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[Reaction time/durability/strength]
Blizzard doesn’t come close.
Hurricane misses the mark. Wind
tunnel might catch the nuts and
bolts, but it can’t convey the gut feeling
I don’t know if anything can.
The spire breathes you in and for
the merest instant it almost seems
calm: The walls are a blur but
there’s no resistance as long as you
just go with the flow. Then you
reach out for a handhold, grab on
to the first thing that hits your
fingers, and the wind slams down
on you like a mountain at Mach Two.
I’d have never even made the
catch without the suit; my fingers
would have ripped right off my
hand. If I had made the catch, I’d
never have held on; I would have
left my arm hanging against the
wall while the rest of me slammed
down into—
Crysis: Legion, ERECTION
[Spire wind resistance
The spore blasts down, around, past me like a
storm of needles, like ball bearings
from a railgun. BUD strafes my
visual cortex with yellow-coded
updates on epidermal integrity and
maximum armor settings but it’s all
just talk; the suit’s abrading around
me like a heat shield on reentry.
Crysis: Legion, ERECTION
[Spore tower wind resistance]
I try to bring it (a L-TAG) up but the wind
resistance is too great; the most I
can do is aim down and off-center,
toward the wall of the shaft.
Crysis: Legion, ERECTION
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