is not one's first assumption that they should be, either from sprites or stats. That is bad game design and why I'm probably going to merge this PR in the next day or so.
Assuming it actually is intentional, then I'll call it a bad feature then. Judging from pretty much everyone's reactions in this thread thus far, on the PR itself, and a cursory discord search on the matter leads me to believe this is one of those old things that were poorly thought out to begin with but only stuck around because barely anyone realized it existed, and once people find out about it they go "oh that's silly and makes no sense". I see the same kinds of arguments when people go on for ages about "soul" when it comes to sprites and other bad game design. There is no clear indication that gas masks are spaceproof, and when someone looks at a gas mask, it is not one's first assumption that they should be, either from sprites or stats. That is bad game design and why I'm probably going to merge this PR in the next day or so.