## About The Pull Request
This PR refactors mind language holders into non-existence
As a result, `update_atom_languages` is no longer necessary
Mind-bound languages are transferred via `/mind/proc/transfer_to`
Species changing no longer deletes and re-creates the mob's language
holder, allowing them to keep any languages they have.
Species languages are sourced from `LANGUAGE_SPECIES` now, meaning they
are removed when they change species. If the mob is not a human with a
species datum, these are effectively just atom level languages.
Makes a bunch of unit tests to ensure language transfer over certain
events works as intended
## Why It's Good For The Game
Mobs with minds having two independent language holders results in a
good few bugs, and simply doesn't make sense when we have sources
(`LANGUAGE_MIND`).
Instead of tracking two language holders, we can simply use sources
better and only track one.
This means that the language holder you start with is your language
holder, period. It doesn't get deleted or re-instantiated or whatever.
## Changelog
🆑 Melbert
refactor: Refactored language holders, making species changes not delete
all of your known languages
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Fixes#76484
Then I noticed some weird stuff which slipped through the PR and poked
at that too.
- Spiderlings and Spiders once more have names ending in (###)
- Removed an unused property on Spiderlings.
- Rewrote the descriptions for a bunch of web-abilities and web-objects
to be clearer and have better capitalisation.
- Refactored the "Web Carcass" ability to not extend from "lay web" as
it didn't need to perform most of that behaviour.
- Also I renamed it and made the description give you a hint about why
you would want to instantly spawn a statue.
- The web effigy now despawns at the same rate as the ability cools down
so you're not dumping spider statues all over the place.
- I made spiderlings move at about the same speed as humans except if
they're on webs in which case they're still pretty fast.
To be honest I am not certain an instant statue spawning button is great
to begin with and I didn't even know it was added to the game but I am
not interested in messing much with the balance for now.
This made me look at spiderlings enough that I'm going to try and make a
new sprite for them that isn't awful.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Lets you differentiate individual spiders a little bit.
Makes usage of abilities clearer.
## Changelog
🆑
balance: Guard spider web statues despawn as the ability comes back off
cooldown.
balance: Spiderlings now only move at light speed if they're on webs,
stay safe little guys.
fix: Spiders once again have random numbers after their names.
/🆑
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create_from_ghost() now returns the body it produces.
This should fix the pirate/fugitive ghost orbit notifications, since
they expect to have a mob returned by this proc. Since the mob they
expect to be returned is used as the subject for the ghost orbit popup,
the popup would have no source and end up being blank.
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## Why It's Good For The Game
Players selected to play pirate/fugitive will now have a functioning
orbit popup.
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adds the Vorpal Scythe, a special chaplain null rod variant, replacing
the Reaper Scythe, a not so special null rod variant.
When you choose the vorpal scythe, it comes as a shard that you implant
into your arm, similar to a cursed katana.
Once implanted, you can draw it at any time like an arm implant.
However, sheathing it again presents some problems. (Also, implanting
the organ gives you ``TRAIT_MORBID``, which I'll explain in a bit)
The Vorpal Scythe has 10 force, one of the weakest null rod variants for
force that isn't a joke null rod. However, it has exceptional armor pen
and also has 2 tiles of reach. So quite unique.
It also has a special beheading ability when you right-click someone.
This borrows some code from amputation shears, functioning pretty
similarly, except with a few additional ways to speed up the action and
restrictions. (It takes 15 seconds baseline to behead someone standing
and conscious, and speeds up or slows down based on factors such as
incapacitation and whether or not our scythe is already empowered)
When you successfully behead someone with a mind, the vorpal scythe
gains 20 force and can be safely stowed and drawn for 2 minutes.
Performing more death knells like this will reset the timer.
If it has not performed its 'death knell', or you haven't hit a living
mob, then it will cause severe damage to you if you ever try and stow it
(or its forced back into your arm). Just hitting a mob with the scythe
will sate it for 4 minutes. Unless it is a non-player monkey. Horrible
things. Just hitting mobs does not reset the timer on empowerment.
What this means is that the chaplain may be more hesitant to simply draw
their weapon on people. It also means that potentially, the chaplain
will not always have magic immunity, since they may end up stowing the
weapon away and be reluctant to draw it on a whim without either taking
damage for sheathing it without hitting something, or dealing with
having one less hand up until they can.
