## 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
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
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
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
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
/🆑
---------
Co-authored-by: ArcaneMusic <41715314+ArcaneMusic@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Xander3359 <66163761+Xander3359@users.noreply.github.com>
## 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.
<img width="560" height="345" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b14aad88-acff-42da-b495-617e3cfc81a1"
/>
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.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
### Bows deal more damage.
Increases the baseline damage of the shortbow to 25, and the divine bow
to 30.
The divine bow also launches arrows at a higher velocity than normal
bows.
### Flaming arrows have sprites now, and deal burning damage. Oh, and
actually do reasonable damage.
I'm not at all skilled at animation but at least it has an actual,
visible sprite now.
I completely overlooked the fact this did 20 damage when I changed bows
to use damage multipliers. Oops.
### Ashen Bow and Ashen Arrows
Made from sinew, bone and for the bow specifically, leather. The bow is
largely identical to a shortbow, but the arrow has mining bane. If you
feel like hunting megafauna with a bow, this is your means of doing so.
<img width="384" height="128" alt="demonstration_ashen"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/1c4f493c-f694-4b09-a406-c63140628d56"
/>
Assets partially taken from
https://github.com/Skyrat-SS13/Skyrat-tg/pull/5266
Which in of itself took assets from
https://github.com/BeeStation/BeeStation-Hornet/pull/1802
The functionality is entirely new. I also did some sprite edits.
### Arrow quivers are made from wood.
Iunno, this was really weird to me. Cardboard seems like a poor quiver
material.
### Other Stuff
Shortbows and ashen bows have the ability to be renamed.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Bows are fun, but kind of middling. They're a lot slower to fire than
the vast majority of ranged weapons, and don't really have enough oomph
in their own right to intimidate people being shot by them.
This is even true of the divine bow, which is the chaplain's version.
Because of how slowly it fires and how little damage it does, the
chances of actually killing someone who poses any real threat to you
with it is pretty laughable. This is not true of the nullrod that you
sacrificed to get this weapon. 30 damage is within the ballpark of
chaplain weapons and their potential damage in some contexts. A slow to
attack weapon probably should have a more impactful hit when considering
your alternative options.
The ashen bow is mostly because I really want to go fauna hunting with
entirely bone-based weaponry. Does this mean some ashwalkers might be
putting arrows into you from afar? Yes. Does this sound fun? Yes. Is
this especially strong? Not really. Miners out damage these bows by a
significant margin, and their armor is usually good enough where they're
not at risk from arrows sticking into them or hurting them very much.
This is also a degree more effort to make than other weapons because of
the leather requirement and the need to kill several fauna for the
materials. The outcomes should be more fun than the costs.
## Changelog
🆑
balance: Shortbows and divine bows do more damage. The divine bow also
launches arrows at a higher velocity than normal bows.
image: Flaming arrows now have proper sprites.
balance: Flaming arrows now deal BURN damage. And also deal an
appropriate amount of damage for an arrow.
add: Ashen bows and arrows, made from sinew and bone. And leather for
the bow.
add: Ashen arrows deal significantly more damage to mining mobs.
balance: Arrow quivers are made from wood rather than cardboard.
qol: Shortbows and ashen bows have the ability to be renamed.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
moves all implementations (im aware of) for "Im a parent type dont spawn
me please" to the datum layer to standardized behavior
adds a standerized proc for filtering out "bad" items that we dont want
spawning. applies to it the subtype vendor, gifts, and a new spawner and
mystery box for a random gun (neither playerfacing)
"port" of https://github.com/shiptest-ss13/Shiptest/pull/4621https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/22f6f0b2-b44e-411a-b3dc-6b97dc0287aa
small warning: I dont have EVERY abstract type defined right now but,
ive done a good enough job for now. Im tired of data entry rn
## Why It's Good For The Game
standardizing behavior. Might be a micro hit to performance however
having this lets us not rely on icon state to determine whether
something is a parent type and makes it much easier to tell something is
a parent type (could be applied further to things like admin spawning
menus and things like that).
need feedback on if this is actually good for the game.
## Changelog
🆑
add: Soda cans show up in the silver slime drink table.
add: Examine tag for items that are not mean to show up ingame.
refactor: Standardizes how gifts rule out abstract types.
fix: gifts no longer check if something has an inhand, massively
expanding the list of potential items.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
What it says on the tin.
## Why It's Good For The Game
You can do it with laser muskets, so why not this?
## Changelog
🆑
qol: Lets you rename the smoothbore disabler.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
HackMD: https://hackmd.io/@Ssalty/r1wjAgSxll
Ammo removals:
IHDF
Rubber (non-.38, non-shotgun, nukie ones stay since it'd require
overrides. They were never purchasable to begin with.)
