This game would be even better with smokable cigarettes

[SixPack]

Maybe the devs would like to consider adding smokable cigarettes to the game in their next update? This would be so cool, if your character (Henri Clement) would be able to find and smoke cigarettes, just like the soldier he gets his revolver from at the beginning of the game.

[SixPack]

Horror games are more effective and immersive if they contain spare moments of relaxation rather than constant terror. That is where drinking and smoking comes in.

[i'm quitting tomorrow]

morko původně napsal:

That's actually a great idea, that could easily be added to shell shock mode. Managing a stress level would add yet another thing you need to keep track off in the game. High stress = your character hyperventilating and attracting the monster through noise. Make smoking outside of the safe room a hazard as well. Attacting the monster through smell. Also no smoking near the generator. Or it blows up, lol.

Good idea for a mod, but seems too much for the game loop we have right now.

[morko]

undead next door původně napsal:

morko původně napsal:

That's actually a great idea, that could easily be added to shell shock mode. Managing a stress level would add yet another thing you need to keep track off in the game. High stress = your character hyperventilating and attracting the monster through noise. Make smoking outside of the safe room a hazard as well. Attacting the monster through smell. Also no smoking near the generator. Or it blows up, lol.

Good idea for a mod, but seems too much for the game loop we have right now.

I'll settle for a mod. Smoking was a big part of WW1 and WW2, so it would even add to the authenticity. EVERYONE smoked.

[SixPack]

For me it wouldn't be necessary to link the smoking feature to something which affects game balancing, nothing complicated like that. It's just a relaxing and fun thing to do and it adds to the gritty atmosphere.

[i'm quitting tomorrow]

morko původně napsal:

undead next door původně napsal:

Good idea for a mod, but seems too much for the game loop we have right now.

I'll settle for a mod. Smoking was a big part of WW1 and WW2, so it would even add to the authenticity. EVERYONE smoked.

Definitely agree with you there, it really was a big part of their lives. You didn't know if you would make it through the day, so you smoked to take off the stress and drank to forget your sorrows.

[SixPack]

And morko is right about the historical aspect. With all the anti-smoke propaganda these days we tend to forget that in the first half of the 20th century, everybody, and I mean everybody smoked.
Smoking was as normal and as accepted as was drinking coffee, and guess what: lung cancer was almost never heard of.

[morko]

SixPack původně napsal:

And morko is right about the historical aspect. With all the anti-smoke propaganda these days we tend to forget that in the first half of the 20th century, everybody, and I mean everybody smoked.
Smoking was as normal and as accepted as was drinking coffee, and guess what: lung cancer was almost never heard of.

Showing people get tortured and having their heads blown off is ok. But smoking is just too much for the children to handle. Please understand.

[Walter White Belt]

First, nothing is better with smokable cigarettes. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ disgusting.

Second, excluding cigarettes "for the children" from a horror game involving murder is as ridiculous as it sounds.

Third, the historical component is exactly right, and it would technically be exactly on brand for the era. Pretty much everyone smoked everywhere at all times when I was a kid. It was impossible to escape and everyone smelled like cigarette stench all the time, hence my disdain for it now. Few things maker me happier than witnessing the oppression of smokers.

[SixPack]

You must have been such a sensitive boy........
By the way, I agree with your second point

[chicken paste]

obvious sh!tpost is obvious but i wouldn't mind being able to smoke in game either lol

[SixPack]

I love what they did in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. anomaly gamma, but in that game it's just an animation which runs for a few seconds, the cigarette is not actually a manageable object in the sense that you can interact with it. Ideally it should work the same way as a weapon you take in your hand and interact with. A weapon is fired with left mouse click and likewise a cigarette should be handled using left mouse click (left mouseclick = one draw from the cigarette). Once you're done smoking (and you decide when that moment arrives, not the game) you throw away the butt by using right mouse button. That way it becomes a manageable object and not just an animation. The advantage of that is for instance you can put the cigarette in your mouth (it will be sticking out from the lower side of your screen) and meanwhile clean your gun or handle a weapon.

[Bagheadt]

Guys i just smoked a cigarette and i feel bad about it once again, this was my last one. I'll quit now.

[SixPack]

Baghead původně napsal:

Guys i just smoked a cigarette and i feel bad about it once again, this was my last one. I'll quit now.

Try digital smoking.
Same amount of fun, no negative health effects

[Shaishav Probably]

But.... whyyyyyy thooooough......
That would be so random. Doesn't even serve the gameplay in any way. This is a horror game not an immersive sim lol.

[SixPack]

kepyaaa původně napsal:

But.... whyyyyyy thooooough......
That would be so random. Doesn't even serve the gameplay in any way. This is a horror game not an immersive sim lol.

Without immersiveness there can be no horror.