Game mode: Online official Type of issue: Bug Server type: PvP Region: All
[Describe the bug here]
Being naked provides better protection against heat/cold compared to clothing, this makes no sense. All clothing is better than being naked in cold/hot areas, for hot areas the thought of having only certain type of clothes be usefull for warm resistance could hold up, but still questionable, but for a cold area the only exception would be a full plate armor with no padding. Seeing as theres full metal armor with both cold and heat resistance there seems no consensus whatsoever.
At least follow normal common sense and make wearing the wrong clothes not have a detrimental effect compared to being naked.
Being naked provides better protection against heat/cold compared to clothing ā¦
I canāt confirm. Wearing cold resistance armor protects you better from the cold than being naked. Wearing heat resistance armor protects you better from the heat than being naked.
If you go in the desert with your snowboarding jacket, you will die from a heatstroke.
If you go snowboarding in your beach bikini, you will freeze to death.
If you are in an area which is neither too hot, nor too cold, then mix and match the armor pieces e.g. 2 darfari + 3 zingaran or sth like this.
āIf you go snowboarding in your beach bikini, you will freeze to deathā you will freeze even if you are naked.
So it makes no sense that while in the cold I get frostbite while wearing full aquilonian but only extremely cold when naked.
lol, mate. ok forget the bikini, wear full steel armor while snowboarding or anything which is meant to keep you cool, cooler than the outside temperature which is already very low ā¦
I must say, I agree with @muppeteer in some biomes and do run without armor. What follows is just my hypothesis from experience, nothing more.
[Hypothesis]
As you go from no armor, to basic, to flawless, to epic, then to epic flawless, the āacceptableā temperature band narrows. In other words, better armor means you can accommodate less temperature deviations.
[Experience]
The mounds of the dead, for example, gives me neither getting colder or getting warmer without armor (more precisely, the temperature effect), unless some other factor comes into play. Drinking from a stream or purified water will get me to cold in some areas.
[Hypothesis]
Armor temperature values do not act as an insulator, but an additive value in the opposite direction. Cold protection is actually adding heat. Heat protection is actually adding cold. Itās similar to the difference between insulating your home from the outside heat and continuously running the air conditioning. As an aside, it does make sense from a programming perspective.
TLDR: We need the armor temperature values in extreme climates, i.e. the volcano and the snow biome, but not in between.
Yes, indeed, heat protection armor does not really insulate you from heat, instead it cools you actively down. And therefore is dangerous in cold areas.
It is just the other way around with cold protection armor, it heats you actively up.
I have no idea why this way to simulate temperature protection was chosen, but it makes being naked better than wearing the wrong armor, which seems counterintuitive, as the OP mentions.
get your self into a wool sweater and a wool over coat, long underwear, jeans, a toque and gloves. Now Go stand in Phoenix in June. Being Naked will be better than wearing cold weather gear.
Why Nordheimer Medium Armor is good against heat instead of cold right now is what confuses me.
Now the reverse. Put yourself in some clothing that pulls heat away from your body while not being insulated . Then go into the coldā¦ you get frozen fast and you would rather be naked. So yes sometimes being naked is better.
It doesnāt always make sense though. As it is a flawed game in many many many aspects. sadly where it shines it shines really well. Which is why Funcom gets away with Bethesdaing things up so often.