Radioactive Rain in the Industrial Area

[TechnoIvan]

While I like the concept of there being radioactive rain, the execution and implementation of it is just plain garbage. Pure, unfiltered garbage.

So I spawned in, it's immediately radioactive rain, and I'm getting irradiated like crazy. As if someone's pouring a BUCKET of radiation on me every second. I counted like 0.05 per second radiation..

By the time it took me to get near the extraction point, I was on 5.75 radiation. I didn't have any items to reduce radiation on me, so sitting indoors to wait it out was not an option (by the time I reached first interiors I was already at 2 points, so death was guaranteed anyways due to how poor the radiation system is also), but the cherry on top of this garbage-cake was that the spawn point was on the crimson's corporation's roof - completely inaccessible - so not only did I have to pay 5k to get through, I also had to accept the fact I'm not getting out of there alive anyways.

If you're going to make such a deadly event into the game, at the very least add a WARNING SYSTEM and don't dump it on the players right from the get go. Might as well then have a system where you spawn with 20 blinks around you. What's that PDA even for? Use it! Have the game give you a forecast "Radioactive rain incoming, please find shelter" - have you even played stalker games? I am mindblown how poorly this was thought out.

Same for those psi-storms, have your PDA give you an announcement that it's incoming.
And for the love of God, add the option to WAIT OUT those events when they occur. Do we seriously need to sit in some random interior and diddle our thumbs till its over and poking our heads out like a mouse every few minutes to see if it's gone? Come on guys....

While inside of the interior there should be an option (provided you're not bleeding or irradiated, and that there are no threats inside) to "Wait out" the storm or that awfully designed rain. And when you do so, some in-game time will pass which will affect your energy, hunger and thirst...

Or just add a "suicide" button, if you're planning to keep this amazing feature like it is now. At least let me just out myself immediately when I enter the industrial area and it's pouring ridiculous amount of radiation per second on me, instead of facing this very fair and intelligently designed challenge.

Sorry for the rant, but this is just horrendous.

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Originally posted by TechnoIvan:

While I like the concept of there being radioactive rain, the execution and implementation of it is just plain garbage. Pure, unfiltered garbage.

So I spawned in, it's immediately radioactive rain, and I'm getting irradiated like crazy. As if someone's pouring a BUCKET of radiation on me every second. I counted like 0.05 per second radiation..

By the time it took me to get near the extraction point, I was on 5.75 radiation. I didn't have any items to reduce radiation on me, so sitting indoors to wait it out was not an option (by the time I reached first interiors I was already at 2 points, so death was guaranteed anyways due to how poor the radiation system is also), but the cherry on top of this garbage-cake was that the spawn point was on the crimson's corporation's roof - completely inaccessible - so not only did I have to pay 5k to get through, I also had to accept the fact I'm not getting out of there alive anyways.

If you're going to make such a deadly event into the game, at the very least add a WARNING SYSTEM and don't dump it on the players right from the get go. Might as well then have a system where you spawn with 20 blinks around you. What's that PDA even for? Use it! Have the game give you a forecast "Radioactive rain incoming, please find shelter" - have you even played stalker games? I am mindblown how poorly this was thought out.

Same for those psi-storms, have your PDA give you an announcement that it's incoming.
And for the love of God, add the option to WAIT OUT those events when they occur. Do we seriously need to sit in some random interior and diddle our thumbs till its over and poking our heads out like a mouse every few minutes to see if it's gone? Come on guys....

While inside of the interior there should be an option (provided you're not bleeding or irradiated, and that there are no threats inside) to "Wait out" the storm or that awfully designed rain. And when you do so, some in-game time will pass which will affect your energy, hunger and thirst...

Or just add a "suicide" button, if you're planning to keep this amazing feature like it is now. At least let me just out myself immediately when I enter the industrial area and it's pouring ridiculous amount of radiation per second on me, instead of facing this very fair and intelligently designed challenge.

Sorry for the rant, but this is just horrendous.

You either need a seva or the blue syringe, the rain is not gonna fade away you need to leave the area, when it happens at the mall you can atleast get inside and try to get to the basement exfil, on other maps you are literally forced to have protection.

[cam]

I don’t mind the features as they are. The game is pretty easy and seamless to progress, and the storms do a good job of shaking things up and making sure that I am always bringing rad meds in, because you never know. It also serve as another primary motive to spec into medicine to unlock steroids early, as blue syringes are more useful now, especially on hunter when you risk losing your SEVA suit. Without the features that haven’t been introduced to the game yet like reputation etc, I find the progression to be to quick and easy even on higher difficulties. The storms really slow the raid down and at least for me add to the immersion that you as a hunter need to be prepared for anything