## About The Pull Request
Adds HIDEFRILLS flag for clothing if you need to only hide frills
without hiding ears and lets you hide them through
Show/Hide-Mutant-Parts verb
## Why It's Good For The Game
You couldn't hide them before with that verb and now you can. Not sure
if HIDEFRILLS will be used if HIDEEARS also hides frills but now that's
an option if you need to only hide frills without ears
## Proof Of Testing
<details>
<summary>Screenshots/Videos</summary>
<img width="276" height="116" alt="1"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/484474c1-2f8b-409d-b3d4-2713822fd612"
/>
(i varedited gas mask to have HIDEFRILLS flag, this doesn't actually
apply the flag to it in the code)
<img width="364" height="201" alt="2"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/264c0881-653c-4f0b-9497-f0f7880c46d5"
/>
</details>
## Changelog
🆑
add: Show/Hide-Mutant-Parts verb now can hide lizard frills
add: HIDEFRILLS clothing flag if you need to hide specifically just
frills
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
A new trait, TRAIT_NO_OXYLOSS_PASSOUT, that prevents you from passing
out due to having over 50 oxyloss. Applied by taking nooart and being a
super hulk.
I couldn't replicate it, but if it's still a bug this definitely closes
#92771. Also I didn't remove the line in nooart that constantly removes
the knockedout trait from oxyloss for redundacy reasons. I mean if it's
going to keep removing the knockedout trait from hardcrit every turn
despite having nohardcrit that's probably intentional.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Bugfix I think. Also super hulks are supposed to be immune to everything
stun related and fight on no matter how much damage they've taken, so
yeah.
## Changelog
🆑
fix: Nooartrium patients and super hulks can no longer pass out from
oxygen damage
/🆑
Co-authored-by: Fghj240 <fakeemail@notrealemail.com>
## 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
Now: AI will break chairs they're buckled in
After PR: Ai will prefer to resist out of chairs if possible
Fixes#94222 , partially
Really I think this shouldn't be a subtree, orrrrr if it is it should be
enabled by combat.
It's weird that buckling a pet into a pet bed encourages them to get up
ASAP.
If a mob is completely docile or otherwise not trying to act, they
shouldn't freak out and break whatever they're sat in.
Alternatively pets need a behavior for seeking out a bed (but that's
more effort)
## Changelog
🆑 Melbert
fix: AI mobs will prefer to resist out of simple buckles (like being sat
in a chair or bed) rather than try to break the chair.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
`create_from_ghost` can be called from stuff like... dynamic executing a
ruleset, so putting a sleep/user input within it causes problems
So I refactored ghost spawns a fair bit, creating a clear delineation
between where you can and can't put user input
## Changelog
🆑 Melbert
fix: Pirates will no longer randomly spawn as human
fix: Servant Golems have numbered names again
refactor: Refactored ghost spawns (like spider eggs or pirate spawners),
report any oddities
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
The horrific necktie can now be used in-hand to give it sentience, if
someone chooses to become it they will inhabit the tie, being able to
only speak with the person that gave them sentience and other people
inhabiting the tie, and can't use radios.
It can also be forcefully entered into from the ghost spawners menu as
long as someone's wearing the tie (or if there's already a tie in it,
that it's being worn by the same person that created the original host).
The tie can theoretically have infinite ghosts inhabiting it, you can
'ghost' verb out of it at any time to leave.
<img width="695" height="171" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/512645aa-610e-488a-b0a2-dca74a91d7e6"
/>
Much of the player-facing texts are taken from
https://github.com/TheSwain/Fulpstation/pull/306 - The parts that were
left out in the port, https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/pull/62113
Can rename itself at will, but the name of the item itself will never
change, so it is limited to being in the head of the person wearing it.
<img width="295" height="60" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c67445d4-daa2-4edc-a065-04be11617548"
/>
## Why It's Good For The Game
A harmless reference and improves Detective gameplay by allowing a
backseater able to commentate on the person's gameplay, guide, or
encourage different behaviors. Hearing people bicker in your head is
also really funny which I have seen to some limited degree with split
personalities.
