## About The Pull Request
Where I forget about a pr for 5 months.
This started because there was a pr that made it so skills transfer
between the real and the digital, and so I thought it'd be really funny
if I could train boxing in virtual reality... but there's no easy way to
get boxing gloves or anything like it in the virtual world...
So! I decided to make a disk for it, but then thought about fishing and
gaming and-
Anyhow it all went downhill from there and here we are now: Gimmick
Disks. (And a refactor of disk loading)
This implements a new type of bitrunning disk that instead of a single
item or ability, grants a full set of thematic items/abilities!
Unhelpfully cosplay as a wizard! Game inside your game! Down a digital
protein shake and box some simplemobs!
As the name "Gimmick" implies, these are primarily intended to help
shake up the sometimes stale bitrunner gameplay.
By letting you invoke, if you so desire, what to me is the most
enjoyable gaming experience: doing stupid shit with your buddies.
To facilitate the new type of disk I had to refactor disk loading, as it
was hardcoded to the item types.
Instead, we make disk loading send a signal to the bitrunner, and
register for this when held in their inventory.
This allows us to do things like making the lead acid battery give you
shock touch when held, without needing to make an explicit typecheck or
iterate over every item in the bitrunner's nested contents to see if
they have a loadable item.
## Why It's Good For The Game
I think it'd be really funny if you could train your boxing in the
digital realm.
As said above, I feel the bitrunner gameplay can get stale sometimes,
and this is how I hope to help people shake it up for themselves
sometimes. By giving them more stupid shit to do.
Doing stupid extended bits with other people is one of the things I
enjoy most out of ss13, and this is there to let the bitrunners do
exactly that with each other.
And sometimes you just have to roleplay as Gamers™️ entering virtual
reality to fight the virtual syndicate in bad cosplay while roleplaying
as a wizard smoking his magic weed, an overly edgy rogue, and the healer
desperately trying to keep them from exploding into a million pieces.
## Changelog
🆑
refactor: Bitrunning item/ability loading has been refactored. Please
report any issues.
add: Added Bitrunning gimmick loadout disks. These disks contain full
sets of equipment for all your digital cosplay needs, each including
questionably helpful equipment. Currently includes Sports (Boxer,
Skater, Archer, Fisher, Gamer) and Dungeon Crawling (Alchemist, Rogue,
Healer, Wizard).
add: Taking a lead acid battery into the netpod with you now gives your
bit avatar shock touch.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Replaces the mini-UZI beach battle domain reward with a ballistic
chameleon gun.
Also added a separate possible reward for an uzi bitrunning disk.
## About The Pull Request
Adds disks to the bitrunning vendor that give the pka and pkc additional
parts.
I have no idea if any of these numbers are balanced, I am not good at
balance, and these are just random numbers I came up with. If anyone has
any recommendations on how to better order or price it, I would love to
know.
## Why It's Good For The Game
It gives people a way to test fights against megafauna using unique
combinations of accelerator modkits and crusher trophies with less
risks.
## Changelog
🆑
add: Added disks for accelerator modkits and crusher trophies to the
bitrunning vendor
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Fixes the following input stalling exploits (maybe missed some):
- Changing GPS tag
- Setting teleporter destination
- Request Console Reply
- Various AI law board interactions
- Note, I used `is_holding` but technically this means these fail with
telekinesis. I can swap them to `can_perform_action(...)`, which allows
TK, but I noticed some places explicitly deny TK interactions with Ai
law boards. Not sure which is preferred.
- Borg Rename Board
- Plumbing Machines and Ducts
- APCs and SMES terminal placements
- Stargazers Telepathy
- Go Go Gadget Hat
## Changelog
🆑 Melbert
fix: You can't change the GPS tag of something unless you can actually
use the GPS
fix: You can't set the teleporter to a location unless you can actually
use the teleporter
fix: You can't reply to request console requests unless you can actually
use the console
fix: You can't update AI lawboards unless you're actually holding them
fix: You can't update a borg rename board unless you're actually holding
it
fix: You can't mess with plumbing machines unless you can actually use
them
fix: You can't recolor / relayer ducts unless you're actually holding
them
fix: You can't magically wire APCs and SMESs unless you're right by them
fix: You can't use Stargazer Telepathy on people who you can't see
fix: You can't configure the Inspector Hat unless you can actually use
it
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
I woke up today and thought 'what would be easy thing to do today so I
can say I've done something?'. Then I remembered I saw several gangtool
usages the time I split radio up, and I could remedy those. 7 hours
later, device.dmi is split in a folder of its own, and I've also given
unique sprites to door remotes and landing desginators.
