I'm unhappy with the way revenants are right now, and my code for them is pretty unsatisfactory in comparison to what I know now. Although revenants will still fill the same role of just being spookier ghosts, they'll be a bit more passive - incapable, for instance, of giving diseases to people. The new revenants will be called umbras and will use vitae instead of essence.
Total change list:
Revenants have been renamed to umbras. Essence has been renamed to vitae. This may be temporary.
Umbra spawn events are now weighted higher and spawn an unoccupied umbra. Ghosts are alerted to the umbra's position and may interact with it to take control of it.
Umbras' health is not based on vitae but has a hard cap at 100.
Umbras have a passive vitae drain each tick, defaulting at 0.01. If the umbra runs out of vitae, they will die irrevocably. They also slowly regenerate health by doing this.
When an umbra dies, they leave behind umbral ashes that reform after one minute. They're difficult to see and can be scattered by activating them, although they also have high research levels if you're fast enough.
Harvesting vitae from critical targets no longer kills them. Harvesting a target in general prohibits them from being harvested until five minutes later, but they can be drained again after that.
EMPs revitalize umbras and give them hefty amounts of vitae due to their physical nature.
Umbras have four abilities: Toggle Nightvision, Discordant Whisper, Possess, and Thoughtsteal.
Toggle Nightvision is self-explanatory.
Discordant Whisper is identical to the original revenant's transmit.
Possess allows the umbra to slip into a human's body unnoticed. While in their body, umbras will slowly drain vitae from the human at a tiny rate - not enough to cause harm, but enough to induce adverse effects in the clueless human. These effects intensify over time and eventually lead to the umbra being forced out of their host.
Thoughtsteal paralyzes a living human for several seconds while the umbra steals their memories. After several seconds, the umbra copies the notes of the target's memories and turns invisible - the hapless victim is stunned for several seconds afterwards and can't be Thoughtstolen by the same umbra again. Umbras have an objective to steal the memories of 25% of the station's population.
Salt piles have been added, created by salt shaker or just by splashing salt. These piles will prevent an umbra from passing and reveal them briefly if they try.
Added priority overlays to atoms, which will not be removed when overlays are cut and will always remain on top when new overlays are added. This requires everyone to use add_overlay() and cut_overlays() instead of overlays += and overlays.Cut(). These procs are found in __HELPERS/icons.dm, and the priority overlay list is found in game/atoms.dm. Everything else is replacing deprecated overlay manipulation.
Removed Dementia Doctrine, replacing it with an Application sigil.
Adds the Sigil of Accession, the previously-mentioned Application sigil, which is much like a Sigil of Submission, except it isn't removed on converting un-mindshielded targets and will disappear after converting a mindshielded target.
Sigil of Submission is now a Script instead of a Driver; It's unlocked one tier up, so you have to rely on the Drivers you have until you get Scripts, instead of spamming both Driver sigils for free converts.
To replace Sigil of Submission in the Driver tier; Added Taunting Tirade, which is a chanted scripture with a very fast invocation, which, on chanting, confuses, dizzies, and briefly stuns nearby non-servants and allows the invoker a brief time to relocate before continuing the chant.
Fixes having too few components interrupting chanting.
Blood drips icons are now in blood.dmi instead of drip.dmi (which only had the 5 drip sprites).
Moved projectiles, guns, casings and ammo boxes to be in the right files. Please don't put your gun with its projectile, ammo casing and ammo box all the same file.
I split growing.dmi into 5 smaller files so we don't get close to the 512 icon limit again. Each seed has a var to indicate which icon file to use when planted.
Fixes code for heavy pulse laser projectile to be less awful.
This is mostly a pre-setup for my greater-bag-of-holding stuff.
You can't use bluespace crystals/jaunters/hand teleporters to access bluespace-proofed areas. at the moment, this only applies to shuttles and centcomm.
Teleport beacons placed in bluespace proofed rooms can't be teleported to, except via teleporter station hub.
A little concerned because now 'hijack' antags cant use teleprods to fling everyone out of the shuttle while in transit. q_q could easily just make the shuttle non-bluespace proof though.
Note for mappers: This means you can create ruins that can't be teleported into using bspace crystals by setting the area "noteleport" to 1. This can be used to force players to travel through the ruin the way they're intended to. Or to prevent them from gaining access to areas they shouldnt normally be able to. (ie. the wishgranter ruin)
- We no longer leave a blood trail if blood_volume is below a certain level which depends on the brute damage received. This way dragging a wounded player does have a bad effect.
- We no longer give humans a second reagents var containing blood, and we don't put exotic blood in the mob's reagents. Now we don't store any blood substance inside the mob, we only have a blood_volume var. When we draw blood with syringe we create the reagent that match the type (blood reagent, or an exotic blood reagent)
- can't draw blood from mob if it's low on blood, so we can't empty a mob of its blood entirely.
- Removed the blood type preference appearing in character setting.
- blood pack automatically show blood type, unless manually labeled.
- removed bloody_hands_mob human var and same name glove var.
- Some animals now have blood (pets, goat, cows)
- hitting and dragging mobs with actual blood in their veins leaves blood on you and a trail on the floor.
- probably other stuff that I'll mention in the PR.
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rscadd: Admins are now notified if a megafauna uses a wormhole or a
shuttle.
rscadd: A new Shuttle Manipulator verb has been added for quick access
to probably the best and most bugfree feature on /tg/.
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Megafauna adminnotifies on portal TP
Standard shuttle names and logging
Also ignore .mdme files
Muh commit
Actually works and stuff
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rscadd: Spectral sword is now a point of interest for ghosts.
fix: Clicking the spectral sword action now orbits the sword, instead of
just teleporting to its location.
