## About The Pull Request
I didn't realize that default aggro range for mobs is 9, so tendrils
would try to attack you with their whips and spikes despite you being
completely out of their range, which looks pretty funny.
I've fixed this by separating out aggro ***grab*** range and aggro
sustain ranges, lowering latter to 5 for tendrils, and adding checks for
target distance for both abilities it has. The Thing also had a similar
behavior but used rather jank code for that (which I don't think even
worked), so I've modified it to use the new system as well.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Stationary mobs probably shouldn't try to attack mobs completely out of
their reach
## Changelog
🆑
fix: Tendrils no longer try to attack you when you're out of their reach
code: Cleaned up The Thing's aggro code
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
I thought megafauna were hard to refactor into simple mobs, and they
kinda are, but also enough work has been done on them through various
refactors (e.g. mob abilities) that it's not _too_ bad, but I didn't
really relish working on it.
Regardless, it's refactored! A few more of the ol' simple mobs flushed
down the toilet, with a bunch more features to make porting over more
`megafauna` to the basic mob's `boss` framework even simpler. There's
some weird patterns that are introduced in here to better fit the old
system's parity, but I don't really mind having done that since it's
more important to get stuff out of the simple mob framework and into
something a bit easier to work with and extend.
Here are all of the changes I can recall having made:
* A lot of the documentation regarding the blood drunk miner did not
actually meet reality. The current refactor reflects what the code was
actually doing, not what was documented.
* The code regarding using the saw's `melee attack chain` stuff wasn't
changed. Sorry but I can't even start to unravel that, I just overrode
the whole attack thing because it's not really incorporable from what I
was finding.
* Basic mobs operate differently than simple mobs, thus this mob will be
"harder" for a shorter amount of time as people are not used to the
current timings/pathfinding behavior/cooldowns/etc. of the modern blood
drunk miner. The overall difficulty didn't feel too different to me in
my playtesting, but changes can certainly be made if someone can tell me
which variable to fix.
* Basic Bosses now appear in the orbit menu as mob POIs, parity with
megafauna
* Basic Bosses can now use the boss music component.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Cleans up the code by incorporating it into a modern framework that
already accounts for a lot of the stuff that was taken for granted 8-9
years ago when this was first implemented, and tries to keep any
possible number the same in doing so. Should be much easier to add new
graphics or overhaul the boss's AI to transform it into something even
more interesting should someone choose to do so.
Let me know if I fucked up with signals/ai behavior patterns/etc.
somewhere as it's been a while since I touched this stuff and I had to
clean out a lot of cobwebs in my brain to get to this implementation.
## Changelog
🆑
balance: Miners Beware: Blood Drunk Miners have been refactored into
basic mobs. This means their timings and such may be a bit more
unpredictable than what you're used to. The difficulty should be about
the same, but do approach with caution lest you get devoured...
/🆑
Hopefully more people can pitch in with refactoring megafauna now... not
too bad anymore after I fixed some of the jank...
## About The Pull Request
It was removed in https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/pull/27799
because the spear was broken and the Flans' AI sucked with not-great
sprites and was all just one big reference. Original addition:
https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/pull/22270
This re-adds it, updates the map (now using airless turfs) with extra
ambiance, using ash whelps (lavaland variation of ice whelps) instead of
Flans, re-adds the spear, and adds armor as well this time around.
The spear gives you a jump ability to crash down upon a player below
you, rather than teleporting to wherever you throw the spear at. You
can't attack while mid-air, you can go through tables but not
walls/doors, and you also can't un-dualwield or drop the spear mid-jump.
Landing on a mob deals double damage to them (36 to unarmored people),
while landing on objects deals 150 damage to them (taken from savannah's
jump ability, which was in turn taken from hulk's punching)
It's also got some extra throw force (24 compared to default spear's 20)
The armor has basic security-level armor but covers your whole body.
Does not include space protection, and can be worn by Ian.
Video demonstration
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a77c3a0d-17d2-4e8d-88b6-cdbca8b1f2c3
New sprites demonstration
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/0e465351-5484-406f-8adc-ffa1ac180daf
Armor demonstration
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/abdfcac6-65bf-443c-bde2-27d157ee3a80
Map
With the changes in https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/pull/90771 I
had to mess with ash whelp abilities a bit, I decided to make them use
cold fire instead of hardcoding blue color on top of the fire sprites,
and it now acts accordingly too
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/cfca0d70-d13d-4c73-996d-2d4a7519866d
The jump was taken from Savannah Ivanov, and Goof's bunny jumping.
