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
* 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.
Refactored hitby to be in line with TG's version.
Refactored item weight defines to a more clear naming scheme, also in
line with TG's version.
Refactored how the movement bumps are handled, ported signals to handle
them, in preparation for the movement update.
Fixed disposal hit bouncing the hitting atom on the wall.
Items do not push other items anymore if they are tiny.
* SDQL2 update
* fix that verb
* cl
* fix that
* toworld
* this is pointless
* update info
* siiiiick..
* vv edit update
* fix that
* fix editing vars
* fix VV
* Port the /TG/ globals controller.
* part 1
* part 2
* oops
* part 3
* Hollow Purple
* sadas
* bsbsdb
* muda na agaki ta
* ids 1-15
* 16-31
* 41-75
* bring me back to how things used to be before i lost it all
* the strength of mayhem
* final touches
* cl
* protect some vars
* update sdql2 to use glob
* stuff?
* forgot that is not defined there
* whoops
* observ
* but it never gets better
* a
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Co-authored-by: Matt Atlas <liermattia@gmail.com>
I want mining to be able to find some unique, powerful kinetic accelerators while out on the dig. Most of these are pretty high tier (Class B to S, or BS for short) and should be great finds for miners.
I also made it so that you can only pump the assemblies if you have two hands, and some kinetic accelerators are just too heavy to fire with one hand.
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.
Fixes a mining borg issue caused by an old bug, fixes processing for the uranium charger, adds a new cyborg kinetic accelerator that uses cyborg battery charge.
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.
VMSolidus