People can now pet held mothroaches and pugs if they want to, or use
items on them, hopefully without causing many issues. After all, it only
took about a couple dozen lines of code to make...
...Oh, did the 527 files changed or the 850~ lines added/removed perhaps
catch your eye? Made you wonder if I accidentally pushed the wrong
branch? or skewed something up big time? Well, nuh uh. I just happen to
be fed up with the melee attack chain still using stringized params
instead of an array/list. It was frankly revolting to see how I'd have
had to otherwise call `list2params` for what I'm trying to accomplish
here, and make this PR another tessera to the immense stupidity of our
attack chain procs calling `params2list` over and over and over instead
of just using that one call instance from `ClickOn` as an argument. It's
2025, honey, wake up!
I also tried to replace some of those single letter vars/args but there
are just way too many of them.
Improving old code. And I want to be able to pet mobroaches while
holding them too.
🆑
qol: You can now interact with held mobs in more ways beside wearing
them.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Commit messages should be descriptive of all changes.
The "incorrect `\The` macro capitalization" was intentional when it was
added, but as far as I know TG says "the supermatter" rather than "The
Supermatter," so it's incorrect now.
This is completely untested. I don't even know how you'd go about
testing this, it's just a fuckton of strings.
Someday I want to extract them and run NLP on it to catch grammar
problems...
## Why It's Good For The Game
Basic grammar pass for name strings. Should make `\the` work better and
avoid cases like `the John Smith`.
## About The Pull Request
Added a screentip to the element that shields and pillows use for
shoving mobs.
## Why It's Good For The Game
It helps.
## Changelog
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qol: Add a screentip to shields and pillows' right-click function
(shoving people).
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
I wanted to add the ability to shove people with shields by
right-clicking your target, just like how it works barehanded.
This also required a solid refactor of disarm code, effectively bringing
down the core of it to `mob/living` from `mob/living/carbon` or
`mob/living/carbon/human`. This also means you can shove simple mobs
inside closets, bins and on tables.
Xenos and borgs are pretty much immune to regular disarms, but using a
shield will work (borgs and royal xenos are immune to the knockdown).
The riot shield armor has been balanced. It now tanks melee attacks
pretty well, but will break against bullets in just about 2 to 4 hits
depending on the bullet damage. I've always found the lack of sturdiness
of the riot shields for what they're supposed to be good for a bit
detrimental.
Because I've refactored an item flag into a trait, I've had to add a new
MOD module that grants protection from shove knockdown and staggering;
found pre-installed in the administrative MODsuit, but I've also added
it to the black market to make it cooler.
You can bash people with the strobe shield on combat mode.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Currently, shields are simply items that take a held slot in return of
some block chance without being anything special, save for the strobe
shield's integrated flash I guess, but are also a botherance as most
crumple under the duress of less than half a dozen attacks. Meanwhile
swords and other weapons with blok chance just don't care.
TL;DR, I want them a bit more remarkable, and flexible as a tool.
Of course, this ended up in a larger refactor because the right-click /
disarm code was inconsistent.
## Changelog
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add: Shields (and pillows) can be used to shove people around the same
way barehanded right-clicking does. Xenos and borgs can actually be
moved this way.
add: Added a new MODsuit module, the bulwark module, which prevents
knockdown and staggering from shoving, and getting pushed away by thrown
objects. Inbuilt for the safeguard MODsuit, but one might also it in the
black market.
refactor: Disarming has been refactored. You can now shove simple
critters onto tables and into bins and closets
balance: Shields now take their own armor values and the armor
penetration of the attack they blocked when damaged. This means shields
are a bit sturdier now.
balance: Riot shields can tank a lot more damage against melee weapons,
but less against bullets.
qol: strobe shields can now be used to bash people while combat mode is
on.
/🆑
Ghom