While empowerment only happens when you behead mobs with a mind,
beheading monkeyhumans and other mindless humans subtypes causes their
heads to become haunted! It's mostly harmless and largely just SpOoKy.
We don't want heads with actual players in them to go floating off to
space. (Does not work on monkey heads for sanity reasons)
When you have the Morbid trait, you think creepy stuff is cool and hate
saving peoples lives. You get a mood boost from graverobbing, autopsies,
dissections, amputations (including beheadings with the scythe and
amputations with the shears) and revival surgery. However, you get a
mood penalty when you tend wounds on the living, as well as a hefty
penalty when you perform CPR or defibrillate someone. I was thinking
Victor Frankenstein when I was choosing which actions had an associated
moodlet, so anything that I might have missed would be appreciated.
You also count as potentially cool with regards to haunted objects.
Ghosts think you're neat. (Revenants probably will still kill you if
they had the chance)
## About The Pull Request
This adds ghost orbit popups for the following:
- Macrobombs (or stacked microbombs) being triggered.
- HFR Meltdowns.
- Living players about to be gored by an emagged organ harvester.
- Nuclear devices being armed.
- Doomsday devices.
- Blob hosts bursting.
This also modifies the following ghost orbit popups:
- Toy hot potatoes will no longer cause a popup when armed.
- Normal spider eggs will not flash the byond window, only special egg
types.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Gives more gathering spots/information to deadchat. Let no entertaining
moment in this game go unobserved.
Spider eggs flashing your window for every single egg produced makes
alt-tabbing suck. I saw some guy on the forums complaining about it and
thought "huh yeah I guess he's got a point that pisses me off too" so
here we are.
## Changelog
🆑 Rhials
qol: Basic spider eggs no longer flash the byond window when ready to
hatch.
qol: Toy hot potatoes no longer give a ghost notification.
qol: Deadchat will be notified in the event of an imminent macrobomb
detonation, HFR meltdown, organ harvesting,
qol: Deadchat will be notified when a nuclear/doomsday device is
activated, as well as when a blob-infection bursts.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
This standardizes fugitive hunter IDs, making all hunter packs use the
same subtype and giving them to hunters who would spawn with no ID at
all.
The badass flaming ID color that the OG Bounty Hunter team got are now
the standard for fugitive hunter IDs. Additionally, these IDs now come
with a radical skull trim.
(Spacepol Officers don't get the badass flaming skull ID, and instead
get a more modest Police Officer ID).
**These IDs come with access, too. Airlocks, bolt buttons, shuttle
controls, and shutters on all of the hunter shuttles now require a
hunter's ID to operate.**
While I was in the area doing mapping stuff to get the accesses in
place, I made a few other very minor changes to the shuttles. These
include:
- The Bounty Hunter shuttle now has an oxygen dispenser. Two walls have
been moved to make space.
- The Russian Hunter shuttle now gets enough oxygen tanks to share with
everyone.
- The Psyker Hunter spawners now have proper spawner menu text. This was
due to duplicate-but-not-really subtypes existing, and me mistakenly
putting the wrong ones there in a previous PR.
- The cut ai wire helpers from the Russian/Psyker shuttles have been
extended to the Bounty/Spacepol shuttles.
- Every hunter shuttle now has a shuttle pinpointer on it somewhere, and
is no longer exclusive to a single Bounty Hunter's loadout.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Some of the hunter IDs would spawn without trims or coloration, and some
hunters wouldn't spawn with IDs at all. Now, everyone gets a credible,
cool-looking ID that lets everyone know what you're here to do at a
glance.
One of these is a crazed larper with an unregistered firearm, the other
is a certified bounty hunter.
As for the hunter access, it's pretty nonsensical that anyone can just
walk into the hunter ship and set up shop. At least the pirates get
turrets! Not to mention, it's hard to balance or give hunters new
equipment in good conscience when their entire domain is public-access
and anything they can't carry is considered forfeit to the crew. Now it
can be used as a base of operations, storage area, etc. more securely.
Locking down the shuttle with accesses isn't going to stop a determined
gamer with a toolset, but it'll at least make it more interesting and an
actual risk. If the fugitives want to try and loot/hijack the shuttle,
it will require the effort of taking down one of their hunters first.