## Changelog
🆑
add: The horrific necktie can now become sentient.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Fixes https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/issues/90641
Fixes https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/issues/88366
Eliminates worries over virtualspace currency being sent to real
accounts.
When I was looking into why there were no flags for bitrunning areas.
Then I saw this mess:
<img width="929" height="889" alt="Code_2we2QjDyFp"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/8a807bfe-b566-4057-a8ea-2b306325687d"
/>
Not having enough space / being too lazy to refactor this is a silly
reason to not include flags for something like these virtual areas where
it can be quite helpful. Fortunately I am not too lazy ~~in this
moment~~ so here we go:
It was fairly logical to move over some of these to a separate flag,
which I've called `area_flags_mapping` since they pertain to maploading
things and terrain generation mostly. `area_flags` stays reserved for
general properties and now has more room than it did before for you
people to fill it with.
In doing this it's also neatened up the code quit a bit, as UNIQUE_AREA
was kind of everywhere and now that it's implied by default less areas
need to have it defined (or explicitly un-defined).
<details> <summary> Working as intended </summary>
<img width="787" height="448" alt="dreamseeker_p0Qts36tG1"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/25056f34-8d43-4be2-a293-e53df7a7d1db"
/>
<img width="383" height="59" alt="dreamseeker_Ek7TXCcpbA"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/89622974-9467-4cdb-8345-d684f7c9004b"
/>
</details>
## Why It's Good For The Game
Fixes an exploit, improves the area flags situation slightly.
## Changelog
🆑
fix: you can no longer send money from virtualspace to a real account
code: adds a flag for virtual areas so they can easily be checked, as
well as an easy helper proc, 'is_area_virtual(your_area)'
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Title. The basetype penguin lacks an `icon_state` as well as a name.
This is the only use of the basetype penguin that could lead it to being
spawned, so I believe it's unintentional.
also adds it to `abstract_mob_types`.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Being turned into something spriteless is fairly confusing.
## Changelog
🆑
fix: Several things that turn you into a random animal will no longer
turn you into a spriteless penguin.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
title
## Why It's Good For The Game
Envirosuits get damaged easily, 1 shredded limb means whole body on
fire.
It is a feedback loop that will result in more damage to the victim and
their gear, life-supporting & the suit itself included.
It is hard to notice by others & needs to be held/worn for fixing.
<img width="127" height="78" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/6645a6c8-27aa-48f2-a1e4-1696b1359f01"
/>
## Changelog
🆑
balance: Plasmamen not catching in fire anymore from the slightest wind
blow on their envirosuits.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
So, partial language understanding scaled the % chance to translate
something based on the ranking in the most common words list
But the ranking isn't real the list is in alphabetical order
So, adds a new list of the 1000 most common words sorted by *frequency*,
which I found on a random github page.
Is it scientifically found? I have no idea, but it looks good enough to
work.
This list doesn't share the same 1000 words as our existing one, so I
added all the differing words (amounted to ~400) to the original list.
So now partial language understanding correctly translates words based
on frequency.
## Changelog
🆑 Melbert
fix: Partial language understanding now correctly has a higher chance of
translating more common words.
qol: Aphasia got slightly more words to work with
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Ai pathing will avoid turfs that have glass tables on them.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Monkeys loooove glass tables
## Changelog
🆑 Melbert
qol: Monkeys will avoid stepping over glass tables
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
renames Debug2 and kills Debug as its last use (atleast the one
described in its comment) was removed
added it to the check to print to print stack traces to chat in the
instance your debugging without a debugger attached for some reason (if
this var is enabled on live it already causes random to_world messages,
kinda fuck it we ball at that point)
## Why It's Good For The Game
The first one was ENTIRELY unused now
this name makes more sense
## Changelog
N/A
## About The Pull Request
When take a ghost role from a ghost role sleeper, if you became a ghost
by observing you will be offered the opportunity to spawn in as your
static. Obviously if you joined the round normally or have already
spawned in as a ghost role you won't be prompted. No cloning yourself
allowed.
