Had a run in with a smoker today, ran out of ammo and had to bash him in the face to death with my USP .45. (he was standing in front of a store I wanted to raid.) Another one I dealt with some pipe bombs because again, he was in the way of some vehicles I wanted to loot and making noise just wasn’t doing the trick for either of them. My first two smoker kills, so late after they were introduced since they’re not really a threat for pick n’ mix looters.
Smoke certainly still seems problematic without a filter mask, although not quite deadly unless you’ve already taken a lot of damage. I was wearing a dust mask at the time. For every cough, you lose a little bit of torso hp. For low strength characters or those with the hardcore trait you better watch out, I only noticed when my torso went yellow.
Thankfully if you notice in time you can bandage yourself fast enough to negate the HP loss, you hardly drop dead on the spot.
It’s more like a poison you don’t notice, but because of that it’s very insidious.
With first aid 3 you shouldn’t even need 10 bandages.
Hm… Anyway how about some kind of medical gear to help you breathe or erase the Smoke disease then? Could use it for the asthmatic trait as well, I guess. Oxygen tank and a breathing mask perhaps? Like something you’d find in the back of an ambulance, or how about a diver’s oxygen tank and a regulator/scuba gear?
In any case, a tank of oxygen could have simply wonderful uses as a weapon.
