Hardsuit biosuits

[Guest]

Well, a little incident today reminded me that pressurized, airtight hardsuits with internals running don't function as biosuits, aka., a a disease magically gets through an inch of metal plate or airtank. While it can be handwaved as a suit functionality, I think it's highly nonsensical it can't be used as a biosuit when needed.

Make it so that they actually do the job of keeping the microbes out.

[Killerhurtz]

It would make sense to do that - OR at least make it possible to treat it, or wear something underneath, that serves that purpose (Bio-jumpsuit and bio-breathmask?)

Though as far as handwaving goes, I'd picture it more like this: hardsuits could be designed to vent a little gas (the surplus CO2 that people breath out), and while that venting happens a design oversight causes, for a fraction of a second, a small backdraft as the valve closes, allowing microbes in over time)

But yeah - having hardsuits be virus-proof (wait, aren't medical hardsuits virus-proof?) might be a good idea for a wide variety of reasons.

[Guest]

armor = list(melee = 30, bullet = 5, laser = 20,energy = 5, bomb = 25, bio = 100, rad = 50)

All hardsuits have 100% bio resistance. It will not, however, stop viruses spread through touch (such as hugs).

https://github.com/Aurorastation/Aurora/blob/4dd0449fb5b9668f6682d0aa4df30bb2a14fc0f5/code/modules/clothing/spacesuits/rig.dm

[Guest]

Yeah, that should be fixed. It might need some more testing to see the full scope of the issues, though.