## About The Pull Request
Closes#96092
Also added missing midround clowns to alias/species prefs for ops
## Changelog
🆑
fix: Having only midround clown ops (but not normal clown ops) enabled
in antag prefs now displays operative alias/species toggles
admin: Added clown ops to the ban panel
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Removes Station-Time entirely
Server Time is now NST (Nanotrasen Standard Time). SS13 takes place
exactly 540 years in the future of the current day, so every second is 1
second in-game.
Round Time is now PT (Pay-Time), how Nanotrasen keeps track of how long
the current rotation of Employees has been working for.
Telecomms uses NST due to its importance of being the communication to
the blackbox.
Autopsy report, clocks, scientific reports and requisitions use both
timestamps due to them being more official documents that NT may need to
know beyond just the current round (just for flavortext).
Pretty much everything else (Det scanner, PDA, IC logs, Time-of-Death,
AI law changes, Cyborg file downloading) uses PT
PT
<img width="305" height="217" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/cef73025-6292-4f9c-8565-197397bda2ca"
/>
<img width="168" height="59" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a99db568-045d-45fc-8206-0d9a7b13c7d2"
/>
<img width="308" height="122" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/37ca6f17-8916-4af2-9c91-0f0707038ca5"
/>
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/29445051-c98b-4af3-a657-812083aab91a
Clock (Literate)
<img width="748" height="292" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c824e812-91b5-4737-858d-768336e9a7c4"
/>
Clock (Illiterate)
<img width="446" height="94" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/90d5ea0d-eaff-4ced-aa31-ffdf0b4832a5"
/>
New paperwork time working properly
<img width="311" height="190" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/6d048926-db61-4c91-893b-ce93e1ea7775"
/>
NST
<img width="800" height="115" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/35ffde49-13c1-4ce7-ab24-858e48b608bd"
/>
<img width="1288" height="142" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/40c30d16-e0de-4efc-b460-9486eeb901d6"
/>
# Other changes
1. Circuit time checker will now get the value of the given input (Hour,
Minute, Second) rather than the full dedisecond time converted into
hour/minutes/seconds
<img width="270" height="67" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/097440cc-1c45-447f-9976-18de7f9c722c"
/>
2. Turns nightshift into a round event that'll last approximately 22
minutes
3. 12-hour pref (doesn't apply to the stat panel because it's global
info) & removal of "TCT" time
<img width="569" height="440" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/d39083b1-d248-41c0-9a1c-b2398ca203a7"
/>
4. The chocolate pudding negative moodlet is now based on the server's
IRL time.
5. Admins can now use ``class``, ``style`` and ``background`` (they were
already given perms to use ``img`` so hiding background, which was
removed to prevent image embedding, is pointless)
6. Also fixes ``year`` being off on localhost.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Server Time is approximately 1s = 12s converted, not including it
desyncing from lag (I believe?).
This makes it pretty much impossible for people to actually use this as
a unit of measurement for in-game actions.
Different things also uses different timestamps which is a bit more
confusing.
The main change here is for accessibility and, hopefully, using time as
a source of immersion. "20 minutes ago" is no longer OOC, they're just
speaking in PT. There's no timezones in space, Nanotrasen Standard Time
is the closest there is, but Pay Time is how NT considers when you get
your paychecks, so it's what is more commonly used.
It also fixes major inconsistencies between "IC time" and "Station
time", things like breakfast moodlet was the first 15mins of the round
despite the round starting like 7 hours in? Nukies with an L6 SAW firing
down the halls was shooting like 1 bullet every 3 seconds (assuming 4
bullets per second), overall there was just a disconnect between how
long time actually is in the universe.
The secondary reason for this change (though it is what pushed me to
actually get around to making this change) is the greater stat-panel
removal. This hopes to lessen the dependence on the stat panel for
station-time by making it easier to understand, and the end-goal I have
is for this information to be limited to Admins & the AI (AI will get
the IC version with the accurate year), so until that happens I would
like to improve the use of station-time by making it consistent (for
example, you should only care for PT for IC, which is also what your PDA
displays), so that when it gets removed it won't leave players timeless.
If you haven't already, and is interested in helping remove the stat
panel, every entry that needs to be removed can be found here -
https://hackmd.io/443_dE5lRWeEAp9bjGcKYw?view
Closes https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/issues/94988
## Changelog
🆑
del: Removed Station Time, now we use NST (Nanotrasen Standard Time),
which is IRL server time +540 years, and PT (Pay Time), the amount of
time since the round has started.
del: Station nightshift is now a Station event rather than being based
on Server time.
balance: Time circuit's Unit of Measure now tells the amount of time in
hour/minute/seconds rather than giving the whole time translated to
hours/minutes/seconds.
qol: Added a 12-hour clock pref for people who prefer it.
qol: Hovering over NST timestamps on official documents will now
translate how much it is in PT/Shift Time.
admin: Admins can now use style/class/background in their papercode.
