This PR reworks the controls for Mechs to now operate under
"Battletech-Style" controls. Where the W and S keys are instead Forward
and Reverse, while A and D are turn-left and turn-right respectively.
This control scheme is generally significantly more playable for mechs,
since mechs can only interact with objects or fire weapons in a
forward-facing arc. Mechs were previously incapable of both
repositioning and fighting at the same time, while with this update a
mech can now face an enemy, fire upon them, and either move closer to
them or further away.
Mechs also now have reverse speed characteristics based on their chassis
selection. Bipedal legs generally have the worst reverse speed. Quad
legs have significantly better reverse handling, and Treads have no
reverse speed reduction at all (with the fun caveat that they suck at
turning).
I have also fixed the issue of mechs feeling like they were "too easy to
mobility kill". It turned out that mechs were hardcoded to be mobility
killed when they took only 45 points of damage, regardless of how tough
their legs were. I have reworked this to instead be a linear decrease in
movement speed, based on the damage taken ratio of the legs. Larger and
tougher legs are naturally more resistant to being impeded by mobility
damage.
I have actually tested this PR, here's it in action! NOW WITH STRAFING
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/3123fed8-ec22-4118-8a6a-7cbfe45e6667
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Signed-off-by: VMSolidus <evilexecutive@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Cody Brittain <1779662+Generalcamo@users.noreply.github.com>
This PR is something me and NobleRow have been cooking behind the scenes
with the goal of adding new Xenoarch content that fits two objectives.
1. Providing cross-department cooperation opportunities (Machinists and
Medical)
2. Making use of content entirely unique to Aurora, such as our recently
refactored organs.
So I've added several new and exciting xenoarch "finds" that relate to
Medical and Machinists, as well as several new parts for Machinists to
work with. On the xenoarch side of things, we have the new "anomalous"
heart and lung items, which you can study by calling over a surgeon to
implant into your free choice of a monkey, or a particularly
enthusiastic human volunteer. There are also two new "anomalous" mech
components, one of them an anomalous drone bay, and the other an
anomalous power core. To study them, call a machinist over and have them
make a mech for you to experiment with.
The new xenoarch "finds" each feature heavily rng stat modifiers that
are unique to the objects in question, and make use of a very large
number of variables that I had previously worked to unhardcode.
I had a batch of sprites done by NobleRow, and I was adding new mech
equipment in this PR, so while we were at it, I've added a new LTL
variant of the mech submachine gun, as well as a new light variant of
the mech-mounted KA, which was highly requested by both miners and
xenoarch players on account of the 9 tile blast radius KA being "Not
always good to have".
All of the sprites in this PR were made by @NobleRow
This PR significantly rebalances the construction costs and times of the
"Mech" side of the machine shop in order to break up the "Light mech
hoverthruster meta" that has been severely prevalent. In general steel
usage for many things is going down, in exchange for using aluminium by
the same amount. Lead is being introduced as the material to use for
"Anything that gives you radiation protection", and most hardsuits and
some mech armors now call for its use.
The biggest thing to be rebalanced are the Hoverthrusters. Imagine my
surprise when I discover that not only were the hoverthrusters insanely
cheap, they also had the lowest power draw of any mech chassis in the
game, which meant that if you used them with the self-recharging power
cells, you essentially had infinite power and full flight.
Hoverthrusters of both kinds are being changed to require rare
materials. So I significantly increased the power draw for
hoverthrusters(For god's sake they let the mech fly at high speed,
they're the exact opposite of low power). As a small concession, the
health for the light thrusters is increased slightly.
Finally, to help encourage more experimenting with lesser-used mech
chassis, I removed the tech requirements for the quadruped chassis,
allowing Machinists to experiment with trying out different, "Less
ideal" mech designs.
* Added an exosuit compatible ore summoner, capable of pulling ore
directly into an ore box held within the exosuit's clamp. Machinists can
print them at the cost of steel and glass, and the mining mech dropped
from the dropper comes with it equipped.
* 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.
This is a remap of the TCAF Corvette offship, intended to be more
intuitive than the current one.
**This is up for review.**
Notes:
1. The combustion engine isn't the only source of power in the ship,
there's also a portable generator that should be able to produce enough
to keep the ship going.
