## About The Pull Request
Updates pipeguns with a brand new set of sprites. Also comes with pipe
pistols; plinkier versions of the pipegun.
Alters pipeguns away from utilizing shotgun/rifle ammunition towards a
bespoke junk round ammo. These shells are crafted similarly to current
improvised shells. This also removes improvised shells as a shotgun ammo
type. (these new shells aren't shotgun shells to begin with, they're
more like rifle bullets)
Crafting junk rounds produces an entirely unknown projectile in the
shell. You won't know what you get until you fire the gun. Almost in
every instance, however, the shot is beneficial towards killing things.
And they all do about the same amount of damage, so there is hopefully
never a round you didn't want to fire in the gun. Fighting someone with
a pipegun is usually predictable for what amount of damage it will do,
but any additional effects it might have is going to be an unknown
factor. They also brutalize borgs, which is a quality that improvised
shells had previously.
Pipeguns operate as they did before, and do roughly 40 damage per shot
with the majority of their ammo types (less than what they do currently
with .310). They only have one shell in the gun at a time, so every time
they're fired, they must be reloaded.
Pipe pistols do roughly 15 damage per shot, but hold more ammo than the
bigger pipegun. However, they're more likely to veer off-course.
There are regal versions of each of these weapons, and each are more
potent respective of their general rarity. Having one is going to be a
lot more noteworthy.
### Minor changes
Some more clothing items can carry pipeguns in their suit storage.
The icemoon hermit spawns with a heroic laser musket rather than a regal
pipegun (partially because it is too difficult for the hermit to get
more ammo for their gun, and also because the regal pipegun is a more
powerful weapon than previously)
## Why It's Good For The Game
It has been a few years since I added the pipegun, and time was never
particularly kind to it. There are alternative weapons now with
interesting mechanics of their own. The ammunition it used has changed
considerably. And it simply didn't ever feel like a 'junk gun' in a way
that was fun. The original mechanics added to give it that feeling were
just not fun to experience and were removed. So the pipegun has been
left as 'a shitty version of X'. Even the regal pipegun was, at the end
of the day, a shittier version of either a shotgun or cargo rifle.
It didn't feel right not having some kind of unique quality to using
these weapons that help them express themselves as unpredictable trash
weapons built inside of maintenance. But I expressly didn't want to make
it 'unpredictable' in a way that felt unfair on the person getting shot
either. So just giving it more damage was right out. As a compromise, I
reduced the overall lethality of the weapons while introducing a gimmick
that will appeal to those wanting to play out the role of a homeless
lunatic with a shitty homemade gun stalking maintenance. A 'chaos gun'
so to speak. Maybe that will appeal to people.
## Changelog
🆑
balance: Reworks pipeguns to use an unpredictable 'junk round'. You
won't know what you're shooting until you fire it.
add: Introduces a pistol version of the pipegun; the pipe pistol. It is
inaccurate and does significantly less damage, but more portable and has
more ammunition in the gun.
image: Updates the visuals of the pipeguns.
balance: Also improves the Regal varieties of these weapons. By a lot.
balance: More articles of clothing can be used to carry pipeguns in suit
storage.
balance: The Icemoon Hermit comes with a Heroic Laser Musket instead of
a Regal Pipegun.
remove: Improvised shells (the shotgun shell) has been replaced with
improvised junk shells (which don't work with shotguns but do work with
pipeguns).
/🆑
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## About The Pull Request
Using these search regexes:
Ending in 0:
`addtimer\((.*),\s?(\d{1,3})0\b\)`
replacement:
`addtimer($1, $2 SECONDS)`
Two digit ending in odd:
`addtimer\((.*), (\d)([1-9])\)$`
replacement:
`addtimer($1, $2.$3 SECONDS)`
Single digit ending odd:
`addtimer\((.*), ([1-9])\)$`
replacement:
`addtimer($1, 0.$2 SECONDS)`
## Why It's Good For The Game
Code readability
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## About The Pull Request
This was meant to be a thing. Looking at the gitblame it has been broken
for **9 fucking years** (Ever since it was added):
How the hell did NOBODY notice for so fucking long
## Why It's Good For The Game
Actually makes something work as intended. Might make sec consider less
lethal options when dealing with threats.
## Changelog
🆑
fix: after 9 years, adds a single dot to the dragnet code, making it
deal stamina damage as intended
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
The sprites of rocket launchers, rockets, and their projectiles have
been updated.
The name of the rocket launcher has been changed from "PML-9" to
"Dardo-RE Rocket Launcher".
Rocket launchers can be worn in suit slots as well as on your back if
you really wanted.
## Why It's Good For The Game
The PML sprite is nearly like seven years old at this point I think.
This is something a little less ancient and a little more cool looking.
Speaking of cool. Weapon names that are just a bunch of random letters
and numbers together suck, especially with TTS around making some of
these abbreviated names pronounce really weird. The new one should roll
off the ai generated tongue a little easier if someone mentions it by
name.
## Changelog
🆑
add: The PML-9's name has been changed to something that's a little less
boring random numbers and letters, and something that TTS can likely
pronounce much nicer than before. Get blown up by a Dardo rocket
launcher today.
image: Sprites for rocket launchers, rockets, and rocket projectiles
have been changed to something fresher looking.
balance: Rocket launchers can be worn on your back or armor vest.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Refactors a lot of the unused defines.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Refactors a lot of the unused defines.
## Changelog
Nothing player facing
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## About The Pull Request
The saboteur gun will now silence pAIs, toggle off radio broadcasting
(won't auto-relay nearby speech), disable turrets, chill out secbots a
little, and turn off APCs like power outages do.
The disrupt duration has also been buffed from 10/20 to 15/25 for ranged
and point-blank respectively.
Removed a conspicious chat message from an otherwise inconspicious gun.
Brought the code up to date.
## Why It's Good For The Game
The concept is cool, alas it's also undermined by how much of a joke
it's right now, and the game has plenty already.
The amount of interactions it has with things is underwhelming, so you
could barely consider it a stealth tool. The duration is also quite
scarce, I pointed that out in the original PR too.
Basically, I want to make the item cooler.
## Changelog
🆑
balance: Buffed the duration of the SC/FISHER Saboteur Handgun's
disruption effects. It's also stealthier and it won't conspiciously
alert living mobs hit by it.
add: Added saboteur interactions with radios, pAIs, turrets, secbots and
APCs.
/🆑
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When I made SSpolling, jlsnow gave me his blessing to delete the orbit
polling component [where you orbit something for 20 seconds before it
chooses a ghost from the orbiters]
It's only used in a few places like soulstones replacing
jobbanned/inactive players, etc.
Also upgraded SSpolling; you can now place a little icon on the sides in
the chat message, chat message looks a lot nicer, the alert pic and the
jump target don't have to be the same anymore, and I made it be able to
pre-pick candidates since 90% of the use cases would just want 1
candidate
Also prints to chat who the chosen one was
Also made slime intelligence potions ask the user for a reason, which
will be displayed in the alert poll
## About The Pull Request
[Fixes static lights not
moving](ffef43c05a)
Worked fine when the owner moved, but if the owner was inside something
else, it would try and trigger an update on the PARENT's lights, which
are obviously not us.
[Renames MOVABLE_LIGHT and STATIC_LIGHT to better describe what they
do](de73a63bd4)
People keep trying to change the lighting system of lamps and it makes
me mad.
