## About The Pull Request
Tweaks the alt-PKA damage values to accomodate for the fact some of them
fire in special ways, or fire more projectiles
The shockwave is now no longer able to fit any variant of an AOE mod, to
stop people from one-shotting everything,
The shotgun damage has been reduced as well, making up for the fact it
fires three shots.
Comments have been added for the existing variants explaining the
reasoning for their current damage level.
Adds a new var for restricted MOD types, allowing for other pkas having
this added in the future.
## Why It's Good For The Game
It is not fun for other miners when someone three shots a boss they
havent even had a chance to think about yet.
## Proof Of Testing
<details>
<summary>Screenshots/Videos</summary>
# change
</details>
## Changelog
🆑
balance: rebalanced PKA-Alts
fix: the shockwave PKA can no longer attach AOE kits.
/🆑
---------
Co-authored-by: Roxy <94389951+SapphoQueer@users.noreply.github.com>
## About The Pull Request
- null all GAGS vars for brass wirecutters as it doesn't use GAGS
- Repath `mothbomb.dmi` so it actually gets deployed with the server
- Generate map icons
- Fix 150+ crafting material parity failures
- Fix airlock lights not working
- Fix certain species missing eyes
## Why It's Good For The Game
Don't like red X
## Proof Of Testing
If this PR is green check then you Know
## About The Pull Request
Touches up laser guns' lore a bit and makes them actually add an
examine_lore component for every non-base laser gun, because the
component wasn't being added due to a return for every non-basic laser
type.
Adjusts the laser guns so they're all Type [number]/[variant], so the
previous `Type 5C laser pistol` is now the `Type 5/C laser pistol`, the
`Type 5R laser carbine` is now the `Type 5/R laser carbine`, the `Type
5A laser assault rifle` is now the `Type 5/A laser assault rifle`, as to
denote a more obvious separation between the base iteration/version and
the variant appending.
## Why It's Good For The Game
The lore wasn't being added because of the component add being beyond
the slapcrafting component check. The clear slash between base version
and variant looks a little nicer to me. Lore grammar tweaks feel like
they read a little better to me? The latter two are subjective.
## Changelog
🆑
fix: Non-base laser guns now attach their lore properly.
spellcheck: Adjusted the names on the laser guns to have a slash between
the numeric type/version and the variant... abbreviation? Letter? One of
the two.
spellcheck: Fixed some typos and adjusted the now-visible lore on the
laser guns to read a little nicer, theoretically. Whether the grammar
tweaks improved anything or not is subjective.
/🆑
---------
Co-authored-by: Hatterhat <Hatterhat@users.noreply.github.com>
## 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
Before this if you started to execute someone (target mouth and left
click with gun) if the do after is cancelled or completed you would hit
them with the gun on top of shooting. Doesn't happen anymore. I checked
it in game and it doesn't seem like there's any bugs with guns from this
## About The Pull Request
Extends the part of the crafting unit test that ensures consistency
between the total mats of the components of a recipe (or rather, the
result of said recipe) and a generic instance of the same type as its
result, previously only implemented on food recipes.
## Why It's Good For The Game
This ensures a degree of consistency with the material composition of
various objects in the game. I couldn't do it in the original PR as that
one was too big already and it took months to get it merged, and have
the relative bugs fixed.
Currently a WIP as I slowly deal with the unit test reports.
## Changelog
🆑
refactor: Follow-up to the crafting/material refactor from months ago.
All objects crafted with stacks now inherit their mat composition (not
necessarily the effects and color) by default, while previously only a
few things like chair, sinks and toilets did. Report any object looking
or behaving weirdly as a result.
fix: The material composition of ammo boxes is no longer a 1/10 of what
it's supposed to be. It was a shitty hack to make it harder to recycle
empty ammo boxes. Instead, they lose materials as they're emptied now.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
High frequency blades, both null rod variant and admeme variant, can
block mech melee attacks. For the former, that is the only thing it can
block. Great if you're fighting a lot of mechs as a chaplain I guess.
And you're also really committed to the bit.
Weapons that were vibro subtypes are now claymore subtypes. The only
difference here is that they now have 30% block instead of 35% AP.
Null rod high frequency blades are now two-handed. This mostly
determines force changes (10 unwielded, 18 wielded), and mech attack
block chances.
