#flash suggestions

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loud harness
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A couple suggestions for the flash bang and handheld flash.

  1. It should be more expensive. It was is way too cheap too make and in the future could easily be used to troll and grief players.
  2. It should knock the player over. Having them just stand there not moving looks weird.
  3. It should last less, 8-10 seconds is too long in my opinion. Maybe 4-6 seconds would be good.
  4. While I get the grey for making it not blind people irl I think it should still be white for a brief second and then quickly fade darker perhaps? Just like a quick bright jump scare for players. Also I like how it kinda fades out from the edges to the center but maybe also decreasing the opacity too making it see through as it fades would be good?
    Let me know I think it’s pretty fine right now but these are just things that I think should maybe be changed in the future.
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Maybe flash can damage the eyes some too?

loud harness
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Hm I think the flash range for explosion is too big

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I get flashed for my fireballs

graceful loom
graceful loom
loud harness
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Handheld is like 3 metal, flashlight, a couple metal and needs a screw driver
Flash bang is similar but uses grenade casing

graceful loom
loud harness
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I honestly have no clue maybe see what it is for ss13 or ss14

lucid parcel
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Maybe have makeshift flashes that are craftable? Have them use a powercell that runs dry after a handful of flashes

graceful loom
lucid parcel
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I feel like the flashbangs can just... not be craftable. At least once chems get added and flash powder is a thing

neon pagoda
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on the point of the color of the overlay for being flashbanged, I wanted to suggest that we could go with an even darker overlay that has a symbol like this on it to clarify that the player is currently blind

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or, and I thought of this while typing the last bit, that could be the overlay for being blind as a borg or other mechanical thing

loud harness
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The way the flash seems to work in ss14 seems to be it will just give like a dizzy blurry effect kind of like the drunk effect but less wavy

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That might be good alternative too

neat yew
inland violet
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I put a more balanced recipt proposal on #unitystation . Lemme just link that here so i dont have to retype it

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#unitystation message

loud harness
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Making it not infinite use and use a battery or something in process would help too

wispy thicket
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From military experience, viewing someone smoking a cigarette with NVGs (night vision goggles) on is almost like looking at a star from a telescope. Without the watery appearance. Growing with an inhale and contacting when left alone. Wouldn’t assume what a flash bang would do, but holy shit lol.

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Eyeballs just jump out and run away 😂

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And those were the old school monoculars at that.

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Have fun driving with that shit on. Depth perception skewed like a mother flubber.

steel valve
wispy thicket
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I will most certainly watch this. I can’t wait for my personal experience to be debunked.

wispy thicket
steel valve
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I've used digital NV cameras before

wispy thicket
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You know what? The NVG's that I used may be ancient to even the Ancient Engineers in our game!

wispy thicket
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Unless the NV camera you’re talking about are goggles?

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This could most certainly be a yes in fact. I mean we do call a radiographic source a camera when we capture the latent image of X or gamma rays on film.

steel valve
graceful loom
wispy thicket
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I made an assessment of what I thought could happen in an atmos/clown simulator based on limited experience with old tech 🤣

graceful loom
wispy thicket
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Lol

graceful loom
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like who uses a PDA any more xD

steel valve
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we all do, if you have a smartphone

loud harness
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nah pda is different