4 Commits

Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Time-Green	2dbbe4f41d	Voidwalker Rework | Basic Mob Edition + Bonus Antag (#91646) ... Reworks the Voidwalker into a basic mob, including a lot of the balance and mechanics! Old (left), new (right)  https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/22d6138f-11aa-4f7a-8600-2565e6578bcf (little outdated) https://youtu.be/cp1E3qPJGX4 (high res mirror) **🟨Voidwalker mob changes🟨** No longer a human species and no more void eater. Instead deals damage by simple unarmed attacks. Instead of dealing brute, the voidwalker does oxygen damage (4-5 hits to knock out) with left-click, and slight brute on right click. Non-human mobs automatically take brute damage instead of oxygen damage. 150 HP 33% burn armor Yes it has hands, but it can only pick up and drop stuff **🟨Window phase🟨**  Instead of needing to smash a window with the void eater, moving through windows simply leaves them passable for 5 seconds. Makes kidnapping a lot easier, but also makes it easier for people to chase you People who used the voided skull also leave windows passable for a short bit. **🟩Cosmic Charge🟩** Standard charge ability, but only lets you charge towards space and works while dragging people **🟩The Vomitwalker🟩** People you kidnapped now occasionally do the nebula vomit, which voidwalkers can use to dive from and into  Diving into it is very fast but also removes the nebula vomit. You can also kidnap people into the vomit (this doesn't remove the vomit). There is also a little UI for tracking this. Clicking it while in space dive teleports you to the next nebula vomit, if there are any.  **🟨Voided people changes🟨** Kidnapped people and people that used the cosmic skull are no longer muted, but take 10% extra brute and occasionally leave behind glass shards when taking a lot of damage. Are no longer obliterated on a second encounter with voidwalkers. Voidwalkers can't hurt people they've already voided (unless they really want to), but instead just knock them out for 30s Also the kidnapped do space vomit as I said earlier. **🟩Sunwalker🟩** Voidwalker variant made for pure murderbone. Has no camo and kindap mechanics, but has a fiery charge, loads of damage and area igniting and people ignition. It's admin, but I might change this later once I've had some more time to think about it.  Other changes: - Voidwindows no longer need to be space adjacent - Unsettle works faster but can't be used in combat anymore - Space camo now grants complete space invisibility - Makes a lot of aspects easily moddable, so we can easily mod it into a moistwalker in-game - Taking a cosmic skull when you already used one gives you the old voidwalker void eater arm. Additional uses just gives you more void eater arms until you run out of hands - I definitely forgot a lot more - I made a cool voidwalker hud! It even has a unique space camo toggle <details> <summary>Lot of text</summary> Voidwalker was basically a snowflaked toghether human species because I didn't know how to sprite, but I was able to work with species and visual effects. Then I realized I can just commission sprites! This also let me just cut out a lot of the snowflake code, because it's no longer a human so half the things I didn't want them to be able to do, they just literally cannot do. Voidwalkers were in a bit of strange spot with kidnapping? There was essentially no incentive, other than "smash spaceman = funny". They also had issues doing, anything? There's surprisingly little space on a space station, especially maps such as tram. Making the voided victims have nebula vomit gives the voidwalker a reason to WANT to kidnap, by giving them a way to appear basically anywhere on the station. I don't think it's too overpowered. Voided people don't vomit that much, it's easily cleanable and diving into it removes them, so they're limited usability. Replacing the brute damage with oxygen damage also kinda... just makes sense? I seriously contemplated letting them do stamina damage for the first iteration, but opted not to do it because stamina damage has so many hooks attached. Oxygen damage doesn't! It's also just incredibly thematic, let's them bypass most armor and makes them more suited to non-letha kidnappings. Space camo making them completely invisible was also long overdue. It was literally just urging people to turn up their gamma and turn down their parallax settings. I thought it was an interesting mechanic, but it's just straight up unfair and doesn't belong in a multiplayer game. They now more frequently leave behind little glass shards, leave particles from nebula vomit they leave from and have more unique sound effects, so attentive (and lucky) people can still deduce if an area is safe-ish. I removed being able to shatter voided people because the mechanic was deeply misunderstood. It was intended to give them a means of removing people if they kept incessently bothering the voidwalker, but people went out of their way to use this to roundremove people they had already voided. The 30s sleep conveys my intention a lot better, and fits better now that the voidwalker benefits from having as many voided people vomitting all over the place. The cosmic charge gives them some much needed survivability. My experiences (in observing voidwalkers, I can never get the roll ;_;) is that they're constantly one mistake away from complete obliteration. The cosmic charge let's them get out quick despite their slow movement speed in gravity. It also makes them stronger when fighting in space. They got 33% burn armor so it's a tiny bit harder to wipe them away in a single laser salvo, while still giving people ample opportunity to fight them off . Also they're like glass or something so it fits thematically. I gave them hands because I thought it was cool, might be a mistake idk </details> 🆑 Time-Green, INFRARED_BACON add: Voidwalker has been throughly reworked! Now you are even less safe! admin: Adds admin-only Sunwalker mob fix: Unsettle doesnt work on yourself anymore fix: Space camo doesnt stop bobbing anymore fix: Voidwalker windows now recharge on kidnap runtime: Fixes healthanalyzers runtiming when scanning mobs without reagent holders /🆑	2025-07-04 16:41:45 -04:00
