You are remarkably insistent, but unfortunately the idea of hallucinations damaging you has already been discussed, and the answer was no. I’ll just let their explanation stand by itself:
[quote=“KA101, post:18, topic:4865”]Two problems I’m seeing here.
a) No clear way for the player to know “you are now leaving the previous game-reality”. At least with the Tome Of Eternal Darkness they had to affirmatively read it–still not ideal, but a clear interaction event. Sticking people with this for just grabbing something seems way too harsh. (How else are you going to interact with it? no item-examine whilst it’s on the ground, IIRC.)
Making folks afraid to touch things for fear that they’ll get permanently Screwed–I’ve not seen anything in either of these threads about ways to cure the problem–discourages experimentation. Bad Thing, IMO. If dropping the idol or the Tome lets the penalty-state time out, then I might think about it.
b) Hallucinations are fake and should stay that way. When one’s weapon stuck in them, we considered that a bug. Likewise there’ve been times when hallucinatory critters did do real damage. Bug also. Pretty confident we cured the problem where hallucinations could interact with terrain. There’s a long tradition of “hallucinations can’t affect reality” in Cata.
I’d rather not have to check bug reports for whether or not someone entered this penalty-state, especially when people might not know how or why they did so.
Cultist tip 116 seems relevant here.[/quote]
So, straight up damage is probably out. Being unable to control your actions is probably out too, the devs have said they try to avoid situations like that. Perspective shifts to other zombies sounds pretty unrealistic even for the strangest of hallucinations. Switching environments? Maybe, it’s up to the devs on whether that’s easily implementable
Vehicles exploding? Maybe vehicles could be a bit less explosion-resistant, I haven’t tested it out. But in real life vehicles generally don’t blow up after crashing, and implementing movie-style fireballs would be simply unrealistic.
TNT and remote explosives? Could be a good idea, but setting it up underground might cause issues with the reality bubble. Still, don’t see anything inherently wrong with that idea, at least.
