The Cold Hazard makes little sense and that's the reason...

I agree that cold hazard and even heat hazard in ME:A make little sense, considering the technological advancement in ME universe. A good internal heater with low thermal conductivity materials would work well in those low temperatures.

Regarding the freezing of water, water freezing at around ~4C is possible but unlikely. We can take a look at water phase diagram:


We can see that above 632 MPa, the freezing point increases to above 0C very quickly. But pressure above 632 MPa is very incredibly unlikely to occur on Voeld's atmosphere.

I'm pretty sure they have made othe tech advances too, lol. We can spacewalk in present day equipment. There is no reason to believe ME level armour couldn't insulate comfortably against -40C.

You do realise that temps on the moon fluctuate between about 180C and -100C? And yet we had no issue insulating/shielding a moon lander and its occupants in the 60s. But -40C is too much for the nomad and armour tech to handle over 200 years later? Not buying that.

I accept it as an interesting gameplay element, but let's not pretend it's completely logical.

Here's another reference point considering Nomad & its viability in 'hazards'. -50C is an average T outside the aircraft flying 10 000 meters high. It's a common height for the civilian planes. Have in mind that the number is accurate for the summer time (the basic formula of the temperature drop is -6.5C per 1000m, +20C down here means -45C up there)

Civilian planes do that every fucking day, with flights lasting for hours! And neither tech nor passengers experience any problems because (guess what?) aircrafts are built to endure the low temperatures and keep their passengers safe. We're not even talking about the military here - some of their planes are capable of flying well above the 10-11K mark.

Thank You very much

Honestly I was not trolling lol and I was trying to start a logical discussion. I did play ME1 and the Hazard mechanics were different. Also I mentioned the beginning of ME2 for a reason but it seems now trolls likes to do their things by accusing others of being trolls. Welcome to the new era lol

Thank You again for the support

Also thank you to everyone who posted constructive replies I didn't expected so many replies and I'll do my best to reply asap

That's what you get for trying to be scientific (temperatures down to hundreths of Celsius lol) and not bother with even a basic Wikipedia research. Nobody would have complained if the HUD just said "Environmental Hazard Level X", but no, they had to be specific. And they messed up.

It's a very minor thing, but I kinda hope they fix it in the patches to come.

"Sandisk SD cards are capable of withstanding operating temperatures from -13ºF (-25ºC) or 185ºF (85 ºC) for 100 cycles (equivalent to 28 hours)."

Maybe the Initiative should have made the Nomad out of Sandisk SD cards, especially for the extreme 50 degrees heat on Elaaden.

Yea, I amnaged to ignore the numbers but IMO, it would have been better to have more serious and less common every0day hazards that people can easily relate to in the first place.
For example, I think the radiation on Eos worked, didn't see anyone complaining about that. If Elaaden were a volcanic world like PeeBee's LM world instead of a desert, they could have changed the sinkholes to lava pools and thus have a believable navigation hazard (and it would have been a good idea for diversity's sake as well). Then they could either do away with the general environmental hazard on Elladen (at this point, I am so used to deal with it, it doesn't really add any great gameplay anyway) or add some super toxic/corrosive/hot ash particles to the air that would clog your suit.
On Voeld, there might have been an extremely strong and unstable magnetic field (you do see these huge auroras after all) that plays havoc with you suits systems after overloading protective shielding. Then, when you run out of life support, you don't loose health but you loose your HUD, your tech abilities and weapons won't work anymore. You know, something different.
How about a tidally locked planet where you explore the terminator zone, so there is heat hazard ramping up on one side of the map when you get to the sunny side but within mountain shadows you are fine? How about an asteroid within the scourge or with some eezo anomaly that warps space time with strong mass effect fields and overloads your barriers?
But generally, I'd rather go more for navigation hazards then these timer things (they really don't do much for me). How about exploring a moon, forming within a gas giants rings with constant asteroid impacts you need to avoid?

I really don't get why they had to go with heat and cold. It's so unimaginative.

That's kinda what I'm saying. Hardly anyone complained about it despite the fact that it's just as (or even more) stupid. Also, they could have just increased those numbers massively without much issue, while making e.g. Vould -500 degrees or Elaaden +500 degrees would have lead to whole lot of other very obvious problems. But radiation effects are not that clear to most people, so you can get away with more fictional leeway. Temperatures though, everyone can easily relate to.

A game made by Canadians who live in such climates should know that -40 isn't that bad. I always assumed that there was a bit more to it than the cold weather... I dunno.

I live in a city where temperature drops to -35°C or even -40°C in winter. And we don't drop dead in minutes like Ryder and co from cold, having warm clothes helps. Wind is another matter and it makes things much worse. Cars work too, you just need to warm up your car repeatedly if it stays outdoor at night, to buy winter tires, to have a good heater in your car.

Yeah, frost is half bad but frost coupled with strong wind is nasty. Anyway anoraks can help with that or drinking alcohol(just kidding).

I agree that cold hazard in ME1 was depicted much better.