updates tips (#40719)

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grammar: better game tips
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should i remove clock cult references? like there is no chance of it being brought back

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 Where the space map levels connect is randomized every round, but are otherwise kept consistent within rounds. Remember that they are not necessarily bidirectional!
 You can catch thrown items by toggling on your throw mode with an empty hand active.
-To crack the safe in the vault, use a stethoscope or explosives on it.
+To crack the safe in the vault, use a stethoscope or three plastic explosives on it.
 You can climb onto a table by dragging yourself onto one. This takes time and drops the items in your hands on the table. Clicking on a table that someone else is climbing onto will knock them down.
 You can drag other players onto yourself to open the strip menu, letting you remove their equipment or force them to wear something. Note that exosuits or helmets will block your access to the clothing beneath them, and that certain items take longer to strip or put on than others.
 Clicking on a windoor rather then bumping into it will keep it open, you can click it again to close it.
 You can spray a fire extinguisher, throw items or fire a gun while floating through space to change your direction. Simply fire opposite to where you want to go.
 You can change the control scheme by pressing tab. One is WASD, the other is the arrow keys. Keep in mind that hotkeys are also changed with this.
-All vending machines can be hacked to obtain some contraband items from them, and some can be fed with coins to gain access to premium items.
 Firesuits and winter coats offer mild protection from the cold, allowing you to spend longer periods of time near breaches and space than if wearing nothing at all.
 Glass shards can be welded to make glass, and metal rods can be welded to make metal. Ores can be welded too, but this takes a lot of fuel.
 If you need to drag multiple people either to safety or to space, bring a locker or crate over and stuff them all in before hauling them off.
-You can grab someone by clicking on them with the grab intent, then upgrade the grab by clicking on them once more. An aggressive grab will momentarily stun someone, allow you to place Mekhi on a table by clicking on it, or throw them by toggling on throwing.
+You can grab someone by clicking on them with the grab intent, then upgrade the grab by clicking on them once more. An aggressive grab will momentarily stun someone, allow you to place them on a table by clicking on it, or throw them by toggling on throwing.
 Holding alt and left clicking a tile will allow you to see its contents in the top right window pane, which is much faster than right clicking.
 The resist button will allow you to resist out of handcuffs, being buckled to a chair or bed, out of locked lockers and more. Whenever you're stuck, try resisting!
 You can move an item out of the way by dragging it and then clicking on an adjacent tile with an empty hand.
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 Maintenance is full of equipment that is randomized every round. Look around and see if anything is worth using.
 Some roles cannot be antagonists by default, but antag selection is decided first. For instance, you can set Security Officer to High without affecting your chances of becoming an antag -- the game will just select a different role.
 There are many places around the station to hide contraband. A few for starters: linen boxes, toilet cisterns, body bags. Experiment to find more!
-On some maps, you can use a machine in the vault to deposit space cash for cargo points or rob cargo blind.
+You can use a machine in the vault to deposit cash or rob Cargo's department funds.
 As the Captain, you are one of the highest priority targets on the station. Everything from revolutions, to nuclear operatives, to traitors that need to rob you of your unique lasgun or your life are things to worry about.
-As the Captain, always take the nuclear disk and pinpointer with you every shift. It's a good idea to give one of these to another head you can trust with keeping it safe, such as the Head of Security.
+As the Captain, always take the nuclear disk and pinpointer with you every shift. It's a good idea to give one of these to another head you can trust with keeping it safe.
 As the Captain, you have absolute access and control over the station, but this does not mean that being a horrible person won't result in mutiny and a ban.
-As the Captain, you can purchase a new emergency shuttle using a communications console. Some require credits, while others give you credits in exchange. Keep in mind that purchasing dangerous shuttles will incur the ire of your crew.
+As the Captain, you can purchase a new emergency shuttle using a communications console. Some require cash, while others give you cash in exchange. Keep in mind that purchasing dangerous shuttles will incur the ire of your crew.
 As the Chief Medical Officer, your hypospray is like a refillable instant injection syringe that can hold 30 units as opposed to the standard 15.
 As the Chief Medical Officer, coordinate and communicate with your doctors, chemists, and geneticists during a nuclear emergency, blob infestation, or some other crisis to keep people alive and fighting.