/🆑
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Co-authored-by: Isratosh <Isratosh@hotmail.com>
## About The Pull Request
https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/pull/95111 introduced code that
threw me off a bit and felt like a bug.
If your physique is set to 'Use Gender', and you change your gender to
plural, for some reason it edits your physique pref to 'Female' each
time. Which leads to a disorienting user experience as you would expect
the physique to change back to male when clicking the male gender icon.
except it never will until you update your physique pref, which on a lot
of codebases you have to scroll down far to find and likely wouldn't see
changing in real time.
I don't see why it's necessary to touch the prefs when the
apply_to_human code already handles everything related to defaulting to
'female' physique.
<details><summary>before (note the Body Type setting on the right hand
side)</summary>
<img width="586" height="397" alt="dreamseeker_F6LzOphJkn"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/ba87bba1-b3cd-4744-82fd-24185eb4b31f"
/>
</details>
<details><summary>after</summary>
<img width="654" height="583" alt="9Inr4Xbh3b"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/e5f78417-5886-48e9-ad56-0ce191b45095"
/>
</details>
## Why It's Good For The Game
Prefs which are located in separate panes shouldn't be rewriting
themselves automatically like this. Better UX
## Changelog
🆑
fix: changing your gender choice in character prefs no longer modifies
your physique preference
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
It was me I broke it
## Why It's Good For The Game
Unchecking this should actually hide mismatched parts
## Proof Of Testing
Yes
## Changelog
🆑
fix: fixed mismatched parts toggle doing nothing
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Adds a helper `SStts.random_tts_voice(gender)` which attempts to pick an
appropriate voice for the passed gender
## Why It's Good For The Game
Randomization into a completely wrong voice kinda ruins it
## Changelog
🆑 Melbert
qol: TTS voice is more appropriately randomized to gender
qol: Getting randomized through means such as mulligan toxin randomizes
TTS voices
/🆑
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Co-authored-by: Watermelon914 <37270891+Watermelon914@users.noreply.github.com>
## About The Pull Request
1. Underclothes have all been repathed as
`/datum/sprite_accessory/clothing`
2. Underclothes now have support for GAGS. Currently it ONLY supports
static GAGS colors, ie only preset colors, however prefs support could
easily be added in the future
3. Uses the GAGS support to implement the existing digitigrade
templating system for some undergarmants - lizards will use a generic
template for their underclothings when applicable
Example
<img width="169" height="124" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/30b6689b-13a4-4cf9-811c-0d5d0bd5da59"
/>
## Why It's Good For The Game
Existing undergarmants look really jank on lizards
<img width="170" height="140" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/de0704e0-d403-4bdb-a4c5-432d704b9c99"
/>
<img width="118" height="102" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/7ec47327-c2a9-4a90-aab5-fb57105d5111"
/>
I would like to solve this, and well... the two solutions are "we force
lizards to run around naked" or "we use the cool templating system". The
latter seemed preferable
<img width="165" height="125" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/6a8e4225-10a4-4044-9a12-c220713cd613"
/>
I did yoink the template from the jumpsuit template so it might look too
similar, might need to tweak it
## Changelog
🆑 Melbert
add: Some undergarmants will now use a generic replacement on lizard
body shapes that fit more appropriately
refactor: Refactored how undergarmants generate their icons, report any
oddities with that
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
I want to do stuff with parallax (like placing stuff in the backdrop and
moving it around), but I'm in my not doing 100 things in one pr arc so
we're doing this piecemeal.
To start, I wanted to try adding oldspace back as a parallax layer. This
is something I was considering when it was first removed but never got
around to, so here we are.
I started by [writing a rust
program](https://github.com/LemonInTheDark/old_space_gen) to fabricate
the required icon state, then realized that all the different parts of
space have their own animation delays. There's no way I could make one
icon state with all them looping, so instead I split them up into
multiple components and then overlayed them together.
This works, but is infeasible (my gpu died) at the scale required for
parallax (17 480x480 sets, 15 unique delays per 1 set) so I used render
targets to render one copy, then mirror it to the rest of the overlays.
This works wonderfully, and gets us down to (on my machine) a gpu cost
comprable with about medium parallax intensity.
I'm open to making these tile bound but I thought making them look "far
away" feels better.
In the process of all this I got very mad at the existing parallax code,
soooooooo
Parallax layers are no longer stored on the client, they are stored on
and managed by the parallax home atom that holds them for display. Said
atom also tracks all the information about how they are selected.
Parallax layers no longer take a hud as input, instead expecting a
client. (we were just swapping them back and forth and I thought it was
dumb).
Parallax no longer tries to support passing in a mob that does not
actually own the hud it is displayed on. This feature wasn't even being
used anymore because it was fully broken, so all it was doing was making
the code worse.
Parallax no longer has to do a full refresh anytime something about WHAT
layers are displayed might have changed. We cache based off the
variables we care about, and use the change in state to determine what
should happen (this is improved by moving "rendering the layers" fully
to the control of the home datum).
