Goonhub
06-12-2015, 08:16 PM
Really, what rubs me the wrong way about chemistry's power isn't even really the power itself, it's that the hellchems and really dangerous shit are just so ridiculously simple to make, and the chemicals that aren't ridiculously simple to make don't even usually end up matching up. For christ's sake, CLF3 is literally just: put in two base ingredients, heat, run away so you don't get lit on fire, and now you have one of the most flammable things to ever exist. Large amounts of neurotoxin can also be made in the span of about thirty seconds, and it's among the most debilitating and overall deadly poisons in the entire game.
Sarin isn't that powerful, anima isn't that powerful, a case could even be made for initropidril not being that powerful, and even then, you can make hundreds of CLF3 units in the time that it takes to make your first initro reaction. It kind of saps the motivation of trying to figure the damn things out and experimenting with complex chemical reactions when you know that the cool thing you just made almost definitely isn't as good as killing people as the thing you can make in a fraction of the time.
Sarin isn't that powerful, anima isn't that powerful, a case could even be made for initropidril not being that powerful, and even then, you can make hundreds of CLF3 units in the time that it takes to make your first initro reaction. It kind of saps the motivation of trying to figure the damn things out and experimenting with complex chemical reactions when you know that the cool thing you just made almost definitely isn't as good as killing people as the thing you can make in a fraction of the time.