It’s not that they are slow, they don’t count up anymore. 8 was replaced with 16, then with 24 and so on when placing blocks. Now they all just scroll through at snails pace.
@vdragon I think there’s a bug with the scrolling combat text. When you quickly place blocks, the used up energy is no longer added up but every block is shown individually as a red “8”. Before the patch it would, if I remember correctly, add up and get bigger and bigger font (like, 8, 16, 24, 32, …).
The drawback of the current system is that it lags way behind and e.g. building under water means you get the violet “you’re drowning” text while you’re long back in the air.
I was on raxxa using my liquid harvest tool underwater to see if by using that tool, I could avoid drowning.
Well, when you collect the water, your air meter does go up very slightly. But…even if you have most of your air left from doing that, you still start to drown.
I’ll snap a pic and send it in a second