changes:
rscadd: "Respawn timers are now tracked individually for playing as animals (mice), small synthetics (drones and pAIs) and crew (everything else). This means you can now play as a mouse or drone while waiting to respawn as a full crewmember.".
tweak: "You can now spawn as a drone immediately upon joining as an observer, without having to wait ten minutes. There is still a cooldown between respawning as a drone if you just died as one."
tweak: "Slightly improved the error messages if you try to respawn when you've not waited long enough."
In addition, unlisted changes:
The admin verb 'Allow player to respawn' now sets all three respawn timers
Respawn times are now centralised in setup #defines, for easier editing in future
Nonliving mobs will no longer attempt to ghost when deleted. A comment in mob.dm explains this change
This was done with three design goals in mind:
1. Making 'interesting' events more common, especially those that have a decent chance to affect the dynamic of a round, as well as making annoying/boring things a bit less common.
2. Giving people stuff to do when a department is overstaffed. All the combat things are more weighted towards security staff, and destructive things more weighted towards engineering. Many other events have had staff requirements removed or reduced
3. Evening out event selections, preventing certain things (like blobs and comms blackout) from being too common, and other things (like spiders, drones and meteors) from being so rare. Severe events especially should have a much more varied selection.
A PR for mice
Adds a resting animation, several new audio files, verbs to use them, and a variety of audio changes.
Also fixes a bug where speech_chance was set to zero while sleeping, but not set back when the mouse wakes up
Resolves#597
rscadd: "Non-wizards using wizard items may experience fun stuff."
tweak: "Mental focus damage level's have returned to old-code, to better compete with Mutate."
bugfix: "Mental focus staff has had its area of effect mode returned."
changes:
rscadd: "Added hunger and feeding system for simple animals, this includes cats, dogs, mice, lizards, chickens, cows, etc"
rscadd: "Animals can now actually consume food instead of nibbling them eternally."
rscadd: "Animals can now be hand-fed by using food on them."
rscadd: "Animals will move more slowly when starving. Examining an animal will show if its hungry."
Basically added a very simple metabolising system for animals, and fixed up various eating/feeding functions. They only metabolise food, any other reagents are just removed and ignored for now, since most chemicals were designed for carbon mobs and often aren't valid
Adds an extra janitor slot and some mapping work to support it, reworks the janicart a fair bit.
changes:
rscadd: "Increased number of janitor slots to two."
rscadd: "Janitorial carts can now be constructed with metal sheets, and deconstructed with a wrench, welder or plasmacutter if empty."
tweak: "Janicarts now come without a bucket. Click and drag a mop bucket onto a cart to mount it, and you can unmount it from the janicart interface."
tweak: "Placing a mop into a janicart, and pouring containers into the bucket, is now done with alt-click. A leftclick will now always wet the mop, and throw objects into the trashbag, respectively."
rscadd: "Janicarts can now be climbed over like tables - Click and drag your sprite onto it."
tweak: "Custodial closet's Spraycleaner, cleaning grenades, and spare lights, are now inside the janitorial locker instead of on table/floor."
tweak: "Added an extra janitorial locker in the custodial closet."
bugfix: "Fixed the Captain's deluxe soap being unuseable for cleaning"
tweak: "Soap can now clean more tiles when wetted"
tweak: "Soap and rags can now be wetted in buckets, mopbuckets, watertanks and janicarts"
An overhaul of the EOD suit to make it more believable and suitable for purpose, plus a little tweak to riot/bulletproof/ablative suits
rscadd: "Bomb suit and hood are now far more robust, and resistant to all types of damage"
rscadd: "Bomb suits now protect all bodyparts except the hands"
tweak: "Bomb suit slowdown significantly increased"
rscadd: "Bomb suits now cause the wearer to gradually overheat and will eventually cause heatstroke, their materials are very bad for dissipating bodyheat"
rscadd: "Bomb hoods now restrict peripheral vision like welding goggles, but do not protect your eyes from light"
tweak: "Bomb suits and bomb hoods are now too large to fit in a backpack"
rscadd: "Bulletproof, ablative and riot suits are no longer cripplingly overspecialised, their resistance to the non-primary damage types has been increased"
A quality of life improvement for synthetics mostly - Allows broken APC covers to be removed with a welding tool. Since synthetics generally don't have the luxury of picking up a fire extinguisher to bash it.
Added Master access to bot control panels for roboticists and research directors
Also added a return 1 to all bot construction steps, to prevent calling afterattack for the items used on the bot. This fixes a couple runtime errors and prevents more in future. Not included in changelog as this is irrelevant to end-users since they cant see runtime errors
This pull will allow cyborgs to select the combat module when it is code red or delta. They come with an energy carbine, flash, plasma cutter, a shield module and one that allows them to go fast.
Fixes:
- "Eldritch Horror, Central Command Internal Affairs Agent, NMSS Odin"
- Someone earlier said it was annoying that the fake CentComm messages sent by MalfAI don't have the same sound as regular CentComm messages, making it easy to tell when it's malf
Fixed hatch overlay not being cut when a firedoor opens
Fixed firedoor hatches drawing ontop of office/blast shutters when both are on the same tile
Drones can now bump open windoors
added attack logs for meteor impacts
slightly increased volume of meteor shield impact sound
fixed meteor event end announcements
Zipguns won't start with flash and stun rounds anymore, since it is a one shoot weapon and those rounds do little in that situation, just making them more useless.