##### Code bounty by Ezel/Improvedname
## Why It's Good For The Game
This Re-implements a old spear that got removed for its buggyness/bad
mapping and on the authors request as well not wanting to deal with it.
Re-introduces the SkyBulge as a space ruin, referencing Dragoons from
Final Fantasy. this just like any normal spear, but using the savannah
jump mechanic, this allows you to close distances with the spear
avoiding ranged projectiles in the jump, and if you directly land on
your target you will do double the damage.
##### -Ezel/Improvedname
## Changelog
🆑 Ezel/Improvedname, Toriate, JohnFulpWillard
add: Re-added the Dragoon Tomb lair, now has a Skybulge spear and
Drachen armor.
balance: Ice whelps now spit out cold fire.
/🆑
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Co-authored-by: Jacquerel <hnevard@gmail.com>
## About The Pull Request
This PR removes the `basic_mob_attack_telegraph` component from all mobs
which were using it and instead implements an attack delay directly into
the basic melee AI behaviour.
This delay simulates "moving your mouse into position", human reaction
times, and the fact that the previous implentation of simple mobs would
only try to melee attack on a predictable timer you could "juke" around.
The way that this delay works is that it starts as soon as the mob
enters melee range and resets if you are ever out of the mob's reach, so
there will be no delay if you are foolish enough (or unfortunately
preventing from doing otherwise) to continue standing next to a mob but
there is enough of a one to duck in and out of melee range with a
goliath while using a crusher without getting hit, although trying to
run past one usually won't work.
This delay defaults to 0.3 seconds which in my testing experience was
roughly enough to dip in and out of range without getting hit but not
enough to run all the way past a mob without getting hit. It can be
overriden via the blackboard, although currently no mob does this.
I _was_ testing this locally with no latency though so I guess we'll
listen out to see if miners start yelling.
## Why It's Good For The Game
The visible attack broadcast is very cool but its visibility made melee
combat with any mob that had it significantly easier to such a degree
that any mob with it on could not really be expected to do melee damage
to any character that wasn't suffering some kind of immobilisation
effect which was never really the intention.
Removing it also removes any additional handicap that was applied to
sapient versions of these mobs, which was never really necessary or
intended in the first place.
I did not remove the component entirely from the game for two reasons:
- Out of the hope that there is some use for it somewhere, because I
think it's cool, but more importantly:
- Because it's still being used by simple mob megafauna as a workaround
for a bug we couldn't figure out.
## Changelog
🆑
balance: Most mobs will now hesitate for a moment before attacking
rather than instantly hitting anything that enters melee range, to
better simulate human behaviour. Please report if this delay seems too
short, or too long.
balance: Most mobs which telegraphed their basic attacks on you now will
not do that
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
The Thing will now aggro if you shoot it from outside its aggro range
The Thing will also return to its spawn location if one of these happens
(and it was spawned by map loading):
1. It has no client, is in a station area and loses enough health to
trigger a new phase
2. It spends 3 minutes with no aggro, if no client and is on its
spawn_loc
also adjusted the stuff in the loot room (thoughts needed, supposed to
be crew benefits)
there is a freezer with one set of tier 2 robotic organs, and there is
one set of advanced medical tools
also has an achievement now
## Why It's Good For The Game
it should try to obliterate you if shot at because cheesing it like this
is stupid
the ruin-spawned boss cannot and shouldnt be beat normally onstation
anyway, (and making it return to spawn loc also prevents it idling near
the aggression gate, pretty much missing out on the cool stuff i made
for that arena, fixes that
also the loot pool was actually pretty meh and im not sure if its any
better now but it should have more decent crew-sided loot (no miner swag
turbo-human-killer 900000 stuff)
i forgot to add an achievement when i made it
## Changelog
🆑
fix: The Thing (Outpost 31) will aggro if shot from outside aggro range,
has achievement
balance: the loot room in outpost 31 now contains a freezer with a set
of T2 robotic organs, and a set of advanced medical tools. Also The
Thing returns to its spawn location if not aggroed
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
tweaks some stats of The Thing as a boss to make it slightly more
bearable to fight specially for people with higher ping.
