Cataclysm-dda: Letting an emp grenade explode in your hands is harmless

Created on 5 Jul 2020 · 4Comments · Source: CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA

Describe the bug

Activating an EMP grenade in your hand and letting it explode is completely harmless, even if you have cbms installed.

Steps To Reproduce

Find or spawn an EMP grenade
Wield the EMP grenade
Activate the EMP grenade and wait until it explodes while you are wielding it.

Expected behavior

EMP grenade hurts me in some way.

Screenshots

None.

Versions and configuration

OS: Windows
- OS Version: MINGW/CYGWIN/MSYS2 Windows 7 Professional Version 6.1 Service Pack 1
Game Version: 0.E-3726-g8aaf68f [64-bit]
Graphics Version: Tiles
Game Language: System language []
Mods loaded: [
Dark Days Ahead [dda],
Disable NPC Needs [no_npc_food],
Mythical Martial Arts [MMA],
Graphical Overmap [Graphical_Overmap],
Stats Through Skills [StatsThroughSkills],
Stats Through Kills [stats_through_kills],
SpeedyDex [speedydex]
]

Additional context

None.

<Bug> Good First Issue Items / Item Actions / Item Qualities [C++]

Source

Rjtheperson

Most helpful comment

Bare minimum: there needs to be some impact from having an EMP go off in your vicinity, if you have installed bionics.

further: we need a better notion of exactly how the sci-fi EMP grenade is meant to function. The EMP bomb has a theory of operation that is pretty well understood (being based off of real-world devices), and that results in "conventional explosion with larger EMP radius"

if the sci-fi emp grenade is not in some fashion using a conventional explosive, there should be an explanation for how it functions. personally, i would expect some kind of damaging electrical consequence while it's in your inventory if it isn't a boom-bearing object.

If it is a boom-bearing object, we could treat it as a really weak/crappy frag grenade. (probably harmless a couple tiles away, likely to be mildly harmful a tile away if you aren't wearing heavy clothes or armor, bad bad news in your hand/inventory)

esotericist on 5 Jul 2020

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Bare minimum: there needs to be some impact from having an EMP go off in your vicinity, if you have installed bionics.

esotericist on 5 Jul 2020

👍2

I remember throwing one of the variants of this bomb/grenade at the turrets and then I got heavily irradiated, because I was near the explosion. Then they patched showing you how irradiated you are, so you won't notice side-affects immediately.