Tier 3 thermometer completely broken?

[mundy.]

I was playing with a friend, we bring both tier 1 and tier 3 thermometers to contracts. During one investigation we had both in the ghost room and missing an evidence, decide to check the tier 3 thermo and the reading was 2-5° every scan, but when I checked the tier 1 thermometer it had the reading of constant -5° in the room (it was indeed freezing temps).

We did some scientific studies and 100% of the time the tier 3 thermometer gives a reading of up to 5 degrees above room temperature when its not freezing. While freezing it had up to 10 degrees more than the real room temperature!

What the hell is wrong with the tier 3 thermo?

[Kou]

it shows freezing. it just takes freakin ages because the new temp system is busted

[Drillbo Baggins]

Tier 1 thermometer is actually better than tier 2 and 3, same with ultraviolet light.

[Kaisoku]

Yeah, there's a pretty big benefit to being able to leave UV on the ground and have it show the area around it instead of having to line up a flashlight cone (which gets cut off when on the floor, and when there's even tiny bumps or objects in the way.. like a carpet).
Charging them faster is great, but if you just drop the glowstick on the ground it makes it basically as good as tier 3.

Tier 2 UV fix: charge really fast.
Tier 3 UV fix: same charge speed at 2, but has a "lamp" mode. I have a flashlight like this for my emergency kit: the front is both a focused beam or a lantern effect, just click through modes.

For the thermometer, honestly, the fact that the Tier1 shows IMMEDIATELY that it's lowering, makes it 100% better at finding the ghost room. Then the fact that I can just leave it on the ground and come back later to get freezing checks, perfect.

As it stands the high inaccuracy in values and low sampling speed of tier 2 makes it 100% worse than tier 1. Tier 3 would work IF it gave the immediate temperature instead of having to "cool down" or whatever its doing...
Or better yet, it shows the average "direction" of the last 10-20 readings or something. Turn off and on to reset or something. Then you can get a built-in idea of the direction the temperature is going.
Tier 2 could just be an arrow angled down or up or even. Tier 3 could show maybe a graph of the last readings across the screen? Would help give similar functionality to the Tier 1.

[Noelle]

Just use the T1 thermo. Its fire-and-forget nature means you can focus on what's important: getting more gear into the room and securing safe escape routes.

[mundy.]

Yea, tier 2-3 thermo is a complete downgrade.
Hope their answer to this issue is improving tier 2-3 and making them useable instead of nerfing the hell out of tier 1.

Kinda strange seing a high-tech thermometer not being able to read room temperature with accuracy nor real-time and getting completely outclasseed by the "worst version"

[[IDN/IDR] Átlās]

Originally posted by Kougeru:

it shows freezing. it just takes freakin ages because the new temp system is busted

this, ikr! tier 3 thermo is absolut garbo !