 As a Medical Doctor, you can attempt to drain blood from a husk with a syringe to determine the cause. If you can extract blood, it was caused by extreme temperatures or lasers, if there is no blood to extract, you have confirmed the presence of changelings.
@@ -35,28 +34,28 @@ As a Medical Doctor, you can point your penlight at people to create a medical h
 As a Medical Doctor, you can extract implants by holding an empty implant case in your offhand while performing the extraction step.
 As a Medical Doctor, clone scanning people will implant them with a health tracker that displays their vitals in the clone records. Useful to check on crew members that didn't activate suit sensors!
 As a Chemist, there are dozens of chemicals that can heal, and even more that can cause harm. Experiment!
-As a Chemist, some chemicals can only be synthesized by heating up the contents in the chemical heater.
+As a Chemist, some chemicals can only be synthesized by heating up the contents with a chemical heater or manually with lighters and similar tools.
 As a Chemist, you will be expected to supply crew with certain chemicals. For example, clonexadone and mannitol for the cryo tubes, unstable mutagen and saltpetre for botany as well as healing pills and patches for the front desk.
-As a Chemist, you can make 100u bottles from plastic sheets. The ChemMaster can produce infinite 30u glass bottles as well.
+As a Chemist, you can make 100u bottles from plastic sheets. The ChemMaster can produce infinite 30u glass bottles as well and if researched the medical techfab can make beakers with capacity ranging from 120u to 300u.
+As a Chemist, you can recharge your chemical dispenser with an inducer or by replacing its cell.
 As a Geneticist, you can eject someone from cloning early by disabling power in genetics. Note that they will suffer more genetic damage and may lose vital organs from this.
-As a Geneticist, becoming a hulk makes you capable of dealing high melee damage, stunlocking people, and punching through walls. However, you can't fire guns, will lose your hulk status if you take too much damage, and are not considered a human by the AI while you are a hulk.
+As a Geneticist, becoming a hulk makes you capable of dealing high melee damage, stunlocking people, and punching through walls. However, you can't fire guns, will lose your hulk status if you go into critical condition, and are not considered a human by the AI while you are a hulk.
 As the Virologist, your viruses can range from healing powers so great that you can heal out of critical status, or diseases so dangerous they can kill the entire crew with airborne spontaneous combustion. Experiment!
 As the Virologist, you only require small amounts of vaccine to heal a sick patient. Work with the Chemist to distribute your cures more efficiently.
-As the Research Director, you can take AIs out of their cores by loading them into an intelliCard, and then from there into an AI system integrity restorer computer to revive and/or repair them.
+As the Research Director, you can take AIs out of their cores by loading them into an intelliCard, which lets you see their laws, even ion/syndicate ones. It can then be placed into an AI system integrity restorer computer to revive and/or repair them.
 As the Research Director, you can lock down cyborgs instead of blowing them up. Then you can have their laws reset or if that doesn't work, safely dismantled.
-As the Research Director, your console's NTnet monitoring tool can be used to retrieve airlock passkeys, provided that someone used a door remote.
 As a Scientist, you can use the mutation toxin obtained from green slimes to turn yourself into a jelly mutant. Each subspecies has unique features - for example telepathic powers, duplicating bodies or integrating slime extracts!
 As a Scientist, you can maximize the number of uses you get out of a slime by feeding it slime steroid, created from purple slimes, while alive. You can then apply extract enhancer, created from cerulean slimes, on each extract.
-As a Scientist, you can disable anomalies by scanning them with an analyzer, then send a signal on the frequency it gives you with a remote signalling device. This will leave behind an anomaly core, which can be used to construct a Phazon mech!
+As a Scientist, you can disable anomalies by scanning them with an analyzer, then send a signal on the frequency it gives you with a remote signaling device, or if researched, hit the anomaly an anomaly analyzer. This will leave behind an anomaly core, which can be used to construct a Phazon mech or reactive armors!
 As a Scientist, researchable stock parts can seriously improve the efficiency and speed of machines around the station. In some cases, it can even unlock new functions.
 As a Scientist, you can generate research points by letting the tachyon-doppler array record increasingly large explosions.
 As a Scientist, getting drunk just enough will speed up research. Skol!
 As a Roboticist, keep an ear out for anomaly announcements. If you get your hands on an anomaly core, you can build a Phazon mech!
