Realistic too easy?

[Angel-A]

Beer and wine heal the player and cause drunkeness for merely half a minute; smoking shouldn't be too bad.

[Jaedar]

Beer and wine heal the player and cause drunkeness for merely half a minute; smoking shouldn't be too bad.

Well Beer and Wine contain some nutrients similar to candy bars or sodas, but cigs are pretty much just poisons and toxins.

[nerdenstein]

They really should increase accuracy, now that you mention it.

Isn't it more like they should actually decrease your base accuracy if you've used them for a while, and then temporarily remove that penalty every time you smoke again?

I like that idea actually

[DDL]

Plus the accuracy gain from cigarettes is TINY. Enough that it'd make a difference at olympic shootin' tourneys, yes, but anyone entering an olympic shootin' tourney already has rifles/pistols at level 4 anyway.

[Angel-A]

Beer and wine heal the player and cause drunkeness for merely half a minute; smoking shouldn't be too bad.

Well Beer and Wine contain some nutrients similar to candy bars or sodas, but cigs are pretty much just poisons and toxins.

JC can stand enviromental toxins and radiation, surely advanced nano-augmentation blunts the effects from mere cigarettes.

[DDL]

And indeed it does: if you have augEnviro active, or (more hilariously) are wearing a hazmat suit, you take less damage from smoking.

That's right, kids: if you're gonna smoke, do it through the filter system of a selfcontained enviromental protection suit!

[fantsu]

Smoking inside a bubble is more healthy.

[Allan]

They really should increase accuracy, now that you mention it.

Isn't it more like they should actually decrease your base accuracy if you've used them for a while, and then temporarily remove that penalty every time you smoke again?

That could work in a way a-la the Crack Pipe from Postal 2. (It bumps your health up to 125 for about 2 minutes, then dumps it down to about 70, weapon accuracy could recieve a similar modification.)

[johnshrapnel]

What was the point of cigarettes?

I always figured there would be a conversation somewhere, where someone's going through nicotine withdrawal. You know, determined not to help you and extra-crabby; suddenly becoming very nice and helpful once you give them a cigarette.

Never came across an encounter like that though. Not in DX, nor in any mod (including this one so far). At least, not that I remember.

[Hassat Hunter]

Then you must not have gotten far into TNM yet...

[fantsu]

The kid who asked food. It was nice to throw him with pack of cigarettes.

Also when you made peace with the tribes in Hong Kong, it is nice to smoke a pack
with red wine.

[Delta2501]

Didn't Shifter make it so that using a cigarette and blowing smoke in someone's face has a chance of causing tenporary blinding like tear gas or pepper spray?

[Angel-A]

Didn't Shifter make it so that using a cigarette and blowing smoke in someone's face has a chance of causing tenporary blinding like tear gas or pepper spray?

Yep. Cigs count as a weapon because of that, if you smoke. It can make NPCs run away or attack if they don't like weapons.


Also:

[bobby 55]

A pack a day smoker would seem a health nut compared to that guy. Since he would have trouble exhaling, since... you know... full mouth, is that where the term *blow it out your arse* comes from?

[Angel-A]

If you didn't notice, in the game JC smokes the whole pack at once. And he does that in three seconds.