Oh shit, good point. That's way better. I mean, it's not a huge boost, but it's basically free. I'll happily take free +2 crit chance.
Have you tested how that works? Do I need to wear the belt while using the hypo for a chance of double healing? Or do I just wear the belt when crafting and it's a chance I will make a better hypo that is distinct from the rest and has the double heal in the description?
That and the overall amount of content. Some might say that UnderRail has too much content for its own good.
You need to wear the belt while you're crafting but after they're made you can take it off. If you're wearing it you craft enriched health hypos (or enriched advanced/super health hypos) instead of normal ones. Just like normal, except they have a 5% chance to critically heal and a slightly higher price. And a different icon.
Yeah 5% isn't too much, but on the other hand even occasional super health hypo healing for 300 (or 600 on normal and below) further boosted by metabolism/doctor/fried siphoner tongue/etc. is every tin can's dream.
It's not necessarily worse, reduction can also be stacked to 100%. It's particularly great for bio because canned mushrooms + irongut is already 90% bio reduction, so if the belt is at least 10% that's total immunity.
Oh, that is cool. And yeah, it is 10%. Chemistry belt is 5% heat and 10% acid, electronics belt is 15% energy. I probably should have just said that in the first place.
His opinions on the experience systems leads me to believe he won’t separate the game the way you are proposing.
Maybe we can convince him?
Cold wind theorycrafting commencing.
The origin of the cold seems to be that you get blasted with cold wind, not from above but from the side, originating from the black void at the sides of the top of the tower. This is where the cold is most intense.
Thematically it seems to be inspired by the spider lair in Expedition, where you also hear a howling wind coming from somewhere, but the source of this cold wind could pretty much be anything, including some underground artifact or industrial implement.
If it really is coming from above ground, then it looks like you're basically already exposed to the surface at that point. You're blasted with cold wind from the side, and you take cover from it by getting behind the tower. It's not coming from above you.
Anyway, I wouldn't write off the idea that it's just an industrial thing, there are mysterious pipes everywhere, including pipes that lead into the black void where the wind comes from. And the weird consoles.
Oddity everytime. Classic’s pacing on dominating is pretty bad in my eyes. Can hit the veteran level feats early while side stepping a lot of the content. Plus classic pushes the player to kill everyone and everything. That gets tedious to me which is funny since a common criticism of oddity is how tedious dumpster diving is and it’s really not bad once you memorize the oddities. I also made oddity maps that have made it pretty easy to grab what I need. I will say drop rates for some of the animal oddities can be atrocious. I’ve cleared burrower, pig, and frog sections and walked away with zero oddities and that’s far from rare.
Cold wind theorycrafting commencing.
The origin of the cold seems to be that you get blasted with cold wind, not from above but from the side, originating from the black void at the sides of the top of the tower. This is where the cold is most intense.
Thematically it seems to be inspired by the spider lair in Expedition, where you also hear a howling wind coming from somewhere, but the source of this cold wind could pretty much be anything, including some underground artifact or industrial implement.
If it really is coming from above ground, then it looks like you're basically already exposed to the surface at that point. You're blasted with cold wind from the side, and you take cover from it by getting behind the tower. It's not coming from above you.
Anyway, I wouldn't write off the idea that it's just an industrial thing, there are mysterious pipes everywhere, including pipes that lead into the black void where the wind comes from. And the weird consoles.
You don't necessarily have to be very close or even already at the frozen surface for extremaly cold winds to be a thing way below. If the sun went out, the temperature at Earth's surface could get as low as -270 Celsius eventually, maybe even closer to absolute zero. So even considerably higher temperatures at considerable depth would still be extremaly cold for humans. -60 is a lot warmer than -270, but that's still anything but "warm" for us, for example. As for the wind, it's bound to be a thing in large open spaces. Probably just a huge cavern.
Oddity most of the times. Classic doesn't provide much faster leveling by the way now, aside from dom-only enemies like industrial robots, early plasma turrets, burrower warriors etc. It just allows to skip some areas and still hit the cap. The only real annoyance with oddity on the other hand is mob drops as was pointed out many times but otherwise it's a great system.
Fixes.