-As a Roboticist, you can repair your cyborgs with a welding tool. If they have taken burn damage from lasers, you can remove their battery, expose the wiring with a screwdriver and replace their wires with a cable coil.
+As a Roboticist, you can repair your cyborgs with a welding tool. If they have taken burn damage, you can remove their battery, expose the wiring with a screwdriver and replace their wires with a cable coil.
 As a Roboticist, you can reset a cyborg's module by cutting and mending the reset wire with a wire cutter.
 As a Roboticist, you can greatly help out Shaft Miners by building a Firefighter APLU equipped with a hydraulic clamp and plasma cutter. The mech is ash storm proof and can even walk across lava!
 As a Roboticist, you can augment people with cyborg limbs. Augmented limbs can easily be repaired with cables and welders.
-As the AI, you can click on people's names to look at them. This only works if there are cameras that can see them.
+As the AI, you can click on people's names to look at them. This only works if there are cameras that can see them, they aren't wearing agent IDs and aren't using digital camouflage as changelings.
 As the AI, you can quickly open and close doors by holding shift while clicking them, bolt them when holding ctrl, and even shock them while holding alt.
 As the AI, you can take pictures with your camera and upload them to newscasters.
 As a Cyborg, choose your module carefully, as only cutting and mending your reset wire will let you repick it. If possible, refrain from choosing a module until a situation that requires one occurs.
@@ -83,14 +82,14 @@ As an Engineer, you can convert tesla coils into corona analyzers by using a scr
 As an Engineer, you can use radiation collectors to generate research points. Load them with a 50/50 oxygen/tritium tank and use a multitool to switch them to research mode.
 As an Engineer, don't underestimate the humble P.A.C.M.A.N. generators. With upgraded parts, a couple units working in tandem are sufficient to take over for an exploded engine or shattered solars.
 As an Engineer, your departmental protolathe and circuit printer can manufacture the necessary circuit boards and components to build just about anything. Make extra medical machinery everywhere! Build a gibber for security! Set up an array of emitters pointing down the hall! The possibilities are endless!
-As an Engineer, you can pry open secure storage by disabling the engine room APC's main breaker. This is obviously a bad idea if the engine is running.
-As an Engineer, your RCD can be reloaded with mineral sheets instead of just compressed matter cartridges.
+As an Engineer, you can pry open secure storage blast doors by disabling the engine room APC's main breaker. This is obviously a bad idea if the engine is running.
+As an Engineer, your RCD can be reloaded with metal, glass or plasteel sheets instead of just compressed matter cartridges.
 As an Atmospheric Technician, you can unwrench a pipe regardless of the pressures of the gases inside, but if they're too high they can burst out and injure you!
 As an Atmospheric Technician, look into replacing your gas pumps with volumetric gas pumps, as those move air in flat numerical amounts, rather than percentages which leave trace gases.
 As an Atmospheric Technician, you are better suited to fighting fires than anyone else. As such, you have access to better firesuits, backpack firefighter tanks, and a completely heat and fire proof rigsuit.
 As an Atmospheric Technician, your backpack firefighter tank can launch resin. This resin will extinguish fires and replace any gases with a safe, room-temperature airmix.
 As an Atmospheric Technician, your ATMOS holofan projector blocks gases while allowing objects to pass through. With it, you can quickly contain gas spills, fires and hull breaches. Or, use it to seal a plasmaman cloning room.
-As an Atmospheric Technician, burning a plasma/oxygen mix inside the incinerator will not only produce power, but also gases such as tritium and water vapor.
+As an Atmospheric Technician, burning a plasma/oxygen mix inside the incinerator will not only produce power, but also gases such as tritium, water vapor and carbon dioxide.
 As an Atmospheric Technician, you can change the layer of a pipe by clicking with it on a wrenched pipe or other atmos component of the desired layer.
 As the Head of Security, you are expected to coordinate your security force to handle any threat that comes to the station. Sometimes it means making use of the armory to handle a blob, sometimes it means being ruthless during a revolution or cult.
 As the Head of Security, you can call for executions or forced cyborgization, but may require the Captain's approval.
@@ -116,9 +115,9 @@ As the Mime, you can use :r and :l to speak through your ventriloquist dummy.
 As the Mime, your oath of silence is your source of power. Breaking it robs you of your powers and of your honor.