Mech melee attacks respect block...assuming the blocking source can even
block the attack in the first place. Currently, the few sources that can
block/avoid mech attacks are;
- high frequency blades
- energy katanas
- Those staff nullrods (its a holy force field, iunno)
- wizard modsuit shield (and it will eat literally every single charge
it has to do that)
- Sleeping Carp evasion (and only at half the possible chance)
- CQC defense mode (themed as dodging the attack, and also halved)
- probably something I overlooked when I implemented OVERWHELMING_ATTACK
originally and have overlooked here as well.
Just think 'could this help avoid being hit by a road roller being
dropped on you' and go with your gut as to whether or not it is
appropriate if you spot something in the wild that seemingly can block a
mech.
## Why It's Good For The Game
> High Frequency Blade
I wanted to elevate the meme and that is as deep as this goes. Also I
wanted to make this two-handed, much like the true version.
The only thing it is lacking is the cool attack functionality, but I'll
be damned if I can get that to work in a sensible fashion for a crew
weapon...
> Vibro subtype
A lot less of these than I thought. And most of them seemed more
appropriate as claymore types anyway.
> Mech Block
I seeded this previously by making mech clamps respect block. I've now
come back to fully implement it in order to facilitate MGR memes.
For the most part, mechs should still enjoy being largely unblocked by
most sources, even from things like operative suit shields, and
certainly not from actual shields (which I've stripped the ability to
block the attack from entirely) and melee weapons.
The sources that can block them do so poorly. Or, in the case of the
high frequency blade, very well and that's pretty much the only thing it
IS good at blocking.
## Changelog
🆑
balance: High frequency blades (both null rod and admin versions) are
able to block melee attacks from mechs.
balance: High frequency blade null rods are now two-handed weapons.
balance: Mech melee attacks can be blocked or avoided by a few rare
sources.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Closes#93635
`unique_reskin` is no longer a list on `/item`, now `/datum/atom_skin`
The actual reskinning behavior has been moved out to
`/datum/component/reskinable_item`
PKC reskinning is now handled via alt-click reskin, rather than via the
retooling kit. The retooling kit has been removed.
There's no limit on how many times you can reskin your PKC (though
perhaps we limit it to one reskin and keep the retooling kit as a way to
allow a miner to reskin it a second time?)
The Ashen Skull unique reskin is still a trophy, and instead unlocks its
unique reskin option in the alt-click radial.
## Why It's Good For The Game
I'm unsure why the retooling kit exists on its own, when it's relatively
cheap and just performs the behavior of alt-click reskinning.
So to keep it consistent with all other forms of reskinning I've just
made it baseline. To accomplish that I refactored reskinning.
The new form of reskinning allows for greater potential in adding
reskins, allowing far more than just an icon state change. Also we can
put it on turfs and mobs and structures now which is cool I guess
There's also the added benefit of being able to see an item's reskins
without needing to instantiate it, which the loadout menu uses to great
effect.
## Changelog
🆑 Melbert
refactor: Refactored item reskinning (the alt-click way), report any
oddities with that
del: Deleted the crusher retool kit, now you can just reskin your
crusher with alt-click. The Skull skin is still locked behind having the
Ashen Skull trophy applied.
fix: Stunswords no longer have an incorrect lore blurb
fix: Fixed loadout item reskinning's UI
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Continues https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/pull/81507
Adds a directional muzzle flash to all guns (excluding suppressors,
toys, e-bow, etc).
Changes color depending on the laser/projectile.
If anything is missed, let me know.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Realism
Cool visuals
Makes sense
## About The Pull Request
It's just a partial cleanup of
anti-[STYLE](https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/blob/master/.github/guides/STYLE.md)
code from /tg/'s ancient history. I compiled & tested with my helpful
assistant and damage is still working.
<img width="1920" height="1040" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/26dabc17-088f-4008-b299-3ff4c27142c3"
/>
I'll upload the .cs script I used to do it shortly.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Just minor code cleanup.