While hunters stand out for the differences/imbalances between each
group, I don't see the shuttle pinpointer as something that contributes
positively to the OG bounty hunter's uniqueness. There's no reason why
the other hunters shouldn't also be able to track their ship.
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Short and simple, just converts the changeling's headslug (that ability
they get that lets them infest another body) into a basic mob. Also
touches up some of the code, as well as split up the code such that the
headslug resides in the basic mobs folder, while the eggs are in the
changeling's antagonist folder, rather than one megafile for both.
No AI because this is 100% a player-controlled mob, it never exists in
any other context. No UpdatePaths for the same reason as well, this
shouldn't (and really doesn't) exist on maps because its sole purpose is
player-driven.
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## Why It's Good For The Game
Knocks another one off the list, potentially clears up some janky code
with how this operated and just beautifies it overall. I also
standardized the name "headslug" in any applicable context because the
name "headcrab" is quite confusing. Some other code still refers to it
as headcrab/crab, but that's whatever, at least the paths are a-okay
now.
Also opens the door in case someone really wants these to be AI-powered?
That sounds really weird and I don't really support that idea, but it's
indeed possible.
Grow and regrow, the life cycle.
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🆑
refactor: Headslugs (the really small slug-like changeling form) are now
basic mobs. They only wander around aimlessly now instead of attacking
corpses all the time, and examining will let you know what type. Should
probably still smash them before they suddenly gain sapience...
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## About The Pull Request
Fugitive Hunter spawning now works a lot more like it does for Pirates.
Rather than just using the spawners, it collects candidates from a ghost
poll, and leaves the remaining spawners to be used if any are left.
## Why It's Good For The Game
The only way this event gathered candidates was through the
notify_ghosts that hunter spawners threw on Initialize(). This easily
flies under the radar (and I think also stopped working after
lazyloading was implemented??), contributing to how infrequently hunter
rolls are taken.
The hunters are an important part of fugitives as a whole, so making
sure they're properly filled out is good.
Closes#74625.
## Changelog
🆑
qol: Fugitive hunters now get a deadchat poll and notify deadchat
properly.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
This is part of a pass I'm working on doing where I go through and
remove instances of antag gear outside of their normal context. This is
mostly going to involve replacing space/Lavaland ruin gear with
something close to the same power level but not distinctly something
only antags should be able to get. I want to keep ruins rewarding but I
don't want explicit antag gear to be something you can obtain without
needing an uplink.
The first part of this is me removing the MODSuit from the syndicate
operative corpse. The new one drops a turtleneck, a syndicate gas mask,
and gripper gloves.
## Why It's Good For The Game
It's my opinion that antag gear should probably stay in antag hands
unless you manage to kill one or steal an uplink. The main impetus for
this was a discussion I had a while back about how blood red hardsuits
used to _just_ be an antag thing. I kind of miss that general feeling of
paranoia that came from seeing someone wearing it, as opposed to seeing
it these days and just thinking "Yeah, it's probably someone who got it
from space".
In this specific instance, Syndicate MODSuits are pretty strong anyway
and, regardless of the low odds of getting one, I really don't think it
should be available as loot off a fairly easy-to-kill mob.
## Changelog
🆑
balance: Syndicate corpses dropped from killing a Legion no longer come
with a MODSuit.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
The autolathe free golem shells created on the free golem ruin now
create free golems rather than servant golems.
On the backend, this was done by delegating the responsbility for what
to do with the "owner" to the spawned subtype.
Now the three golem ghost spawners are:
- Default, which creates a normal free golem.
- Adamantine, the "leaders" on the free golem ruin, who get special
vocal cords.
- Servant, which enslaves itself to whoever finished building the shell.
Previously the servant subtype did not do anything at all, but now it
holds all of the relevant behaviour and the other two simply don't care
who their creator was.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Makes item does what it was supposed to, not sure how long it has been
broken but it has been a while.
Makes raiding free golem ruin for autolathe design create free rather
than loyal golems, which could backfire.
Free golems constructed in the ruin by other free golems are no longer
forced into a hierarchy, which can be a good or bad thing depending on
the temperament of whoever made them but might reduce the incidence of
one guy ordering everyone else to tide cargo.