2. This adds a few clothing and overmap sprites for use in the
ghostrole, credit to Noble for them, and it also consolidates a few of
the existing TCAF assets into a single faction file. It isn't
comprehensive, but it's more organised than it was.
3. The armoury has been diversified a little. It's now composed of two
blaster rifles, one bolt slinger, one combat laser rifle, one pump
shotgun, and one burst rifle, plus the PEAC and six blaster revolvers as
sidearms. The primary intention of the combat laser rifle, pump shotgun,
and burst rifle is to provide a little AP which blasters universally
badly lack, so the ghostrole should be decently competitive against
armour. My hope is it should be roughly as strong as the Coalition
Ranger ship in combat.
4. I'm not totally happy with the hangar, but I'm not satisfied with any
of the docking port designs I've been able to think of, so I'm running
with it for now. I do believe a docking port is generally preferable.
5. Per Trio, species restrictions are tightened a bit on the Decurion to
only cover humans, Skrell, IPCs, and Vaurca Warriors. Liable to be
changed. Vaurca workers have also been excluded from every combatant
ghostrole, playable only as technicians. I'll be prodding at adding
bulwarks too, but they're not currently included due to some fickleness
with giving them appropriate uniforms.
6. The sensors are the strong variant for the shuttle and ship, with the
idea that it should be particularly good at reconnaissance. I doubt
anyone would use the shuttle to scout the sector, but the sensors are
good to throw a bone in that direction.
Premade exosuits weren't spawning with power cores, which meant that
mapped-in mechs off the Horizon were effectively unusable. All premade
mechs will now spawn with an appropriate power core.
* Added power cores, a type of large battery cell that get used by
exosuits. The nuclear and phoron variants are self-charging.
* Combat mechs now start with nuclear power cores, allowing them to
sustain themselves indefinitely, so long as they stay out of the action
for a bit.
* Removed basic power cells from the mechfab, replaced with the mech
powercores.
* Mech cell statuses now instantly update as soon as the cell charges or
discharges.
* Added a stack of 10 uranium to the machinist's workshop, which can
print two nuclear power cores.
Mech ballistic and laser armor has been buffed, allowing them to function for longer in firefights. Combat armor melee armor has also been buffed.
Fixed analyzing mechs not giving the correct integrity values.
Fixes mech mounted autolathes.
Adds a hand-mounted toolset that has: a wrench, a crowbar, and a screwdriver setting.
Replaces the AI mech's drill with a hand-mounted toolset.
I need icon and on-mech sprites for the back-mounted autolathe and the hand-mounted toolset. Neither have to have any special animations or anything, static images are fine. Toolset sprite doesn't have to change with tool change.
The AI can now remotely control mechs in its network. It has one mapped in near its core.
Messages received by your old body will now reach your VR body (does not affect Skrell Srom).
Exosuit pilots can now interact with elevator panels without having to get out.
Robotics and RnD can now create remote controlled mechs. The control centre is in the protolathe, while the exosuit upgrade is in the circuit imprinter.
Mechs can no longer be dismantled if it has a pilot in it.
Dismantling a mech now takes a while.
Ports Baystation12/Baystation12#19992 and Baystation12/Baystation12#27266.
Added a personal shield device to the traitor tools uplink.
Added a radiant shielding aura spell to Battlemage and Cleric.
Added an exosuit shield drone to the mechfab.
This works, but I'm not entirely happy with the sprites. The personal shield has no on-mob shimmer, it uses a mindbatterer grenade as an icon sprite. The wizard radiant spell uses a pretty big and janky sprite as an on-mob, and the exosuit's shield sprite doesn't follow the dir the mech faces, but that one I can maybe fix on my own. If anyone knows about that last one, lemme know, Bay had code for it that we do not.
Redoes how mechs assign their bodyparts and hardpoints. Should be much easier to make new mechs now, mechs can also now handle having children. Bless.
Created the backbone for having a mounted autolathe, however it needs a mech_equipment sprite, and a new GUI, which isn't something I'm capable of doing.
Walking over someone lying on the floor with mechs will now hurt them. Damage is based on the legs.
Also, removed some baylore references to the mech parts, and made so that mechs can push mobs around.
VMSolidus