Ash storms

[Amelius]

Someone made ash storms impenetrable (you can't see at all, instead of partial transperency), thereby making specialty mining equipment that you can find that allows you to walk around in a storm 100% useless and making it impossible to survive being caught outside in an ash storm, especially in combat. Fucking. Why?

They're also ridiculously common and last too long, forcing you to literally just sit in a pod doing absolutely nothing for ~5 minutes.

[lzimann]

I can see in ash storms just fine...

[Alipheese]

Don't know why but your op has angered me.
Its fine, check your settings and stuff. And 5 minutes is a huge exaggeration. As it starts. Sleep. Then when you wake up eat a donk and its over. Thats like 2 minutes tops. Also easy as all hell to survive blind. Ive had no issue as a vet mining my blind self to gulag to escape from lavaland. Git gud.

[TechnoAlchemist]

Ash storms are not even five minutes. And visibility is supposed to be reduced in the storm, it's an ash storm.

[Amelius]

Nevermind, it seems like it was a bug. Closing BYOND and restarting seemed to fix it. /thread.

Odd one though.

[onleavedontatme]

Timers might be a bit off seeing as storms got moved from a machine using process() to its own subsystem.

[Bombadil]

Sometimes ash storms do seem really long