I choose OVERLAY_LIGHT and COMPLEX_LIGHT here, I couldn't figure out a
better name for turf matrix lighting. Suggestions welcome
## Why It's Good For The Game
Closes#80005
Hopefully improves understanding of lighting at a glance
## Changelog
🆑
fix: Fixes fancy lights not updating their source location when picked
up and moved
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
if the creator of the statue got deleted, it might cause a hard delete.
also i noticed this variable wasnt being used so i removed it and
instead directly added the ref of the creator to the mob's faction list.
also i noticed the proc that was setting it had alot of nested
typechecks so i split it into child procs
## Why It's Good For The Game
fixes a hard delete
## Changelog
not player facing
## About The Pull Request
Revived my old PR https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/pull/68901
Replaces the annoying tgui alert popup "Do you want to be X? | Yes | No
| Never for this round" that is hard to read and steals window focus,
with a nice clean alert in the top right that counts down. If it's the
same event/mob they stack with 2x, 3x, etc. It also shows how many
candidates/ghosts are signed up.
The poll alerts have screentips too, they countdown and show if you're
signed up, how many people are signed up, if you chose "never for this
round" (which is cancelable)
## Why It's Good For The Game
Way easier to see what role is available, you get a nice pic of the role
and get it's name in big text, you can cancel "never for this round",
and you can cancel signing up for a role before the timer is up
## Changelog
🆑
refactor: Ghost roles now offer ghosts a clickable poll button. Ghosts
can select a role, deselect it, alt-click it for "Never For This Round",
can cancel "Never", can see the countdown, and can see how many other
people are signed up for the role poll.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
FOV as it is currently implemented is incompatible* with wallening.
I'm doin wallening, so we gotta redo things here.
The issue is the masking of mobs. Wallening relies on sidemap (layering
based off physical position), which only works on things on the same
plane (because planes are basically sheets we render down onto)
So rather then masking mobs, let's reuse the masking idea from old fov,
and use it to cut out a bit of the game render plane, and
blur/over-saturate the bit that's masked out.
My hope is this makes things visible in light, but not as much in
darkness, alongside making more vivid shit more easily seen (just like
real life)
Here's some videos, what follows after is the commits I care about
(since I had to rip a bunch of planes to nothing, so the files changed
tab might be a bit of a mess)
Oh also I had to remove the darkness pref since the darkness is doing a
lot of the heavy lifting now. I'm sorry.
Edit:
NEW FOV SPRITES! Thanks dongle your aviator glasses will guide us to a
better future.
https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/assets/58055496/afa9eeb8-8b7b-4364-b0c0-7ac8070b5609https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/assets/58055496/0eff040c-8bf1-47e4-a4f3-dac56fb2ccc8
## Commits I Care About
[Implements something like fov, but without the planes as layers
hell](a604c7b1c8)
Rather then masking out mobs standing behind us, we use a combo color
matrix and blur filter to make the stuff covered by fov harder to see.
We achive this by splitting the game plane into two, masking both by fov
(one normally and one inversely), and then applying effects to one of
the two.
I want to make the fov fullscreens more gradient, but as an effect this
is a good start
[Removes WALL_PLANE_UPPER by adding a WALL_PLANE overlay to material
walls (init cost comes
here)](2548933739)
@Mothblocks see this. comment in commit explains further but uh, we need
to draw material walls to the light mask plane so things actually can be
seen on them, but we can't do that and also have them be big, so they
get an overlay. Sorry, slight init time bump, about 0.5 seconds. I can
kill it with wallening.
[Moves SEETHROUGH_PLANE above
ABOVE_GAME_PLANE](beec4c00e0)
I don't think it actually wants to draw here
@Time-Green I think this was you so pinging for opinion
[Resprites FOV masks to be clean (and more
consistent)](f02ad13696)
[f02ad13](f02ad13696)
This is 100% donglesplonge's work, he's spent a week or so going back
and forth with me sharpening these to a mirror shine, real chill
## Why It's Good For The Game
Walls are closing in
## Changelog
🆑 LemonInTheDark, Donglesplonge
image: Redoes fov "mask" sprites. They're clean, have a very pleasant
dithering effect, and look real fuckin good!
del: Changed FOV, it no longer hides mobs, instead it blurs the hidden
area, and makes it a bit darker/oversaturated
/🆑
###### * It's technically possible if we start using render targets to
create 2 sets of sources but that's insane and we aren't doing it
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## About The Pull Request
Does what it says on the tin. We don't have any "special" sources of
clone damage left in the game, most of them are rather trivial so I
bunched them together into this PR.
Notable things removed:
- Clonexadone, because its entire thing was centered around clone damage
- Decloner gun, it's also centered around cloning damage, I couldn't
think of a replacement mechanic and nobody uses it anyways
- Everything else already dealt clone damage as a side (rainbow knife
deals a random damage type for example), so these sources were removed
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## Why It's Good For The Game
Consider the four sources of normal damage that you can get: Brute,
Burn, Toxins and Oxygen. These four horsemen of the apocalypse are very
well put together and it's no surprise that they are in the game, as you
can fit any way of damaging a mob into them. Getting beaten to death by
a security officer? Brute damage. Running around on fire? Burn damage.
Poisoned or irradiated? Toxin damage. Suffocating in space? Brute, burn
and oxygen damage. Technically there's also stamina damage but that's
its own ballpark and it also makes sense why we have a damage number for
it.
Picture this now: We have this cool mechanic called "clone pods" where
you can magically revive dead people with absolute ease. We don't want
it to be for free though, it comes at a cost. This cost is clone damage,
and it serves to restrain people from abusing cloning.
Fast forward time a bit and cloning is now removed from the game. What
stays with us is a damage number that is intrinsically tied to the
context of a removed feature. It was a good idea that we had it for that
feature at the time, but now it just sits there. It's the odd one out
from all the other damage types. You can easily explain why your blade
dealt brute damage, but how are you going to fit clone damage into any
context without also becoming extremely specific?
My point is: **clone damage is conceptually a flawed mechanic because it
is too specific**. That is the major issue why no one uses it, and why
that makes it unworthy of being a damage stat.
Don't take my word for it though, because a while ago we only had a
handful of sources for this damage type in the game. And in most of the
rounds where you saw this damage, it came from only one department. It's
not worthwhile to keep it around as a damage number. People also didn't
know what to do with this damage type, so we currently have two ways of
healing clone damage: Cryotubes as a roundstart way of healing clone
damage and Rezadone, which instantly sets your clone damage to 0 on the
first tick. As a medical doctor, when was the last time you saw someone
come in with clone damage and thought to yourself, "Oh, this person has
clone damage, I cannot wait to heal them!" ?
Now we have replacements for these clone damage sources. Slimes? Slime
status effect that deals brute instead of clone. Cosmic heretics? Random
organ damage, because their mechanics are already pretty fleshed out.
Decloning virus? The virus operated as a "ticking timebomb" which used
cloning damage as the timer, so it has been reworked to not use clone
damage. What remains after all this is now a basically unused damage
type. Every specific situation that used clone damage is now relying on
another damage type. Now it's time to put clone damage to rest once and
for all.
Sure, you can technically add some form of cellular degradation in the
future, but it shouldn't be a damage number. The idea of your cells
being degraded is a cool concept, don't get me wrong, but make it a
status effect or maybe even a wound for that matter.
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del: Removed clone damage.
del: Removed the decloner gun.
del: Removed clonexadone.
