Water temperature too low for wetsuit/no gloves?

Sir_Toffington · August 2015

There is something I recently noticed when I finally bothered to build a thermometer today, the water around the spawn is incredibly cold, even colder than the north sea is at some parts of the year, certainly far too cold for a wetsuit and to not be wearing gloves for any period of time, especially as it seems to hover between 12-9 degrees centigrade which is enough to be highly uncomfortable even in a dry suit if you don't put enough air in there.

I'm aware that we are in the future so diving technology has probably vastly improved from today's standards but still, as someone who has experienced diving at these temperatures and lower for extended periods of time I find it kind of immersion breaking that his kit doesn't start out with some kind of gloves, your hands get numb very quickly underwater and it becomes quite challenging to manipulate objects at times, but I suppose it is a relatively minor nit-pick.

My other question would be how temperature is planned to be implemented for things like hypothermia, frost bite, burns etc. If it will be implemented in that way at all?

Lightdevil · August 2015

Right now i think the thermometer had no use until the integration of the thermal plant in the habitat update, which lets you build a power generator that powers your base when the water temperatur is above a certain level, atleast i believe thats how it works. We dont know if it will be implemented at all, im pretty sure we never even heard of it, although i guess it would be helpful to the survival aspect of the game, it might be more annoying than fun though to think about these problems even in the safe shallows as soon as you spawn.

Sir_Toffington · August 2015

Yeah I know, I would actually personally just increase the temperature in the shallows by a good few degrees

Oddiex · August 2015

How would hypothermia and frostbite be realistic at all in a 23rd century diving suit? If modern diving suits intended for cold-water diving let you notice only a moderate effect, I'm sure diving suits a few hundred years into the future would protect the user from much colder and hotter water than 9-12 degrees centigrade.

Not to mention that the Aurora was indeed a terraforming vessel on it's way to terraform a planet with an all-water surface, so I'm pretty sure they would have specifically designed/acquired the perfect equipment for the mission.

Sir_Toffington · August 2015

I did say that dive suits would most likely be more advanced; the shallows thing was mostly just the lack of gloves in the starting suit being slightly off-putting for me personally.

But yeah, you do make an excellent point, I probably mentioned the idea of cold effecting you a little too hastily, it is after all possible to dive in the Arctic, ignoring equipment problems that would probably be gotten rid off in the 23rd century.

So yeah, withdraw that question I suppose, though I'm still standing by the fact I'd like gloves on the starting suit.

tarek · August 2015

soon i thin k the devs will incorporate temperature as an extra survival thingy

DC_Darkling · August 2015

Temperature isnt in yet, so all values atm are simply wrong.

04Leonhardt · August 2015

you can already get roasted by steam vents, so Temperature is a survival aspect already.

I doubt the water being too cold will be a problem until we get the arctic biomes, where the water temperature goes close to or below 0 degrees

DC_Darkling · August 2015

you misunderstand me perhaps.

I did not say I disagree that temp should affect us like that. I am saying there is not a working temperature stat yet.
Yes steam vents can hurt you, but that does not mean temp is in the game yet.

04Leonhardt · August 2015

Steam hurts because it's hot lol

DC_Darkling · August 2015

we really going to have the real world vs currently ingame mechanics talk?
Im not going to do that.

dc out. /wave

Water temperature too low for wetsuit/no gloves?

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