Stardust
Magnum
Express
.460 Rowland
.457 Government
MCR magazines
.40 Sol
Hornet's nest
Gun removals:
MCR's
.457 revolver
M4A5
.460 Rowland revolver
CCK
GP-7
R10 revolver
Guns made inaccessible:
NRI guns (including derringer, bobr, plasmas, Miecz)
Sol35 (Tarkon, sol ERT, gateway, adminspawn)
Sol40 (Tarkon, sol ERT, gateway, adminspawn)
Trappiste caliber (wespe, some already adminspawn weapons)
Turret adjustments:
Twin Fang - 4.6x30mm, 2 Second burst delay (40 dmg every 2 seconds vs 30
dmg every 1.5 seconds (old))
Stinger - 4.6x30mm instead of .35, matching damage
Colonist - .45 added instead of sol40, matching damage
Hoplite - Same as above
Armoury:
Armoury spawned MCRs replaced with laser guns and energy guns
SMG's and rifles with WT
If there would be a case with two separate spawns of a WT, the other is
gone.
Breaching shell boxes do not spawn in the armoury (they were capable of
1 shotting a dark mauler I wish I was kidding)
Lathe:
9mm stendo's, AP, HP, INC magazines not availible for print - the 9mm
murphy magazine is. It fits in 9mm firing turrets and the murphy.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Give me like a couple days and I'll fill this out. I doubt anyone who is
already pro-skyrat-gun will change their mind but it's good to
rationalize the decision regardless.
Find this out as in lay it out on paper.
EDIT 1: Adding the first part
# Foreword
This PR is a *draft*. That means a lot of things are subject to change,
a lot of things can be disorganized and a lot of things will be done
unoptimally. Going forwards, do keep in mind, the decision-making
process behind "remove entirely" and "virtually remove" will not be
dependant on us going forwards, as the decision on this matter requires
maintainer input more than any other.
Next, the delay.
I simply am not a machine, neither are other people onboard this
project. With different timezones, it was important to find what isn't
working so I can relay it to people in working hours.
Without further ado,
## The case of the ammo types and workbench
The ammunitions workbench is a machine that provides ammunition into
clips, refilling them. The ammunition workbench is also the source of a
multitude of alternate ammunition types. It has with itself brought
several issues that at least would warrant a rework or heavy
adjustments:
1. Contraband ammunitions. There is no real reason that the entire
security department, or even a single crewmember should be accessing
phasic weapons in the form of printable ammotypes. The argument of "the
pipegun having it" doesn't do it favours, as the way you get it is an 8%
chance on crafting a junk round for a bulky gun and the only way to find
out if you actually have it is checking each shell individually with a
bandolier.
2. Complimentary with the removals. Most use cases for this machine are
refilling the magazines you can order or get alongside your weapons.
This collides with the protolathe, which sources most of our
upstream-based ammunition instead. With the skyrat weapons gone, this
machine becomes redundant. You may claim that it's still useful in
saving on materials, where you would be right! However is it worth to
have and maintain an entirely separate structure, with it's own
mechanics, map placements, etc. to get a benefit equal to 1.6x more bang
for the buck? At the end of the day, splitting ways of getting ammo
across a single room for something so miniscule compared to the bloat it
adds is pointless.
# The weapons, why should they go, one by one.
### RomTech Flechette rifles
Compared to a standard laser gun, which is in all means our baseline of
ranged damage in ss13 - being the default armoury weapon, the default
laser for turrets and default laser for mobs. Better yet, let's compare
it to that and the default ballistic option that we have from TG.
What turns out, is that not only is the romtech carbine faster at
killing than the laser, but also rivals the WT with a split second of
difference in ttk in the favour of the romtech. Let's assume it's human
error and the WT is better TTK wise, just as an experiment. Clearly,
there must be a tradeoff, somewhere, right? One that balances them all
out to be equal weapons in the grand scale of things, contemporaries!
Well, no, not really. Not even close.
The carbine can be folded to fit in bags, that's one thing. The carbine
has more ammo, that's another thing. Bursts are harder to dodge than
series shots since they cover more perpendicular ground when attempting
to dodge projectiles, as is staple for ss13 combat. Burst weapons are
advantageous in applying more damage quicker, as you can see on the
videos - and initial damage, an alpha strike, applies movement slowdown,
ensuring future projectiles connect easier and the target cannot run.
It might be a coincidence that the only /tg/ derived weapons that fire
burst are adminspawn ERT or the Nukie weapons.
But it doesn't end here, no, the RomTech's ammunition alone would
warrant a complete overhaul if not a removal.
