activated one of the upgrade station, instant death?

you know those upgrade stations you sometimes find on the surface? they look like large rotating pixel canisters that you press "e" on to activate and get a temporary boost?

Just tried to open one, and I just instantly died. Is that sometimes supposed to happen? Or is it a new bug?

 

They have a chance of either causing a buff or debuff, but from my experience the debuffs are an instant kill. I don't even bother opening them anymore.

 

It's supposed to happen. They either give you a very short duration, mostly pointless buff, or they outright kill you. Don't use them.

 

You can get healed, glow, jump boost, speed boost, poisoned, burned or die.

poison and dying are the worst and most common in my experience.

 

I think its supposed to happen, but yeah they should take that out. Its pretty annoying.

 

It's a random effect. It's happened to me a few times before the patch and once after the patch so far.

I tried hitting e from far away but it still got me with a huge poison explosion.

 

This has happened to me since launch and the main reason I don't even touch them any more. Too much potential to die if I'm far along. And, yes, every single one I've touched has killed me. I'm just that lucky.

 

Aye, removes their relevance if everyone avoids them - the chance for instant death needs to be replaced with severe damage at the very least - if not completely removed.

 

And even if they have anything its usually only a few pixels. Not really worth the risk as far as I can tell.

Edit: forgot the buffs. I've only gotten a buff once and it was super jump. Kinda fun.

 

I almost think that they are firing their effects several times. Have you noticed the noise they make is several orders of magnitude louder than basically any other sound effect in the game? That might explain why the "direct damage trap" mode of them obliterates you, because you get caught in several small damage effects that, when combined, add up to one big, fat death.

 

Wow... Didn't know they can kill you. I have to destroy them now.

 

Before the patch i got set on fire a few times, but just DOT effect.,After the patch i get oneshot by a poison trap as often as i get a useless buff.

 

I usually get the jump boost, especially when there's no jumping to be done, or the speed boost in tight caves. I've died once and been poisoned once so far.

 

You are probably right actually. I had a similar problem when three identical monsters were on the same spot without me noticing. They all shot blood vomit at the same time and one shot me. Maybe it should give you 0.2 seconds of invulnerability when you get hit, like a lot of other games.

 

A method I use in opening them, I got from Reddit

Stay as far as possible from them, but still in the range where you can open them, then open it and run away. If a colored gas comes out, run into it, those are buffs.

 

So far, any buffs I have found in them are not enough to outweigh the risk.

 

Well there's already a mercy invincibility present, but I don't know if it copes correctly with multiple simultaneous damage events.

 

You usually take no damage at all, if the capsule contains a debuff and you do it right.

 

One of the developers has said that the insta-kill is a bug that's not supposed to happen. Will be fixed eventually.

 

I am guessing the instant death being common is not a planned feature.