Freezing in "warm" weather ?

[Belnick]

come on!, dying because of -3 c ?
I have gone shopping on a dare from a friend in boxers and t shirt in -10...
-10 should be cold, -20 should be the hypothermia depending on cloths and wind

but losing life at minus 3 is just wrong, it is like the developers live in thailand or someother warm country

will this be changed

[Mansen]

-20 is the equivalent of a fridge freezer.
Anything below zero means water will freeze...

It is spot on - You're not sitting in the cold for minutes, you're sitting in it for hours.

[Zerim]

It tells me that my character is "freezing" at about 37 degrees Fahrenheit. :P

But yeah, the default is celsius. -3c is definitely freezing, because water.

[Fork117]

Up your resistance or whatever it is called then.

[DiabolusUrsus]

Yeah, except this is relative to normal human body temperature, not ambient temperature. People can travel through colder temperatures, sure, but there's always some sort of shelter at the beginning and end of the journey if they want to live.

Having a body temperature of <95F is considered hypothermic. Normal body temp is ~98.6F. It's perfectly plausible that someone would become hypothermic and die while exposed to temperatures below freezing for extended periods of time, especially if they're wet.

[Belnick]

i have my ac at 15c which keep the room here around 16-17 celsius, which I like
minus 3 celsius naked and rolling in the snow you only do for a minute or so, but you have clothes on ffs we are not naked
we have -5 to -20 here at winters and I guess maybe that is why we see ppl from somalia here wearing big warm jackets and hats when it is 20c and other have shorts and t shirts.

it is the wind that is the danger, unless it goes very very cold
you stand hammering on rock after rock which your chitin or hide clothes and you really work it and suddenly you are dying, why?, because it became -3 c haha

standing still ofc you might freeze, moving, working lol no, not a chance

so are the devs from florida or what?

[Anders]

Originally posted by Diabolus Ursus:

Yeah, except this is relative to normal human body temperature, not ambient temperature. People can travel through colder temperatures, sure, but there's always some sort of shelter at the beginning and end of the journey if they want to live.

Having a body temperature of <95F is considered hypothermic. Normal body temp is ~98.6F. It's perfectly plausible that someone would become hypothermic and die while exposed to temperatures below freezing for extended periods of time, especially if they're wet.

You know, just about everyone but your nation uses celcius and metric system?

(Though personally I think fahrenheit is a much better measuring system, having 0 as absolute 0.)

[Locklave]

They need better clothing or upgrades you can add to clothing. Currently there are far too few options for dealing with the weather.

[pigincorp]

Devs obviously aren't canadian then..

[Klingenmeister]

Have worked in 5°C with only a T-shirt because it was way too hot. In ark my character works in full armor crushing rocks and get damage because its 1°C?

Thats real bull!

[Jeza]

I'm fine with the effects of temperature as they are, it may not be 100% realistic but from a gameplay point of view it serves it's purpose : force you to consider the weather and reacts accordingly.

I don't care what temperature the game says it is what maters to me is the effect it has on me. Heck we could have been modified genetically to suffer hypotehrmia at 20° Celcius for all we know, I mean floating pillars in the sky dinosaurs and so an and so forth.

What irritates me more than a set temperature being too low or not enough to really cause hyper/hypothermia is the fact that you can go from one to the other in 2 seconds flat. I've had my character be too warm , take 3 steps until her feet toucht he water of a river and be too cold.
Transitions should be more gradual that's my problem with temperature at the moment.

But if you want they can change it so you get hypothermia only below -20°C, they'll just modify the game so that you see -20°C on teh screen instead of the-10 you see now, nothing else wil change so really what's the point ?

[Buster]

Temp exposure needs a rework thats for sure, especially on a tropical island.

[stunner]

Originally posted by Belnick:

i have my ac at 15c which keep the room here around 16-17 celsius, which I like
minus 3 celsius naked and rolling in the snow you only do for a minute or so, but you have clothes on ffs we are not naked
we have -5 to -20 here at winters and I guess maybe that is why we see ppl from somalia here wearing big warm jackets and hats when it is 20c and other have shorts and t shirts.

it is the wind that is the danger, unless it goes very very cold
you stand hammering on rock after rock which your chitin or hide clothes and you really work it and suddenly you are dying, why?, because it became -3 c haha

standing still ofc you might freeze, moving, working lol no, not a chance

so are the devs from florida or what?

Create a post in the suggestion section of the forums, and suggest that they make activity produce heat, so if you are mining in the hills your body heat helps you keep going a bit longer.

[Belnick]

yea, when working you dont freeze that easy and the degrees really need to be changed somehow

[tom_gore]

Originally posted by Arne:

Originally posted by Diabolus Ursus:

Yeah, except this is relative to normal human body temperature, not ambient temperature. People can travel through colder temperatures, sure, but there's always some sort of shelter at the beginning and end of the journey if they want to live.

Having a body temperature of <95F is considered hypothermic. Normal body temp is ~98.6F. It's perfectly plausible that someone would become hypothermic and die while exposed to temperatures below freezing for extended periods of time, especially if they're wet.

You know, just about everyone but your nation uses celcius and metric system?

(Though personally I think fahrenheit is a much better measuring system, having 0 as absolute 0.)

0 Fahrenheit is about 255 Kelvin, which is about 255 Kelvin, or about 459 Fahrenheit above absolute zero.

Fahrenheit is an outdated measure because it is based on human body temperature, which is pretty unconstant and changes from person to person. Celcius is on the other hand based on natural constants, namely water's melting and evaporation temperatures at NAP.

On topic, -3 Celcius is cold enough that you will need to keep yourself fed and moving to upkeep your body temperature, both which are actually modeled in the game. Whether you'd actually need to eat 10 steaks per day is another question, but go ahead and try to go sitting down outside, wearing an armor made of metal, for 8 hours straight.

[Lascivar]

For me personally, -3 Celcius is pretty cold. Give me 35 Celcius though and I'm quite content and think it's wonderful weather. :P