**steel ball**
<p>
Takes 9 shots to stamcrit, deals mixed damage - further increasing the
amount of slowdown applied, and not only is it MUCH faster at
stamcritting than a disabler is, it also leaves the target with 70
damage. Over half their healthbar. Severely overtuned with little
counterplay availible, alpha strike monster that is better at disabling
than disablers and better at stopping people dead in their tracks than
rifles, and if you look at our anti-stun, we have less than ever on
antagonists with Adrenal implants gone, Adreanaline Glands reworked,
etc, etc...
</p>
**Penetrator**
NT's answer to armour!
The penetrator has 60 AP and otherwise the same damage as the AP WT
rifle. Meaning it's a straight upgrade. Meaning this weapon invalidates
it's predecessor whilst being orderable roundstart, and not only that,
but it can fully ignore elite modsuits on nukeops. Not every mechanic
has to have a counter, there's no direct counter to someone healing
after a fight, there is no direct counter to having multiple shots, and
there shouldn't be a full nullification of armour for such a low cost.
There shouldn't be one for a crew that can mass produce these, ever.
**Magnesium**
Arguably fine, 12 firestacks per shot is still quite insane for a lower
chance of friendly fire compared to original incediary hot turfs,
**Ripper**
Steel ball, but even worse. They don't embed a single time, ***this
embeds every time***. It takes several seconds to take out. Actually,
let's compare this gun's bullets to ninja stars.
- 2 times the embed chance at 200 vs 100
- 8 times the jostle chance at 80 vs 10
- Comparable fall chance, at 1 vs 0
- More pain stam pct, at 0.9 vs 0.8, meaning more stamina damage
- More pain chance, at 70 vs 15
- Less pain modifier, at 2 vs 5
- Takes longer to take out, 5 seconds vs 3
- Jostling pain is the same
### One problem. There's three of those fired per burst, cannot be
caught either. And the armour pen is the same.
in conclusion, every aspect of this gun is unhealthy for the game, from
it's gimmick, to it's execution, to it's stats, to it's ammo, to it's
consistency, to it's firing mode, to it being able to be currently worn
on sec belts along disablers - up to 4, if I remember correct.
No reworks. It has to go.
## Proof Of Testing
<details>
<summary>Screenshots/Videos</summary>
</details>
## Changelog
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del: Removed breaching slugs from crew (not to be confused with
frangible. These ones 1 shot mechs)
del: Removed MCR, .457 revolver, .460 Rowland revolver, GP-7, R10
revolver, M4A5, and their associated ammo types.
del: Removed ammunition types: IHDF, rubber variants excluding
.38/shotgun/nukie, stardust, magnum, express, hornet's nest
del: Made most NRI guns (Miecz, plasma pistol, plasma thrower, bobr,
derringer) and Sol 35/40 (Tarkon, ERT, gateway, adminspawn) inaccessible
to crew, kept for ERT/Gateway/Flavour/Admin reasons
balance: Turrets which use a removed calibre have been adjusted into
either that of the WT's, Ceres (still printable) or 9mm.
balance: WT's replace missing sindanos across armouries, laser guns and
eguns replace the missing MCR's.
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Co-authored-by: Artur Lang <24881678+Arturlang@users.noreply.github.com>
## About The Pull Request
Resprites:
Tesla Cannon
Tesla Cannon crafting kit
### New SFX / VFX
The tesla cannon now uses a new type of beam effect that randomly picks
sprite variants for each segment instead of a tracer.
This makes the arc look more dynamic and less distorted.
Autofire guns can now choose to use a looping sound datum when firing.
#### Balance changes
The tesla cannon must now have its stock unfolded before firing, this
takes 1.5 seconds and makes the gun bulky.
It is still normal sized when folded, and folding it is instant.
### Bug fixes
Fixed a bug where looping_sound.stop() would fail to stop sounds.
The tesla cannon is an incredibly powerfu
## Why It's Good For The Game
### My reasons for respriting
The old sprite was not bad, by all means but I had a few gripes with it.
* The old sprite does not incorporate the flux anomaly yellow colour.
* The old sprite looks a bit much like a real, professionally produced
sci-fi weapon,
* The old sprite looks pretty small for such a ultra high dps full auto
weapon.
* The old inhand is quite indistinct for something that can game end you
in like one second.
### My design
I think that anomaly items should be very mad science coded and, since
anomaly science is by definition a poorly studied field, they should
look more like prototypes created by a scientist rather than something
professionally made in a factory.
## Changelog
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image: The tesla cannon has new sprites.
image: The tesla parts kit has new sprites.
image: The tesla cannon has a new shocking beam effect when firing.
sound: The tesla cannon has new sounds.
balance: The tesla cannon must now be unfolded to fire.
fix: looping sounds now stop playing sounds when commaned to do so.
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