Make Eruptions feel more urgent.#1216

I have some ideas to make the player feel more urgent during an eruption.

First of all, make the eruption warning start are 30 seconds till the eruption. The Minute long wait where you cant do any quests is way to long imo.

T-Minus 30 Seconds till eruption: Sirens begin to blare and they keep blaring until the eruption happens. The ground also begins to have severe tremors that can make the player trip (schooch a bit in a random direction).

T-Minus 20 Seconds till eruption: The Tremors begin to worsen and you are able to see that there is little streams of lava coming out of the top of the volcano.

T-Minus 10 Seconds: More lava streams out of the volcano and the music from the main menu begins to play. Also the tremors reach their worse.

Eruption: Massive amounts of lava shoot out of the volcano and buckets of it are flung everywhere across the entire island leaving bits of lava all across the ground along with the shock wave that’s already in the game. The music also stops.

Post-Eruption: It stays like it is now except now there are bits of lava everywhere that eventually disapear. Once the player opens the door and sees what the eruption has done, another music track that fits the atmosphere at that point is played.

Thank you for reading.

i feel like T-Minus 10 seconds should have its own “end times” kind of music that would give the same emotion as end times in outer wilds but not as intensive since its not a garunteened death

Well, the quests only stop giving you instructions. You can still do whatever you want.
But I agree, more effects would be awesome for the eruption. This kind of relates to #67.

Might get a rock thrown at me for this but, I would like there to be variation in eruption frequency, and only show a timer when an imminent eruption is detected, 5 to 10 minute warning maybe? We should have no way of knowing when the next eruption happens until it becomes more obvious it will be soon (and you would think the frequency would be reduced as you progress, even if only slightly).

While I agree that eruptions should maybe feel more urgent, I actually disagree with the idea of shortening the time before the alarm goes off. The alarm is supposed to be your advanced warning. Even 1 minute feels late to me, but 30 secs is your “it’s too late, kiss them checks goodbye if you’re not already moving” marker as it takes some time for your drillship to pack and dive.

@Ourgrid, this actually sounds neat as an optional difficulty setting.