Parallax no longer directly modifies the hud's plane masters, instead
relying on trait based signals to manipulate them (this avoids wasted
time in the common event of a needless parallax prefs check).
Parallax no longer has 2 procs that are only called together to
"remove/readd/update" the layers, instead doing both in a new check()
proc.
Cleans up some plane master cruft to do with tracking/managing huds
(might break, tested, think it's fine).
## Why It's Good For The Game
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/79138a0f-9f6d-447d-843e-0d237db13276
## Changelog
🆑
add: Added an option for rendering space parallax with old space sprites
(the ones from before we invented parallax), they're animated and I feel
quite pretty.
fix: Space parallax should hopefully behave a little more consistently
now
refactor: Rewrote a lot of how space parallax handled itself, please
yell at me if any bugs make themselves known
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
- The `prosthetic replacement` surgical operation has been reverted to
be closer to how it used to work: The operation is done targeting the
limb that's missing
The change was made out of necessity, as surgical state was tied to
limbs - you had to operate on the chest to re-attach limbs because there
was no limb to operate on.
To circumvent that, I have done the unthinkable of adding stumps when
you are dismembered.
- Missing limbs are now represented as an invisible, un-removable,
un-interactable limb.
Making this change was not as difficult as originally anticipated, and
(at least surface level) seems to have broken very little.
Surprisingly little had to change to make this work.
Direct accesses to `mob.bodyparts` was changed to `mob.get_bodyparts()`
with an optional `include_stumps` argument.
Similarly, `get_bodypart()` had an optional `include_stumps` added.
This means we ultimately barely needed to change anything, and in fact,
some loops/checks were able to be streamlined.
## Why It's Good For The Game
- As mentioned, this change was out of necessity and was easily the
least intuitive part of the broader changes. Reverting it back to how it
used to work should make it far easier for people to pick up on, and
means we can cut out a bunch of bespoke instruction sets that I had to
include.
- The addition of stumps also adds a ton of future potential - code wise
it allows for stuff like better damage tracking (we can transfer damage
between limb <-> stump rather than limb <-> chest), and feature we can
do "fun" stuff like have stumps bleed on dismemberment that you can
bandage.
## Changelog
🆑 Melbert
del: "Add prosthetic limb" surgical operation has been reverted to be a
bit closer to how it used to work - you operate on the missing limb /
limb stump, rather than on the chest.
refactor: Missing limbs are now represented as limb stumps. In practice
this should change nothing (for now), as no features were rewritten to
make use of these besides surgery. Please report any oddities with
missing limbs, however.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Ports some bags for roundstart selection from Nova Sector. Same amount
of space as any other bag ever.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Cool bags. Different aesthetics, if desired.
## Proof Of Testing
works on my machine or something. Screenshot below.
<details>
<summary>Screenshots/Videos</summary>
<img width="1287" height="735" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/d7ecf201-1442-4f80-99cd-a116ea04de51"
/>
</details>
## Changelog
🆑
add: Front pack, waist pack and belt pack for selection in character
preferences, found under the regular bag selection. Despite the names,
still equipped on your back.
image: Supporting sprites for the new roundstart bags
/🆑
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Co-authored-by: Waterpig <49160555+Majkl-J@users.noreply.github.com>
## About The Pull Request
An easy point for https://hackmd.io/443_dE5lRWeEAp9bjGcKYw?view
Status bar is now a preference instead of a verb in OOC.
I thought I would have to make a migration for this but then I found out
this is straight up just a client verb and doesn't persist through
rounds, so I'm adding that too ig.
## Why It's Good For The Game
This is literally just a pref but as a verb for some reason.
## Changelog
🆑
qol: The Status bar is now a preference instead of a verb in the OOC
tab, which means you can permanently turn it off if you're not a fan (or
use tooltips instead)
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Converts species and antagonist icon generation to the batched
spritesheet system using IconForge, thanks to the new
`get_flat_uni_icon` implementation. Unfortunately the cost of *building*
the sprite is still expensive (GFI is always expensive, even a fancy
list-based one), but the generation is SIGNIFICANTLY faster. We will see
evidence of parity in the screenshot tests. but here:
<img width="892" height="634" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/2a17f2e3-c024-41f6-9d1e-c2cb70642a81"
/>
The main advantage is that species and antag icons can now take
advantage of the development-time smart cache which invalidates
automatically. On the server this PR does very little except make antag
icon generation a little bit more likely to find and announce errors
(BYOND has a habit of silently eating weird icon proc calls).
Also optimizes the greyscale preview generator from #90940 (~2x speedup)
using `rustg_iconforge_generate_headless` instead of `Insert()` to build
the resulting sheets. This can be further optimized in the future by
implementing a smart cache, like batched spritesheets, and storing it in
the repo, but for now it's not important/slow enough to be worth the
effort. Also fixes a silent compilation error that would always happen
outside unit tests, but for some reason doesn't appear on local? Notice
how `map_icon_key` is not a defined variable anywhere. That's because
`USE_RUSTG_ICONFORGE_GAGS` is *never* defined at this point, so it was
always using the 'slow' generation.