## Why It's Good For The Game
The device.dmi was kind of a mess.
## Changelog
🆑
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Third /icon/ cleansing splinter 1. Comments on commits say all it does
pretty much.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Inhand for walkietalkie was requested in the project, gets rid of some
usecases of old 'gangtool', headset splitoff requested by Fazzie.
Inhands reflecting the items they are supposed to represent is nice.
## Changelog
🆑
image: Following now have unique item sprites: syndicate war declaration
radio, curator and chief beacon's, chaplain beacon.
image: Following now have unique inhand sprites: radio, export scanner,
walkie-talkie, syndicate war declaration radio, curator and chief
beacon's, chaplain beacon.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Reopened#78997
Larger patch for bitrunning that addresses a few issues.
- Two new antagonists: cyber tac and netguardian
- Quantum server emag opportunity
- Modular mob packs: Like random spawners, but for groups
- Antag spawning fixed: vdom antags now have up to a 10% chance to spawn
based on domains loaded
- Virtual domains are no longer all fullbright by default, only the
outdoorsy ones
- Actually deletes legion map file, since it was removed in #79424
<details>
<summary>images</summary>
The netguardian prime
The glitch effect - this mob is being mutated
Cyber tac (t2 antagonist)
</details>
## Why It's Good For The Game
- Bitrunning antagonists are so incredibly rare that it's underwhelming
to play as one for the solid second they offer if you even get the role
- Bitrunners had basically no traitor route to follow, they became
assistants with black outfits
Fixes#79465
<details>
<summary>More info</summary>
Bitrunners don't have any type of traitor options. If they're made into
traitors, there's nothing bitrunner related they can do, and their
access is particularly bad so it's like they're a worse assistant. I've
coupled this with the bitrunning antagonist system, which is now
fixed.\. Bitrunners can now attempt to coax these entities to come onto
the station, however they are not given any form of allegiance for doing
so (and are quite counterable).
Previously, vdom antagonists relied on so many factors to spawn that it
basically wouldn't happen. Now, it runs on the server each time there is
a map loaded, with increasing probability as the round progresses. This
builds up the list of spawnable antagonists, of which two are new,
including an entirely new giant mech megafauna. This is the first
"megafauna-esque" basic mob in the game. Its AI is bad, it's really only
meant to be player controlled, but this does mean an admin can spawn
them. Being mech, they are very counterable with ion rifles and the
like.
Several refactors, rewrites, and overall bug fixes are included in this
PR.
Lastly, I added a framework for making bitrunner maps more random, the
modular mob spawning system, which works in conjunction with random
crate locations.
</details>
## Changelog
jlsnow301, infraredbaron
🆑
add: Bitrunning Patch 1 features a host of changes!
add: Added randomized mobs to virtual domains, which will be indicated
with a unique icon.
add: New emag interaction with the quantum server. Antags will spawn
more frequently, and they can hack themselves onto the station. You have
been warned.
add: Both living and dead players can now see which mob is going to
spawn an antagonist in the vdom.
add: Two new vdom antagonists: Cyber Tac and the NetGuardian. These
unlock at specific thresholds.
balance: You can no longer stack copies of the same ability with
bitrunning disks.
balance: Some of the disk items have been replaced with stronger
versions.
fix: You can no longer spy on crew using the advanced camera console on
syndicate assault.
fix: Fixed the spawning mechanism of virtual domain antagonists. You
should now have a chance of playing as one. This chance increases as
more domains are completed.
fix: Vdom antagonists shouldn't spawn at the end of the run any longer.
fix: The preference for vdom antagonists has been changed to factor in
the new types. Check your preferences!
fix: The quantum server will now show its balloon alerts to all
observers.
fix: Random domains should be fully random again.
/🆑
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Co-authored-by: LemonInTheDark <58055496+LemonInTheDark@users.noreply.github.com>