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## About The Pull Request
This PR makes the following changes:
- Refactors inserting items into foam darts into a component on items
that can be inserted into darts
- Adds the aforementioned component to pens
- Provides an inspection tip for how to modify a foam dart
- Gives different pen types specific behavior when used in a foam dart
Pens typically give a foam dart 5 brute and 50% embed chance (affected
by falloff). The following types of pens give the specified properties
(usually directly derived from the pen's stats and additional
functions):
- Red pen (and four-color pen set to red): Slightly faster dart
- Captain's fountain pen: Slightly faster dart, and 75% base embed
chance
- Sleepypen: Tries to inject its reagents into the hit mob, but doesn't
penetrate thick clothing like syringe guns do
- Energy Dagger: 35 brute, 100% base embed chance, and slightly faster
dart
- Survival Pen: Mines rocks on impact
- Fine Tip Pen (if someone somehow manages to get one): 100 bare wound
bonus and 9000 demolition modifier
## Why It's Good For The Game
Expands the emergent gameplay possibilities of using pens in foam darts.
While there are balance risks involved with traitors being able to buy
the equivalent of reusable 45u syringe shots and 35 brute bullets, you
are not likely to get your pen back once it hits its target, unless you
somehow have the recall spell and have bound the pen to it. There are
probably more TC-efficient ways to achieve comparable projectile
weaponry, but foam dart guns have an air of subtlety to them... at least
until your skin is pierced by a pointy writing implement that may also
be something more deadly. If maintainers still have balance concerns,
please let me know.
## Changelog
🆑
add: Certain types of pens now function like you expect they would when
inserted into a foam dart
qol: Examining a foam dart closely will show you how to modify it, or
what it is modified with
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Fixes#79764
I was going to tackle this issue by slamming `TRAIT_NO_SLIP_ALL` on
Atrocinator users and calling it a day, but like, that didn't feel
proper.
So I thought hey, we could just give them the flying movetype, even
though they technically aren't flying it means they're unaffected by
things that flying would make you unaffected by.
Nope, this means the mob technically "negates gravity", so no falling
and no feetsteps.
Let's try floating - this give us feetsteps but no falling upwards.
So instead of going back to square one, with `TRAIT_NO_SLIP_ALL`, I
decided to go for the more complex route of just adding a movetype.
Hence, move type `UPSIDE_DOWN`. This covers situations where a mob would
be "floating" above the ground, but still walking. ...Negative gravity.
This means overall the Atrociator acts more as you'd expect - you don't
slip on ice, you don't trigger bear traps or mouse traps, you can walk
over railings, unaffected by conveyor belts, etc.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Makes the Atrocinator a lot more consistent with how you'd expect for it
to work.
Admittedly it is a bit niche use of movetypes, but it can possibly be
expanded to more things in the future, who knows? I applied it to mobs
on meat spikes (even though they don't move), just for proof of concept.
## Changelog
🆑 Melbert
fix: Atrocinating mobs will now behave more as you'd expect. Meaning
they don't slip on wet patches, can't trigger bear traps / landmines /
mouse traps, ignore conveyors, and can walk over tables and railings.
fix: Floating mobs are unaffected by conveyor belts, acid (on the
ground), glass tables
fix: Floating mobs won't squish stuff like roaches anymore
fix: Fixes bear traps triggering on floating / flying mobs
/🆑
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## About The Pull Request
- SC/FISHER is now pacifist-usable.
- SC/FISHER black-market availability prob up to 75, from 50.
- SC/FISHER range bumped from 14 to 21.
## Why It's Good For The Game
The SC/FISHER does no damage (except against ethereals, where it does a
grand total of 3 per shot), which I think is negligible but can be
removed if it's that bad to allow pacifists a gimmick method of
murdering another guy, so I think pacifists should be allowed to use it.
The range buff and black-market availability are just because I felt
like it, since I don't think it's available enough, especially for a
doohickey whose sole purpose is "break lightbulbs".
## Changelog
🆑
balance: The SC/FISHER disruptor pistol is now more likely to show up in
black market uplinks.
balance: The SC/FISHER now has more range (21 tiles up from 14), and is
usable by pacifists.
/🆑
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Engi now has access to a Half Life 2 Inspired rebar crossbow! Made of
rods, wire, and an inducer, it shoots sharpened iron rods at a high
velocity. High damage and good embed chance, but requires you to reload
every shot which requires you to stand still for three seconds to pull
the string back. You can also Use a wrench on it to force it to store
more rods (read: more than one), but risks it exploding and shooting you
instead.
The syndicate variant, avaliable to traitor engis, can fire three rounds
before needing a reload, and features a scope and better armor piercing
ammpo, but costs 10TC. I see it as a sidegrade to the revolver - quieter
and has much more widespread ammuniton, but holds less ammo and doesnt
have the same burst stopping power. And, to those concerned about the
balance of a non-traitor with this item - the AP ammo can only be made
by the traitor who bought it, and anyone else has to use normal ammo.
GUN STAT JUNK
Normal one has 60% embed chance and does 40 damage (against unarmored
targetd), but requires you to wait at least 3 seconds not moving to pull
the string back. Good alpha strike but not sustainable in a long fight.
Its akin to a pipegun.
Lacks any AP qualities besides piercing a jumpsuit, because any wound
chance it has is due to a bare skin bonus. Generally not a great weapon
to fight sec with.
Syndie version is generally the above but better. Takes less to pull the
string back, slightly higher damage, better fire rate, etc. Doesnt fare
well against any armor thats equivalent to sec gear or better due to
most having low (relatively) AP and wound chance, but good bare wound
bonus.
STATS TLDR: Its good against unarmored chumps and greyshirts but anyone
in armor that protects against bullets will kick your teeth in.
Also, Ammo is crafted from an iron rod. I wanted to have it just fire
rods as is, but theyre stacked items which you cant define projectiles
or ammo from.
## Why It's Good For The Game
I've always felt engi, for as big of a department as it is, is lacking
in the "fun weapons" area. Sci has mechs and xenobio, med has chem nades
and syringe guns, and cargo has anything the QM will buy - but other
than the flamer and shocked doors, engi doesnt have much. Thats why I
made this pr. it was originally just a traitor item, as they lacked many
traitor items in their shop, but I felt like a worse, bootleg version
would suit them.
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add: Enginenering rebar crossbows + tot kit
add: Added a bunch of ammos and crafting junk to make the ammo exist
image: added icond for all the above
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## About The Pull Request
This was causing lethal shotgun shells with no stamina damage to
instantly delete. Oops.
## Why It's Good For The Game
I broke it and fucked up MrrFish' op round and definitely not because I
OWNED HIM WITH A BEEPSKY STUN
### BITCH
## Changelog
🆑
fix: Lethal ballistic pellet-based shotgun shells no longer instantly
delete.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Closes#79297Closes#79312
Due to the new cutoff parameter being added to tesla_zap() (from
#78310), and most callers used positional arguments instead of keywords,
the zap flags was getting fed the shocked_targets list and maybe other
junk. This caused a bunch of unusual phenomena. This is fixed by using
keyword arguments.
Tesla zaps that use the grid were significantly weaker in terms of
damage than they're supposed to be. This was a byproduct of trying to
convert everything to joules and removing unnecessary power multipliers.
This is fixed by reverting the damage scaling and zap power of zap
sources that aren't based on grid. Technically this will cause the zaps
from other sources to have less power, but these tend to not be able to
put power on grid, so this wouldn't have any change other than what a
grounding rod displays. Doesn't really matter.
Logs machine explosions from zap_act. Not the most helpful log (would
take a lot of effort to add an extra parameter to pass the source), but
better than nothing.
Probably other stuff I did, lol.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Stops zap fuckery. Admins can now find the explosions when a 9GeV engine
decides to go haywire or whatever.
## Changelog
🆑
fix: Fixes tesla zaps being weird.
admin: Logs explosions from explosive zaps.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Allows for damage falloff to apply to more than just shotgun pellets.
Now any projectile can have a damage falloff defined.
Scatter Laser shells no longer use the minigun beams to determine their
damage. Instead they use the actually defined scatter laser beams. Those
beams do 7.5 damage per pellet, times by 6 pellets.
