A question about Tau 23

[Antonio]

It’s not “just a dialogue offset” that “we only now discovered”. The system has radiation defined in its vanilla game files and it is there at all times, including after you finish the campaign.

Tau-23 radiation always was, and continues to be, ambient radiation. It’s there to tell a story of Tau-23’s lore from the systems’s discovery up until now. It does next to no damage to players, which is why I’m surprised you raise this concern without even testing ingame how much damage it does to you.

When Tau-23 rework was being discussed, the entire point was to make the system higher quality by properly representing it ingame and giving it more flavor based on its centuries long lore. Ambient radiation in Tau-23 is something we consider the default state and bringing it back for all intents and purposes is nothing more than a bugfix.

And yes, every star emits radiation. Freelancer does not have additional radiation damage for every star out there so we can safely assume that those which do emit radiation have radiation emission levels high enough for the developers to deem worthy of showing, and add to the system’s lore.

What it definitely does not do is deprive anyone or anything of player interaction. Not with such mild damage numbers where you can sit for hours before you see any meaningful effect. But even if it did, as a counterpoint Ames used to be an activity hub before the Kepler disaster and most of the system had non negligible amounts of radiation damage for snubs.

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