Not every ghost role allows this, and you won't get the prompt if your
static is a race that breathes plasma (basically just those purple
skeletons) because that opens up a giant can of worms. However, you
_will_ get the prompt if you are playing as any other race. (I'm pretty
sure every ghost role has power for ethereals besides ashwalkers but
that's not one of the ghost roles that lets you spawn as your static for
super obvious reasons)
Some ghost roles, like pirates, will allow you to spawn in as your
static but overwrite your name.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Felinid comms agent felinid comms agent felinid comms agent felinid
comms agent felinid comms agent felinid comms agent felinid comms agent
felinid comms agent felinid comms agent felinid comms agent felinid
comms agent felinid comms agent felinid comms agent felinid comms agent
## Changelog
🆑
add: You may now spawn in as your static when picking a ghost role
/🆑
---------
Co-authored-by: Fghj240 <fakeemail@notrealemail.com>
## About The Pull Request
Adds a wood biological type for limbs and adds internal descriptions for
flesh and wood.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Fixes#93889
## Changelog
🆑 LT3
fix: Peg limbs are now internally classified as wooden
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Empath has become a component instead of a trait, letting it store
variables or whatever components are good for. Also, it works slightly
differently for empath quirk users and moon heretics alike.
Additionally:
- You can only shiver when you see an evil person once. After that it
won't happen again.
- Empaths no longer get a mood debuff from seeing someone distressed.
- Moon heretic empaths no longer get smited by evil people.
- Moon heretic empaths aren't scared of evil people.
The component also supports empaths being able to tell if a fake dead
body is actually dead, and being able to use empath on yourself, but
those aren't enabled for the empath quirk or moon heretics. (Self-empath
would probably powercreep self aware)
## Why It's Good For The Game
While the empath quirk is incompatible with the evil quirk, the trait
wasn't. That means you could potentially become an evil empath and still
feel bad about other people feeling bad and get smited by other evil
people. Being an empath is different from having empathy, and there's
now a personality trait (compassionate) that has a very similar feature
so the mood debuff got axed and moon heretics can't get smited by
mending touch anymore.
I think being a heretic and looking into pierced realities probably
means you have the mental fortitude to not freak out when you see an
evil person. Evil people are (probably) a lot less scary than whatever
mind destroying thing is in those holes.
As for the only-getting-scared-once bit, freaking out when you see an
evil person is flavorful but annoying after it happens multiple times.
Especially if it happens after examining the same person multiple times.
## About The Pull Request
Deletes some `isdullahan` in revival code
## Why It's Good For The Game
I think having snowflake isdullahan checks in core revival code is
ontologically evil
## Changelog
🆑 Melbert
code: Small dullahan code cleanup post Halloween
/🆑
## 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
So a pr a few months ago (#92438) shuffled around a bunch of our global
lists away from the misc file- and, in the process, broke some one with
special handling.
This just re-introduces the special handling for the top 1000 most
common words list, so it's once again associative, and moves it and the
other language lists into its own file so they're all nice and together.
This fixes our issues.
However, the file itself is still *alphabetized* rather than ranked by
commonness, despite us treating it as if it is.
...I'm leaving untangling that mess to a separate pr
## Why It's Good For The Game
Fix jank 👍
## Changelog
🆑
fix: Partial language understanding once again knows which words are
common.
fix: Expressive Aphasia is no longer so aphasic you don't know any
words.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
So, my original goal was just a refactor for the emissive overlays of
eyes, as a way to implement the specular emissive introduced by smartkar
some time ago, but somehow I found myself dragged into a bigger refactor
or cleanup of organ damage, thresholds, failures. One of the main
problem was that there were no procs called when a organ suffered enough
damage to fail or when recovering from failure. It'd just enable or
disable a bitflag, leaving it up to subtypes to decide how to tackle
organ failure their own ways: diverse, funky and sometimes incompatible.
