It was removed in https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/pull/27799
because the spear was broken and the Flans' AI sucked with not-great
sprites and was all just one big reference. Original addition:
https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/pull/22270
This re-adds it, updates the map (now using airless turfs) with extra
ambiance, using ash whelps (lavaland variation of ice whelps) instead of
Flans, re-adds the spear, and adds armor as well this time around.
The spear gives you a jump ability to crash down upon a player below
you, rather than teleporting to wherever you throw the spear at. You
can't attack while mid-air, you can go through tables but not
walls/doors, and you also can't un-dualwield or drop the spear mid-jump.
Landing on a mob deals double damage to them (36 to unarmored people),
while landing on objects deals 150 damage to them (taken from savannah's
jump ability, which was in turn taken from hulk's punching)
It's also got some extra throw force (24 compared to default spear's 20)
The armor has basic security-level armor but covers your whole body.
Does not include space protection, and can be worn by Ian.
Video demonstration
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a77c3a0d-17d2-4e8d-88b6-cdbca8b1f2c3
New sprites demonstration
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/0e465351-5484-406f-8adc-ffa1ac180daf
Armor demonstration
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/abdfcac6-65bf-443c-bde2-27d157ee3a80
Map
With the changes in https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/pull/90771 I
had to mess with ash whelp abilities a bit, I decided to make them use
cold fire instead of hardcoding blue color on top of the fire sprites,
and it now acts accordingly too
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/cfca0d70-d13d-4c73-996d-2d4a7519866d
The jump was taken from Savannah Ivanov, and Goof's bunny jumping.
This Re-implements a old spear that got removed for its buggyness/bad
mapping and on the authors request as well not wanting to deal with it.
Re-introduces the SkyBulge as a space ruin, referencing Dragoons from
Final Fantasy. this just like any normal spear, but using the savannah
jump mechanic, this allows you to close distances with the spear
avoiding ranged projectiles in the jump, and if you directly land on
your target you will do double the damage.
🆑 Ezel/Improvedname, Toriate, JohnFulpWillard
add: Re-added the Dragoon Tomb lair, now has a Skybulge spear and
Drachen armor.
balance: Ice whelps now spit out cold fire.
/🆑
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Co-authored-by: Jacquerel <hnevard@gmail.com>
## About The Pull Request
tweaks some stats of The Thing as a boss to make it slightly more
bearable to fight specially for people with higher ping.
more specifically increasing some of the telegraphs' time and reducing
some wound chances, also halved the charge's knockdown time (1s to 0.5s)
also (i think) fixed an issue where the spike walls that the thing
summons destroy items on the floor (sucks ass to have your pkcrusher
destroyed)
## Why It's Good For The Game
the thing is one of if not the most fun megafauna added so far, as it's
the first basic mob boss, but it's a bit hard to keep up with specially
if you're a high ping player, the boss itself is also not in a
depressurized enviroment so i think it's justified to make it a bit
easier to dodge since some of the healing items miners have only work in
low pressure
## Changelog
🆑
balance: nerfed Icebox's "The Thing" boss
fix: fixed "The Thing" 's spike walls destroying items on the floor when
summoned
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
<details>
<summary> expand to spoil the fun of exploring something for yourself
</summary>
firstly, the new ruin: outpost 31
its layout is vaguely based off an official map of the Outpost 31 from
the Thing movie but i ran out of space halfway
the boss drops a keycard for the storage room that you cant get in
otherwise, containing its own special item, and other stuff probably
useful for crew
crusher loot: trophy that heals you on each hit
the ruin is guarded by like 3 flesh blobs, very resilient (and slow)
masses of flesh that deal 3 brute damage, not harmful in melee but WILL
attempt to grab and devour/assimilate you which is FAR more lethal
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/542cc6d0-f4ee-4598-9677-a03170c6c1c3
Boss: The Thing (with creative liberties otherwise this thing would
instakill you if it was true to source material)
difficulty: medium apparently idk mining jesus beat it with 400ms or so
HP: 1800
It is a much higher ranking changeling than those infiltrating SS13
It has 3 phases, 600hp each. Depleting its phase health will turn it
invincible and it will heal back half in 10 seconds. In order to prevent
this, the two Molecular Accelerators must be overloaded by interacting
with them to blast the changeling with deadly scifi magic or whatever
they do, forcing it to shed its form further and go to the next phase.
Not necessary for phase 3 because it literally just dies then
it focuses mostly on meleeing you and making certain tiles impassable
for you with 1hp tendrils, all attacks are telegraphed so theres no dumb
instakills here
it alternates between aoe abilities and abilities
melee behavior:
- if too far, charge at target (charges twice on phase 3)
- too close, shriek (unavailable in phase 1) (technically AOE but its
more like a melee ability you know??)
- otherwise just try to melee
Shriek: if the player is too close emit a confusing shriek that makes
them confused and drop items
aoe behavior (phase 2, 3 only):
1: Puts 4 tendrils in a line cardinally
2: Puts tendrils around itself
3. Puts a patch of tendrils around and under the target, 3x3 in phase 3
4. Phase 3 only - spits patches of acid into the air that hurt when
stepped on
_(crusher is hard ok)_
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/cbb98209-d3f0-470d-b0e8-4e310c5b709c
unique megafauna loot for this boss is like 1 AI-Uplink brain
its like a BORIS module but for humans i think you can figure out what
that means
while in a human shell they cannot roll non-malf midrounds and cannot be
converted, and cannot be mindswapped
the human MUST have all robotic organs (minus tongue because its not in
the exosuit fab and that kinda sucks to get)
will undeploy if polymorphed
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/abcc277a-995a-4fa7-b980-0549b6b7cf52
</details>
## Why It's Good For The Game
icebox is severely lacking in actual good ruins (fuck that one fountain
ruin)
i feel that the loot given by megafauna has been and still apparently is
exclusively to make the victor more powerful, which kinda sucks because
thats just powergaming???? the loot of this boss is more crewsided,
specifically aiding the AI in a VERY limited quantity (1), so its not
anything good for powergamers, good for crew if the AI is not rogue
## Changelog
🆑
add: outpost 31, the icebox ruin. Also its associated mobs, and
megafauna, and loot. Im not spoiling anything, find it yourself.
/🆑
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Co-authored-by: Ben10Omintrix <138636438+Ben10Omintrix@users.noreply.github.com>
John Willard