Pressure Stabilizer with bots is useless

[serpiggy96]

I really like this medicine in the game since it prevents you from dying from the pressure of the water and allows you to breathe in the water. It has a very negative point, since the bots cannot use it on their own, if they die from pressure they don't care about having it in their inventory, they are not going to use it. If you put self-injecting headsets on them, the medicine will only be injected when they are completely crushed by water pressure, that means, when they have literally already died. This means that only the player can really use it effectively...

[KittyLava]

Its not meant for the auto injectors in my personal opinion or for bots really, its basically an emergency measure for some form of life support. Either you inject it imminently due to exposure of say... massive hull leaks to damage, or as a preventative measure when your patient isn't breathing and the doc isn't on site right away.

Its especially helpful you need to buy time for either the doctor to arrive, if not dragging them back whilst unconscious to a location where you can get to the doctor midway. Depending on if the crew had to be part away team and other part still on the ship, you can have situations where the doc doesn't go out with the security team to handle caves or shipwrecks, doesn't happen always but sometimes it will.

All that medication does is make it, the person for one; become immune to pressure whilst its still in the system. And two; doesn't have to worry about not breathing so oxygen loss goes down, but the overall duration depends on their medical skills or if they used a tonic in advance to extend the duration.

Heck I've even told people, as the doctor to use it in emergency situations and not the auto injector, yet had several not listen. So I had to get creative with them in those cases later, or go over it again when that got their attention to listen. In situations on the ship, its to get to the suits. In combat situations if they're not dying of blood loss but got enough damage to not be breathing as their unconscious; it buys you time there to get them somewhere for treatment if unable on site. If you run out of oxygen for someone, you can technically use it to keep them conscious for a while to buy time once again till you can get them a spare tank of oxygen or back on the ship hopefully.


Basically, just think of it not as a medication, but a special compound/medical drug designed to provide some form of emergency support. If it were space station 13, it'll be like the one compound they use to keep someone in critical stable in a similar situation whilst working to save them.

[kratos]

This sounds like a good developer suggestion. Why not make a post suggesting the idea?

[The Flaming Pike]

I agree with Kratos. (Re)Post your suggestions in the appropriate forum and maybe you will get the devs' attention. As you may know there will be a DLC coming for the game in the far future, but in the meantime there will also be updates to the base game. There's still room for suggestions for the game even at this stage.

[serpiggy96]

Originally posted by KittyLava:

Heck I've even told people, as the doctor to use it in emergency situations and not the auto injector, yet had several not listen.

I am talking about bots, not people, besides even If I switch to the bot suffering the high pressure I will still need to find the medication in their inventory and then inject it, all of that in less than 6-8 seconds before the bot dies.

[serpiggy96]

Originally posted by kratos:

This sounds like a good developer suggestion. Why not make a post suggesting the idea?

Thanks that is a good idea, I tried but for the moment in the forum of the game (https://undertowgames.com/forum) I can't register, it just says something like 'Creating a new account is currently not possible.'

[kratos]

You can find the developer suggestions here on steam. https://steamcommunity.com/app/602960/discussions/2

[AJABOOBOO]

in general, the bot ai needs to be improved to better utilize the available resources and in general, AI needs improvement.
they still get stuck on ladders and in transit to some areas in vanilla subs for instance.

100% agreement AI needs more than just some attention.

[Shift]

TBF, a lot of items and mechanics are useless on bots. If you don't want to wait, I recommend crafting PUCS for your bots, as they're programmed to never take that off due to the suit unique mechanic of using hull's oxygen. So unless you're diving bellow 6200m, it should be enough to avoid having bots dying from pressure in case of a sudden hull breach. Yes, you're bots will be slower, which can be offset by a few talents, but still better than having a full crew one second and being completely alone the next, surrounded by floating corpses.