## About The Pull Request
The original purpose of this PR was to extend the previous Magazine
Miscellany PR by adding the ability to recolor magazine indicators if
they had a defined icon. This functionality is present by using a pen on
a magazine that has a defined ammo band icon state.
This PR also further standardizes magazines with different ammo types by
using a define to append their description and magazine color for AP
ammo, hollow-points, and incendiary ammo.
This PR also _also_ gives ammo indicator bands to the magazines for the
Stechkin APS and C-20r. And also gives descriptions to every magazine so
they're not using a placeholder that mentions error signs anymore. Each
description is roughly in the format of "caliber, suitable for gun". Not
sure if I should standardize magazine names to be "caliber and special
ammo type" - the only outlier I can think of right now for that would be
the 7mm ammo boxes for the L6.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Ammo stripes are neat, functionally, so changing the stripes on
magazines in case someone chooses to reload spent mags with autolathe
ammo is probably nice as a QoL thing. Descriptions that aren't
placeholders are pretty cool too.
## Changelog
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add: Magazines with defined ammo bands can now have their color changed
with a pen, in case you're reloading spent magazines or speedloaders
with different ammunition and want to change magazine colors to be
appropriate.
qol: C-20r magazines and Stechkin APS magazines now have ammo band
support.
qol: Standardized some descriptions for AP, HP, and incendiary
magazines.
/🆑
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Co-authored-by: Hatterhat <Hatterhat@users.noreply.github.com>
## About The Pull Request
This splits CALIBER_50 into CALIBER_50BMG and CALIBER_50AE, setting the
sniper rifle to use the former and the deagle to use the latter.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Prevents each of these weapons from loading calibers that they are not
intended to.
Recorded from yogs:
## Changelog
🆑
fix: Desert Eagles can no longer load .50 BMG sniper rifle rounds and
vice versa.
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## About The Pull Request
### The Rifle:
-The Sniper Rifle is now a bolt action. This replaces the 4 second fire
delay on the sniper rifle. This overall will improve the fire rate if
you're good at racking the bolt, but it will also feel less like you're
in a weird limbo of inaction while using the sniper rifle, since the
fire delay can be quite confusing to players not used to it. This can be
tweaked, like reducing the speed of the racking action, if it seems like
it is too much.
-The scope component now goes up to 50 tiles (or so), which allows you
to gain a significant sightline over an area. The reasoning for this is
simple. The component actually nerfed the overall range of the sniper
rifle's scope, so this should hopefully restore that somewhat. And
having such a huge sightline makes it much easier to utilize the
impressive range of the rifle. Currently, it's really only ideal for
extremely close range fighting.
-The normal sniper rifle, the one that syndicate base scientists get,
can be suppressed. I don't know why it was different.
### The Ammo:
Normal .50 BMG: Does much more object damage, and on top of that deals
additional damage to mechs, but not by much more. Now, when it
dismembers a limb, it also deals its damage to the chest. This ensures
that you didn't straight up lose out on dealing a killing blow because
you took their limb off, and makes the dismemberment property of .50 BMG
a significant upside rather than a immense detriment.
Marksman: Gains a lot of the above benefits, but has much lower range.
Why this nerf? It's actually because of some funny nonsense with how
ricochet works. Which can cause....accidents to happen. To you. Consider
that firing down a straight line and missing could be quite embarrassing
when the bullet has 400 tiles of range.
Soporific: Now called Disruptor ammo. Works as it did before, putting
humans to sleep for 40 seconds (seriously, 40 seconds). Also deals some
stamina damage, if...that's relevant. But now also causes an EMP effect
and a boatload of added damage to both mechs and borgs, allowing it to
be an excellent anti-mech and anti-borg ammo type, as well as scrambling
any pesky suit sensors, energy weapons and so on in an area around the
impact. Useful for support fire.
Incendiary (NEW!): Causes a massive firebomb to go off where it impacts
(no explosion, so this isn't a stun). Also sets the target on fire,
which is always fun. Good for shooting into groups of people with
impunity. Also deals burn damage instead, since I think nukies could use
more methods for direct fire damage.
Surplus (NEW!): It's .50 BMG but it lacks most if not all the upsides.
