Why whoopee cushion attract Lightning?

[Shergorath]

Aren't they rubber dear Dev?

[Sasha Mason]

Pretty sure they are 100% rubber IRL, so you'd think there's nothing metallic about them.
Same with Flasks, they're glass. Bottles don't attract lightning, but Flasks somehow do?

At the same time, if the argument is about, oh there might be something metallic inside, well Walkie Talkies and Flashlights are cool, so there's just no consistency about what gets you killed and what doesnt.

[Bluear8]

seems rather frustrating to be honest

[Taehl]

In my headcanon it's not natural lightning, but rather some kind of atmospheric weapon... Like, there's a weather satellite overhead that's stuck in "attack" mode instead of "clear skies" mode - something that's aiming the lightning at us.

I agree with you though, non-metal items attracting it is not intuitive.

[Shergorath]

It's not intuitive at all, for new players or not.
Should it be so? I do think so yes.

I find it Extremely frustrating that a thing Which normally doesn't have any metal inside and made ENTIRELY of RUBBER, an Electric repellent material, is actually treated as a Lightning Rod.

Don't get me Wrong i Get it.
It's funny, it's Wacky and it fits with some element of the game, but i would accept this if it actually happened in the first days on a low hostility planet, not when i need to bring 900+ of quota and i'm on Titan.

I Hope that the Dev fixes some of these issues with the next update

[RazakelKairo]

Its dumb.

But it made me smile.

[Zeromentor]

Alien Rubber. Made out of a mish-mash of metallic bio-organic parts and an elastic layer. Also happens to make fart noises.

Seriously, the stormy lightning is weird and ignores real world logic; so game logic, in space, on alien moons, can be as wacky as it wants.