Script used is located at https://metek.tech/camelTo-Snake.7z
EDIT 11/23/25: Updated the script to use multithreading and sequential
scan so it works a hell of a lot faster
```
/*
//
Copyright 2025 Joshua 'Joan Metekillot' Kidder
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
//
*/
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
class Program
{
static async Task Main(string[] args)
{
var readFile = new FileStreamOptions
{
Access = FileAccess.Read,
Share = FileShare.ReadWrite,
Options = FileOptions.Asynchronous | FileOptions.SequentialScan
};
FileStreamOptions writeFile = new FileStreamOptions
{
Share = FileShare.ReadWrite,
Access = FileAccess.ReadWrite,
Mode = FileMode.Truncate,
Options = FileOptions.Asynchronous
};
RegexOptions regexOptions = RegexOptions.Multiline | RegexOptions.Compiled;
Dictionary<string, int> changedProcs = new();
string regexPattern = @"(?<=\P{L})([a-z]+)([A-Z]{1,2}[a-z]+)*(Brute|Burn|Fire|Tox|Oxy|Organ|Stamina)(Loss)([A-Z]{1,2}[a-z]+)*";
Regex camelCaseProcRegex = new(regexPattern, regexOptions);
string snakeify(Match matchingRegex)
{
var vals =
matchingRegex.Groups.Cast<Group>().SelectMany(_ => _.Captures).Select(_ => _.Value).ToArray();
var newVal = string.Join("_", vals.Skip(1).ToArray()).ToLower();
string logString = $"{vals[0]} => {newVal}";
if (changedProcs.TryGetValue(logString, out int value))
{
changedProcs[logString] = value + 1;
}
else
{
changedProcs.Add(logString, 1);
}
return newVal;
}
var dmFiles = Directory.EnumerateFiles(".", "*.dm", SearchOption.AllDirectories).ToAsyncEnumerable<string>();
// uses default ParallelOptions
// https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.threading.tasks.paralleloptions?view=net-10.0#main
await Parallel.ForEachAsync(dmFiles, async (filePath, UnusedCancellationToken) =>
{
var reader = new StreamReader(filePath, readFile);
string oldContent = await reader.ReadToEndAsync();
string newContent = camelCaseProcRegex.Replace(oldContent, new MatchEvaluator((Func<Match, string>)snakeify));
if (oldContent != newContent)
{
var writer = new StreamWriter(filePath, writeFile);
await writer.WriteAsync(newContent);
await writer.DisposeAsync();
}
reader.Dispose();
});
var logToList = changedProcs.Cast<KeyValuePair<string, int>>().ToList();
foreach (var pair in logToList)
{
Console.WriteLine($"{pair.Key}: {pair.Value} locations");
}
}
}
```
## Changelog
🆑 Bisar
code: All (Brute|Burn|Fire|Tox|Oxy|Organ|Stamina)(Loss) procs now use
snake_case, in-line with the STYLE guide. Underscores rule!
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
This wasn't intentional
## Why It's Good For The Game
The gun looks like the normal laser right now when it shouldn't.
## Changelog
🆑
fix: The Hellfire Laser now has its unique sprite back.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Updates the laser gun into four proper subtypes: Standard, Pistol, Rifle
and Carbine.
<img width="229" height="210" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/12c03076-8ebf-4d87-8c98-6a8cce6821db"
/>
Current sprites are pending a palette change.
**Standard:** Functions as you would expect. Same as ever.
**Pistol**: Lower charge, 20 force, normal sized, recharges faster.
**Carbine**: 15 force, 26 mag, two round burst. Projectiles flight
slightly faster. Cannot dual-wield.
**Rifle**: 20 force. 40 mag. Two round burst. EMP resistant (not
immune). Projectiles fly slightly faster. Cannot dual-wield (not that
you need to).
All but the rifle can be sourced from cargo. You can also buy the sovl
version of the laser gun if you're especially nostalgic.
### Armory Changes
The Armory now can potentially spawn either pistols, carbines or
standard. The weighting leans closer to spawning carbines and standard
as opposed to pistols.
### Lore Dump
The laser line of weapons now all have lore. That rich, deep lore that
every game needs and is totally not important at all to the meat and
potatoes of the game. I'm paid by the hour ($0.00)
### Code Tidying
Lasers are old and a total mess code-wise so we've tidied up while we're
here.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Variety is the spice of life and also some of these weapons could have
used a face lift. Especially the laser carbine. Both functionaltiy wise
and appearance wise.
A bit of randomness in the armory means some rounds might have unique
outcomes compared to others. Sometimes, items in cargo don't see
particularly much use, so peppering in a few random potential deviations
can maybe nudge people to utilize variant gear on future rounds.
