## About The Pull Request
Adds a unit test that checks that all designs are accessible through
some source, be it techweb, disks, or innate designs. Certain designs,
like pocket extinguishers, entertainment screens, etc, that have been
present in autolathes but not in the techweb despite having PROTOLATHE
flag assigned have been put into protolathes (where it made sense,
otherwise the flag was removed).
An important change is that restaurant portals are now printable, and
thus can be constructed and deconstructed. Indestructible portals have
been a major gripe of mine for a while, and I don't see a solid reason
for keeping them indestructible if they can easily be printed from the
service protolathe.
Closes#90212
## Why It's Good For The Game
Initial argument for keeping portals unbreakable was to prevent people
from griefing the chef/bartender, but by that logic we can make most
machinery unbreakable too. I don't think that having an unbreakable
portal is good if its locking us out from allowing chefs/bartenders to
reorder or even outright reposition their lunchroom/bar.
## Changelog
🆑
balance: Restaurant portals can now be printed, constructed and
deconstructed. They're also no longer completely invulnerable.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
That's it. Just one space.
It just fixes `uswhen`. That's all.
## Why It's Good For The Game
We #HATE typos.
We #LOVE GBP.
## Changelog
🆑
spellcheck: added a missing space to the description of the Donk Co.
Failed Products Schematics research
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Reworks flechette shells from... whatever it was that they were supposed
to be before into an AP pellet round that primarily focuses on wounding
power and embedding power over specifically dealing direct damage (16 as
opposed to buckshot's 30). Useful if you want to maim as a priority.
You can print flechette once science researches Exotic Ammunition.
Nuclear Operatives also get flechette rounds as a Bulldog Shotgun
magazine choice priced as a basic ammunition type.
In addition, you can also acquire Donk Co. 'Donk Spike' flechette
shells. These shells fire plastic darts! They can be purchased by
Nuclear Operatives as a surplus option for Bulldog shotguns. 7 magazines
for the price of one.
Donk Co. 'Donk Spike' flechette was intended to be an alternative to the
standard flechette but failed spectacularly once it hit the market. Due
to a lack of confidence in the product, Donk Co. 'Donk Spike' flechette
now appears in maintenance loot as potential trash, as Donk Co. dumped
it in the millions into various landfills across the sector.
You can also print it if you find the tech in a BEPIS tech disk.
Does it work? Why don't you take a chance on Donk and find out?
## Why It's Good For The Game
I'm not sure if the person who made the original flechette actually
understood what each of the variables was supposed to be doing or how
they actually worked. A bullet with an excessively negative standard
wound power (for a pellet projectile) and low damage, but then an
excessively high bare wound bonus (for a pellet projectile). But then
some ricochet variables without ricochet being assigned to the bullet...
and a demolition mod on a round meant to be weak against armor?
Nonsensical.
So I've reworked it into two unique rounds. The first serving a
practical purpose and becoming an AP option when the crew typically
begins seeing those options open up (such as x-ray lasers). The same can
be said for nukies, who love AP options, but one focused on lasting
wounds is handy too for keeping someone down. There isn't a milspec
option; so for nukies, this isn't doing nearly as much upfront damage as
buckshot or slugs. You buy this when you want someone not to be
recovered with a LOT of medical attention.
The second being more tongue in cheek, but also giving a surplus option
for Bulldog shotguns, which I think are having ammunition problems even
still. Surplus ammunition might slowly roll out for all the guns, but
I'm mostly focusing on the ones that have some slight price disparity
for total shots compared to other weapons. Also, shooting people full of
plastic is kind of funny.
## Changelog
🆑
balance: Flechette has been reworked into an AP pellet round that embeds
and wounds, but has less actual damage to buckshot. You can print it
once Exotic Ammunition has been researched. Also available to Nuclear
Operatives.
add: Donk Co. 'Donk Spike' flechette rounds. No longer offered by Donk
Co. It can sometimes shows up in trashbins and dumpsters. And operatives
can buy it in bulk if they really feel like it.
/🆑
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Co-authored-by: ATH1909 <42606352+ATH1909@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: SmArtKar <44720187+SmArtKar@users.noreply.github.com>
## About The Pull Request
The idea was born from a small conversation about bepis nodes having low
visibility, which somehow degressed into the idea of announcing
researched nodes to the channels of the interested departments thru the
announcement system machine, which is what I'm doing here, while also
adding documentation, defines and purging some, not all, instances of
camel cases from announcement_system.dm.
Oh, by the by, like the arrival and new head arrival messages, it can be
customized or disabled by interacting with the announcement system.
## Why It's Good For The Game
I think it's helpful to let players know when the research of their dept
is researched, and I think it's kinda interesting to announce bepis tech
on common like it's some hot stuff while it actually isn't just because
it's often missed out and miscellaneous.