Scatter laser beams now have damage falloff, a separately defined
(positive) wounding power from normal beams, and wound falloff.
Scatter laser shells can be printed from security protolathes once you
have weapon tech.
Scatter laser shells _may_ be damaged by EMPs based on severity. The
result is that it fires a practically useless volley of laser fire. They
cause a honk sound when they hit, so you know when you've shot one of
these.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Well, we want shotguns universally to not be defined by their damage
output (especially extreme damage output) but by niche.
What does the scatter laser shell currently occupy as a niche?
The single highest damage output of any projectile weapon in direct
damage. The thing we don't want of shotguns, and it is reigning champion
of all guns.
Okay, that's a bit misleading, because obviously it is competing with
the likes of .50 BMG which does 70 damage outright and dismembers limbs,
potentially doing upwards of 90 damage if it does, and also hard stuns
people. Obviously _that_ is technically a stronger bullet.
But not for raw damage, because the scatter laser does 90 damage out the
gate, barring any potential wounding that might occur which increases
the damage multiplicatively. No gimmicks, no extra procs, nothing. It's
just 15 force lasers (with no damage dropoff) split between 6 beams.
And the reason for this is because this shell has been nerfed once prior
by making it not fire 6 normal laser shots into someone. That was 120
damage at the time, 120 to 90 was...I guess a nerf during the taser era.
Depends on how you viewed it. Buckshot was doing like 80 at the time,
believe me it was a wild period. But anyway, when we did the whole
damage rearrangement over the course of the laser few years, every other
shell got touched except this one for some reason. Even pulse slugs lost
10 damage while this was still sitting on 90 force point blank.
So what is the new niche? Well, it's laser buckshot. That's not a niche
but crew don't get buckshot, so this is their buckshot. It wounds real
good. Real goddamn good. And its is a laser. It fits the aesthetic,
obviously.
Okay, thanks.
## Changelog
🆑
balance: Scatter laser shells actually utilize the _real_ scatter laser
beam. This comes with damage changes. And wounding power.
feature: EMPs can potentially damage scatter laser shells.
refactor: All projectiles can now have damage falloff defined. Yay.
balance: Scatter laser shells can be printed when weapons technology is
researched.
/🆑
---------
Co-authored-by: Jacquerel <hnevard@gmail.com>
## About The Pull Request
Fixes https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/issues/79167
## Why It's Good For The Game
refactors sometimes overlook things
## Changelog
🆑
fix: The nanites inside of thermal pistols are once again angry, and
aggressively want to burn/puncture people.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Fixes#79113
There were a handful of bugs with the Mansus realm, this PR fixes them.
Firstly an most importantly, a refactor to damage handling touched the
"unholy determination" effect incorrectly (and I'm not even sure why?),
causing it to damage you instead of healing you most of the time. This
damage was not avoidable, so most people would be crit shortly after
entering the area and stay there.
Secondly, some of the heretic realms were unlit. A change to when
lazyloaded template atmosphere initialises means that the bonfires were
trying to light themselves with no air. Now they do this in
late_initialize instead, giving time for air to arrive.
Thirdly, the spooky hands were runtiming when passing through transit
tiles outside of the bounds of the heretic map. They shouldn't be
effected by shuttle drag anyway, so now they aren't.
Fourthly, I removed a row of empty space at the edge of the heretic map,
just because it annoyed me slightly.
Finally, while I was touching the heretic buff I made it heal you 1/4 as
much as it originally did. This is a balance change rather than a fix,
I'll atomise it out if it is controversial but I don't really expect it
to be.
In the future I would like to come back to these and make each realm
more specific to the path, because I think we could make these both more
exciting and more characterful.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Once it is working properly, the hand dodging minigame is actually
extremely forgiving, even if you don't move very much and get frequently
hit. This means some of those hits might actually add some tension.
## Changelog
🆑
fix: You should be revived properly when entering the mansus realm
following a heretic sacrifice
fix: The buff which is supposed to heal you in the mansus realm will now
do that instead of unavoidably damaging you
balance: The mansus realm's healing buff heals for 25% as much as it did
before it was broken
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
- Refactored `bullet_act`. Adds `should_call_parent` and refactors
associated children to support that.
- Fixes silicons sparking off when hit by disabler fire.
- Desnowflakes firing range target integrity and cleans up its
bullet-hole code a bit.
- Cleans up changeling tentacle code a fair bit and fixes it not taking
off throw mode if you fail to catch something.
- The Sleeping Carp deflection is now signalized
- Nightmare projectile dodging is now signalized and sourced from the
Nightmare's brain rather than species
- Refactored how cardboard cutouts get knocked over to be less
snowflaked / use integrity
- Also adds projectile `on_hit` `should_call_parent` and cleans up a bit
of that, particularly their arguments.
- On hit arguments were passed wrong this entire time, it's a good thing
nothing relied on that.
## Why It's Good For The Game
This is cringe.
1863eb2cd8/code/modules/mob/living/carbon/human/_species.dm (L1430-L1442)
Bullets should overall act more consistent across mob types and objects.
## Changelog
🆑 Melbert
fix: Silicons don't spark when shot by disablers
fix: Changelings who fail to catch something with a tencacle will have
throw mode disabled automatically
fix: Fixes occasions where you can reflect with Sleeping Carp when you
shouldn't be able to
fix: Fixes some projectiles causing like 20x less eye blur than they
should be
refactor: Refactored bullet-mob interactions
refactor: Nightmare "shadow dodge" projectile ability is now sourced
from their brain
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Adds practice carbines to all firing ranges. They don't deal damage.
## Why It's Good For The Game
These guns are fun as hell to shoot.
## Changelog
🆑
add: Adds practice carbines to all firing ranges. They don't deal
damage.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
This PR adds the laser carbine, a new fully-automatic laser weapon that
can be ordered from cargo. A crate of 3 can be ordered from cargo for
1800 credits, locked behind armory access. Here is a video
demonstration:
https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/assets/21979502/6f7fecec-ccb6-4a65-8027-21ab887fb91d
Now, I'm sure people are very concerned about the balance implications
of this new weapon. Let me give you some hard numbers:
The gun deals 10 damage per shot, and has a capacity of 40 shots with a
fully charged cell. This means that it has, at most, 400 damage per
charge, which is exactly the same as a normal laser gun.
In terms of DPS, it can put an unarmored human in crit roughly as fast a
laser gun. It is meant to be a sidegrade, not an upgrade to the normal
laser gun.
It also has considerably lower wound bonus. During testing, when all 40
shots were fired into an unarmored human, it dealt tier 1 burn wounds
with the occasional tier 2. I never observed a single tier 3 burn wound
during any of my tests.
Here's a picture of the different sprites (The last one is animated just
like the normal laser gun):
## Why It's Good For The Game
For a long time, there has been a strong push to make crew-available
weapons almost entirely energy based. This trend has been contentious,
to say the least. Many people prefer ballistic weapons over energy
weapons. After spending some time on a different codebase, one where
autorifles are still completely available to order from cargo, no emag
needed, I think I might know why (or at least part of the reason). Part
of what I find satisfying about some ballistics is the fact that they
fire quickly and automatically. Energy weapons might be more enjoyable
to use if automatic energy weapons are also an option.
## Changelog
🆑
add: The laser carbine, a weak but fully automatic sidegrade to the
normal laser gun, can now be ordered from cargo.
/🆑
---------
Co-authored-by: Jacquerel <hnevard@gmail.com>
## About The Pull Request
The Regal Condor come with a magazine and ammo already inside.