More often than not relying on their very own "update_thingamajig" kinda
procs that run whenever the organ takes damage, rather than just when
the threshold is reached (low, high, failure. There are however a couple
organs with their own quirky thresholds, I let those slide).
There's also a bit of old code, especially for ears, with the
`AdjustEarDamage` and temporary deafness both predating the framework
for organ damage as far as I know. It really needed a coat of fresh
paint.
Oh, there were also more than a handful of organs that still heavily
relied on some ORGAN_TRAIT source instead of the `organ_traits` list and
the two add/remove procs `add_organ_trait` or `remove_organ_trait`. This
include organs that lose or gain specific traits when failing et
viceversa.
~~Lastly, felinids (and the halloween ghost species) having reflective
eyes. It's just a nod to the tapetum lucidum that animals with night
vision often have (including cats), which is why their eyes are a bit
brighter in the dark. Felinids however, do not have night vision (nor do
ghosts). This is merely cosmetic.~~ Cut out for the time being due to
issues with the specular emissive...
## Why It's Good For The Game
Refactoring / cleaning up old organ code.
## Changelog
🆑
refactor: Refactored organ damage code a little. Hopefully there won't
be issues (otherwise report them).
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
What it says on the tin. Cargo now has new math for market elasticity,
each parameter and what it does is explained below
**1. Refactor**
1. **k_elasticity**: This is the elasticity as before applied on all
exports except now this is a floating-point value that swings from
`0->1` instead of 10e-10 like is the current case. This in laymen terms
is the percentile of an items actual cost that is sold on cargo [0 means
you get no credits, 0.5 means you get 50% of the items cost, 1 means you
get 100% of the items cost]. Whenever an item is sold on cargo this
value decreases by an amount that is determined by the next variable
2. **k_hit_percentile(default 5%)**: This is the value by which an
export `k_elasticity` decreases whenever an export is successful for
every unit of an item sold. The real formulae by which the exports
elasticity decreases is dependent on the total amount sold and is as
follows
<pre>k_elasticity -= amount sold (1 for most cases except stacks) *
k_hit_percentile</pre>
So subsequent exports yield lesser profits cause the elasticity
decreases. Now the rate at which the elasticity recovers is as follows
3. **k_recovery_time(default 10 minutes)**: This is the time (minimum
unit should be seconds) it takes for the elasticity to rebound back to
100% after it has reached full 0 but recovery process starts immediately
if it decreases at any point. So if elasticity becomes say 50% it means
it would take 5 minutes to reach 100% again
**2. Some Balance changes**
1. Profits earned from exporting gas is linear per mole sold so the more
gas you put in the more profits you get HOWEVER the max number of
credits you can make per canister is 15000 cr
2. Selling fish yields higher prices because it's no longer subject to
the old elasticity formula
3. Selling 50 sheets of anything will decrease future sale price by 10%
and will take 8 minutes to rebound back to 100% if it reaches 0
**3. Improvements:**
- `SSProcessing` subsystem no longer processes more than 180+ export
datums from round start itself but now starts out empty. It instead
processes only those exports whose elasticity has been impacted and
later cancels it after elasticity has reached 100% so performance of
this subsystem has been drastically improved
- export datums now respect `abstract_type` meaning they won't be
created and can be used as a skeleton body for subtypes. So datums like
`datum/material` & `datum/material/market` are not created anymore but
only their subtypes are so we save processing power & memory
- Shaved of a lot of dead exports that went unused
## Changelog
🆑
balance: cargo exports now have different prices with applied elasticity
code: Improved performance of export code
qol: stock blocks can be recycled for materials & show up as stock
blocks in order console sold items
refactor: refactored cargo export code in whole. Report bugs on GitHub
/🆑
---------
Co-authored-by: ArcaneMusic <41715314+ArcaneMusic@users.noreply.github.com>
## About The Pull Request
Title.
