Fall damage...

[La Criatura Espada]

Love how soft, fluffy snow can break ankles, rip and tear clothes, and cause bruises.
I understand, if I fell on the cliffside, but deep snow, or at least a fair amount of it, shouldn't sprain ankles unless you jumped off a 2-story building.

[Jericho]

http://steamcommunity.com/app/305620/discussions/0/2549465882919114131/

[IFIYGD]

Lol! If you jumpoed off a 2 story building, with or without snow, i would expect more than a few sprains that can be inst-healed by a cup of rose hip tea and a few hours of sleep.

The snow in game is much deeper than you may think or expect. And it may have lots of rocks, sticks and other debri hidden under it. It snows an awful lot, things get covered. So, you slide down a slop, or trip and fall with a 30 kg back[ack on your back, you are likely to get a few injuries and tear some clothing that may get snagged by said debris.

And if it really bothers you, you can use the Custom settings in Survival Mode, to toggle off Sprains and any other sundry afflictions listed there with binary on/off toggles. Don't like Cabin Fever? Trun it off. Don't like Sprains, turn them off. Hate Dysentery? Turn it off. You have 56 settings you can toggle on/off or adjust for rates and "likelyhood". Try a few out, in a new game, and see if you can find settings that customize the game to your preferences.

You may want to grind for Feat badges in stright Pilgrim beforehand thugh, since Feat badges do not progress with custom settings, But Steam/XBox/PlayStation achievements will still unlock. Just not the Feat perks.

[Xeph]

Once you get used to heights and frequently run off boulders and obstacles as much and fast as I do you’ll actually think the game is too generous with what it lets you get away with.

[Medusahead]

Try crouching and slowly moving down as opposed to jumping off. You'll prevent a lot of injuries.

[IvantheFormidable]

As someone who nearly broke my leg skiing by sinking into the snow, I'm just going to say that getting a twisted or spained ankle by dropping into fluffy snow is entirely possible, and if you're dropping with 20 kilos strapped to your back, then even more so.

[Ratch]

Sprains occur when walking on a surface with an incline of more than 20 degrees, picture a right angle then a quarter of that angle. That's basically 20 degrees and it's not much. You're also assuming the snow is soft. Snow is really only soft when it's recently fallen, snow that has been there for days is usually packed down, and far from soft. Packed snow is also slippery. Imagine walking on a slightly slippery, uneven surface, where there could be an errant rock or stick to trip up on, then put on a 25lb backpack. Now imagine doing that on a sloped surface. You're going to get hurt.

Falling onto snow is even worse than trying to walk on it. Have you ever fallen onto moderately packed snow that has layers of ice in it from melt and freezing rain? I have, from a 5-10 foot fall (approx) onto snow described above, I snapped my arm clean in half from trying to break my fall. Both bones. Then had the arm of my coat torn from the ice shards where my arm impacted. Falling onto snow is not like jumping into a pile of leaves, which is how you describe snow as. Again, when it's first fallen yes, it's similar to that. Apply pressure to it from being walked on, a little heat and a bit of time and you may as well be falling onto concrete.

[La Criatura Espada]

Originally posted by Medusahead:

Try crouching and slowly moving down as opposed to jumping off. You'll prevent a lot of injuries.

No jump button to do so, but I get what you mean. Don't just sprint straight off.

PS. I just sprained my ankle out of nowhere. No incline, no nothing. Just walking back to homebase and SNAP. Can't sprint. RNGesus hates me.

[Timeless]

Now try the double handsprain, no painkillers. Followed by a threepack of wolfs.

[La Criatura Espada]

Originally posted by Timeless:

Now try the double handsprain, no painkillers. Followed by a threepack of wolfs.

heyo!

[Timeless]

Hello.
What im saying is this game will try to kill you every time it has a chance.

[IFIYGD]

Originally posted by Timeless:

Hello.
What im saying is this game will try to kill you every time it has a chance.

Indeed. It will. :D

[La Criatura Espada]

Originally posted by Timeless:

Hello.
What im saying is this game will try to kill you every time it has a chance.

Nah I was doing the whole "Heyo" thing to be like, the situation is bad whats new kind of

[0.0.0.0]

I've been having really bad luck going down hills at some speed. Always break or sprain something. My character is too old is this **** lol

[La Criatura Espada]

All I'm saying is that the distance at which you fall (Barely a player's height) in order to break or sprain ♥♥♥♥ is too damn low.

[IFIYGD]

Originally posted by Yolo Swaginson:

All I'm saying is that the distance at which you fall (Barely a player's height) in order to break or sprain ♥♥♥♥ is too damn low.

It doesn't take much distance of a fall to put more lbs/in² or kg/cm² on samlle bones, muscles, ligaments or tendons, than they can tolerate without taking injury. You aren't doing a belly-flop where the impact is spread over your whole body surface. If you are slipping and falling, going down with your ankle twisted at an unnatural ange, under your body wieght + pack weight is going to cause a hyperextension injury or sprian. Going down and doing the instinctive "hand out" as you fall and having the average human weight of 60-80kg + pack weight of 30kg all applies to the sruface of your hand or wriost... is going to cause injury.

It is actually a bit surprising that tumbles down steep hills at those weights don't cause more atual broken bones injuries. Especially with the nutritional deficits most of our characters have from the limited soruces of foods. Not a tom of Calcium, Vitamin A & D in our diets in the game. Maybe lots of protein, but not enough fatty acids, Vitamin C, Zinc, and B vitamins either. Especially gor citified survivors like ours.

Just saying, it really isn't that unrealistic.