## About The Pull Request
Fixes#79921
Otherwise, on the tin. Attack mode is for attacking, scouting mode is
for scouting. We were listening for clicking and stuff like that but it
was still failing somehow so this is le fix
## Why It's Good For The Game
You aren't supposed to shoot in this mode, only scout.
## Changelog
🆑
fix: Ranged Guardians (Holoparasites/Power Miners/etc.) can no longer
use ranged attacks in scouting (incorporeal) mode.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Removes the "overwatch" ability from Watchers, allowing them to use
their "look away" ability at any health threshold instead (but only if
it's been fighting you for at least 5 seconds or if you attack it).
Drops the cooldown on the gaze a little bit to compensate.
Also fixes some weird behaviour I noticed while testing:
- It won't cancel its own ability by trying to back away from you.
- It will look at you when it shoots you.
## Why It's Good For The Game
I was cooking too hard with this one.
- Two abilities overcomplicates what are supposed to be a pretty simple
mob you fight in packs.
- It wasn't obvious what you were actually supposed to do when
targetted.
- Doing it wrong could be very punishing in groups.
- Doing it _right_ was still kind of unexciting.
This is an ability to give to an elite, not a random trash mob.
## Changelog
🆑
balance: Watchers will no longer put you at gunpoint.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
the burst attacks wasnt working because a cooldown in the ranged
component qwas added recently. this now moves the burst attacks option
to the component itself so even sapiant player mobs can use these burst
ranged attacks
## Why It's Good For The Game
fix basic mobs ranged burst attacks
## Changelog
🆑
fix: basic mobs can now use ranged burst attacks
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Fixes: #76815
The shells the basic syndicate mobs were dropping were not actually
unspent, but they were not updating their description. They do that now.
## Why It's Good For The Game
small bugfix
## Changelog
🆑 Seven
fix: Syndicate ranged mobs (and probably other basic mobs) properly
update their shell's description to show they are spent.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
This one is a double feature because Watchers and Basilisks share the
same typepath. You might see a couple more of those.
As is tradition I decided to fuck with them rather than just port them.
Here's what's up.
**Basilisks**
- Have a new soulless sprite which looks less like a living blue hedge.
- Walk at you and shoot you while you are not in range (just like
before).
- Become supercharged if they become "heated" by lava, lasers, or
temperature weapons. This was a feature they also previously had but
they would never encounter lava, so now it also works if you use the
wrong gun on them.
- Lose their supercharge if you cool them down.
- Otherwise pretty normal mobs.
**Watchers**
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOq_Bf78k5A
Here's a traditional video of me intentionally getting hit by mechanics
(trust me its definitely on purpose)
- They glow emmissively a little bit so you can see them from further
away.
- Their eyes light up about 0.5 seconds before they are able to shoot at
you.
- No longer melee attack, instead try to stay out of melee.
- Will occasionally put you into "Overwatch", meaning they will shoot
you rapidly if you move or act while they're staring at you for a brief
time period (after which you become immune for 12 seconds, and during
which other watchers will play fair and stop shooting at you).
- If they start taking damage they will also start using their "Gaze"
attack, look away or suffer some kind of negative effect!
- - Normal watcher gaze flashes and confuses you.
- - Magmawing watcher gaze obviously burns (and briefly stuns) you.
- - Icewing watcher gaze freezes you and throws you backwards.
- Magnetically attract and eat diamonds. They also used to do this, but
just if they happened to coincidentally walk past some.
**Other accompanying changes**
All basic mobs will now adopt the "stop gliding" trait if they get
slowed down too much.
I moved behaviour for "fire a projectile from this atom" into a helper
proc because I was using it in three places and I will probably use it
in more places. There are probably other places in the existing code
which could be using this.
I think I made the basic mob melee attack forecast default a little more
forgiving, they were fucking me up too much and I am the playtester.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Another one off the list.
New tricks for old dogs.
Framework for making mobs with ranged attacks "fairer" (you can see when
they are ready to shoot you).
More (hopefully) versatile AI behaviours which we will reuse later (I
hope I'm not duplicating one someone already made).
If our players "enjoy" them enough we can give more mobs "don't look at
me" mechanics.
Removes some soul sprites.
## Changelog
🆑
refactor: Basilisks and Watchers now use the basic mob framework. Please
bug report any unusual behaviour.
sprite: Basilisks have new sprites.
add: Basilisks will go into a frenzy if heated by energy weapons or
temperature beams as well as by lava.
add: Watcher eyes will be illuminated briefly when they are ready to
fire at you.
add: Watchers can now briefly put you into "Overwatch" and penalise you
for moving while they can see you.
add: Wounded watchers will occasionally punish players who look at them.
balance: Unusual watcher variants are more likely to appear.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Atomised change from a different PR I am working on.
This changes the basic mob ranged attacks element into a component so
that it can also track an attack cooldown on the mob, preventing it from
firing until the cooldown is complete.
This was possible with simple mobs but wasn't kept going forwards when
converting things to basic ones.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Ideally player and mob behaviour should be unified as much as is
realistically possible. Currently mobs which are designed to fire a
powerful weapon slowly can blast as rapidly as the click cooldown if
placed under control of a player, which is not ideal.
This isn't currently aligned for melee attacks either but I will look at
that later.
## Changelog
🆑
fix: Player-controlled basic mobs with ranged attacks can now only fire
about as fast as AI-controlled ones.
/🆑