The recipe for the magazine now no longer needs TC, but does need donk
pockets (sponsored murder gear, you see) and a hell of a lot more
materials per magazine (you're looking at like 40 sheets of various
materials all up). It also needs you to make the Condor first. But it
comes preloaded with ammo.
The Condor is 1 whole TC more expensive. Also needs some metal. The old
recipe is there in spirit.
The Regal Condor and the magazines come with 10mm Reaper bullets.
They're high damage. They're high AP. They are also hitscan.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Apparently people don't like the Condor. Too much effort for not enough
reward. After all, revolvers exist. 'It must be a joke' they say! 'It's
joke content! I went to all that effort to make it for nothing! That
slut Anne tricked us!'
**Wrong, bitch.**
If you want the Condor to make you shit yourself the moment someone with
it appears on the screen, then fine!
### **You get what you fucking deserve.**
## Changelog
🆑
balance: Despite earlier reports suggesting that the famous lethality of
the Regal Condor was largely a myth, there has been rumors that the gun
has once again started to display its true killing potential on any
station that it 'manifests'.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
This takes all the gib related procs:
- `gib()`
- `spawn_gibs()`
- `spill_organs()`
- `spread_bodyparts()`
And adds heavy documentation that communicates what the procs are used
for and how the different bitflags affect them. The difference is
noticeable:
`gib(TRUE, FALSE, FALSE, null)` vs `gib(DROP_ORGANS|DROP_BODYPARTS)`
The code is now much more legible which is important considering it's
used in a lot of places!
Another robust change, is that we had several places in the code where
there were double negatives like so:
```
/mob/living/carbon/spill_organs(no_brain, no_organs, no_bodyparts)
if(!no_bodyparts) // DOUBLE NEGATIVES ARE BAD M'KAY?!?
// do stuff here
```
This is a mindfuck to untangle. I inverted a lot of these parts so we
don't lose our sanity.
Last thing that was changed was a big `if()` loop in the `spill_organ()`
proc. This was refactored to just be a simple `for` loop with `continue`
statements where we needed to skip enabled bitflags. It's now shorter
and cleaner than before.
The only slight gameplay change this affects is that gibbing a mob now
guarantees to drop all items unless the `DROP_ITEMS` bitflag is
deliberately omitted. Some places like admin gib self, we don't want
this to happen.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Gib code is very old. (~15 years) People kept adding more arguments to
the procs when it should have been a bitflag initially. By doing it this
way, there is more flexibility and readability when it comes to adding
new code in the future.
## Changelog
🆑
refactor: Refactor gib code to be more robust.
qol: Gibbing a mob will result in all items being dropped instead of
getting deleted. There are a few exceptions (like admin gib self) where
this will not take place.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Zap strength is now measured in joules. Scales everything to account for
this.
NT CIMS will now display the zap power transmission in watts, instead of
a modifier. This will allow you to actually see how much power the
supermatter is generating accurately, without knowledge of hidden
multipliers. NT CIMs will also show the internal energy gain from heat
in eV/K/s, so you can easily figure out how internal energy gain works,
and how much energy gain it actually gives. The internal energy
measurement will also adjust its prefix. Internal energy is now a
measure of internal energy, rather than internal energy density,
removing the "/cm^3".
Here is what it looked like:
This image was created on an earlier commit where the numbers were wrong
due to a hidden multiplier that got removed later, so keep that in mind.
Also fixes inactive supermatters unnecessarily scaling delta time. The
high energy (>5GeV) additional zaps now also scale with delta time.
The code in this PR is absolute garbage trash and there are some major
issues, so I'm drafting this for now.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Makes it more clear what the factors add, and also how much power the SM
is releasing. Zap strength being measured in joules will simplify a lot
of things, making power balance more clear rather than guessimating.
Adjusting the prefix for internal energy is just the natural thing to
do. The per cubic centimeter part of internal energy would imply it is
energy density, however it is functionally not. It would probably
confuse people thinking the volume of the turf or the size of the
supermatter actually matters for what the internal energy does, when it
does not (except for gas absorption I guess, which changes heating/mol
requirements, but nothing else), so I am removing that part.
## Changelog
🆑
qol: NT CIMs shows how much power the supermatter is releasing.
qol: NT CIMs internal energy will adjust its prefix.
qol: Energy displays (such as multitooling grid) will use the full range
of SI prefixes available, up to the peta prefix if you somehow managed
to reach that.
del: Removes the per cubic centimeter part of internal energy.
fix: Fix unnecessary delta time scaling on inactive supermatters.
fix: Fix high energy zaps not scaling with delta time.
fix: Fixes grounding rods lying about potential power you can generate.
code: Convert supermatter_zap() and tesla_zap() zap_str argument unit to
be in joules, and scales everything that uses that argument.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
That of beams being layered below mobs has been a minor issue ever since
that mess that is FoV was implemented (with the exception of chain
lighting of the 'lighting' holoparasite type). I'm changing the plane of
beams to GAME_PLANE_UPPER_FOV_HIDDEN along a couple other things.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Re-read the above section, also fishing lines shouldn't generally glow
in the dark like very thin lightsabers, and them being layered below
mobs has always been a peeve to me.
## Changelog
🆑
fix: Fixed beams rendering below mobs by default.
fix: The fishing line beam is no longer emissive (it doesn't glow in the
dark).
/🆑
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Co-authored-by: Zephyr <12817816+ZephyrTFA@users.noreply.github.com>
## About The Pull Request
Reworks improv shells to not be equal or even superior to buckshot, by
cutting their damage in half and reducing the wound bonuses. In return
they have a demolition_mod of 3, so do more damage overall to the
environment, a true vandal's paradise.
Added a glass shard to the recipe as an actual projectile instead of
just sheets of metal.
## Why It's Good For The Game
When buckshot was originally removed from the station (#55663) the
intended purpose was, as requested by oranges, to make shotguns a
specialist weapon instead of general purpose lethals.
It has come to my attention that improvised shells (which were initially
intended to be a weaker alternative made form commonly available
materials) are in fact better buckshot, and had no right to survive the
original nerf. I am now fixing that oversight by turning improvised
shells into a more specialised vandalism tool.
## Changelog
🆑
balance: Improvised shotgun shells now deal half as much damage to
humans and cause less wounds, but do 50% more damage to structures and
machines. They also require a glass shard for crafting.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
makes `COMSIG_HIT_BY_SABOTEUR` return a bitflag in order to close#78297
(i am very sorry)
fixes#78298
extends flashlight disabling to modular computers incl. PDAs because
somehow i forgot that they had flashlights.
## Why It's Good For The Game
my code sucks and i should make it suck less, actually
## Changelog
i don't think i get to put a code improvement tag if it's not
playerfacing and it's my own fault
🆑
fix: Flares and candles no longer sound like flashlights when being
turned on.
fix: Getting shot by an SC/FISHER now disables PDA lights for
consistency's sake.
/🆑
---------
Co-authored-by: Hatterhat <Hatterhat@users.noreply.github.com>
## About The Pull Request
Using `src` as a trait source is an error and can often lead to
hard-deletes
If you wish to tie a source to a certain datum, it is common to use
`REF(src)` instead.
Ideally, we would lint or test for any use of a reference rather than a
string in use in trait sources, but that's a bit harder to setup.
Currently (from what I can see) the *only* erroneous use of references
as sources are via `src`, so it being the most common error, I see it
fine to lint for it.
## Changelog
Nothing player facing.
image: The Mosin-Nagant has been given new sprites and a reflavor, looking for the old rifle? Look for the Sakhno Precision Rifle.
balance: The tiniest balance thing, but since Silverscales use the Sakhno-Zhihao rifle, which has a scope on it, their main weapon now has a scope.
