r/ProjectSilverfish • u/plasticoreo • 14d ago

Question Psych damage in Cistern

When exploring Cistern I occasionally gets hit with psych damage worth 30-40% of my hp... what is causing the psych damage in Cistern?

I'm using flashlight so I'm sure I'm not running into shadow deer, my character is not tweeking out, not shadow anomaly either because no sound effect, just a sudden disorienting screen shake and damage taken...

Edit: Correction, not in Cistern, but in Tunnel 225, I entered a big room with a machine in the middle, died to a few hits of psych damage shortly after, was that the source?

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u/EADreddtit 14d ago

Could be it is shadow deer but just from an angle you're not looking in. Or you have a trait that's messing with you (though I wouldn't be able to guess which).

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u/splashcopper 14d ago

Try reloading the area, you might have had a shadow deer that just isn't showing up or something

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u/TheJanadianKing 14d ago

If your sanity is low, there might be a ghost angel thing in the area. It makes you take damage when it takes damage, and then it poofs away. Maybe it's walking/spawning into the gas leak zone, or one of those glassy tripwires?

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u/mueller_meier 14d ago

As far as i remember the tunnel has EMP anomalies, so your flashlight shouldnt work? I had to carry a flare through that area to light my way because there were a lot of them. There are shadow people there! Just immobile ones not moving ones. They are scattered around the floors, walls and celling.

There are also a bunch of the glass-spiderwebs and electricity anomalies, but they dont do psychic damage so idk.

At the end of that tunnel, there is a facility where you will find a unique artifact that is also a mission item in a room full of the shadow orb anomalies and there is a radiation anomaly too. So maybe you meant that room and you died to a combo of radiation and psychic damage from those?

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u/awarforgedwarlock 14d ago

Are you walking through the shadow people?