## About The Pull Request
- Removes an ELITE SYNDICATE MODSUIT SPAWN from infested_frigate.dmm
- Removes a Combat Defibrillator from infested_frigate.dmm
- Removes Dart Pistol from infested_frigate.dmm
## Why It's Good For The Game
We will never learn. Space Loot should not be put in control of easily
cheesable simplemobs, and we shouldn't be straight up putting NUKIE
STUFF in Space
## Changelog
🆑 Melbert
del: You can't get an Elite Syndie Modsuit (or combat defib, or dart
pistol) from Space Ruins
/🆑
This PR implements this design document:
https://hackmd.io/@Y6uzGFDGSXKRaWDNicSiEg/BkRr176st
Put briefly, this will remove every existing golem subtype and
consolidate golems into a single species with cool new sprites.
NOT implemented from that PR is the ability to eat Telecrystals, I
couldn't come up with an appropriate visual that can stack with the
existing ones, but that should be a reasonably trivial add for a future
artist & developer.
New Golems have a food-based mechanic where their hunger decays pretty
quickly and can only be replenished by eating minerals. They start
moving slower as they get hungrier, until eventually they become
completely immobilised and need to be rescued.
Eating different kinds of minerals will visually change your sprite and
give you a special effect in a similar way to old golems, but temporary.
While transformed, you can't eat any other kind of mineral which would
transform you (but can still consume glass).
To see the full list of effects, look at the hackmd above.
In service of these sprites working I have refactored the
`species/offset_features` feature by killing it and delegating that
responsibility to limbs instead. Rather than applying an offset to items
due to your species, it is due to your weird head or arms. This makes
overall more sense to me, but it inflates the code changes in this PR
somewhat.
It doesn't make a lot of sense to atomise unfortunately because that
code also seemed to be entirely unused until I tried to use it in this
PR, so you wouldn't be able to tell if my changes broke anything. I
might make a downstream sad by doing this.
All of the actual numbers in this PR are made up and only loosely
tested, it will need some testmerges to gather feedback about whether it
sucks or not.
Other relevant changes:
I reworked how bioscrambling works based off bodypart bodytypes, to
automatically exclude golem limbs in either direction. There's really no
way to have those work on humans or vice versa. Organs still fly though.
This PR demotes the Psyker-gang from a pirate team to a fugitive hunting
team. For more information on Psyker pirates, please refer to #71650.
Stuff this also does in the process:
- Gives fugitive hunters their own subfolder in the fugitives antagonist
folder, moves some of their stuff into hunter-specific files rather than
interlacing it with the rest of the fugitive code.
- Moves the hunter backstories to defines, to make reading things easier
while I made this change.
- Exhaustively moves everything related to psykers from being
pirate-oriented to hunter-oriented (typepaths, locations where stuff is
defined, etc. There should be nothing left behind related to psykers in
anything pirate related). (Tell me if I missed anything somehow).
They still get their ship (they even get their own custom
psyker-friendly prisoner capsule). They still have a bunch of lethally
chambered firearms. They're the same gunrunning nutcases they were
before, just as bounty hunters.
To assist with basic tasks such as "getting to the station" or "figuring
out who the fuck we're supposed to be kidnapping", the psykers have
"acquired" a Seer to assist them. They can _try_ to coordinate the
psykers and lead them through situations where their impairments put
them at too great a disadvantage. If you're one of the psykers, make
sure to keep this guy alive at all costs!
Why are they called Shikaris instead of hunters? Mariam-Webster says
it's a Hindi word for some kind of hunter/tracker, and it sounded like
something a bunch of space-junkies would call themselves because they
think it sounds cool.
They now also come with a slightly different motivation, now that they
can't directly threaten the crew for money. Psyker hunters now arrive
tasked with a dirty kidnapping job, payment rendered in GORE.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Psykers aren't up to the challenge of being pirates. They're bogged down
by a number of fundamental issues that render them unable to do anything
expected of pirates. As it currently stands, they present about as much
threat as you would expect from three blind junkies with guns.
Removing them wholesale would be kind of lame. They can function as a
bunch of chaotic-neutral gun-toting space-maniacs, but for the purposes
of gameplay, keeping them as pirates would be a waste of their talents.
Moving them to a lower-stakes role not only moves them to a niche they
are more capable of filling, but gives players a more lax environment to
get a grip on playing psyker without being overwhelmed.