## Changelog
🆑
add: Automated announcement systems now announce researched nodes to
their respective departments. You can stop this by either disabling the
announcement systems or by using a multitool on the circuitboard of the
console you're researching nodes from.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
This PR adds a new gunkit to the **Illumination Applications** tech node
acquired via BEPIS techs. For years, this funny little tech node has
been one of the lamer results from the BEPIS tech pool, only offering
constructable unique hardhats and access to a micro RLD. Well, lets just
say, badda bing
https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/assets/41715314/bd869d7f-449a-4563-871a-b90f550e0bda
The photon cannon is craftable via a lathed gunkit obtained from the
security lathe, which fires 4 shots per recharge. Each shot, on direct
contact with a mob, acts like a severity 3 flash. The shot also
distinctly slows down after traveling, so you can more effectively gauge
where it's going to stop moving, as when it reaches it's travel
distance, it will perform a weaker AOE severity 1 flash. Direct hits
will effect silicons, while the AOE flash will not. Direct hits only
deal 5 ***STAMINA* damage.
The Gunkit requires a flux anomaly core to be crafted, completing with
the tesla gun in this respect.
## Why It's Good For The Game
There's been some discussion about how we've hoping to offer higher
power features and options to the game at large using anomaly cores, and
flux anomalies are currently only used for guns, which is rather
unfortunate. The bigger issue, I'd suppose, is that every gun that flux
anomalies can produce are considered lethal, with the event horizon gun
and tesla gun. And honestly, by comparison, the tesla is not lethal
enough to use to any real effect, or practical enough to bother science
enough for the core.
The photon cannon, however, works as a rather effective crowd control
weapon for breaching and incapacitating crewmates, making it ideal for
wardens dealing with large tides of crewmates, officers breaking into
bases, or ~~the captain trying to burn down your library dnd game,
DOUGLAS~~
Overall, it's still a fairly low power weapon, and sits in a niche place
somewhere between a dragNET, flashbang-loaded grenade launcher, the
flash, and the ion-cannon, with it's versatility coming from core rarity
and requiring a BEPIS tech.
**I have since updated this PR so that this gun deals stamina damage
instead of energy damage, and contact with the energy ball deals a short
period of confusion.**
## Changelog
🆑
add: The Illumination Applications technode now includes a gunkit for a
new gun, the Photon Cannon.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
1. Techweb strings are now defined in
`code/__DEFINES/research/techweb_nodes.dm` many thanks to @ShizCalev
2. All places that used those strings have been updated with the
definitions as well.
3. `code/modules/research/ordnance/scipaper_partner.dm` had some old
boosted ids, they have been updated as well along
with their values.
## Why It's Good For The Game
fixes#84153
- I found this through a runtime, but basically the boosted nodes missed
unit test checks. Having them defined should in future ensure that any
changes to them alert the maintainers. This will help in furthur
modularizing the code.
- As for the nodes themselves, I have put the exact nodes as much as
possible so they dont differ much from previous gameplay and how they
worked. Researched nodes that used to give points to those experiments,
will continue to do so, but albeit at a slower rate. This is because the
research point generation rate overall now has been increased.
## Changelog
🆑 ShizCalev, SpaceLove
refactor: Techweb strings are defined now so to maintain modularity
balance: Research papers will have less overall point generation.
/🆑
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Co-authored-by: ShizCalev <ShizCalev@users.noreply.github.com>
## About The Pull Request
Reshuffles the tech tree nodes, adding reagent purity and cybernetic
organ scan experiments. The total point requirements barely changed.
Made the discount experiments unlock nodes for free, instead of
providing partial discounts, to provide more incentive to actually do
them.
Also devided all points by the amount generated per second, for
convenience. Now points correspond to seconds.
<details>
<summary>New tech tree</summary>
<img width="4320" alt="Tech New"
src="https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/assets/3625094/77afdec7-9df3-47b7-8df0-5b9261e9e0d6">
</details>
## Why It's Good For The Game
- Breaks bloated general nodes into more specialized nodes, making the
tree more balanced
- Combines scattered nodes dedicated to a single design into specialized
nodes, reducing the number of nodes
- Reshuffles the unlocks within specialized tree to adjust progression
on some trees to follow the idead: Cheap nodes first, then nodes that
require experiments or nodes of neighbouring trees, then expensive nodes
with end-game tech.
- You no longer need a dissection experiment to unlock a microwave,
every experiment is relevant to the tree unlocked by it
- With specialized nodes, it is easier to pick a node for the new things
that people add
- Better foundation for potential per-department point system. It will
be easier to put it on top of a cleaner tree
- The nodes are separated in tiers, with progressively increasing costs,
so that early tech is cheap and easy to research with just points, but
later tech is more expensive, making the discount experiments for those
more likely to be performed.
## Changelog
🆑
balance: Reshuffled tech tree, making nodes more specialized
qol: Research points devided by the amount generated per second, so now
research points correspond to seconds
add: Introduced reagent purity scan experiments (required for Cryostasis
node)
add: Introduced synthetic organ scan experiment (required for top tier
cyber organs)
add: Added a variant of machinery scan experiment that accepts any
machines with upgraded parts (required for tier 3 parts)
del: Removed material scanning experiments from the tech tree
/🆑
SmArtKar