Goonhub
04-06-2016, 05:15 PM
I've said it before, I'll say it again. Cold exposure slows you down a lot (ok), really fast (not ok), and is very hard to fix (also not ok). How many times has a cup of hot chocolate been the difference between life and death for me? That's funny as a BYOND thing, but from a balance standpoint it's just so frustrating to catch a cool breeze and be practically paralyzed for the next half-minute.
The way it works now, you go into a cold area-- having no indication ahead of time it's cold-- and notice your temperature dropping like a rock, then spend a while desperately trying to scoot away from it because it's too late by then and then probably die of oxygen damage. This has been a problem for a while and it's relentlessly unfun as far as 'ways to die' go. Hell, OXY damage isn't even the problem on its own-- it's not being able to get away from it, which is why we get shit like dying in the arrivals shuttle because you can't get away from the tile-wide breach some nerd made.
The way it works now, you go into a cold area-- having no indication ahead of time it's cold-- and notice your temperature dropping like a rock, then spend a while desperately trying to scoot away from it because it's too late by then and then probably die of oxygen damage. This has been a problem for a while and it's relentlessly unfun as far as 'ways to die' go. Hell, OXY damage isn't even the problem on its own-- it's not being able to get away from it, which is why we get shit like dying in the arrivals shuttle because you can't get away from the tile-wide breach some nerd made.