Acid Spit Causes Toxin Damage

[Surrealistik]

Bug Description:

Per the subject.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Spit at a marine with acid.
2. Inflict toxin damage.
3. What?


Is this intended? If so, why? Shouldn't acid spit deal burn damage (or primarily burn damage) instead?

[MrJJJ]

If it does burn damage, its more easy to treat, but toxin is a bit of a bitch to treat...

[Surrealistik]

Just increase the base damage of the spit if that's the concern.

Sure, medics can burn kit, but spit is pretty spammable these days, especially with Hivelord back up.

[Aeleto]

This is why marines have dylovene autoinjectors and pills.

[Surrealistik]

Medics have dylovene because they've always had dylovene; it was not custom purposed for acid spit.

[enkas]

Isn't that a neurotoxin spit?

[Wickedtemp]

I've HEARD that Neurotoxin spit will eventually do toxins if used enough. Corrosive acid spit, I think, should inflict burns. But I have no clue if any of this was ever changed.

[Surrealistik]

I've HEARD that Neurotoxin spit will eventually do toxins if used enough. Corrosive acid spit, I think, should inflict burns. But I have no clue if any of this was ever changed.

That's the way it should work, not the way it does unfortunately.

[ShortTemperedLeprechaun]

It WAS changed. Corrosive acid is now toxin damage. Enough of it will cause organ failure, for those organs that soak out toxins.

[forwardslashN]

I'm not going to touch this. I think apop changed this during the xeno update, so I'm marking it off as a feature. Leaving the thread open for feedback though.

[Steelpoint]

Marines already suffer from minor injuries being able to cripple them until they get back to the Sulaco, having to take Toxin damage is a bit annoying to say the least.

[Surrealistik]

I personally don't get the rationale for changing its output wholly to toxin damage; hopefully apop can clarify.

[Surrealistik]

apophis775 wrote:
"The acid, should be burns, the neuro should be toxin, but abby futzed with it for the projectile code. i think because if you accidentally hit an alien it was debilitating"

[Jeser]

What. I'm totally for burn damage for acid than for toxins.

[Surrealistik]

Has this been fixed?

It also seems that Neurotoxin should be doing some amount of Toxin damage per Apop.

[forwardslashN]

apophis775 wrote:
"The acid, should be burns, the neuro should be toxin, but abby futzed with it for the projectile code. i think because if you accidentally hit an alien it was debilitating"

Uh, it doesn't even look like there are two spits.

[Surrealistik]

?

What do you mean exactly? There's definitely a difference between the acid and neurotoxin spit mode (at least in so far as the latter puts a marine on his ass and the former doesn't).

[forwardslashN]

Fixed.