No armour penetration, no dismemberment, no paralysis. It still deals a
lot of damage to objects, so not a bad option for simply removing
structures from afar. So what's the point in this ammo? You can buy 7
magazines for the price of one. I want to introduce 'Surplus' as an idea
for nukies to invest in if they want to be able to keep shooting but
they're really on a budget, like most non-warop nukies tend to be. This
is definitely subject to change (like a damage decrease on top of
everything else).
Pricing and Capacity: Normal ammo and surplus costs 3 TC. Every special
ammo costs 4 TC. Every special ammo also has the same ammo capacity as
the normal magazine. It's kind of weird how most of the subtypes had 5
shots rather than 6, but then soporific had...3? I don't get it. This
would probably cause a good deal of confusion, especially if you are
swapping ammo types and weren't aware of this particular oddity.
Anyway, 6 shots.
### Minor Addition
Gets rid of the cheap suppressor. It lies to players, tricking them into
thinking this is a low quality suppressor. Newsflash, it isn't. There is
no distinct difference between that suppressor and the normal
suppressor.
## Why It's Good For The Game
The sniper rifle, unfortunately, sucks a lot except for very specific
use cases. It got a big nerf with the scope component in terms of range,
even if the functionality is way cooler. And, at a baseline, there was
some counterintuitive functions attached to it. Dismemberment was cool,
but it also caused a loss in overall damage due to how limbs contribute
to core health. On top of this, the cool ammo types were...not much
better? Penetrator was almost always the best option, even if it lost a
lot of damage as a consequence.
So, what was it good for? X-ray + Penetrator. Pretty much, that's it. It
has some other uses but if I had to be entirely honest, there wasn't
much that other weapon couldn't do as well.
Hopefully this helps things going forward, and I want to mess with this
as well down the line in case its a bit too much of a boost in power.
Absolutely please rip this PR apart.
## Changelog
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balance: Makes the syndicate sniper rifle a bolt-action rifle.
balance: Sniper rifles have a scope range of roughly 50 tiles.
balance: Sniper rifle ammo, if it dismembers your limbs, does damage to
the chest.
balance: All the various syndicate sniper rifle magazines have
consistent casing quantities (6 shots). They also have more consistent
pricing. 3 for normal and a box of surplus, and 4 for every other type.
balance: Reduces the range of Marksman ammo to 50 tiles. Not because it
is strong, but because you might accidentally shoot yourself if you're
not watching where you're shooting. Ricochets are no joke.
add: Replaces Soporific with Disruptor ammo. Works like soporific, but
also EMPS things it hits.
add: Adds Incendiary .50 BMG. Causes a combustion to erupt from the
struck target, as well as setting targets on fire. Great for parties.
add: Adds Surplus .50 BMG. It sucks, but you get a lot of them! Quantity
over quality, baby.
remove: The suppressors in the bundle are of standard quality. The
apparent 'cheap suppressor' that came bundled with the C-20r and sniper
rifle were found to actually be 'fine'. Trust us.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Fixes#73192
Soporific sniper rifle magazines had used the wrong icon, I've fixed
this, I'm also re-purposed an old unused magazine sprite and added a new
one for the other 2 sniper ammo types.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Bug fix + now the alt sniper ammo types have unique sprites.
## Changelog
🆑
fix: Soporific sniper magazines use the correct icon again.
imageadd: Penetrator and Marksman sniper magazines now have icons.
/🆑
Removes the old sniper rifle zoom, replaces it with a scope component. the scope activates on right click and lets your camera follow your mouse.
https://streamable.com/2c63u4 (due to byond rounding some shots were weirdly missed in that video, its fixed now)
Also adds sniper marksman ammo to the nukie uplink. It does slightly less damage, but it is hitscan and has one guaranteed ricochet shot, so you can shoot a wall and it could still hit someone.
Creates update_name and update_desc
Creates the wrapper proc update_appearance to batch update_name, update_desc, and update_icon together
Less non-icon handling code in update_icon and friends
Signal hooks for things that want to change names and descriptions
99%+ of the changes in this are just from switching everything over to update_appearance from update_icon
Adds defines for all of the ammo calibers
Replaces all current magic strings with defines
Docs what guns use what calibers
Corrects the name of the incendiary .45 ammo casing to indicate that it fires incendiary rounds rather than armor piercing rounds
