On request from a staff member, I have implemented a delay on using Absorb DNA. Changelings will be unable to use the ability for a full minute after successfully completing it.
balance: "Medical borg's are now able to handle tanks, breath mask's and organs with chem gripper."
tweak: "Renames Hunter Killers to Military Frames."
Modifies the Handheld Health Analyzer's readouts a little.
Firstly, it displays if someone is malnourished or dehydrated.
Secondly, it changes the numerical damage values you get if you scan someone into words, this prevents doctors from screaming "OH YOU HAVE 0.3 TOXINS", which doesn't really make sense in any term of lore standards. I guess. Lmao.
Thirdly, it removes the weird "Anatomical damage detected" lines, because those are literally just repeats of the damage values you're already getting.
Adds a bit of what is related here: https://forums.aurorastation.org/topic/11941-antagonist-rework-20/
Pretty much, adds a couple of gear crates that mercenary teams, seeking to do a lore related gimmick, can buy by pooling their crystals. Right now, it is just adds a couple of human related factions, such as eridani, sol alliance, elyra and the frontier.
Removes the flashing effect on manhack grenades. It lasted around two to three seconds, making escape nigh impossible.
Made manhacks do a random number between 10 and 15 damage.
Made manhacks easier to click on by giving them a small invisible square around their sprite.
After seeing in the recent beach episode that players had to deal with only being able to relax on folded up towels, I've added a verb to them that lays it out flat on the ground instead. When you pick up the towel it turns back into its regular self again.
This pr changes how telescience works; instead of just teleport things with zero risk or consequences, telescience will now create two portals, one in the telepad, and the other in the location.
Why?
Telescience has always been a really problematic part of the game, causing a lot of fuckery over the ages. It is pretty much riskless, besides some possible explosion, limb loss or whatever if you fuck up, but if you somewhat knew what you were doing, you could steal shit, and just teleport bombs or whatever upon your victims.
Now, telescience has some risk and difficulty attached to it. Since, for the scientist to steal/kidnapp/save someone, they must enter the portal, which puts them in the location of where they want to reach. It is also possible for the people that can reach the portal to end in the telescience lab, allowing for some counter play.
Humans could enable autohiss. This resulted in the handle_autohiss proc runtiming, due to missing expected maps. The runtiming rendered the person unable to speak until they turned autohiss off again.
Fixes this by checking for the presence and length of autohiss_basic_map. The map is expected as a predicate towards autohiss working in the first place.
Force gloves allowed you do the first upgrade instantly, meaning you skip both passive and blue. According to the code, this is unintentional behavior and leads to further bugs, such as being stun-locked when this happens repeatedly.
-kois can now infect people by being injected into the bloodstream as well
-vaurca warforms have their own fire overlay now
-fixes a missing error in the warform right arm
The issue emerged that Aurora doesn't actually give antagonists objectives, so the if statement was never fulfilled. This places ambitions outside the if statement. If an ambition is set now, it will display like this (minus the objectives of course):
As an engineering main that had to make use of the fireaxe to deal with biohazards, it got old fast when someone entered your range while you were swinging and you decapitate them with the might of Zeus. That can still happen, but, if you know you're gonna be swinging when people are around, you can do it with only one hand to prevent multi-decapitation.
Besides, how well can you drive a fireaxe through multiple bodies if you're only using one arm?
Sidenote: I wanted to do this with other weapons as well, but my brain is simply too small to comprehend what the hell's going on with half of them, so, I'm just sticking with the fireaxe for now.
