[Suggestion] Fish Poison - Suggested Changes

5 votes

I can't be the only one who is frustrated by piranhas and the poison debuff.

I'm fine with the poison debuff being in the game. I even get the idea of it stacking. Here are my problems with the current poison mechanics:

The poison effect lasts way too long. The duration needs to be reduced, and honestly the damage should probably be increased to make it actually be a danger, rather than just be a petty annoyance.

The damage "flicker" on the screen each time you take a tick of poison damage is really frustrating because it makes it look like you're taking damage from yet another angry fish that you haven't spotted. The poison damage flicker should be green instead of red, to differentiate the source of the damage and not make you constantly spin in circles looking for fanged guppies.

Under consideration AI Suggested by: Match (13 Oct, '21) • Upvoted: 20 Jan, '23 • Comments: 5

Comments: 5

18 Oct, '21
Virkful
I find fish poison just fine, the same with cave issues, it's annoying, but it ain't Earth, so we get weird illness due to foreign land.
23 Oct, '21
Flambo
Virkful, the issue described by OP is that the fish poison is only annoying from a QoL standpoint. from a difficulty standpoint it may as well not exist.

bonus: if you have the talent that triggers stamina regeneration when you take damage, fish poison becomes a buff.
27 Oct, '21
spleen Merged
When swimming in a lake these little fish that poison you are a bit too over the top aggressive. This lead to me fishing with an AXE and i didnt even have to move. the fish came at me so much so often i literally had only to sit in the edge of the lake and smack fish and had two full stacks of raw fish in a matter of minutes. the fish delivered themselves. maybe dial it back a tad?
27 Oct, '21
Elissa - Producer Admin
"poison fish in lakes a little excessive" (suggested by spleen on 2021-10-27), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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20 Jan, '23
Baluka
The poisoning istn't really the pushy thing... it's the aggressive behaviour... the worst thing about it is that the poison stacks to infinity...
Sometimes the timer is done and the poison icon is still there and poisoning keeps going, you have to die for it to vanish.
Really annoying bugs, also since early access and nothing has been done.