more specifically increasing some of the telegraphs' time and reducing
some wound chances, also halved the charge's knockdown time (1s to 0.5s)
also (i think) fixed an issue where the spike walls that the thing
summons destroy items on the floor (sucks ass to have your pkcrusher
destroyed)
## Why It's Good For The Game
the thing is one of if not the most fun megafauna added so far, as it's
the first basic mob boss, but it's a bit hard to keep up with specially
if you're a high ping player, the boss itself is also not in a
depressurized enviroment so i think it's justified to make it a bit
easier to dodge since some of the healing items miners have only work in
low pressure
## Changelog
🆑
balance: nerfed Icebox's "The Thing" boss
fix: fixed "The Thing" 's spike walls destroying items on the floor when
summoned
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
<details>
<summary> expand to spoil the fun of exploring something for yourself
</summary>
firstly, the new ruin: outpost 31
its layout is vaguely based off an official map of the Outpost 31 from
the Thing movie but i ran out of space halfway
the boss drops a keycard for the storage room that you cant get in
otherwise, containing its own special item, and other stuff probably
useful for crew
crusher loot: trophy that heals you on each hit
the ruin is guarded by like 3 flesh blobs, very resilient (and slow)
masses of flesh that deal 3 brute damage, not harmful in melee but WILL
attempt to grab and devour/assimilate you which is FAR more lethal
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/542cc6d0-f4ee-4598-9677-a03170c6c1c3
Boss: The Thing (with creative liberties otherwise this thing would
instakill you if it was true to source material)
difficulty: medium apparently idk mining jesus beat it with 400ms or so
HP: 1800
It is a much higher ranking changeling than those infiltrating SS13
It has 3 phases, 600hp each. Depleting its phase health will turn it
invincible and it will heal back half in 10 seconds. In order to prevent
this, the two Molecular Accelerators must be overloaded by interacting
with them to blast the changeling with deadly scifi magic or whatever
they do, forcing it to shed its form further and go to the next phase.
Not necessary for phase 3 because it literally just dies then
it focuses mostly on meleeing you and making certain tiles impassable
for you with 1hp tendrils, all attacks are telegraphed so theres no dumb
instakills here
it alternates between aoe abilities and abilities
melee behavior:
- if too far, charge at target (charges twice on phase 3)
- too close, shriek (unavailable in phase 1) (technically AOE but its
more like a melee ability you know??)
- otherwise just try to melee
Shriek: if the player is too close emit a confusing shriek that makes
them confused and drop items
aoe behavior (phase 2, 3 only):
1: Puts 4 tendrils in a line cardinally
2: Puts tendrils around itself
3. Puts a patch of tendrils around and under the target, 3x3 in phase 3
4. Phase 3 only - spits patches of acid into the air that hurt when
stepped on
_(crusher is hard ok)_
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/cbb98209-d3f0-470d-b0e8-4e310c5b709c
unique megafauna loot for this boss is like 1 AI-Uplink brain
its like a BORIS module but for humans i think you can figure out what
that means
while in a human shell they cannot roll non-malf midrounds and cannot be
converted, and cannot be mindswapped
the human MUST have all robotic organs (minus tongue because its not in
the exosuit fab and that kinda sucks to get)
will undeploy if polymorphed
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/abcc277a-995a-4fa7-b980-0549b6b7cf52
</details>
## Why It's Good For The Game
icebox is severely lacking in actual good ruins (fuck that one fountain
ruin)
i feel that the loot given by megafauna has been and still apparently is
exclusively to make the victor more powerful, which kinda sucks because
thats just powergaming???? the loot of this boss is more crewsided,
specifically aiding the AI in a VERY limited quantity (1), so its not
anything good for powergamers, good for crew if the AI is not rogue
## Changelog
🆑
add: outpost 31, the icebox ruin. Also its associated mobs, and
megafauna, and loot. Im not spoiling anything, find it yourself.
/🆑
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Co-authored-by: Ben10Omintrix <138636438+Ben10Omintrix@users.noreply.github.com>
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