I also took the liberty of cleaning up the cultist and heretic icon
generation randomly initializing a blade object when it could just use a
static access.
## Why It's Good For The Game
The subsystem timing may not be much faster, but the interactivity
benefits during spritesheet realization are undeniable. Opening the
preferences menu during init on local is orders of magnitude faster.
**Old**
Early Assets: 5.02 seconds
Greyscale Previews: 1.38 seconds
**Fresh (No Cache)**
Early Assets: 4.21 seconds
Greyscale Previews: 0.5 seconds
**Cache Invalidated**
Early Assets: 4.27 seconds
**Cache Hit**
Early Assets: 4.05~4.2 seconds
**Preferences lag:**
~6 sec to open to ~2 sec to open due to caching in dev
## Changelog
🆑
code: Optimized species and antagonist icon loading in the preferences
menu on local, speeding up time to open in development.
fix: GAGS map preview generation no longer silently errors outside of
unit tests due to a compilation error.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Port of https://github.com/Monkestation/Monkestation2.0/pull/10634
simply makes it so updating a character preference that is unrelated to
character appearance won't regenerate/update the character preview, by
adding a `should_update_preview` var to `/datum/preference`.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Avoids wasting precious tick time on regenerating a whole-ass human and
equipping them when you're just changing your PDA ringtone or whatever.
## Changelog
No player-facing changes, as well, none of these affect appearance
anyways.
## About The Pull Request
Ghosts now have runechat between eachother and when the round's over.
Taken from https://github.com/Monkestation/Monkestation2.0/pull/797
## Why It's Good For The Game
It makes for better screenshots and for messages to not be drowned out
between ghost convo.
## Changelog
🆑 dwasint
qol: Ghosts now have runechat.
/🆑
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Co-authored-by: Jordan Dominion <jordanhcbrown+github@gmail.com>
## About The Pull Request
A very small change that slightly improves the keybinds section by
changing the word "Unbound" to "...", also known as the
[ellipses](https://www.thepunctuationguide.com/ellipses.html).
This PR only changes string names, no other mechanics, so everything
else _should_ be working normally. Every string in the code matching
"Unbound" has been changed, including one comment for clarity.
There doesn't seem to be any issue with existing custom keybinds. All of
mine transferred seamlessly, so no one should need to redo their
keybinds.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Better visibility. Rather than playing 'find the numpad bind' scrolling
through a long list of ~100 keybinds, they show up a little easier now.
This is also the standard in other games, but not always an ellipses -
sometimes a double dash "--", but I figured there's already a dash "-"
bind by default (for the A.I. to reconnect to its shell) so the ellipses
might fit better. The ellipses is also commonly used for "awaiting
input" of some kind.
## Changelog
🆑
qol: Keybinding visual improvements: "Unbound" is grayed out and custom
binds are highlighted in green for better visibility
/🆑
This is not politics. Having it be set as not `MALE` or `FEMALE` causes
unsolvable inconsistencies in the code because everything assumes "if
not MALE, then FEMALE" or vice versa.
- Migrated "Use gender" enby body types to female (alert user when this
happens).
- Disabled "Use gender" in prefs menu when enby.
🆑
fix: Fixed some inconsistencies with bodytypes when non-binary genders
had it set to "Use gender". This is no longer possible. If you use have
previously used this setting, your bodytype will be explicitly set to
female.
/🆑
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Co-authored-by: Jordan Dominion <Cyberboss@users.noreply.github.com>
## About The Pull Request
Deletes `can_hear`, replaces it with trait-checking deafness.
The only two non-trait sources of deafness (hardcrit and lacking ears)
were refactored into using the trait.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Many places inconsistently check for the deaf trait rather than use
can_hear which meant behavior was not consistent.
Some code would treat "do we lack ears?" as being deaf, some would not.
This unifies all the behavior so being deaf means you're deaf
everywhere.
It also means we can now easily react to gaining and losing deafness via
signal, where before we could not react to it without hooking the trait,
organ remove, AND stat change. Which no one did, of course, because who
would ever think to do that?
## Changelog
🆑 Melbert
refactor: Refactored how deafness is tracked. Please report any weird
interactions with sounds, like messages or sfx being missing.
fix: Lacking ears and being in hard crit now consistently treats you as
"being deaf". This affects a few minor interactions like empath, the
jukebox, and sleeping.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Makes you able to see one extra tile to the left/right, making it feel
as if you have a wider screen. But you can also keep the original 19x15
if you want.
## Why It's Good For The Game
I feel like it looks better? Less square? Mode modern and widescreen?
idk. I feel like people will generally like this.
If you think it doesn't look better? stick with 19x15, the choice is
yours.
