* Added an exosuit compatible kinetic accelerator, capable of clearing
vast swathes of mineable walls. Machinists can print them at a steep
steel cost, and the mining mech dropped from the dropper comes with it
equipped.
Just a couple small number changes to make mining with pickaxes and drills more viable and decrease the number of credits earned from selling materials. The idea here is to have more send to science and decrease the overall amount of credits spend on guns, or at least require a head of staff to pitch in with their department funds.
Fixed library books spawning outside of shelves.
Fixed kinetic accelerators displaying an error when equipped on the waist.
Balances kinetic accelerator research to prevent easy research exploit. Balances traitor kinetic accelerator to be less powerful.
Tweaked the new library to be more aesthetically pleasing. (Changes all the light chairs to dark chairs, and makes all the plastic tables wood.)
Removed empty mediwall from the command section of the shuttle.
Removed floating light near departures and on the shuttle.
Removed pointless holopad on the evac shuttle.
This is honestly one of my biggest and most ambitious projects. I hope people are happy with this.
Custom kinetic accelerators are special, customizable mining weapons that are meant to give a sense of progression, and a sense of pride and accomplishment while mining. Each custom KA is made up of 3 or 4 parts:
The Frame (5 to choose from)
The Cell (5 to choose from, +1 traitor)
The Barrel (5 to choose from, +1 traitor)
The Upgrade Chip (7 to choose from, +1 traitor)
The sprites change with each addon, they are truly dynamic and there are so many combinations of parts that a miner can have. You can have several different builds for each desired mining style, it's quite a robust system.
You can have a KA that shoots slowly, but delivers high-penetrating shots that go through several walls of rock. You can have a KA that shoots REALLY fast, but precisely destroys 1 rock at a time. You can have an absolute canon of a beast, that destroys rocks in a 3 tile radius around it.
The parts can be obtained via research, via abandoned crates, or via RNG in the cargo warehouse. There are some custom KAs that spawn on the raider's ship, on the mercs ship, and a laser one on the merc's headquarters. That laser one can also be bought from the traitor uplink as well.
ERT get a class 4 KA for use in special operations, if they choose to use it.
Geeves