## About The Pull Request
Remakes Battle Arcade from just about the ground up, with exceptions
taken for emagged stuff since I didn't really want to touch its
behavior.
The Battle Arcade now has stages that players can go through, unlocking
a stage by beating 2 enemies and the boss of the previous one, but this
must all be done in a row. You can choose to take a break between each
battle and there's a good chance you'll sleep just fine but there's also
a chance it can go wrong either through an ambush or robbery.
The Inn lets you restore everything for 15 gold and you can buy a sword
and armor, each level you unlock is a new sword and armor pair you can
buy that's better than the last, it's 30 gold each but scales up as you
progress through levels. They are really worth getting so it's best to
try to not lose your money early in.
The battle system is nearly the same as how it was before but I removed
the poor combo system that plagued the old arcade as one big knowledge
lock, now it's more just turn based. The game is built on permadeath so
dying means you restart from the beginning, but if you are going to lose
you can try to escape instead which costs you half of your gold.
Getting to higher levels increases the difficulty of enemies but also
increases the gaming exp rewards which could make this a better way to
get exp if you can get good at it.
Gaming EXP is used to increase chances of counterattacking but doesn't
give any extra health to the player.
I also removed the exploit of being able to screwdriver arcade cabinets
because people would do that if they thought they were on the verge of
losing to bypass the effects of loss. I instead replaced it with a new
interaction that the Curator's display case key can be used to reset
arcade cabinets (there's several keys on the chain so it made sense to
me), which I added solely because I thought Curators would be the type
of person to have run an actual arcade.
This is some gameplay
https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/assets/53777086/499083f5-75cc-43b5-b457-017a012beede
As a misc sidenote, I also split up the arcade file just like how Orion
Trail was before, just for neat code organization.
The Inn keeper is straight up just a photo of my localhost dude, he's
not a player reference or anything it's not my actual character.
I also have no idea how well balanced this is cause I suck at it lol.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Battle Arcade is one of 3 last machines in my hackmd here to turn into
TGUI https://hackmd.io/XLt5MoRvRxuhFbwtk4VAUA?view
I've always thought the current version of battle arcade is quite lame
and lacks any progression, like Orion Trail I thought that since I was
moving this to TGUI, it would also be a perfect opportunity to revamp it
and try to improve on where it failed before, especially since the
alternative (NTOS Arcade) is also lame as hell and is even lamer than
HTML battle arcade (spam mana, then spam health, then just spam attack,
rinse and repeat).
This will hopefully be more entertaining and give players sense that
they are getting through a series of tasks rather than doing one same
one again and again.
## Changelog
🆑 JohnFulpWillard, Zeek the Rat
add: Battle Arcade has been completely overhauled in a new progression
system, this time using TGUI.
add: The Curator's keys can now reset arcade cabinets.
balance: You now need to be literate to play arcade games, except for
Mediborg's Amputation Adventure.
fix: You can no longer screwdriver emagged arcade consoles. Accept your
fate.
fix: Silicons can no longer play Mediborg's Amputation Adventure.
/🆑
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Co-authored-by: Jeremiah <42397676+jlsnow301@users.noreply.github.com>
About The Pull Request
Alphabetized several long lists of strings so its easier for us to look through them, just code polish, nothing the players would see.
Fixed some minor spelling errors as well.
Clarified door bolt state to be less ambiguous in the door wiring gui.
Originally it would say the door bolts have fallen, and the door bolts "Look up". i dont know about you but that was very not clear for me to read. Like where are the bolts? In the door or the frame? Arnt there bolts on top and bottom? Just didn't make sense to me.
Now it says "Have engaged!" & "Have disengaged"
hopefully that makes the state clearer at a glance.
I also added a small handful of funny texts to some string files. See changelog
Why It's Good For The Game
Well, who doesn't like a bit of polish? Just makes the game a little easier for people.
Also funny text funny text.
Changelog
spelling: improves spelling and adds more flavortext
* spruces up valentines and arcade text
* more
* removes hornyposting
* this is what I was born to do
* motherfucker I forgot they removed sleepers
* technically I could add handling of articles/plurals but too fucking lazy
* Adds special arcade enemies for Halloween and Christmas. Moves arcade stuff to json file in preparation to add more eventually.
* adds custom weaponry
* fixes bug
