fire and water

[jjd1986e]

I don't understand why WATER does not put out FIRE! and why FIRE will sit on top of a WATER pool? Can someone explain the rationale?

[Ashardalon]

fire does extinguish water
but the water needs to be ontop of the fire without becoming steam
just like irl water isnt a fire remover, its something that removes heat and oxygen, which puts out the fire
in noita it removes fire by removing the oxygen that removes the fire, and making you wet making you burning resistant
about the fire ontop of the water, im assuming there was oil, being lighter then water, floating on the water being on fire

slime, the purple sticky stuff, is a little better then water since it cant evaporate before it goes ontop of the fire

[jjd1986e]

Originally posted by Ashardalon:

fire does extinguish water
about the fire ontop of the water, im assuming there was oil, being lighter then water, floating on the water being on fire

slime, the purple sticky stuff, is a little better then water since it cant evaporate before it goes ontop of the fire

Thanks for the response. I don't think there was oil, but the steam and stuff makes sense.

[bigulator]

fire on top of water happens in real life too

[LootMech]

you think there wasnt oil but the likelyhood of there being oil is very high.
Almost all things that can start a fire will also leak oil like the oil lamp and barrel

[Prodeses]

Yea, water does not work as well as one would guess. Also mixing toxic sludge with water near soil generates mud and usually some swamp water. Swamp usually generates some peat and that seems to be flammable.

Ashardalon mentioned wetting your robe (slime will slow you down). That'll usually works well and there's rarely reason to put fires out (apart from yourself). But all plasma types works well here. Personal plasma beam perk, Paha silmä and all plasma spells. They are not too common and spells are easy way to kill yourself so be cautious.

[Takovacs]

Originally posted by Prodeses:

Yea, water does not work as well as one would guess. Also mixing toxic sludge with water near soil generates mud and usually some swamp water. Swamp usually generates some peat and that seems to be flammable

Even better, setting fire to the peat actually purifies swamp to water.