<details>
<summary>Before</summary>
<img width="1258" height="989" alt="afbeelding"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/3a7b259c-bd22-4fbd-94f5-6257d2c13772"
/>
</details>
<details>
<summary>After</summary>
<img width="1384" height="989" alt="afbeelding"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/bdebd573-4920-4cc1-b7be-9d99ef961062"
/>
</details>
## Proof Of Testing
With chatbar because someone told me they were worried the chatbox would
be too small with the change
<details>
<summary>After with chatbar</summary>
<img width="1920" height="1080" alt="afbeelding"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/55ca42ae-391d-4d38-9069-730669f53c9a"
/>
</details>
<details>
<summary>Before with chatbar</summary>
<img width="1919" height="1030" alt="afbeelding"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/34b443ea-ffaa-49b7-97d4-baef56f67f01"
/>
</details>
## Changelog
🆑
add: There's a new widescreen dropdown within game preferences, letting
you pick between 15x15 (4x3), 19x15 (widescreen), and 21x15 (ultrawide)
/🆑
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Co-authored-by: LT3 <83487515+lessthnthree@users.noreply.github.com>
## About The Pull Request
Adds a slider to the gameplay tab which allows users to control the size
of the emissive bloom.
## Why It's Good For The Game
This is mostly visual and doesn't have a noticeable performance impact,
but some people might find it distracting or might want a stronger bloom
for prettier lights.
## Changelog
🆑
qol: Added a preference to adjust emissive bloom size
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
This defaults every tgui to fancy mode and removes the preference
entirely.
## Why It's Good For The Game
If you look through the code you'll find comments like these
> //some browsers (IE8) have trouble with unsupported css3 elements that
break the panel's functionality, so we won't load those if a user is in
no frills tgui mode since that's for similar compatability support
We're far and away from IE8, therefore our need for compatibility
support, so I think it's valid to remove this so called 'no frills tgui
mode'. It's tied into the event message system with every backend
update, so there's a tad less overhead.
## Changelog
🆑
del: TGUI now defaults to fancy mode, there is only fancy mode. Welcome
to the future.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Port of https://github.com/shiptest-ss13/Shiptest/pull/3330
Partial port of https://github.com/shiptest-ss13/Shiptest/pull/1601
Makes two changes to how guns handle recoil.
- Changes recoil from an erratic shaking to a kicking of your screen
relative to your firing angle
- Adds a small cosmetic recoil to all ballistics (with an accompanying
pref option to tweak or disable it)
Primary recoil still is only used as a balance lever for a very small
handful of guns (and sawoff)
## Why It's Good For The Game
Cosmetic recoil makes guns feel a lot more punchier. People who think
its a competitive disadvantage (nerds/loosers) or people with a
legitimate sickness to screen shake or similar can just turn it off.
Old recoil was just reused explosion, while new recoil feels like its
actually recoil
## About The Pull Request
Moves eyes to there own folder and makes it so they state there icon
folder rather then it being hard coded
## Why It's Good For The Game
It felt weird that these are lumped into a file that's mostly hair and
that its hard-coded like this. This makes it easier to sort out icons.
(Thinly veiled downstream support)
## Changelog
N/A
## About The Pull Request
1. Stairs are now on the floor plane, meaning they don't have AO and
blend in with turfs
2. Stairs now blend with adjacent stairs, forming a contiguous sprite
3. There is now a visual indicator that stairs will take you up in the
form of an arrow - The arrow appears when within three tiles and only
appears if the stairs can actually take you up.
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/d941a312-9470-4d2a-95f0-a1834adf0212
## Why It's Good For The Game
1. The common method of making stairs (stair objects on stair turfs)
looks ugly due to AO
2. Stair turfs have these sprites but not the objects themselves
3. Given stairs now blend in better, I figured there should be a proper
indicator that stairs exist. Helps with fake stair confusion
## Changelog
🆑 Melbert
qol: Stairs now have an indicator that stepping beyond them will take
you upwards. You can disable it in accessibility settings if desired.
image: Stairs blend in and together better.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Despite what the code comments said we can rename them and we should
because they make no sense
## Why It's Good For The Game
The save file keys for cat features should have cat in the name and not
human
## Changelog
🆑
server: renamed feature_human_ears and feature_human_tail to
feature_cat_ears and feature_cat_tail respectively
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Rather than having 100 separate list variables on `SSaccessories`, have
1 list for all feature keys that are associated with sprite accessories
This way you can get a feature by doing
`SSaccessories.feature_list[key]`, instead of necessitating
`SSaccessories.ears_list`, `SSaccessories.tail_list`, etc.
