Jetpack without dampeners more powerful than hydrogen boost
After some small tests I have confirmed an imbalance with the jetpack and its acceleration when dampeners are off.
To go into detail when you use the hydrogen boost it consumes a substantial amount of hydrogen, The Ion thruster consumes a small amount of energy for 20 m/s stable flight. When you disengage dampeners in space you can angle yourself at a 45 degree angle in one or two directions and achieve the same if not more thrust than the hydrogen boost. A more important note is that energy consumption stays minimal if not the same as basic flying. On planets, disengaging dampeners while pressing space allows you to glide around at a decent rate nothing crazy but when you accelerate you can use gravity and ion thrust to accelerate around as fast as hydrogen. Adding the angling trick could get faster to hydrogen boosting again with little impact of energy usage which I will admit there is an impact but its little to none.
The issue is this is it makes the hydrogen boost redundant and not make fundamental sense. on the planet ion thrusts delta v is so overpowered that no calculations need to be made. On a planet ion can get you up to 300 m/s while only using 3% of the suits battery while having faster acceleration than the boost. Meanwhile hydrogen boost on the return trip leaves me with 15-25% remaining while barely hitting 300 m/s before reaching the point I left from. This clearly indicates an imbalance in fuel usage and energy usage this makes the hydrogen boost redundant.
The only things that I can think of that would mediate this is an increase to energy usage with ion while dampeners are off, increased fuel efficiency on the hydrogen boost, and/or lower the max thrust of all directions except upward thrust and forward thrust when dampeners are off. A thing though for planets, there should be air resistance, and when you fly faster you should accelerate slower because of it.
Thats all
I have the same bug
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