Uranium

[MEGACHAD]

Pretty dumb that you die just from carrying it. Its as if we are such idiots we pick up uranium without storing it in a safe way. And forget about recovering your corpse.

[Sniper Bear]

so by your logic, because this is a video game, you should also be able to pick-up lava with your bare hands because video game.

maybe the reason they made it so picking up a radioactive material hurt and kill you is because the developers want it to be that way...? it's video game but that doesn't mean it cant have realistic elements.

it would be bad game design if you would die from being within 100 feet of uranium without a hazmat suit.

[WSkD]

I think it is great that uranium is in the game and works as they designed it. There are some, but not many games, which have items/objects which damage -and over time- kill you if you pick them up in the inventory or equip them.
There was once an armour (forgot the game) which dealt 2% of max hp as damage per step if equipped. It was quite strong, but also very deadly.

Yeah, still I get what you mean, because in most games you can pick uranium and worse stuff up and nothing happens, but as you stated the devs can to what they want, they can be creative! So just shrug it off, you know it now, and go ahead and build an magnificent factory!

[archmag]

引用自 TOASTWAFFE：

You don't seem to understand since I guess you have not come across uranium. Not only does it kill you when you get close to it it kills you when you carry it. And it kills you FAST. So when you do to get your corpse with 3 dots of health you die again getting your stuff. And you think this is a good gameplay mechanic that adds fun to a game?

Don't take everything from the corpse. Leave uranium in it. Unless you take it you take very little damage from radiation. 3 health gives plenty of time to loot the corpse by doubleclicking each item except uranium.

It was a nasty surprise for sure when I mined it the first time and suddenly died. Then tried to loot the corpse few times and died again. But it is not a bad one. Just learn how it works and deal with it.

I expected that I already have some protection because I am wearing a suit on this planet, but it appeared that there was none.

[JustGoFly]

I know this is an old post, I found while searching for a fix to this issue. I wasted alot of time on this. My claim that this is unexpected, and unfair game play is due to the online computer telling you "I highly recommend you harvest this stone" when you come across a Mercer stone, but it says nothing about Uranium, very unfair, unfun, made me quit the game. Maybe time to head back to Factorio.

Aside from leaving the body until I reach level 7, is there a solution?

[Vault Traveler]

Who forces you to take it with you anyway?

[A-lienz>critter]

no need 4 uranium, got 40000 mw from petrol, and gives some plasic ( actualy a lot....)

[Tipoff Giggots]

引用自 Vault Traveler：

Who forces you to take it with you anyway?

lmao right? people can load autosaves, they can pick up their inventory, drop it and run, etc but guess its easier to just leave their body and run

[JeanneOskoure]

"I didn't expect to die when picking up the thing that kept dealing me damage when I approached it".
This whole thread is the reason why we need to put disclaimers on all toxic substance.
Seriously, some comments here make me wonder how these people didn't die by ingesting bleach or hurt themselves with any household chemical.

[sansee]

引用自 JeanneOskoure：

This whole thread is the reason why we need to put disclaimers on all toxic substance.

Oh please no, this isn't America and I don't it to become like that either where we need to have a disclaimer or trigger warning on absolutely everything (then again, you could get sued over something that should be simple common sense, or basic logic).

Ever heard the woman who sued the restaurant because the coffee was too hot? That's what you get from neglecting a proper education system for over 40 decades, especially when some schools are allowed to teach that the Earth is flat and created 6000 years ago, and radiation and gravity is pure fantasy...

But, I'm pretty sure JustGoFly is a zombie/troll account anyway...

[JeanneOskoure]

引用自 sansee：

Ever heard the woman who sued the restaurant because the coffee was too hot?

Bad example, that's one of the rare case were the lawsuit made sense.
That lady got a 2nd degree burn because the coffee was around 100°C, and she had to get a skin graft. Instead of paying the medical cost, McDonalds prefered to create a smear campaign to make it look like she was crazy.

Way different than people not realizing that the thing that kills them if they get near it might also kill them if they pick it up in their inventory.

[Mojo]

引用自 MEGACHAD：

You don't seem to understand since I guess you have not come across uranium. Not only does it kill you when you get close to it it kills you when you carry it. And it kills you FAST. So when you do to get your corpse with 3 dots of health you die again getting your stuff. And you think this is a good gameplay mechanic that adds fun to a game?

If you are wearing your protective suit, it does not kill you fast.
Also they were being pretty constructive with their comment towards you.
You on the other hand took no time in lashing out. So if after that you get snide remarks, that is pretty much why.

[sansee]

引用自 JeanneOskoure：

Way different than people not realising that the thing that kills them if they get near it might also kill them if they pick it up in their inventory.

There's no secret that in America companies (especially in insurance) are more protected than the individual human.

Yes, accidents happens, but the point was, if the coffee or the plate is too hot you wait... If I burn myself for taking the plate too quickly out of the oven I can only blame myself, not others, for not using some sort of heat protection. That's what these kinds of people do - they blame others for things they are the cause of themselves.

Also, anyone who have gone to school also knows that uranium is something you shouldn't go around with either due to its unstable nature. Or read comic books, or books in general.

Coffee Stain has just taken the radiation effect and upped it 10000x or something as an added balance. OK, he died, well it's a game, perhaps he can learn from it then?

[Dark Phoenix]

引用自 JeanneOskoure：

"I didn't expect to die when picking up the thing that kept dealing me damage when I approached it".
This whole thread is the reason why we need to put disclaimers on all toxic substance.
Seriously, some comments here make me wonder how these people didn't die by ingesting bleach or hurt themselves with any household chemical.

To be fair, any chemical (in the uk anyway) is marked with a big obvious "what this will do to you if improperly handled". Which, as life isn't a video game, and nuts/berries cannot cure everything, i am very thankful of.

[JustGoFly]

So here is my beef - you play a game where you are trained from the start to harvest iron, stone, copper, coal, wood, leaves, you get perks for sulpher, and you move up the scale. Nothing is harmful to you. I never burn myself working on a coal furnace, or any of the furnaces, I don't cut myself with a chain saw, I am warned to pick up Mercer stones. So you see this innocent patch that looks like all the others, you pick it up and die over and over again. I never cheat in a game, loading auto-saves are for cheaters. I am trained by the game on how I should play, I fight the various bulls, each have a varying degree of difficulty, but none are insta kill. I chip at this stone item and instantly die, and now I am not able to get my body. At this point of the game, I really have no desire to proceed forward. It's just stupid, misplaced logic. Even in factorio - you know with a Bob's mod, that you picked up uranium and it kills you over 30 seconds or more. Plenty of time to drop it. I didn't even know it was in my inventory, since I never lived long enough to look at my inventory.

I highly doubt this is good for the game. I have no problem falling off cliffs and dieing. I can get parachutes fairly early and with enough stone can get back up top again. Up to this point the game made sense. But now I seriously wonder why this remains in the game for so long, just pissing off their players time and time again. This issue is hotly debated in reddit, also with the same number of trolls making fun of the poster, like that is a logical argument - LOL. If you have a valid reason for this being in the game, I'd love to hear it. As for sueing you - I doubt you have a penny to spare, so no worries there.

This is simply not good for the game. The game was fun right up to that point. I will not re-roll or load an old save. I will move onto a game worthy of my time.

[JustGoFly]

Regarding the lady who got burned by coffee -
She was hospitalized for eight days while she underwent skin grafting, followed by two years of medical treatment. Ya - just a regular cup of coffee, and she shouldn't have complained after almost dieing, and going through years of pain. Another example of someone misinformed and uneducated. Please troll elsewhere.