Lisbeth_Salander;n10661151 said:Ideas for Cyberpunk 2077:
- Let's have acid rains that damages clothing/armor and vehicles in areas where the nuke got detonated.
- In rare occasions there would be very heavy radiation storms that makes everyone closer to these areas take cover behind objects or inside buildings. These storms would not only cause more damage than an average acid rain, but they would also have extremely fast winds that makes players walk slowly or even in rare opportunities be taken away by the storm (this effect would also happen with vehicles). The use of gasmasks could make the vision clearer to the player and reduce the damage taken.
- If you want realism then players with open wounds under acid/radioactive rains or the heavy storms described early would be either more infected by radiation or would take damage points per second. The fun part is: if you get shot under these rains you would take more damage, but the same applies to your enemies. (The more critical the wound is, more damage you'll take in both acid rain and heavy radiation storm occasions).
- Another idea is to make some cyberware and other eletronic equipment not work properly or work unpredictably when close to areas affected by the nuke's radiation since that's what actually happens in real life.
- And to make these areas darker due to the radiation in the atmosphere, and considering that other areas would have day/night cicle then makes radiation infected areas to only have nights.
- There would be stealth bonuses on both "average acid rain" and "heavy radiation storm" circumstances, where the latter would create higher stealth bonus while being harder to identify enemies at the same time.
Sorry to be such a killjoy, 'Liz, but a small scale nuke WOULD NOT bring about all of the changes you spoke of. ( In another stage of my life, I was a member of the U.S Army Chemical Corps and am a wee bit knowledgeable about the topic...Had to be, it was part of my job.). As for what you MIGHT see in a rebuilt small yield nuke zone: Well, how about an increase in the cases of radiation based diseases (i.e.: leukemia), birth defects and the like, similar to what the Japanese still experience in the affected regions of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Stunted or deformed vegetation growth and the like.. and other fun unpleasantries. As for full fledged radiation storms and the like? Highly unlikely. City Center got rocked, not the whole planet. Even ground burst fallout from such a "miniscule" nuclear device (Can such a word even be used to describe a nuclear device? Hmm...) would have largely dispersed after such a long period of time . Is this to say that there isn't a possibility of mildly radioactive material still falling out of the jet stream on occasion? Absolutely not. Acid rain? We already have it...to a degree. But heavy industrial pollution is more to blame than nukes (Though I don't believe that these could have helped the situation either.). As for EMP and electrical interference? Localized , at best...or if any at all.