I'm obsessed with writing too much information. I blame Hatterhat.
## Changelog
🆑
add: Three variants of the laser gun; Carbine (replacing the existing
one), Pistol and Rifle! Find it (possibly) in your armory today!
balance: The armory laser guns might be different variants of the laser
gun, rather than always being the standard. The standard is the same as
ever, even if it looks different.
add: If you care, the sovl version is available as a goodie. And in the
hands of pirates...
spellcheck: Lore! LORE FOR LASER GUNS! LOOOORE! Examine laser guns
closely and you might learn more about them.
balance: The new set of laser guns come with brand new sprites.
/🆑
---------
Co-authored-by: StaringGasMask <62149527+Exester509@users.noreply.github.com>
## About The Pull Request
Beepsky's set to arrest for guns will no longer target people with
medbeams.
## Why It's Good For The Game
It's not a real gun.
## Changelog
🆑
fix: Medbeams are no longer considered guns (for beepsky and honorbound
Chaplains).
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Converted `fire_delay` and `shot_delay` vars to use time defines
## Why It's Good For The Game
Code readability
## Changelog
🆑
code: Converted some gun related variables to use time defines, make an
issue report if anything shoots abnormally fast/slow.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
What it says on the tin.
## Why It's Good For The Game
This is obviously the incorrect icon state.
## Changelog
🆑
fix: Ashen bows look like they are actually made from bone.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Closes#93839
Also made them use item_interaction while I'm at it
## Changelog
🆑
fix: Luxury paywall lasers no longer drop their pins when spawned
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
closes#93805
## Why It's Good For The Game
we actually have almost no emp logging at all lol, not even emp chem
reaction, so you barely can track potential griefer?
## Changelog
🆑
admin: EMP logs are improved, additionally chemical EMP reactions are
now logged.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Refactors status effects to track their durations and tick intervals
using counters.
In effect, [var/duration] now directly refers to how many deciseconds
are left on the status effect.
I've also moved the old [var/tick_interval] [world.time] implementation
to a tick-based [var/time_until_next_tick] counter.
There are a couple, less noteworthy changes in here as well. The main
one is that there was an unused bit of bloat code for setting tick
intervals based on a random lower and upper threshold, but that can be
done in tick() now so it's completely redundant, and I thus removed it
entirely. That makes parts of [proc/process] much easier to read.
I added/modified some unit tests (which I expect to fail) to verify that
[var/duration] and [var/tick_interval] are both multiples of the
subsystem wait assigned to the status effect. If the programmer wants a
duration of 2.5 seconds, they expect it to work that way, but it won't
because SSfastprocess only ticks once every 0.2 seconds, which 2.5 is
not a multiple of. This becomes way more apparent when a status effect
is set to use SSprocessing.
The final, perhaps most important unit test I've added, is one that
verifies that the overall tick count and overall accumulated
[seconds_between_ticks] are equal to "[var/duration] /
[var/tick_interval]" and "[var/duration]" respectively.
## Why It's Good For The Game
The main thing this PR fixes is timing inconsistencies. Before this PR,
durations and tick intervals were tracked using world.time, while the
[proc/tick] call timing was dependent on the wait time of the subsystem
the status effect was processing on. Thing is, SSfastprocess and
SSprocessing rarely run completely in one tick during real gameplay.
This led to a continuous desync where status effects were consistently
inconsistent in their overall tick count. This is a big problem as
[seconds_between_ticks] is constant and thus doesn't account for this
difference in tick count.
As an example, Changeling's Fleshmend has a duration of 10 seconds, a
tick interval of 1 second and a healing rate of 4 brute per tick.
Previously, if the server was lagging even slightly and it only ticked 8
times over the course of 10 seconds, you would heal 32 health rather
than the 40 that a full Fleshmend would give you. The total effect
potency of a status effect being reliant on server lag is incredibly
stupid, especially for status effects that have an associated cost.
(like the aforementioned Fleshmend)
As for the refactors, they make status effect code easier to read and
debug. Unit tests also make verifying things are working as intended
much easier.
## Changelog
🆑
fix: Status effects now tick consistently, with Fleshmend and such
giving a consistent total healing amount. Report any oddities.
refactor: Status effect code is now easier to read and makes more sense.
Again, report any oddities, the changes are major.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Baby's first refactor!