Jacquerel	ce669c3924	Makes your current position clearer while jaunting (#90173) ... ## About The Pull Request I was fucking around testing the Voidwalker earlier for a different issue and didn't like that I couldn't see myself while in space. This PR makes it so that Voidwalkers and also any variant of Ethereal Jaunt place an icon visible only to you at your current position (it's like your _soul_) so that you can see where you are going. Nobody else can see it.   There are almost certainly some other sources of being invisible which could use this so let me know if you are aware of one. Although if you do that I may need to make my code more generic. ## Why It's Good For The Game It's nice to be able to see where you are precisely rather than just it being the centre of the screen ## Changelog 🆑 qol: It is now easier to see where you currently are while jaunting /🆑	2025-03-23 20:00:23 +01:00
Time-Green	2672a93c66	Voidwalker Balancing, Fixes and Additions (#85045) ... ## About The Pull Request Balances - Stops voidwalkers from breaking glass at all, and throwing items Voidwalkers started using spears to break electrified windows to space area's. Throwing bypasses too many safety checks, and shouldn't be their main means of combat either way - No hitting anyone in crit Voidwalkers were using weapons to try and kill as many people as possible without kidnapping - Only able to pull people Voidwalkers were dragging bags around with a personal armory. It also just looks goofy as hell - Increases space dive enter to 3 seconds (from 2) and decreases space dive exit (from 2 seconds to 1) The original value was pretty fast, and is being used to slip out of combat if anyone ever comes after them. This is intended to a certain degree, but it was a bit too strong - Void Eater becomes blunt during use, needs kidnappings to refresh Yeah... For some it's being used as a murderbone antag, forgoing kidnappings completely. This change makes murderboning significantly more difficult without bothering good faith players. It goes from 25 damage to 15 in 0.5 damage increments. This slightly decreases take-down potentially against people with low-mood, but clicks that go SCRUNGE release dopamine so it balances - Gives voidwalkers chunkyfingers, preventing stun baton and gun use Voidwalker originally had this, but I figured I'd keep it out to give people to freedom to be more opportunistic in combat, but a significant portion defaulted to getting a stunbaton as quick as possible so they could avoid engaging in actual combat - Removes eye slots They're already flash immune. People don't know this so they're all rushing sunglasses. It just looks weird when the space monster is wearing glasses :/. They can still wear scarves if they decide to be fashionable - Void eater applies 10s of NODEATH Yeah fuck it why not? It also prevents succumbing and takes out a lot of cheese - Removed Voidwalker armor They had 10% brute and 20% burn armor. I didn't really think much about the original change, figured they'd be too weak otherwise, but turns out they're sufficiently strong and this kinda deviates from the intended "ambush antag" by making them stronger in sustained combat - Voided go to a safe turf instead of a random one Actually just a mistake on my part. Dumping mute people in the turbine plasma burn chamber is cruel, even for a coder Fixes - The Unsettle ability line of sight didn't check for line of sight :/ Addition: - Gives Voidwalker telepathy. I originally kept it out because whatever but honestly I think it's fine and gives them the chance to communicate if they ever need to. I've also given the abilities it's own sprite and background cause good vibes ## Why It's Good For The Game The original testmerges I spectated went very well! I had it testmerged on Terry and the rounds where I observed were played in very good faith and played a spooky antag incredibly well. I've also seen others play incredibly fun rounds! It seems to have gone downhill a bit though (or Terry is high-RP?). I've observed a few rounds on other servers and the way it's played is not great. I originally kept as little handrails as I could as to give people the most freedom possible in playing the spooky antag, but some people dissappoint me so, so incredibly deeply. It's just been merged but I'm already seeing players ignoring kidnap mechanics in favor of roundremoving as many people as possible, giving up any semblance of stealth in favor of carrying around mini armories. Another spent it's time breaking windows to vent as much of the station as possible. I also knew it would happen, but not this much. I probably should've had this PR up a bit sooner but I've gotten really into Hardrock TerraFirmaCraft (seriously it's _sooo_ good). I can keep going "Argh, players!!" but honestly I've been incredibly naive. These set of balance changes set out to cripple gameplay optimizers while leaving good faithed players unaffected for the most part, bringing it closer to the original design doc I wrote and away from just being another murderbone machine ## Changelog 🆑 add: Gives voidwalker telepathy fix: Fixes the Unsettle ability ignoring line of sight (which was it's sole gimmick, im just dumb) balance: Voidwalkers cannot break windows anymore or throw objects balance: Voidwalkers can no longer harm people in crit balance: Voidwalkers can only pull mobs balance: Voidwalkers' space dive enter has been increased by 1 seconds, but dive exit decreased by 1 second balance: Void eater becomes blunt during use. Kidnap people to refresh it balance: Removes voidwalker glasses slot balance: Gives voidwalkers chunky fingers balance: Voidwalker applies NODEATH on hit balance: Voided victims get dumped in safer places /🆑 --------- Co-authored-by: Jacquerel <hnevard@gmail.com>	2024-07-20 21:41:44 +01:00
