Discussion Thread: direct commits of balance changes without player input

[Theunsolved-puzzle]

if old smoke powder (aerosol propellant) was just directly reworked into new smoke powder back when newsmoke was made, which im sure was considered by some, wouldn't that be the alternative solution you were looking for? maintaining the functional uses of creating clouds of smoke but using fresher, more balanced mechanics?

the weird in-between area of oldsmoke and newsmoke simultaneously existing in the code is incidental to this, in my view. Smoke WAS reworked, they just kept the old variant around for one reason or another. To this end, smoke was never removed: it still exists just fine, in its reworked form.

I think they could have done something else with it to differentiate the two instead of just moving to smoke powder, maybe make it so aerosol cant penetrate skin but can still apply itself to surfaces, something along those lines to make them alternatives to one another instead of just moving to the smoke powder.