What's the point of the building atmosphere console ?

[Angus McSix]

has anyone tested if the oxygen in their helmets runs out if you activate it and wait ~20 mins in your ship?

I've never tested it, but I think it is safe to assume that their helmets will never run out of oxygen, just like their shields never run out of energy.

Besides, I'm not waiting 20 minutes to test that, either. Especially not when it takes me about five hours to do a batch of 10 or so missions for BGS/Odyssey grind.

 

[Northpin]

I've never tested it, but I think it is safe to assume that their helmets will never run out of oxygen, just like their shields never run out of energy.

This looks like the same misinformed opinion like: npc grunts don't run out of grenades or npc ships dont run out of chaff or scb

 

[zimms]

For what it's worth, I think on foot NPCs will indeed never run out of suit energy and therefore oxygen. I seem to remember Frontier saying so.

 

[Helmut Grokenberger]

For what it's worth, I think on foot NPCs will indeed never run out of suit energy and therefore oxygen. I seem to remember Frontier saying so.

This cries for an experiment; take a settlement offline (steal the regulator) and then sit on a roof or some other perch and wait for the NPCs to drop dead. Might need to bring a good supply of energy cells yourself.

 

[zimms]

Instructions unclear - waiting forever...

edit: Instead, I tried a different approach.

Q: Will Oxygen levels affect NPCs?
AI will not be affected by Oxygen levels the same way a player is.

Source: Elite Dangerous: Odyssey Q&A - Interface and NPCs
That Q&A also seems to suggest NPCs have an infinite number of batteries.

 

[metatheurgist]

This cries for an experiment; take a settlement offline (steal the regulator) and then sit on a roof or some other perch and wait for the NPCs to drop dead. Might need to bring a good supply of energy cells yourself.

The one guy trapped in a wall or silo or underground at a CZ that never dies or stops shooting kinda says it's true. And I've spent a loooot of time trying to kill that one guy....

 

[Helmut Grokenberger]

The one guy trapped in a wall or silo or underground at a CZ that never dies or stops shooting kinda says it's true. And I've spent a loooot of time trying to kill that one guy....

yeah but that guy being bugged out in the first place tainted the clean environment of the experiment .

 

[Northpin]

The one guy trapped in a wall or silo or underground at a CZ that never dies or stops shooting kinda says it's true. And I've spent a loooot of time trying to kill that one guy....

I remember getting one of those.
However it succumbed to a barrage of dumbfires after i tried to get him with grenades but failed

The only case i remember of forever* shields - was the target of an assassination mission, where the target is a skilled combatant - aka a guard with shields up in the upper floor of the CMD building, right in the CMD room.



* where forever meant about 10-15 minutes, timer ended with the npc losing shields to my Tormentor after i get bored waiting for a clean shot