Originally meant for a downstream, I was told to PR it here instead.
Please do tell me if I did something wrong.
Previously the Lasertag guns would directly check if you were wearing a
vest before dealing stamina damage. Now they instead check for a
component and it's team, which is added by the vest.
## Why It's Good For The Game
This should make it easier to add new lasertag equipment.
It compiles and lasertag functionality seems to remain unchanged from
the player side.
## About The Pull Request
Most screen alerts that use the midnight hud style no longer have the
button baked in their icon. Other screen alerts with their own
background or shape (robot and mech alerts, atmos, heretic buffs or
debuffs etc.) are not affected. Also updated a couple sprites but didn't
spend too much time on them. Mostly reusing existing assets.
Montage of how the alerts look on threee different hud styles
(Operative, Trasen-Knox, Detective, ALSO I FIXED THE BUCKLED ALERT
ALREADY):
<img width="293" height="323" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/3a2b972b-aa5a-4c27-a454-c8c39acf6e20"
/>
It looks only a smidge iffy on the syndicate since the top and bottom
borders aren't layered over all the overlays, but it isn't something to
worry about in this PR.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Screen alerts always had the midnight hud button baked in their icon
states (now overlays), which completely disregard the player's hud
setting, much unlike action alerts buttons. Melbert has also said that
it'd be nice if the code for action buttons could also be used in screen
alerts and viceversa, to slim things down. That's obviously not what I'm
doing today, but having most of the screen alerts already without the
baked background will surely help if we ever pursue that objective.
## Changelog
🆑
refactor: Refactored screen alerts a little. Most should now fit the
player's hud style. Report any issue.
imageadd: A few screen alerts have been polished/updated a little.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
So it dawned on me for awhile, we did get true strike and I got to use
it way more, not necessarily after it is available as speedloader but
I've used it for atleast a bit, realized just buying the match mag was
better anyway.
so, true strike sucks for actually bouncing and killing people. and
while 15 damage is nothing to scoff at because any damage is better than
doing no damage at all. It's already well outclassed by it's actual
roundstart counterpart. This fix that, the truestrike ammo is researched
fairly late into the round. Giving it AP make it more useful
## Why It's Good For The Game
I think it make senses we'd want a researched ammo type more effective
than something you can just. Buy? It's not like we don't have tech laser
that are more effective than buckshot for raw damage. This is similar to
that idea
## Changelog
🆑
add: True Strike is also now AP, making detective more scary and BR-38
much more effective against highly armoured target
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
This is me picking up #93077 but with code changes relative to the two
new flags that Krysonism added in his PR, which unfortunately he never
finished.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Monkeys should be able to ventcrawl even if their left or right arm is
actually a chainsaw or armblade or whatever. See #93077
## Changelog
🆑 Krysonism
balance: prosthetic item limbs are no longer considered equipped items
for some purposes such as ventcrawling.
/🆑
---------
Co-authored-by: Krysonism <robustness13@hotmail.com>
## About The Pull Request
Sometimes the BR-38 would degrade when it is dropped onto tables,
smacked against windows, etc. This PR fixes this by making sure that it
only degrades when the gun is actually fired.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Losing charges sucks ass when it isn't from firing the gun.
## Changelog
🆑
fix: The BR-38 does not mysteriously lose charges when it is used on
some objects, dropped on tables or smacked against glass panels.
/🆑
## 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!
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## 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
Due to 'fire_delay = 8', when pump racking a riot shotgun (with a live
shotgun bullet in it) it will instead melee when you try to point blank
shoot at someone.
This PR fixes that by blocking melee, on the condition that you pump
racked the riot shotgun and it is about to be ready to fire.
You still melee with LMB if you have no ammo pump racked/didn't pump
rack the shotgun, and if you have ammo pump racked, you can use RMB as
intended.
tldr Melee combat functionality for riot shotgun remains unchanged, the
PR only fixes the unintentional melee attack.
## Why It's Good For The Game
The PR fixes unintentional tediousness when wanting to fire at someone
point blank with a riot shotgun - It will no longer melee, which is
good, because otherwise it makes arbitrarily make riot shotgun cooldown
longer due to an unintentional melee attack.