## About The Pull Request
So, when I made the `caseless` and `projectile_drop` elements, I failed
to take into account that bullets have an embedding variable sets, which
led to a few projectiles being embeddable when they shouldn't.
Beyond that, I wanted arrows and harpoons to be reusable yet embeddable,
which lead me to change a couple lines on the `embed` element, since
whoever made the element thought it was a good idea to add the
unnecessary step of attaching a copy of it to the `payload_type` of a
fired projectile before trying to embed it. Like, why? All that's going
to do is cause the resulting item to become embeddable, which may be an
issue for anything other than drop-deletable shrapnels. So yea, arrows
and harpoons, and emagged lollipops will now embed properly.
I've also deleted an unused, problematic subtype of quiver and arrow
casing, and made the quiver storage use
## Why It's Good For The Game
This will fix#77187. Perhaps buff harpoons and arrows a little but meh.
## Changelog
🆑
fix: Fixed fired foam darts, gumballs and (harmless) lollipops being
embeddable.
fix: Projectiles that should embed while being reusable will now do so
correctly, actually embedding the reusable casing instead of a shrapnel.
balance: Arrows are generally more likely to embed now, except for
blazing ones, that kind of just blaze.
qol: the quiver storage now uses numerical stacking (like botany and ore
bags, or the RPED, for example).
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Massively overhauls and standardizes the nuclear operative uplink.
### Weapon Kits
Essentially, all the main weapons of the uplink have been changed to
instead come as 'weapon kits', which are essentially cases containing a
weapon loadout to enable operatives to easily start operating on only
just one item purchase, without the fuss of worrying whether or not
operatives are getting spare ammo, or getting relevant equipment for
success. Consider this a pseudo-loadout, though without necessarily
restricting the purchasing of more weapon kits.
All kits come in three categories: Low Cost (8 TC), Medium Cost (14 TC)
and High Cost (18 TC). This is also matched by categorized ammo costs;
Basic Ammo (2 TC), Hollow Point and Armour Penetrating (4 TC),
Incendiary (3 TC) and Special (or anything that does not easily fit
these categories and does something real extra) (5 TC). Weapons that
lacked these ammos have gained these ammo types to fill the gaps.
<details>
There is may one exception to this in disruptor ammo, which is priced as
basic ammo if only because it isn't _quite_ good enough to justify
pricing at 5 tc and I can see an op wanting to use it as a basic ammo
type instead of normal .50 BMG against, say, a silicon/mech heavy
opposition. Since it cannot kill organics on its own, I'll consider this
mostly basic-adjacent
</details>
The kits have also been labelled based on potential difficulty. This
reflects possible difficulties in using the item, how conducive it is to
success for how much game knowledge needed to actually use it, and how
likely an op is to succeed using it. I don't expect ops to win using
nothing but a rocket launcher, but I think ops should get a fair shake
at trying, yeah?
The kits are as below:
#### **Low-Cost**
_Bulldog (Moderate):_ Shotgun and three magazines of standard ammo.
_Ansem (Easy/Spare):_ Pistol and three spare magazines of standard ammo.
#### **Medium Cost**
_C-20r (Easy):_ SMG and three spare magazines of standard ammo.
_Energy Sword and Shield (Very Hard):_ Energy sword and shield. (Also a
special hat)
_Revolver (Moderate):_ Revolver and three speedloaders of standard ammo.
_Rocket Launcher (Hard):_ Rocket launcher with three spare rockets.
#### **High Cost**
_L6 SAW (Moderate):_ LMG, and that's it. No spare ammo.
_M-90gl (Hard):_ Rifle, two spare magazines of standard ammo and a box
of rubber grenades.
_Sniper (Hard):_ Sniper rifle, two spare magazine of standard ammo, and
one magazine of disruptor ammo. Also suit and tie.
_CQC (Very Hard):_ Comes with a stealth implant and a bandana.
_Double-Energy Sword (Very Hard):_ Double-energy sword, syndicate soap,
antislip module, meth injector and a prisoner jumpsuit.
_**NEW** Grenadier's Kit (Hard):_ Grenadier's belt and grenade launcher
(the one that launchers chem grenades). (I replaced the shit acid
grenade with another flashbang in the belt)
Surplus SMG (Flukie difficulty) has been unchanged. It just now comes
with two rations.
Includes two new revolver ammo types: Phasic, which goes through walls
and armor, but has significantly less damage as a result (I've equalized
the revolver damage and the rifle version's damage to 30 for both). And
Heartseeker, which has homing bullets. Both are Special ammo, and are
priced at 5 TC a speedloader.
### Other Gear
The other items in the uplink have also been consolidated and
standardized in various ways.
#### Grenades
Most now cost 15 TC for three grenades of any given type (including the
full fungal tuberculous). This is pretty much identical to the previous
price, just more consistent overall and front-loaded in cost.
#### Reinforcements
All the various reinforcements now cost 35 TC and all refundable,
equalizing cost to the average across the reinforcements. This is
primarily because I feel like all these options should be weighed
equally, and not one of these options are necessarily worse or better
than the other in their current balance. They're largely inaccessible
for normal ops regardless, and typically come out when there is a
discount or war ops. I took the average value and went with it. Not much
more to say.
#### Mechs
They're just cheaper. These things still suck and they need help.
They've always needed help. A slightly less excessive value for the
mechs may help see people willing to spend the TC on them. I doubt it. I
seriously suggest not buying these still. I keep them in primarily
because they are big stompy mechs and are kind of iconic 'war ops' gear.
#### Bundles
Since I've implemented weapon kits, gun bundles are rather redundant. So
the bulldog weapon and ammo bundle, the c20-r weapon and ammo bundle and
technically the sniper bundle were removed. The sniper bundle is now the
weapon kit, obviously.
Nothing else here really. Except for one....
#### Implants
Not much changed here. I standardized the implant prices to 8 TC a pop.
This is in accordance with traitor implants, which ops also get. So
everything in this category bar a few exceptions (like macro/microbombs)
are around 8 TC. Makes sense to me, really.
Importantly, I made the Implant bundle 25 TC, and I unrandomized the
contents. Who in the right fucking mind would spend 40 TC just to get
five reviver implants is beyond me. But instead, you get one of each of
the cybernetic implants except thermal eyes (you can just buy thermals
and get the benefit of both vision types; x-ray and thermal vision, if
you want to use smokescreens a lot).
#### Base Keys
They're all now 15 TC, except the fridge which is 5 TC. It's weird
they're valued differently when they are taken mostly to do gimmicks
like xenobio and toxins in a hurry before hitting the station. So we've
standardized it.
## Hat Crate
**YES, GOOD SIR, YOU TOO CAN ORDER A HAT CRATE FROM THE SYNDICATE STORE
FOR ONLY 5 TC!**
**NO NEED FOR A KEY, JUST BUY IT AND PULL IT OPEN WITH YOUR STANDARD
ISSUE CROWBAR!**
**ENJOY YOUR NEW CRATE! ENJOY YOUR NEW HAT!**
**PUT IT ON USING THE FREE HAT STABILIZERS WE INCLUDED WITH THE HATS!**
~~**NO REFUNDS IF YOU GET BLOOD ON YOUR HAT!**~~
<details>
There is a 1% chance to instagib people with direct hits from a rocket.
This does the crit effect.
</details>
## Why It's Good For The Game
The uplink needed more spring cleaning and standardization.
