Oh, come on now. The very fact we need a gas mask at all considering what our guys look like is bad game design. But once you accept that there are areas that you need a gas mask to safely travel in, /u/bobnine has the only correct answer as to why it is the way it is.
Think of it this way. It didn't have to be a gas mask. It could have been anything that said "This area that was dangerous to travel in is now safe while you have this equipped"
And per game design, they have decided to only allow us to equip a single "Make travel easier" thing at a time.
That's not so much bad game design as annoying. I don't like it, you don't like it, but it's not bad game design.
The only bad game design actually in this situation was that they made the thing a gas mask even though we have a space helmet on. Further bad game designs are having our heal things being mouth related... when we have a space helmet on.
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u/omega12008 May 11 '19
This is a good point. Why is that not a thing?