 As the Clown, if you lose your banana peel, you can still slip people with your PDA! Honk!
 As the Clown, eating bananas heals you slightly. Honk!
-As the Clown, your Holy Grail is the mineral bananium, which can be given to the Roboticist to build you a fun and robust mech beloved by everyone.
+As the Clown, your Grail is the mineral bananium, which can be given to the Roboticist to build you a fun and robust mech beloved by everyone.
 As the Clown, you can use your stamp on a sheet of cardboard as the first step of making a honkbot. Fun for the whole crew!
-As the Chaplain, your null rod has a lot of functions: it can convert water into holy water, which if spread on the ground prevents wizards from jaunting away, can destroy cultist runes by hitting them, and is a very powerful weapon to boot!
+As the Chaplain, your null rod has anti magic functions: it can destroy cultist runes by hitting them, and it makes you immune to wizard spells and cult magic.
 As the Chaplain, your bible is also a container that can store small items. Depending on your god, your starting bible may come with a surprise!
 As the Chaplain, you are much more likely to get a response by praying to the gods than most people. To boost your chances, make altars with colorful crayon runes, lit candles, and wire art.
 As a Botanist, you can hack the MegaSeed Vendor to get access to more exotic seeds. These seeds can alternatively be ordered from cargo.
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 As a Traitor, you can manufacture and recycle revolver bullets at a hacked autolathe, making the revolver an extremely powerful tool.
 As a Traitor, you may sometimes be assigned to hunt other traitors, and in turn be hunted by others.
 As a Traitor, the syndicate encryption key is very useful for coordinating plans with your fellow traitors -- or, of course, betraying them.
-As a Traitor, plasma can be injected into many things to sabotage them. Power cells, light bulbs, cigars and e-cigs will all explode when used.
-As a Nuclear Operative, communication is key! Use :t or :h to speak to your fellow operatives and coordinate an attack plan.
+As a Traitor, plasma can be injected into many things to sabotage them. Power cells, light bulbs, welding tools, cigars and e-cigs will all explode when used.
+As a Nuclear Operative, communication is key! Use ; to speak to your fellow operatives and coordinate an attack plan.
 As a Nuclear Operative, you should look into purchasing a syndicate cyborg, as they can provide heavy fire support, full access, are immune to conventional stuns, and can easily take down the AI.
 As a Nuclear Operative, stick together! While your equipment is robust, your fellow operatives are much better at saving your life: they can drag you away from danger while stunned and provide cover fire.
 As a Nuclear Operative, you might end up in a situation where the AI has bolted you into a room. Having some spare C4 in your pocket can save your life.
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 The Chaplain's holy weapon will kill clockwork marauders in two hits.
 As a Wizard, you can turn people to stone, then animate the resulting statue with a staff of animation to create an extremely powerful minion, for all of 5 minutes at least.
 As a Wizard, the fireball spell performs very poorly at close range, as it can easily catch you in the blast. It is best used as a form of artillery down long hallways.
-As a Wizard, summoning guns will turn a large portion of the crew against themselves, but will also give everyone anything from a pea shooter to a BFG 9000. Use at your own risk!
+As a Wizard, summoning guns will turn a large portion of the crew against themselves, but will also give everyone anything from a floral somatoray to a pulse rifle. Use at your own risk!
 As a Wizard, the staff of chaos can fire any type of bolts from the magical wands. This can range from bolts of instant death to healing or reviving someone.
 As a Wizard, most spells become unusable if you are not wearing your robe, hat, and sandals.
 As an Abductor, you can select where your victims will be sent on the ship control console.
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 As a Security Officer, remember that correlation does not equal causation. Someone may have just been at the wrong place at the wrong time!
 As a Security Officer, remember that you can attach a sec-lite to your taser or your helmet!
 You can swap floor tiles by holding a crowbar in one hand and a stack of tiles in the other.
-When hacking doors, cutting and mending the "test light wire" will restore power to the door.
+When hacking doors, cutting and mending a "test light wire" will restore power to the door.
 When crafting most items, you can either manually combine parts or use the crafting menu.
 Suit storage units not only remove blood and dirt from clothing, but also radiation!
-Remote devices will work when used through cameras. For example: Bluespace RPEDs and door remotes.
+Remote devices will work when used through cameras. For example: Bluespace RPEDs and door remotes.