With this, I've partially implemented my older idea for ammo consistency
and initial allowance for nukies. Ammo is kind of over-priced and often
where a good chunk of TC goes towards without really pushing nukies
towards meaningful success. And it is often what is tripping up new
players who didn't think to get any. Now, when they get a gun, they get
ammo in their case. On top of this, the weapon kit category is both at
the top of the uplink AND has a little label to say 'Recommend', so that
these new players will hopefully know they should be looking there
first.
In addition, it is the gateway towards a concept that is currently being
worked on. Nuclear operatives having some degree of predefined loadouts
for players to select if they aren't sure what they want, or don't know
what to get. Nukies is very confusing for many players. So giving them a
fighting chance with some premade setups can help ease them into the
role without needing too much player knowledge in how to apply the
items. This is only one step towards that, so that players can identify
what gear they need to help succeed based on their skill.
I wanted to implement a difficulty warning so that players can choose
gear loadouts that are actually conducive to their skill and knowledge.
I based it on how much players would need to know to engage in combat
with it, and how much fiddling is required to get something to work
properly (overly involved reloading is a consideration, for example, as
well as precise button presses). In addition, how much of a force
multiplier some weapons can be for their ease of use.
Most people recognize the c20-r as the most new player friendly weapon,
as an example. So it would be good to steer players towards taking that
gun because of how easy it is to use, understand and succeed with it.
And most importantly of all; Having standards within the uplink is
important. Most of the values in the uplink are just completely random.
Nobody has a good grasp of what is too much or too little. Even just a
hint of consistency, and people will stick to it (see implants for what
I mean). And there is still some work to be done even there. A good
start is weapons. Price for power can be meaningful when decided whether
we want some weapons to come out more often than others. Players do
enjoy making informed decisions and choices, and having affordability be
a draw to some otherwise less powerful weapons (looking at you, Bulldog)
can actually be a worthwhile and meaningful difference.
~~I thought it would tick off the gun nerds to change the calibers on
the guns.~~
~~I also thought adding hats would be funny given the release of TF2's
most recent update.~~
## Changelog
🆑
balance: Standardizes some of the nuclear operative entries to have more
consistent pricing within their respective categories.
add: Adds some new categories so that players have an easier time
navigating the nuclear operative uplink.
balance: Many items have had prices reduced or adjusted to make them
more desirable or more consistent within their category.
add: Weapon kits have replaced almost all the individual weapons in the
uplink. You now buy these instead of the individual weapon. These often
come with spare ammo or relevant gear for success.
add: Most ammo types have been standardized in price.
refactor; Removes a lot of redundant item entry code and tidies up the
actual code part of the nuclear uplink so that it is much easier to find
things within it.
add: Added 40 new cosmetic items to the Syndicate Store. Buy them now
from the Hat Crate, only 5 TC!
code: Updated the nuclear operative uplink files.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
This PR buff xenomorph's neurotoxin stamina damage from 50 to 65.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Right now in most cases, xenos will need to land 3 spits to stun a
crewmember due to the current values. You can also now use armor to
negate the stamina damage, so neurotoxin wasn't feeling as strong as it
should have. 65 stamina damage is on par with a stun baton, and also
gives xenos some leeway to land their second shot to paralyze their
target, making it a more useful ability.
## Changelog
🆑
balance: Xenomorph neurotoxin has been buffed (50 -> 65 stamina damage)
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
This PR adds in a craftable smoothbore disabler, a pistol companion to
the lethal laser musket. Unlike the musket, it fires a disabler shot.
Singular. Weak in armor too. After you fire it, you've gotta crank it,
but only one crank.
The good thing about it is that you can simply add more smoothbores to
your inventory, and use 4 of them to take down a target.
The bad thing is that it's a smoothbore (which for an energy weapon,
means no lens is installed). It has 22.5 degrees of inaccuracy. Have
fun.
Militia Men start with a holster containing two of these, fitting with
their equipment. But of course, the Militia General has an upgraded
laser musket, so... He needs a better smoothbore too.
**INTRODUCING THE ELITE SMOOTHBORE DISABLER**
Using ANCIENT TECHNOLOGIES and PURE BLING, you can fire TWO shots, not
be weak against armour AND have actual accuracy (and a +5 damage boost
because i figured why the hell not). This is the strongest upgraded
variant of the shitty maint guns, so the tome to craft it is currently
unavailable. I want someone to figure out a creative way to put it
somewhere that isn't just a random spawn in maintenance.
The Militia General only has one elite smoothbore. It's too rare and
powerful to simply have two. Even though a regular disabler is better in
every way.
Smoothbore Disabler Recipe:
1x Weapon Stock
5x Cable Coil
1x Pipe
1x Micro-Laser
1x Power Cell
1x Mouse Trap
Needs: Screwdriver, Wrench. Takes 10 seconds to make.
Elite Smoothbore Disabler Recipe:
1x Smoothbore Disabler
5x Gold Ingots/Sheets
1x Hyper-Capacity Power Cell
10u Tempomyocin
Needs: Screwdriver. Takes 20 seconds to make.
Recipe requires recipe book.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Having a sidearm to go with your laser musket is neat, alongside the
fact that it just allows following up on someone. I don't have much to
say honestly, I just think it's neat. Also the idea of an assistant
going FULL BLACKBEARD, carrying 4 pistols and having to toss them away
in order to shoot again cracks me up.
Oh and this is the part for coders: I've de-spaghettified some code with
the maint gun recipe granters, and the gun crank is now a component.
It's likely you could use it on any item that sends the proper signal,
so I kind of overbuilt it on purpose.
Also the attack_self on guns now returns parent. This should allow it to
send a signal alongside putting your grubby fingerprints on the weapon
when you switch modes. There could be bugs but they should be easy to
fix if they pop up, mode switching on guns works without a fuss.
## Changelog
🆑
add: Added the smoothbore disabler and it's prime variant. You can now
craft a disabler with only one shot and terrible accuracy.
code: Gun cranking has been made a component and could theoretically be
used on more than guns.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Removes all of the duplicate global lists for specific machine types
where the only thing they do is store all machines of that type.
Adds machine tracking to SSmachines in the form of a list for all
machines, and then an associative list for machines by their type.
Previously we have machines in multiple global lists, such as airlocks
being in GLOB.doors, GLOB.airlocks, GLOB.machines.
This makes that not a thing, and also means that iterating through
GLOB.machines looking for a specific type is no longer as expensive.
## About The Pull Request
Further continous organizing and cleaning the Icons folder. There are
still some minior nitpicks left to do, but I reached my daily sanity
expenses limit again, and the faster these get in the less issues for
both me and others later. Also cleans some mess I caused by my blindness
last PR.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Saner spriters = better sprites
## About The Pull Request
Due to a mental breakdown caused by unfathomable abomination that is
icons folder, I swore to myself to one day clean it. Today is kind of
that day. Been at it for around 6, you gotta understand I need a rest. I
tracked most changes in descriptions of commits if you are looking for
details.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Saner spriters make better sprites. And also, just helps keep track of
things.
## Changelog
🆑
image: added sprites for different variants of scrolls.
image: modified couple posters with ghost pixels.
/🆑
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Co-authored-by: OrionTheFox <76465278+OrionTheFox@users.noreply.github.com>
It seems the station has attracted the attention of a local polity! They
have sent a friendly reminder to pay their taxes, should the station
respond not in time or refuse to pay their taxes the polity will send a
heavily armed vessel to ensure they would pay their taxes. peacefully or
otherwise.
Gameplay aims: A different playstyle of pirates. most pirates (with the
exception of the greytide) have the same gameplay loop of raiding
vulnerable spots within the station and scurrying away and waiting out
their cooldown in the relative safety of their ship with turrets and
space to hamper the crew's attack my intention of this pirate variation
is to force them to actively fight the crew by making their armor
non-space worthy instead of hiding behind the wall of space
breaching shells for the space IRS to use and recode ammo box code to be
less snowflakey. Also my English isn't the very best and I wrote most of
it at 1AM. please point out any messages that feel strange or out of
place.
