Extreme Temperatures and their effects

Rezca

Right now there's three areas that have extreme temperature; for exceedingly hot water there's thermal vents and the lava zones, and for freezing cold water there's the Lost River.

Superhot water does a very small amount of damage while you're in it, to the point you can safely ignore it in most situations.
Cold water currently does nothing at all.


What I'd like to see is the base damage for superhot water be scaled up a bit, or quite a bit - not as much as the acidic pools in the River, but enough that it's something you'd not want to be in for extended periods of time like you can now. Freezing water maybe would do a smaller amount of damage but perhaps also have a secondary effect - like maybe slower movement or something?

If you're wearing the Reinforced Diving Suit it'll reduce the damage done by extreme temperature significantly, so it'd be closer to how the superhot water is right now - something to keep an eye on, but not a significant threat unless you're under attack by multiple creatures.


What do you think? Any other thoughts or ideas? Are the temperature effects fine as they are?

jamintheinfinite_1

While exploring the games code I found cold damage in the damage code. The code hasn't even been worked on and it is just mentioned with other damage. So at least cold damage was planned at one point. We will just have to wait for expansion pass since Obraxis said Arctic would most likely be in it.

Maalteromm

I'm in favor of anything that makes the environment more challenging.

DarlingCows

Adding temp is cool but is it possible to add entire weather effects and seasons? Like hurricanes, thunder clouds, lightning or maybe even tsunamis.

SnailsAttack

DarlingCows wrote: »

Adding temp is cool but is it possible to add entire weather effects and seasons? Like hurricanes, thunder clouds, lightning or maybe even tsunamis.

Seasons wouldn't fit too well, but hurricanes, rain, and thunderstorms would be cool. Tsunamis wouldn't really be possible.