Low amounts of corruption crippling

[Duke]

I had only 4% corruption after a fight with some technician bot with a shock gun. This caused all of my matter to drain while exploring the next level (mines) and unable to fire my weapons leading to a no win scenario. Im just wondering if having even this small amount of system corruption is intended to be so crippling.

[ktur]

Matter is everywhere - destroy green bots to get it restocked

Also in no matter situation you should force ram bots a bit to get enough to equip matter-free weapon

A lot of players dont mind even 30%+, main danger is fusing, and only for certain types of builds

[Kyzrati]

Losing all your matter is indeed a very dangerous situation to get into, so try to use strategies to mitigate that before it can become an issue. For example carry spare matter in inventory (bring a pod, which you can drop on the ground to retrieve matter from without even attaching it), and/or start seeking out matter before you get low, like even at half capacity it should be coming under consideration. Some other bots are an excellent source of large amounts of matter--Recyclers especially will give you a ton, and they're even easy to attract to your position ;)

Also before running out of matter it helps to carry backup thermal or melee weapons, since those don't require matter to net you some more in an emergency.

Corruption specifically doesn't drain a significant amount of matter though. If it's able to do that then you were already letting yourself get dangerously low.

As ktur suggests, if it's an absolutely emergency, just ram a bot (preferably something green that doesn't shoot back :P) and restock a little matter in order to attach another weapon (which you hopefully have) to start the matter recovery train.

[Duke]

Seems like I got unlucky rng then. I havnt tested what high amounts of corruption do yet

[Lyra]

Originally posted by dUKE:

Seems like I got unlucky rng then. I havnt tested what high amounts of corruption do yet

The same stuff but more

[Kyzrati]

It's worth pointing out that it's not a result of RNG. As described corruption simply can't cause enough matter loss to mean anything for you unless you were already lower than you should be at that point. So yeah it can cause trouble, for sure, but do what you can to prevent it in the first place.

Many people don't even care much about corruption, even huge amounts :P (the most dangerous things it might generally do are fusing a certain part or cause a misfire at a really bad time)

However, regarding matter I have to admit that the assumption is you don't spend massive amounts of time on a given floor with nothing going on. In that case I guess eventually, yes, corruption can literally wipe all your matter from max to nothing and leave you to go find some bots to ram :P. Mines is generally a low-activity map, for example. One thing that's a good idea is to stock up on resources before leaving a map, especially if heading into a branch since many of those are lower on resources compared to main areas of the complex. So that means matter, spare parts, and so on.