Giving them a seeing-eye role should bring a more unique dynamic to how
psykers are played (that is, some semblance of organization rather than
blind flailing), and should help get over the mechanical hurdles of
being a psyker until better solutions can be made. It shouldn't be too
big of an impact on balance considering the psyker gang only has three
spawns, while most hunter packs have 4+.
## About The Pull Request
A mob being enslaved to another is now logged in game logs. This hits
sentience potions, guardians, and Golems. This helps admins know through
logs who made/used what.
## Why It's Good For The Game
I was told that it's pretty hard to tell who made Golems because this
type of info isn't logged, so you can't check it post-round. This should
help admins with that.
## Changelog
🆑
admin: Enslaving mobs is now logged in game.log
/🆑
This tracks the seconds per tick of a subsystem, however note that it is
not completely accurate, as subsystems can be delayed, however it's
useful to have this number as a multiplier or ratio, so that if in
future someone changes the subsystem wait time code correctly adjusts
how fast it applies effects
regexes used
git grep --files-with-matches --name-only 'DT_PROB' | xargs -l sed -i
's/DT_PROB/SPT_PROB/g'
git grep --files-with-matches --name-only 'delta_time' | xargs -l sed -i
's/delta_time/seconds_per_tick/g'
## About The Pull Request
### The Rifle:
-The Sniper Rifle is now a bolt action. This replaces the 4 second fire
delay on the sniper rifle. This overall will improve the fire rate if
you're good at racking the bolt, but it will also feel less like you're
in a weird limbo of inaction while using the sniper rifle, since the
fire delay can be quite confusing to players not used to it. This can be
tweaked, like reducing the speed of the racking action, if it seems like
it is too much.
-The scope component now goes up to 50 tiles (or so), which allows you
to gain a significant sightline over an area. The reasoning for this is
simple. The component actually nerfed the overall range of the sniper
rifle's scope, so this should hopefully restore that somewhat. And
having such a huge sightline makes it much easier to utilize the
impressive range of the rifle. Currently, it's really only ideal for
extremely close range fighting.
-The normal sniper rifle, the one that syndicate base scientists get,
can be suppressed. I don't know why it was different.
### The Ammo:
Normal .50 BMG: Does much more object damage, and on top of that deals
additional damage to mechs, but not by much more. Now, when it
dismembers a limb, it also deals its damage to the chest. This ensures
that you didn't straight up lose out on dealing a killing blow because
you took their limb off, and makes the dismemberment property of .50 BMG
a significant upside rather than a immense detriment.
Marksman: Gains a lot of the above benefits, but has much lower range.
Why this nerf? It's actually because of some funny nonsense with how
ricochet works. Which can cause....accidents to happen. To you. Consider
that firing down a straight line and missing could be quite embarrassing
when the bullet has 400 tiles of range.
Soporific: Now called Disruptor ammo. Works as it did before, putting
humans to sleep for 40 seconds (seriously, 40 seconds). Also deals some
stamina damage, if...that's relevant. But now also causes an EMP effect
and a boatload of added damage to both mechs and borgs, allowing it to
be an excellent anti-mech and anti-borg ammo type, as well as scrambling
any pesky suit sensors, energy weapons and so on in an area around the
impact. Useful for support fire.
Incendiary (NEW!): Causes a massive firebomb to go off where it impacts
(no explosion, so this isn't a stun). Also sets the target on fire,
which is always fun. Good for shooting into groups of people with
impunity. Also deals burn damage instead, since I think nukies could use
more methods for direct fire damage.
Surplus (NEW!): It's .50 BMG but it lacks most if not all the upsides.
No armour penetration, no dismemberment, no paralysis. It still deals a
lot of damage to objects, so not a bad option for simply removing
structures from afar. So what's the point in this ammo? You can buy 7
magazines for the price of one. I want to introduce 'Surplus' as an idea
for nukies to invest in if they want to be able to keep shooting but
they're really on a budget, like most non-warop nukies tend to be. This
is definitely subject to change (like a damage decrease on top of
everything else).
