You actually don't have to simply jump into the abyss and hope to survive. If you jump into a wall and hug it as you go down, you slide slower and won't break most of the bones in your body. Saying this, I still manage to do so and make myself feel terrible frequently-- I love these poor critters already.
you know what? youre right. I didnt know you could build with scrap metal and honestly the walljumping can get you pretty far, at this point all my complaints would basically boil down to the fact that this is a prototype and the game is nowhere near finished, in fact it almost feels like i would be wasting my breath pointing them out except to catalogue them, i think certain things such as durability should last longer, and maybe its a feature and not a bug but runs are very luck based. its hard to tell what level of hopelessness is intended, given that the whole point is that the mission is impossible and a horribly miserable death is inevitable, but im sure the game will become more fleshed out eventually!