Thrusters should just fucking kill you, honestly

[rrrrrr]

 

Standing behind the thrusters when the SCCV Horizon moves should literally just kill you. Instantly. It should be bad. I'm talking instant death, maximum burn damage to every single part of your body. And it should do that if you stand behind the Intrepid when it's taking off, too. It should actually fucking kill you.

 

Non-joking summary: this idea stemmed from a brief discussion on Discord. Standing behind thrusters when the ship moves/a shuttle is taking off does not, to my surprise, kill you. It should. It should instantly kill you. There should be hazard signs. This idea's pretty straightforward (i.e, the thrusters should kill you if you're standing behind them), so I don't feel too bad about this thread being brief. Thanks for reading.

[Flpfs]

Does a 3x3 gib radius sound good?

[Zelmana]

Instead of instant death can we at least give them, say, 10 seconds of dwell time, on mid-level fire, so they can scream on radio? And then they burn up.
 

 

Edited September 23, 2023 by Zelmana

[rrrrrr]

I was thinking that it'd just set you on fire and give you a lot of burn damage, yeah, not gib you.

[N8-Toe]

I agree it shouldn't gib. just blast em with burn damage to a lethal amount. turn em into a potato chip.

[Butterrobber202]

this has my support so I can do things on rev rounds that are evil.

[Carver]

I don't think shuttle thrusters should be an instant kill (maybe a really heavy burn amount up to 75-80, without destroying all your blood ideally) but the Horizon's thrusters should absolutely be something you avoid like you'd avoid the singularity's containment field in the past.