This lets us cut back on a lot of boilerplate in prefs, dna, and organs
## Why It's Good For The Game
We can see the benefit in this example: This is all the code for horn
DNA, bodypart overlay, and preference
```dm
/datum/dna_block/feature/accessory/horn
feature_key = FEATURE_HORNS
```
```dm
/datum/bodypart_overlay/mutant/horns
layers = EXTERNAL_ADJACENT
feature_key = FEATURE_HORNS
dyable = TRUE
/datum/bodypart_overlay/mutant/horns/can_draw_on_bodypart(obj/item/bodypart/bodypart_owner)
return !(bodypart_owner.owner?.obscured_slots & HIDEHAIR)
```
```dm
/datum/preference/choiced/species_feature/lizard_horns
savefile_key = "feature_lizard_horns"
savefile_identifier = PREFERENCE_CHARACTER
category = PREFERENCE_CATEGORY_FEATURES
main_feature_name = "Horns"
should_generate_icons = TRUE
relevant_organ = /obj/item/organ/horns
/datum/preference/choiced/species_feature/lizard_horns/icon_for(value)
return generate_lizard_side_shot(get_accessory_for_value(value), "horns")
```
## Changelog
🆑 Melbert
refactor: Refactored species unique organs slightly, particularly how
they are set up at game start. Report any oddities, like invisible tails
or wings
/🆑
---------
Co-authored-by: Ghom <42542238+Ghommie@users.noreply.github.com>
## About The Pull Request
discussed in #93439, a generic proc for getting a list of all types
minus abstract types.
applies this to most instances of a for loop that currently filters out
abstract types
it SHOULD be a nothing burger for performance, however I have not bench
marked the difference. (also testing, there is a total of 7 calls in
init to it)
## About The Pull Request
Ready for merge post review
No gameplay balance changes, just better AI expression options and
polished interfaces for doing so.
- Adds 32 AI Core animation sprites to the AI status screens as a player
choice
- Gives two new menus to change status displays or core display with
TGUI
- Fixes Friend Computer emote incorrectly affecting evacuation displays
- Special mention to MrMelbert who gave a few very useful points as I
embraced TGUI suffering :)
<img width="1500" height="750" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/fbae0ea9-5220-4cf9-9fa0-c5f0385f9e52"
/>
<img width="1746" height="821" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/f1c08fdf-8dc8-44eb-b7cd-cd86f9b8f903"
/>
There is also a new verb under "AI Commands"
<img width="433" height="127" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/2cd69b71-7a0c-4199-959e-acd4de9d5dad"
/>
<img width="364" height="528" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/e083784e-8251-4a55-a9e2-e27e53dfa780"
/>
## Why It's Good For The Game
- Allows AI players to express themselves more in round / stand out more
- Now it is a TGUI menu, Much easier to see what is available and change
mid round as needed.
- We had talented Spriters make these and now more players can see them
## Changelog
🆑
qol: New verb in "AI commands" to update AI display status
fix: Stopped "Friend Computer" emotion affecting evac displays instead
of just AI displays
code: Replaced radial wheel for AI status or AI core display with TGUI
menus
image: AIs can now update their status displays with way more graphics
to match core display options onto the TVs.
/🆑
---------
Co-authored-by: loganuk <falseemail@aol.com>
## About The Pull Request
- [ ] I tested this pr
Adds "Midround Mass Traitors" and "Midround Mass Changelings" heavy
rulesets
Midround Mass Traitors will turn a number of the crew into sleeper
agents
Midround Mass Lings will spawn a number of changeling meteors
BY DEFAULT:
- Traitors will spawn 2-4 sleeper agents
- Lings will spawn 2-3 changeling meteors
- They won't run without >=2 candidates
- They have no config blacklist (so the HoP can roll mass midround
traitor, despite not being able to roll normal midround traitor. However
default blacklisted roles like security officers are still blocked)
- They're weighted impossible on tier 0, same weight as most midrounds
on tier 1, and fairly high on tiers 2 and 3
- They're repeatable but very unlikely to repeat
- Significantly higher min pop brackets than their solo counter part
## Why It's Good For The Game
Adds more options for lategame antags than big midrounds
## Changelog
🆑 Melbert
add: Two new heavy dynamic rulesets: "Midround Mass Traitors" and
"Midround Mass Changelings"
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Heretic has received a complete overhaul. This PR touches nearly every
aspect of the antagonist. For readability's sake, not every change is
going to be listed in this pull request.
For the full list of changes please refer to the design doc:
https://hackmd.io/@BiST8PJVRjiwVPY86U3bLQ/B11HyChz1g.
Code by Me, @Xander3359 and @Arturlang
TGUI by @Arturlang
Sprites by OrcaCora and GregorDM
Writing bits by @necromanceranne
### Core changes
- Cross-pathing has been removed. Main knowledge spells are now
exclusive to their path (for the most part).
- For every main knowledge unlocked (save for the robes and the blade
upgrade), Heretics can choose one option from a draft of 3 random side
knowledges (this is a free point).
- Heretics can now purchase side knowledges from a new tab, the
"Knowledge Shop". Side-knowledges have been divided by tier (Stealth,
Defense, Summons, Combat and Main). Tiers are unlocked as you progress
toward your main path.