## Changelog
🆑 ArchBTW
fix: Fixes riot shotgun unintentional melee when point blank shooting
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Fixes#93359
Caused by #93165
Inventory screen elements were no longer considered reachable, which
broke mousedrop handing on objects that check "is dragging into
inventory slot"
I don't know the best way to fix this yet but I figured the next best
thing would be to make all of these use the `drag_pickup` element, which
skips this reach-ability check
Thus I refactored it slightly to accommodate for items which should
contextually not be drag-pick-up-abble and bam, works like a charm
## Changelog
🆑 Melbert
fix: Dragging defibs and modsuits off your back works again
/🆑
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## About The Pull Request
I don't think these are obtainable through normal gameplay, these guns
are ballistic weapons designed to emulate laser guns, except with a
swappable "battery".
It had the wrong bolt type, which caused problems. It chambered rounds
so it could fire a shot without a battery in it, and worse when it
emptied its chamber and didn't have a new round to load in, the gun
would unrack itself. There is no way to re-rack this gun so at that
point it is made permanantly useless. Now it fires directly from the
clip without chambering anything or caring about whether or not it is
racked. This stops it getting stuck, stops you being able to fire the
gun when there's no power pack loaded, and simplifies ammo management
which makes it feel more like an energy weapon. Even if it isn't really
one.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Fixes some bugs that made using this thing needlessly difficult.
## Changelog
🆑
fix: Ballistic laser guns will no longer brick themselves when out of
ammo.
fix: Ballistic laser guns now fire ammo directly from their loaded clip,
without chambering.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
What it says on the tin.
## Why It's Good For The Game
This is why the element even exists.
## Changelog
🆑
refactor: The pipegun now hints at its deep lore.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
So, while working on #93275 I've noticed that suspiciously none of the
projectiles made impact messages, the only ones I could see in chat were
wounds, not hits. Turns out that because guns, for whatever ungodly
reason, have been storing their suppression state and their suppressor
in the same variable presumably since their inception, instead of
SUPPRESSED_NONE (0) projectiles were assigned null, or if suppressed by
an item the suppressor itself, both of which were treated as
SUPPRESSED_VERY by impact message logic and skipped actually sending any
messages to players' chats.
I've split the variables and put suppressor onto ballistics (which are
the only user of said mechanic), so now projectiles should actually
inform players that they/someone nearby have been hit with a bullet.
## About The Pull Request
closes https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/issues/93214
- Fixed the cycler shotgun consuming two rounds per shot.
- Fixed racking action on the cycler shotgun.
- Bounty hunter cycler shotgun now correctly uses incendiary rounds in
its secondary tube.
## Changelog
🆑
fix: fixed cycler shotgun double ammo consumption
fix: fixed racking action on the cycler shotgun
fix: bounty hunter cycler shotgun now properly fires incendiary rounds
from secondary tube
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
When I made the latest sprites of the bolt action rifles, I made a
bayonet sprite for them that looked pretty good.
I umm forgot to actually put it in, so here you go.
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These ONLY apply to the bolt action rifles in particular.
## Why It's Good For The Game
The giant old bayonet doesn't look especially good on these rifles.
## Changelog
🆑
image: adds new sprites for bayonets on bolt action rifles
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Updates the guns that the event can spawn. Mystery boxes use the same
list.
List now contains all lethal guns currently in the game, besides
cosmetic/downgraded variants of other guns (some exceptions made if the
variants are cool/iconic), craftable guns, and unique heist targets.
Some of the newer guns weren't added to this list and now they're there.
This means the sci portal guns are gone, gimmick guns are gone, if you
get a gun from this you can immediately use it to harm someone as
intended. Medbeam stays as the sole "dud" gun.
Tasers and disablers stay in the list because they are used in the same
way as lethal guns. You can shoot someone with them until they fall
over. That counts, IMO.
List now uses the unrestricted guns, for those with firing pins. This
ensures non nukies can actually use them out of the box. Having to
source a firing pin to make the gun that magically appeared in your
hands actually work sucked, and went against the theme of the event.
Alphabetises the list too.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Event did dumb stuff like giving people non-guns or guns they couldn't
use. List was also dated so some of the new cool guns weren't spawned.
## Changelog
🆑
fix: Summon Guns event will no longer spawn guns with restricted firing
pins.
fix: Summon Guns event will now only spawn guns that are intended to
harm people (except the medbeam)
balance: Added more guns to the Summon Guns event.
/🆑
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