Notable Equipment list:
Combat:
1. 2 WT-550's with 6 normal mags + 6 AP
2. M911 with 2 mags
3. 2 combat knifes and a telebaton
4. breaching shotgun with breaching shells
5. Grenade launcher with 6 smoke shells and flashbangs
Armor:
2 Highly armoured sets of tactical vests and helmets and 3 EVA suits for
emergency
Engineering:
1. Sandbags
2. Jaws of Life
3. Syndicate toolbox
Medical:
1. Surgery tools and disk
2. Variety of medkits
3. Blood packs
## About The Pull Request
Someone noted in an issue report that virologists could tank like 7 of
these without breaking a sweat, that's a little goofy. This knocks it
down to 4. You're still getting some protection by having extra gear on,
but you're not immune to it.
Fixes#76389
## Why It's Good For The Game
Xenos should be dangerous to most of the crew without significant
protection. I argue that, while a labcoat is meant to protect from nasty
fluids, it shouldn't completely negate them, especially if a Sentinel
has saved up a good chunk of plasma to throw at you.
## Changelog
🆑 Vekter
balance: Increased armor penetration on xenos' neurotoxin spit.
Well-protected crew members should still take more than a few hits to
down but shouldn't be immune to it.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
This adds a craftable laser musket to the game. It's slow and unwieldy,
but consistent! I'd be happy to tweak the numbers if it's too good/bad.
This PR also adds an independent militia ERT, who travels the spinward
sector to help defend stations!
TO DO LIST:
- [x] Finish worn sprites
- [x] Add a crafting recipe on par with the pipegun
- [x] Add bayonets
- [x] Separate charging into two stages and REDO THE AUDIO AAAA
- [x] Clean up code (Needs review, totally)
Scrapped:
- Possibly add overcharge mechanic (This is just beyond my skill level
for now)
- Find a unique sound for the weapon firing (We have a unique
projectile, and I can't a sound that fits more than the laser gun one)
Inhands by RedSentry27
Suit sprite by Kinnebian
Prime Laser Musket sprites by RedSentry27
Balance Considerations (ew):
25 damage (30 on prime)
Normal wound
40 Stamina damage (45 on prime)
Weak to armour (prime not weak to armor)
2 second charge time, needs to be charged twice
No overcharge
Requires two hands to hold (like a chainsaw)
Crafting Recipe:
One rifle stock
Fifteen Cable Coils
Four Iron Rods
One micro laser
One capacitor
One pair of prescription glasses
One drinking glass
Craft for 10 seconds with a wirecutter and screwdriver
Prime crafting recipe: (REQUIRES READING MAINTENANCE LOOT: "journal of a
space ranger")
One laser musket
Fifteen cable coils
Five silver
One water recycler
Fifteen units of nuka cola
Craft for 30 seconds with a screwdriver while wearing cowboy boots and a
cowboy hat
## Why It's Good For The Game
The idea of assistants and revs forming firing lines in the halls to
shoot eachother sounds hilarious. Besides, we need a parallel to the
pipegun, and this is the funniest way to do so.
## Changelog
🆑 Cheshify, Kinnebian, and RedSentry27
add: Maintenance engineers have sent out blueprints across the sector
for a new laser musket.
admin: A new energy-gun toting ERT is available to send to the crew.
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Co-authored-by: carlarctg <53100513+carlarctg@users.noreply.github.com>
The reusable and caseless types only purposes are the behaviors of
deleting the casing when fired and spawning a new object when the
projectile ultimately reaches its maximum range or hits a target, both
of which are easily "elementizable". Also, I don't like those barely
filled sub-folders in the projectile module, and the fact we've
divergent reusable and single use arrow types.
## About The Pull Request
Alternative to #75277
Kept you waiting, huh?
This PR is the first part of a Xenomorph rework which seeks to make the
big lugs more balanced and up to date with /tg/'s current design. This
mainly involves curtailing xenomorph's infamous hardstuns into more
interactive forms of combat, while also giving some buffs to the
xenomorph's more unique abilities in order to keep them threatening.
Part 1 will focus on simple number changes and some simple mechanic
changes. In the future, changes will be made to endgame involving
xenomorphs, along with changes to other facets of Xenomorphs.
Highly based off of #55937.
Changes:
- Xenomorph disarm has been completely reworked. While a disarm will
attempt to, well, disarm, a human opponent should they be holding
something, it will no longer immediately hardstun targets when they
aren't. Instead, the xenomorph will shove the target several tiles back
and inflict 35 stamina damage. If the target slams into a wall, this
will also come with the added effect of knocking them down. If a human
is incapacitated, however, right click will slam them into the ground,
which paralyzes them for a lengthy 5 seconds (which is ultimately half
the time xenos could stun you for before), allowing for safe transport
back to the nest as long as you keep them close.
- Humans can now shove xenomorphs. Due to being the superior predator,
however, you can't knock down xenomorphs from shoving. You can slow them
for a little bit akin to humans though.
- Neurotoxin no longer is a hardstun. Instead, it deals 50 stamina
damage on contact. It is still resisted by BIO armor.
**HUNTER:**
- Speed reduced from -1 to -0.3.
- Pounce speed is twice as fast as before (1 to 2)
- Hardstun time on pounce reduced from 10 seconds to 5 seconds.
Hunters being insanely fast has been a major balance-ruining factor of
xenomorphs for many years now. These buggers could practically ambush
anyone, hardstun them immediately, and then leave before anyone could do
anything. Now, with their speed nerfed and in combination with the xeno
shove changes, hunters will need to spend more time to down a target.
Their pounce was practically useless, so its been sped up in order to
make it more practical to use.
**SENTINEL**
- Speed reduced from 0 to 0.2
- Cloak alpha reduced from 0.75 to 0.25 (you're more hidden now)
Sentinels receive a large nerf in regards to their spit, but their
before useless cloaking ability has been greatly improved upon as
compensation. They now serve better as defenders and ranged ambushers.
**XENOMORPH DRONE**
- No changes
As in the original PR, drones are perfeclty balanced in my eyes, so no
changes were required.
**XENOMORPH PRAETORIAN**
- Speed increased from 1 to 0.5
- No changes
Praetorians get affected by the nerfs of the other xeno abilities, but
now they're a bit faster in order to close the gap to use their
abilities.
**XENOMORPH QUEEN**
- Speed increased from 3 to 2
- Health increased from 400 to 500
- Damage increased from 20 to 50
Xenomorph queens have been sped up and made more tanky and lethal in
close-range combat. Fighting this beast up-close should be a death
sentence to almost anything else in the game. Speed increases will help
her re-position and close the gap on potential prey.
**OTHER CHANGES**
- Fixed a bug where simplemobs didn't actually use xenomorph's damage
values when they were attacked by them.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Xenomorphs are old, and haven't been updated for quite a long time. This
has left them as sources of a bunch of hardstuns which made counterplay
from a modern spaceman extremely difficult. With these changes, fighting
xenomorphs is more interactive and should end up being more enjoyable
for both crew and xenos. Buffs were also given out to incentivize usage
of xenomorph's unique abilities as opposed to the standard disarm spam
which was most effective for them until now.
## Changelog
🆑
balance: Xenos have been rebalanced, removing their hardstuns on their
disarm and neurotoxin, along with a slew of other changes. Xenos have
received buffs to their more unique abilities in return.
fix: Fixed simplemobs ignoring xenomorph's melee damage values when
being attacked by them.
/🆑
