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The Original Strife: Veteran EditionHow does poison/radiation damage work?(7 posts)(7 posts)
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Posted May 21, 2016
I bought Strife just the other day, and the one obstacle I'm having the most issue with is Radiation/Toxic damage. I understand that if I wear the radiation suit I'll be temporary immune to the toxic/rad damage. But when I leave a certain room (the place where the crystal is in the power plant). I'm STILL taking damage, and I watch as my medkits get eaten up and eventually die. Does damage last for a specific time frame?

Also, I'm underneath the sewers at the moment and I notice a similar problem there. Is there any way to tell if an area has radiation? (the manual says that I can't see it)
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Posted May 21, 2016
The screen should flash green when you are in a radioactive/poison area then turn solid when you are poisoned.
Post edited May 21, 2016 by Lord_Kane
Posted May 21, 2016
Once the screen starts flashing you start accumulating radiation damage. You have about 20 seconds to put on an environmental suit when this happens. Otherwise, once the screen turns solid green, you will begin to lose health from the accumulated damage.

Once you are outside a radioactive area, the accumulated damage counter will begin to decrease, but you will still take damage until it drops below the threshold it reached where the damage started. Depending on how long you took to put on an environment suit, this could even kill you. I've seen a guy on YouTube dead-end his game by going through the entire power station without one and then dying in the town because he couldn't stop the damage. He thought it was a bug, but no. It's actually kind of realistic if you compare it to real radiation - exposure past a certain amount will always kill you.
Posted May 21, 2016
There's an explanation of the game mechanics (with numbers and technical details) here; it's for the ZDoom port so it also talks about other stuff that is less relevant here, but the whole paragraph beginning with "certain sector types originating from Strife" should be accurate.
Posted May 22, 2016
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haleyjd: Once the screen starts flashing you start accumulating radiation damage. You have about 20 seconds to put on an environmental suit when this happens. Otherwise, once the screen turns solid green, you will begin to lose health from the accumulated damage.

Once you are outside a radioactive area, the accumulated damage counter will begin to decrease, but you will still take damage until it drops below the threshold it reached where the damage started. Depending on how long you took to put on an environment suit, this could even kill you. I've seen a guy on YouTube dead-end his game by going through the entire power station without one and then dying in the town because he couldn't stop the damage. He thought it was a bug, but no. It's actually kind of realistic if you compare it to real radiation - exposure past a certain amount will always kill you.
always good to have info from the guy who worked on the VE, is it good to assume the gog version is at 1.3?
Posted May 23, 2016
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Lord_Kane: always good to have info from the guy who worked on the VE, is it good to assume the gog version is at 1.3?
Yeah, the 1.3 update was primarily to add Galaxy support. We pushed through other minor fixes along with it.
Posted May 23, 2016
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Lord_Kane: always good to have info from the guy who worked on the VE, is it good to assume the gog version is at 1.3?
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haleyjd: Yeah, the 1.3 update was primarily to add Galaxy support. We pushed through other minor fixes along with it.
like the various fixes on the 1.3 beta listing on steam: http://steamcommunity.com/app/317040/discussions/0/364040797994253250/
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