- Heretics now gain the grasp and mark upgrade immediately, but their
main knowledge choices cost twice as much (except for the first spell,
the robes and the blade upgrade).
- Path specific robes have been introduced! They come with their own set
of quirks.
- Each Path has received a passive ability. This passive is upgraded
when you first create your robes, and again when you complete the Ritual
of Knowledge.
- Paths have been rebalanced as a result of the removal of cross-path
progression. Cosmic and Moon paths have received soft reworks.
- Upon unlocking the path 2nd level or reaching a total of 8 points
worth of knowledge, Heretics will lose the ability to blade break (and
the limit on blades all together).
- Ascension now automatically calls the shuttle with no possibility of a
recall.
- Late join Heretic has been removed.
### New UI
<img width="750" height="635" alt="moon path ui"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/184ef783-5c9c-48a1-a2f7-4807ca93e990"
/>
### Knowledge shop
<img width="787" height="669" alt="Knowledge shop"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/3dc89b84-8c70-4d47-b612-54396e3ea6e7"
/>
### Quality of life //General balance changes
- Heretics will now gain X-ray vision for a few seconds when nearby an
eldritch essence (this effect has a cooldown).
- Ritual of knowledge now requires 1 uncommon item instead of 2. You may
now use a stunprod instead of a baton to complete the ritual. Beartraps
have been removed from the list of possible reagents.
- The maximum number of possible sacrifices required to ascend has been
reduced from 6 to 5 while the minimum has been upped to 4.
- Codex Cicatrix no longer requires a special pen to be made.
### Passive abilities
- Heretics now start with a passive ability. You can find what it does
on the path info tab after a path has been selected, and what they gain
when upgraded.
- Crafting your first set of Eldritch robes will bump your passive to
level 2.
- Unlocking the 2nd level will subsequently unlock your "Ritual Of
Knowledge"
- Completing the ritual of knowledge or ascending will net you the final
level.
### Path Specific Robes
- Armorer's Ritual is no longer a side knowledge. Each path will have
their own unique version of the ritual. This is placed after the 2nd
spell in the tree.
- Robes can no longer be destroyed by fire and acid, grant t4 flash
protection (Moth Heretics stay winning) and protection against basic
syringes, to bring them on par with other antagonist's armor sets.
- The recipe to craft the robes is now a set of armor/vest, a mask (any
mask will do now, not just gas masks), plus the unique reagent required
for the blades (Plasma for Cosmic, Trash For Rust, match for Ash and so
on)
- Wearing the robes as a non-heretic may yield some unfortunate
side-effects.
### Moon Path Rework
Moon path rework.
Moon Heretics gain immunity to brain traumas and slowly regenerate brain
health. Equipping the moon amulette channels its effects through the
moon blade; making it unblockable and cause sanity damage instead of
brute. Ring leader's Rise now summons an army of harmless clones that
explode when attacked; the explosion briefly stuns non-heretics and
cause sanity and brain damage to them. Moon blade can also now be used
when pacified and Moon spells are no longer blocked by regular anti
magic, only mind magic protection.
**Cosmic Path Rework**
Cosmic path has received the biggest batch of changes alongside Moon.
The path has been dead last in ascension and pickrate (less than 5%) for
almost 2 years. It did gain some popularity over the last few months,
reaching the highest ascension rate in the game (12%) while mantaining a
relatively low pickrate.
Cosmic sits in a weird spot, where pretty much every knowledge
surrounding the path is either mediocre or, in the case of the
ascension, dysfunctional. Yet it has maintained a smidge of relevancy
due to how quickly Cosmic heretics can capture and sacrifice targets
thanks to Star Touch.
As a result, the best course of action would be to rebalance the
entirety of the kit; granting the heretic more tools to manipulate space
and dictate the flow of a fight, while lessening their ability to end a
confrontation by instantly sleeping their opponents.
lastly The Star Gazer is now ghost controlled ; And they shoot lazers!
<img width="636" height="451" alt="gazer gag 3"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/601d6881-c042-4e42-8ce6-ac90cd27848b"
/>
## Why It's Good For The Game
### Ok...but why do we want this?
Again, if you want my full reasoning, please check my doc
https://hackmd.io/@BiST8PJVRjiwVPY86U3bLQ/B11HyChz1g.
To keep it short and concise; Heretic is too complex and unintuitive for
its own good. Too impenetrable for new players and too abusable for
experienced players. This can be chalked up to a lot of poor design
decisions. But ultimately, what I believe being the biggest contributor
to the current status of Heretic is the ability to move into different
paths, also known as "Cross-Pathing".
### Cross Pathing my beloathed.
Cross-pathing, while cool in theory, overcomplicates the antagonist and
overloads them with power. Players dealing with the heretic are
incapable of working out what a given heretic can do. This also leads to
late game heretics having 3 rows Worth of action buttons and virtually
no weakness.
