09-13-2015, 05:44 AM
Space isnt cold. Airlessness means that there is no way for heat to transfer at all, trapping it in whatever it currently is in. This means that bodies tend to warm up in a vacuum and not freeze. Modern spacesuits have to have cooling systems inside of them to prevent the user from cooking themselves with their own body heat.
My suggestion is to remove the cooling aspect of space and instead have vacuums cause a person to slowly heat up, causing burn damage from too much exposure. combine this with brute damage from lack of air-pressure and space and airless rooms still become a threat, but also become significantly less frustrating to fight or move around in without EVA suits, at least for short periods of time.
I know SS13 goes by soft sci-fi depictions of space, but this change would add more realism as well as make the game a bit less of a pain to play with how rooms instantly freeze with the new air system.
My suggestion is to remove the cooling aspect of space and instead have vacuums cause a person to slowly heat up, causing burn damage from too much exposure. combine this with brute damage from lack of air-pressure and space and airless rooms still become a threat, but also become significantly less frustrating to fight or move around in without EVA suits, at least for short periods of time.
I know SS13 goes by soft sci-fi depictions of space, but this change would add more realism as well as make the game a bit less of a pain to play with how rooms instantly freeze with the new air system.