Snakes too op??

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Also i do like the fact that a bite is a serious thing to be treated immediatly but still gives you enough time to haul ass to medbay if you know you've been had. If rattlesnakes didn't have that factor i feel they'd become yet another "run at them and bash them to death immediatly" type of critter which we already have plenty of. See killer tomatoes, angry rats, repairbots, skeletons, transposed scientist etc...

Very much this, the last thing i wanted was to make another "just rush it and kill it" critter. Them having a powerful-ish venom that is dangerous when left untreated along with not being immediately aggressive is intentionally as is to encourage not picking the fight if you aren't sure you can win it outright, and discourage ignoring the effects of the poison for long.