The Gasmasks

[Mobius_None]

If Big Red's atmosphere is perfectly breathable then why are gasmask issued at round start?

[Karmac]

for RP mostly

[Keban DaBrowne]

30 years after deployment, the marines who didn't wear masks will face an 18% higher risk of pneumoconiosis from all the dust particles.

[misto]

someone once told me there used to be no air there. sounded like a bad time for both teams. the marines would have to worry about choking out and the aliens wouldnt be able to infect hosts because huggers pull off masks, meaning hosts would be at terrible risk of choking out

[Mobius_None]

30 years after deployment, the marines who didn't wear masks will face an 18% higher risk of pneumoconiosis from all the dust particles.

Sounds reasonable, but like most people expect to even live 30 years after all that ICly.

[Renomaki]

the old idea behind Big Red was that it would be a planet without breathable air.

LV used to simply be a small colony with a river in between, but then the fog came in and that became its gimmick.

Ice's gimmick is its freezing cold temperatures, requiring the use of snowsuits and coifs in order to protect oneself from frostbite.

And Big Red's old gimmick was a world that had no breathable air outside of the domes, which required the use of masks in order to venture out. But due to how xenos would constantly break the windows of the dome and how huggercombat made getting hugged a death sentence (which both help and hindered the xenos), it was removed due to how difficult it would be to make it work. So now the masks are merely there for fluff and decor, and aren't really required for survival.

[Symbiosis]

It's a marine nerf. When a medic tries to give you CPR the gas mask prevents that.

[Heckenshutze]

They're mostly used to filter the air from your buddies that live and die with a cigar in their mouths. Cancer is a serious thing

[Redikalzip]

Its roleplay issy On the big red there are storms and these masks protect against storms.

[kroack]

Could add some minor pain or oxy loss to simulate dust storms when outside on Red.

[Redikalzip]

OH, no need it. Just no need make it harder for muhrinezz.

[misto]

some howling wind sound effect and a light reddish filter over things when you step outsde would be cool as heck

[kroack]

some howling wind sound effect and a light reddish filter over things when you step outsde would be cool as heck

Yes.

[johners12345]

the old idea behind Big Red was that it would be a planet without breathable air.

LV used to simply be a small colony with a river in between, but then the fog came in and that became its gimmick.

Ice's gimmick is its freezing cold temperatures, requiring the use of snowsuits and coifs in order to protect oneself from frostbite.

And Big Red's old gimmick was a world that had no breathable air outside of the domes, which required the use of masks in order to venture out. But due to how xenos would constantly break the windows of the dome and how huggercombat made getting hugged a death sentence (which both help and hindered the xenos), it was removed due to how difficult it would be to make it work. So now the masks are merely there for fluff and decor, and aren't really required for survival.

tbh they probably coulda kept the gimmick if they worked the unbreakable windows, and install code to make Huggers act as oxygenated masks

[Keban DaBrowne]

If I recall correctly, in the Aliens universe the huggers actually provide oxygen to their hosts.

[Mobius_None]

If I recall correctly, in the Aliens universe the huggers actually provide oxygen to their hosts.

Can confirm, they do. Perhaps they could make the atmos have maybe 5% CO2 so that way it hurts but it isn't deadly for quite some time.

[Recounted]

I kinda want the non breathable air back in big red its funny to see baldies rambo outside and suffocate to death

[Nick123q23]

what I'm worried about is why don't the gasmasks look like cool military models?

I can't get out of here stalker.

[NGGJamie]

the old idea behind Big Red was that it would be a planet without breathable air.

LV used to simply be a small colony with a river in between, but then the fog came in and that became its gimmick.

Ice's gimmick is its freezing cold temperatures, requiring the use of snowsuits and coifs in order to protect oneself from frostbite.

And Big Red's old gimmick was a world that had no breathable air outside of the domes, which required the use of masks in order to venture out. But due to how xenos would constantly break the windows of the dome and how huggercombat made getting hugged a death sentence (which both help and hindered the xenos), it was removed due to how difficult it would be to make it work. So now the masks are merely there for fluff and decor, and aren't really required for survival.

While not technically a game mechanic, I've always thought of it as preventing the planet's dust from getting into your lungs because it could have harmful, later in life repercussions similar to asbestos.

[Heckenshutze]

Gas masks are actually booby traps for snowflakes.

[KaliSzop]

They're literally only there so you can't CPR the guy without taking it off first, It's annoying those times

[Fritigern]

Should have left the no atmosphere part in and just build the domes with tougher materials. It would then at least be an interesting map to play on, where now it's basically just the map to play when you're tired of LV because it's different, it offers no other interesting gameplay mechanics.