Time-Green	89cf4c7787	The Voidwalker | New Midround Antagonist (#84674) ... ## The Voidwalker Adds a new antagonist, the Voidwalker! It's a rare antag that spawns in space when there's at least 40 people Design doc is here: https://hackmd.io/jE4YScP8RPykXo37rTBV2Q (there's some deviations) No biddle ## Summary Spooky space antag that moves around space, ambushing people either in space or near space. They can move through glass, have an ability to stamina drain you if they remain in your vision for 8 seconds, can temporarily remove glass windows to drag you through them and deal ~~stamina damage~~ incredibly violence. Upon being taken, they can be kidnapped and cursed, muting and pacifying the person and sending them to the void. ## Passive   Passive abilities: - Permanent space flight and indoor flight - Space regen - Slowdown when in gravity - Space camo (very low alpha when in space - Can freely move through unshocked glass - Mute, but can hear all station frequencies (excluding binary) - Will quickly die when on planets or moons (obviously can't roll on icebox) - 10 brute armor and 20 burn armor. They can't wear any form of armor and don't have any get out of jail free cards, so I think it'll help with their survivability a slight bit ## Abilities **Void eater:** Literally just a light-eater but instead of eating light it instantly shatters windows, but restores them after a few seconds **Space Dive:** New ability that lets you move under the station with a 2 second do_after, so they can still get to closed of space spots without being as annoying as heretic space shift **Unsettle:** Remain in view of the target for 8 seconds to give them a short stun, slurring and 80 stamina damage, but announce your presence and location to them. Both you and your target can move, as long as you remain in their view. **Space Kidnap:** When your target is incapacitated and in space, you can drag them into the cosmic void. They'll be returned cursed after undergoing a sort of reverse heretic sacrifice (more on that in the next section). [Showcase of all the above abilities!](https://youtu.be/NJ01H28PV9w) ## Voided Crew A brain trauma received when you get kidnapped. While under it's influence, you are muted and pacified. You will die in planetary gravity and cannot enter space.  It can be cured with a lobotomy or by dying in planetary gravity. You get warned to avoid the Voidwalker. The voidwalker now does extra damage and gets the option to glass gib you if you die, leaving just a brain ## Loot On death, the Voidwalker shatters into glass and drops a cosmic skull. Looking into the skull gives you a stable version of the Voided brain trauma. It doesn't give you pacifism and doesn't ban you from space. It also makes you space immune and gives you the ability to walk through unshocked glass after 2 seconds do_after. Sprites for the cosmic skull by Justice12354 and Rex9001! I'll throw up a video showcasing death and their sprites on Sunday ## Why It's Good For The Game We don't have any space centered antagonists. The closest we have are Space Dragons, but they have to go deep into the station anyway. I'm also quite fond of simpler antagonists, like revenant and nightmare. Give people the tools, and they'll make the fun themselves. I've been comparing the Voidwalker with the Nightmare. Both are goalles, simple antagonists, but where the Nightmare's gimmick is darkness, the Voidwalker's gimmick is space. They also get a dark tentacle arm so they can murderize people, but it only gets them to crit. After that they can drag people into the "void" to kidnap them. This is mostly to encourage the Voidwalker not to just space them cause that's kinda lame. They still can though, just in-case it would be very funny ## Changelog 🆑 Time-Green, Justice12354, Rex9001 add: Adds the Voidwalker, a new rare space based midround antagonist! code: Adds the ability to texture limbs and bodypart_overlays Sprite: Cosmic skull sprites by Justice12354 and Rex9001 /🆑 - [x] Add a better kidnapping mechanic, instead of just teleporting someone to a station turf - [x] Add an armblade or weapon or something, unarmed combat is kinda ass for this - [x] Fix the antag preview not rendering textures - [x] Prevent them from space phasing when in combat so they can actually be killed in space combat, even if really fucking hard - [x] Nerf visibility for people with space parallax disabled, probably also something to improve camo with colored parallax - [x] Replace the stamina damage stuff - [x] Cool rework of space phase idea I have - [x] Update/implement vidual effects - [x] Implement names ## Considerations There's a few things that I might change or implement later, depending on how it actually plays. It's a space focused antag, but there might not be enough people near space in a given round. An ability to let them "capture" area's or let them turn into a meteor or something might be needed later if they turn out to be too passive. They might also be _too_ oppressive in space. I designed them for near-space combat, but may've made them insanely overpowered in in raw space combat. Probably wont do biddle, but might add more powers that you can reroll every few minutes or something (like blob). Either wat it wont be this PR --------- Co-authored-by: carlarctg <53100513+carlarctg@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: MrMelbert <51863163+MrMelbert@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Jacquerel <hnevard@gmail.com>	2024-07-14 18:57:44 +00:00