No More Surviving Space Without a Helmet

[Valiant70]

I'm sick of seeing players and NPCs floating in space with no helmet. It looks absolutely infantile. Either add a rudimentary atmosphere system or make helmets non-removable.

 

[Nauvran]

Later on? yes, right now? no just no.

 

[kulbolen]

do it yourself =D

 

[DrTarDIS]

Like the 2013 dave?

 

[JumpSuit]

A minor cosmetic that is least concern to the devs atm garunteed.

 

[DrTarDIS]

Just gonna add this here, since it's a "common sense" argument about what's going on "a long time from now, in a reality far away"
Vacuum Adapted Humans
Sailors of the Ebon Sea

 

[Winterhome]

We need a proper inventory/equip screen before we can properly address this sort of thing.

This falls under the area of "astronaut gameplay improvements" so it's not exactly a high priority issue right now.

 

[Dire Venom]

If this is implimented the death toll will rise into the thousands :,(
I feel sorry for alll those new players that have already lost their helmet imo.
I can see the reasoning for it, but I would personaly only like to see it on survival servers.

 

[StormWing0]

We need atmosphere generators of some kind before we implement Death By No Helmet.

 

[sayerulz]

Has the bug where your helmet unequips itself even been fixed?

 

[Valck]

Has the bug where your helmet unequips itself even been fixed?

Just as

the area of "astronaut gameplay improvements" [is] not exactly a high priority issue right now

 

[Valiant70]

If this is implimented the death toll will rise into the thousands :,(
I feel sorry for alll those new players that have already lost their helmet imo.
I can see the reasoning for it, but I would personaly only like to see it on survival servers.

Why is the helmet a piece of droppable equipment when the space suit isn't? A helmet in space is NOT optional. If anything it should be on by default and optionally removed with a keybind.

 

[Benevolent27]

To really make this realistic, we'd need to have atmosphere and leak detection on ships. There'd need to be air pressure inside of ships, but not outside of them. OR we could change shields around to work more like bubbles around a ship or base and then just have anything inside of one of these bubbles to be considered air and anything outside to be considered space. Planets would have their own bubbles of air surrounding them.

But, in any case, as several people have noted already, it wouldn't really be a big priority for the devs, and I'm not sure it should be. Though it would create more of a sense of realism in StarMade, it wouldn't be enough on it's own. And once we go down that path, then we have things like food. And the amount of calculating all this might take would tax the game client more. So really we have to choose where we want the game to be spending it's calculating power. On ship movement? Detecting pressure loss? Or constant positional checks to ensure a player is still within an air bubble?

Personally, I'd like to see the framework for modding laid out for something like this, so then for servers that have more astronaut based experiences, it would be possible.

 

[lochenspace]

Honestly I am TOTALLY WITH YOU on the fact that seeing people floating in space without helmets is RIDICULOUS. I really wish that consequences of removing helmets in a vacuum was implemented!