Over the last year, I've often received the understandable but also kind
of unfair accusations of making Heretic too powerful without a clear aim
or purpose.
My goal with the paths I've reworked over the last year (Rust,Void and
Blade) wasn't necessarily to just make them stronger (although that was
also part of the goal, as they were paths that were underperforming),
but for them to have more interactions with the sandbox and to better
live up to the fantasy presented to the player.
If an harbringer of frost gets countered by a cup of coffee, we probably
messed something up.
Unfortunately, the current incarnation of Heretic doesn't really allow
for surgical balance changes to specific paths. Every time a knowledge
gets buffed, we make every path that can easily tap onto that knowledge
stronger by default. It doesn't take a genius to understand why this
system is ultimately unsustainable.
### Blade Breaking
I feel that after a heretic has reached the near peak of their power,
they no longer need the ability to instantly escape any encounter. Check
my doc for my full reasoning.
## Less versatile, more specialized paths.
By removing cross-pathing, we remove a huge maintainability burden from
the antagonist. Paths can now be designed around clearer strengths and
weaknesses. They become easier to balance and less of an headache to
understand for everyone.
It also means we can give paths some needed quality of life quirks
without having to worry how such a change might have a knock-on effect
for other paths.
Ash heretics can finally let loose without dying by their own flames.
Cosmic Heretic can go to space without having to carry a modsuit. Moon
Heretic can use their abilities without fear of one random trauma
ruining their day, and so on.
### What a horrible night to have a curse...., wait how do I curse
people again?
As of right now the heretic tree has quite a hefty amount of trinkets
that pretty much never see use.
Partly because the tree itself is a nightmare to navigate. And partly
because why would anyone set up an elaborate plan or scheme when they
can unleash 2 rows of spell in the span of bunch of seconds.
Heretics mostly gravitate towards powers that push them towards greater,
more potent combat strength. If it doesn't contribute to killing people
quicker, it isn't worth doing for most. And given the opportunity cost
associated for taking those powers, they will remain that way so long as
there are better choices to be poached.
The new draft system encourages Heretics to play more with the tools at
their disposal. If you want to go for a specific combo from the side
path options, you may now do so by tapping into the knowledge shop.
Yes, the shop does include a few knowledges from the other paths. But
these are limited to 1 per path, are very expensive and can only be
unlocked very late into the shift.
## Drip Of the Mansus
The iconic heretic robe is actually sequestered to a side path that is
most easily access by only two paths at a time. Since heretic paths are
being made to be much more specialized, the most obvious way in which
this can be showcased is through an easily
identifiable outfit.
By using the robes, we can both telegraph WHAT heretic you are looking
at, and just how much power they've accumulated and when it is
reasonable to take the kid gloves off and treat them as a genuine
threat. If a heretic is in their
robes, that heretic is now a significantly more prominent danger to the
station.
It also serves as a useful means for gating some of the more powerful
effects of a heretic's path behind the robes, AND enable options for
disarming them of that power should they be captured without making it
something endemic to their mob.
A major problem with heretics is a lack of certainty as to how powerful
they have become. A heretics robes is one of the milestones to help
players dealing with heretics identify that.
### Will this be 100% fair and balanced?
This is a massive overhaul to a pretty complex and bloated antagonist.
I've done my best to show the changes to several maintainers and other
members of the community for their feedback. But at some point we'll
have to see how this behave in the environment to get a feel if
something is over or undertuned. (that's my way of saying, yes this is
likely gonna require a testmerge or two).
What I will say is that I'm not trying to change the core identity of
Heretic.
Heretics should have the upperhand in single encounters early on, be
able to joust a small group of players after they unlock their final
spell, and end the round when they ascend. They're a progression
antagonist. They should retain their payoff as well as pose a danger as
they grow stronger.
But if more players feel like they are more reliably able to play the
antagonist in more varied and interesting ways, rather than the
antagonist largely existing as a measuring stick for 'robustness' due to
its elitist design philosophy, then the rework has been a success. There
should be something for
everyone in the antagonist, as is true for all of our antagonist roles.
## About The Pull Request
Just a simple find + replace PR. All the other tail defines match their
text strings, but for some reason cat tails are just `FEATURE_TAIL`
which is inconsistent.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Consistency, + a lot of downstreams have a generic "tail" feature key
which is distinct from cat tails, so not taking up that define is
better.
## Changelog
Nothing any players would notice
## About The Pull Request
When more Felinid ear styles were added, no one updated the jank old
randomization code
When Felinid ears were refactored, no one updated the jank old
randomization code
Sooo let's do that shall we?
1. Species `get_mut_organs` -> `get_organs`, it gets gets all organs the
mob has anyways
2. Prefs `relevant_external_organ` -> `relevant_organ`, it applies to
any organ type
3. Del organ `preference`, the preference itself handles it via
`relevant_organ`
## Changelog
🆑 Melbert
fix: Felinids will randomize their ear type properly
/🆑
shayoki