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Changed the notify_jump alert to notify_action, added three different
notification actions (jump, attack, orbit), modified notify_ghosts and
its callers appropriately.
Spectral sword now just counts the number of orbiting ghosts in the
turf, irregardless of what they're orbiting. Generally this'll be the
summation of orbiters of the mob, and orbiters of the sword.
Tweaks:
-Removes an errant sleeper from the animal hospital
-Fixes invisible walls/weirdness with sandeffect turfs (replaces with sand effect decals), adds breath masks.
-Converts both to TGM format.
And the big one: Completely remodels clown ruin. I won't ruin the surprise. Welcome to clown planet.
* Added a simple bar-theme escape shuttle
Features include a very tough Bardrone, with laws to be a good
bartender, bathroom, a quality lounge for the heads, and a small
gambling table.
* Changed drone's health to 3000
Bardrone is now strong, to cope from stray gunfire.
* Replaces banned variables with alternates
Step_[xy] is bad, mkay?
* Added STV5, the cramped transport shuttle
Well, looks like Centcom only had this ship ready for evacuation. I hope
you're friendly with your coworkers!
* Removed shuttle area from empty space on STV5
* Added cult shuttle
Looks like this automated shuttle may have wandered into the darkness
between the stars on route to the station. Let's not think too hard
about where all the bodies came from.
* Include the Narnar Shuttle
* Meat ferry added
Very basic, could probably use some love from a map wizard.
* Moved shuttle files to shuttles/ directory
* MAPS MOVED AND RENAMED
* Hyperfractal Gigashuttle
"I dunno, this seems kinda needlessly complicated."
"This shuttle has very a very high safety record, according to Centcom
Officer Cadet Yins."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes, it has a safety record of N-A-N, which is apparently larger than
100%."
* I REGRET ADDING THESE
* Into templates you go
* Changed floors
* Hugbox supermatter, for map making
* Shuttles KINDA delete themselves
* Hats in hats in hats in hats in hats
* Use the hugbox supermatter in the shuttle
* Include the new verbs
* Include our new verbs
* Fixed runtime when deleting emergency shuttle
* Added to verb list
* Fixes more runtimes with deleting the shuttle
* Shuttle Destroy verb now functions
* Moved them out of the shuttles/ folder
* We'll need these docks later
* shuttle_import landmark datum made
* Changes z2 to TGM format and adds shuttle_import landmark
* SHUTTLE IMPORT VERB
Is this it? Are we there?
* Some compile fixes
* Emergency bar map updated
* Updated cramped shuttle
* Updated narnar shuttle
* Supermatter shuttle updated
* Meat ferry updated
* Debugging information included
* Debug code, QDEL hints
* Minor updates to collection of maps
* May as well use the snowflake drone code
PICK YOUR OWN BARKEEPING HAT.
* The Lighthouse
*static*... part of a much larger vessel, possibly military in origin.
The weapon markings aren't anything we've seen ... *static* ... by
almost never the same person twice, possible use of unknown storage ...
*static* ... seeing ERT officers onboard, but no missions are on file
for ... *static* ... *static* ... *annoying jingle* ... only at The
LIGHTHOUSE! Fulfilling needs you didn't even know you had. We've got
EVERYTHING, and something else!
* Made supermatter hallucination too powerful
* Added force argument for docking testing
* Added emergency backup shuttle
Hopefully it will never be seen or used. But means that provided it's
there and untouched, even with the accidental deletion of a shuttle,
round will still be able to end as normal.
* Added templates for existing shuttles
* Backup shuttle used if emergency shuttle deleted
* Added backup shuttle transit space
Don't know why transit spaces aren't dynamically generated, to be
honest.
* Hyperfractal Gigashuttle improved
More radiation lockers, chairs which makes it "safer".
* Added Shuttle Under Construction
The documentation hasn't been finished yet for this shuttle. Break glass
in case of emergency.
* Added warnings for shuttle interaction
ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO DELETE THE EMERGENCY SHUTTLE?
I mean, I really don't know what will happen, and it's probably
nothing good.
* Snappop(tm)!
Hey kids and grownups! Are you bored of DULL and TEDIOUS shuttle
journeys after you're evacuating for probably BORING reasons. Well then
order the Snappop today! We've got fun activities for everyone, an all
access cockpit, and no boring security brig! Boo! Play dress up with
your friends! Collect all the bedsheets before your neighbour does so!
Check if the AI is watching you with our patent pending "Peeping Tom AI
Multitool Detector" or PEEEEEETUR for short. Have a fun ride!
* Fixed horrific experiment icon, added gambling spawner
* Candle changes
Infinite candles start fires but don't run out.
Infinite candles don't make messages when created.
* Shuttle can dock if already docked
* Fixing bugs with shuttle import
Also, some minor bugs with hugbox supermatter still consuming
gas moles and slowly depressurising the area.
* Admin notice, unload bad template
* Fixes problems with some shuttles
* Warning message if roundstart dock failed
* Compiles.
* Inform admins of shuttle problems
* Names for shuttles, minor tweaks
* Moved shuttle templates to shuttles/
* Version numbers are lame
* Shuttle datums
* Shuttle manipulator barebones
It doesn't do anything at the moment.
* Added shuttle manipulator to Z2
It still doesn't do anything yet, but it looks pretty.
* Use GetAllContents(), don't delete ghosts
* Fixes bug where nothing would actually load
* Cancel button on Destroy Shuttle
* Fixed birdboat shuttle overwriting bar shuttle
