Talk:Blowout/@comment-40140969-20190714100615

Found an interesting pattern about the violent emissions and implemented a way to avoid them. I guess this could count as a spoiler so I'm leaving this warning here, at the beginning.

Now, the first time I got caught in a small building by a blowout (the actual raw and furious energy discharge, not the "lighting" psi-storm), the damn thing terrified me. Great implementation, mood and atmosphere. For a second I thought the whole damn game-world is going to get torn apart or something. So I thought to myself... never again.

So I started writing down the blowout times and observed a somewhat recurring pattern of 1.5 - 1.75 - 2 days between the blowouts (emission types are random, either psi or energy discharge). Example, if a blowout occurs today, at 08:00 AM, the next blowout is very likely to occur tomorrow, around the afternoon (15:00 - 16:00). So, you get AT LEAST 24 hours of safe weather that can be used. With this in mind, I calculate my missions so that I always go into new territory or long walks right after a blowout or as soon as the fog clears.

I also write in my savegame file names a short suffix to remember how much time after the blowout has passed so that I remember the situation, next time I'm loading a game. I haven't been caught in another random emission ever since.

Of course, you still need to be extremely careful as the occurence times are pretty random, even within this pattern. Expect variations of + / - 3 to 5 ingame hours, afaik.

Good hunting, stalkers!