## Why It's Good For The Game
It's colourable, trait can be used for more. Shaded vamp funny.
- [x] Port basic stuff.
- [x] Weather stuff.
- [x] Vampire stuff.
## Proof Of Testing
<details>
<summary>Screenshots/Videos</summary>
</details>
## Changelog
🆑 Absolucy, Constellado, theselfish, Arturlang
add: Umbrellas are now gags colourable!
add: Umbrellas protect vampires from the sun.
/🆑
## 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"
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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
Caused by #93165
I'm not sure but I think this was just missing a check for
`TRAIT_SKIP_BASIC_REACH_CHECK`, because soup pots are given that trait
## Changelog
🆑 Melbert
fix: You can interact with soup pots on stoves again
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Closes#93285
Mood event from the death of a mob spawned "artificially" is 75% weaker,
lasts 80% the duration, and don't compound
An artificial monkey's death will now result
- -8 * 0.25 * 0.5 = floor(1) = 1 strength moodlet for the average crew
member
- ...Lasting 30 seconds (unless refreshed)
- -8 * 0.25 * 1.5 = floor(3) = 3 strength moodlet for animal friends
- ...Lasting 1.5 minutes (unless refreshed)
- -8 * 0.25 = floor(2) = 2 strength moodlet for compassionate crew
members
- ...Lasting 1 minute (unless refreshed)
Artifical spawning includes
- Moneky Cube
- Xenobiology Console
- "Life" reaction
- Summoned rats
- Spawner grenades
- Cult ghosts
Lemmie know if I'm missing any obvious spawns
## Why It's Good For The Game
While funny it was not my intention to have Xenobiology / Genetics /
Virology nuke your mood.
## Changelog
🆑 Melbert
balance: Death of artifical mobs (such as monkey cube monkeys) result in
a 75% weaker, 80% shorter moodlet that does not compound with more
deaths.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
ports https://github.com/DaedalusDock/daedalusdock/pull/1144
ports https://github.com/DaedalusDock/daedalusdock/pull/1147
full credit to @Kapu1178 for the juice
instead of `reacher.CanReach(target)` we now do
`target.CanBeReachedBy(reacher)`, this allows us to give special
behavior to atoms which we want to reach, which is exactly what I need
for a feature I'm working on.
## Why It's Good For The Game
allows us to be more flexible with reachability
## Changelog
🆑
refactor: refactored how reaching items works, report any oddities with
being unable to reach something you should be able to!
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
This is was created because I found several rare and exciting canisters
in game and then finding out there is no way to actually construct the
vendor they belong to!...
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src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/70261cea-daaf-41df-a212-21cef6d6bd0c"
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### This PR:
* Makes all noteable vendors constructable, if you have the canister.
* Adds canisters to syndismokes, syndiechem, liberation station,
magivend, shambler's juice and bombuddy
* Replaces the old tptally random canisters spawner, with a variety of
spawners weighted for power and split according to different themes.
* Adds the new main canister spawner to maint.
### Spawner weights
The random canister spawner from maintenance has a:
* **93,5%** chance to spawn a common station vendor refill(with weights
for wardrobes being somewhat reduced.)
* **6%** chance to spawn a rare and special vendor refill.
* **0.5%** chance to spawn a oddity level., super powerful vendor
refill.
## Why It's Good For The Game
One must never place a filled canister in maint if it isn't going to be
constructed It's wrong to make promises you don't mean to keep.
## Changelog
🆑
add: Nearly all notable vendors are now constructable if you have the
canister.
add Added refill canisters for syndiesmokes, liberation station,
magivend, bombuddy 3000, shambler's juice and syndichem.
add: Random vending refill canisters now have a chance to spawn in
maint.
image: Robco Toolmaker and Centdrobe canisters have new sprites.
/🆑
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