Pricing and Capacity: Normal ammo and surplus costs 3 TC. Every special
ammo costs 4 TC. Every special ammo also has the same ammo capacity as
the normal magazine. It's kind of weird how most of the subtypes had 5
shots rather than 6, but then soporific had...3? I don't get it. This
would probably cause a good deal of confusion, especially if you are
swapping ammo types and weren't aware of this particular oddity.
Anyway, 6 shots.
### Minor Addition
Gets rid of the cheap suppressor. It lies to players, tricking them into
thinking this is a low quality suppressor. Newsflash, it isn't. There is
no distinct difference between that suppressor and the normal
suppressor.
## Why It's Good For The Game
The sniper rifle, unfortunately, sucks a lot except for very specific
use cases. It got a big nerf with the scope component in terms of range,
even if the functionality is way cooler. And, at a baseline, there was
some counterintuitive functions attached to it. Dismemberment was cool,
but it also caused a loss in overall damage due to how limbs contribute
to core health. On top of this, the cool ammo types were...not much
better? Penetrator was almost always the best option, even if it lost a
lot of damage as a consequence.
So, what was it good for? X-ray + Penetrator. Pretty much, that's it. It
has some other uses but if I had to be entirely honest, there wasn't
much that other weapon couldn't do as well.
Hopefully this helps things going forward, and I want to mess with this
as well down the line in case its a bit too much of a boost in power.
Absolutely please rip this PR apart.
## Changelog
🆑
balance: Makes the syndicate sniper rifle a bolt-action rifle.
balance: Sniper rifles have a scope range of roughly 50 tiles.
balance: Sniper rifle ammo, if it dismembers your limbs, does damage to
the chest.
balance: All the various syndicate sniper rifle magazines have
consistent casing quantities (6 shots). They also have more consistent
pricing. 3 for normal and a box of surplus, and 4 for every other type.
balance: Reduces the range of Marksman ammo to 50 tiles. Not because it
is strong, but because you might accidentally shoot yourself if you're
not watching where you're shooting. Ricochets are no joke.
add: Replaces Soporific with Disruptor ammo. Works like soporific, but
also EMPS things it hits.
add: Adds Incendiary .50 BMG. Causes a combustion to erupt from the
struck target, as well as setting targets on fire. Great for parties.
add: Adds Surplus .50 BMG. It sucks, but you get a lot of them! Quantity
over quality, baby.
remove: The suppressors in the bundle are of standard quality. The
apparent 'cheap suppressor' that came bundled with the C-20r and sniper
rifle were found to actually be 'fine'. Trust us.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Adds a new craftable HoS shako, made from the standard peaked cap and
some plasteel and gold.
Moves the HoS cap into a subtype `/obj/item/clothing/head/hats/hos/cap`
to avoid catching the beret in the crafting recipe, the base type
`/obj/item/clothing/head/hats/hos` is now a generic subtype which should
never exist.
(Yes there's a TF2 reference included with the hat)
## Why It's Good For The Game
Adds an additional level of style for an HoS willing to put a little
effort into gathering the required materials. As it is crafted as a
one-to-one trade with another headgear there is no additional spare
headgear introduced.
## Changelog
🆑
add: The Nanotrasen Costuming Department has released specifications for
how to convert the Head of Security's cap into a shako.
/🆑
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Co-authored-by: Jacquerel <hnevard@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Fikou <23585223+Fikou@users.noreply.github.com>
## About The Pull Request
- Traveller's rest had two airlock cyclelinks that did not work, as one
of them was on a windoor, so I have removed them. Not playerfacing.
- The mob spawner spawned without clothes and runtiming, as instead of
an outfit, it had the roboticist's jumpsuit added. I have made a new
outfit and used that in a new spawner. Might be too specific of a
spawner though.
- I have also added a dedicated roboticist spawner, which uses a full
outfit. I originally wanted to use this one, but I realized, making this
spawn with robotics ID and gear is a pretty big balance change, so I
elected not to use that, but I have added it anyways, as it should be
useful in the future (and I have already made the sprite).
### Mapping March
Ckey to receive rewards: N/A
## Why It's Good For The Game
Less warnings during initialization.
## Changelog
🆑
fix: the roboticist in the prey pod now has clothes as intended
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
I love it when we add something and we have like three PRs around the
same time touching the same code and none of it conflicts, it's awesome,
believe me!
Adds the `!infinite_use` to the other check that checked the uses left,
to ensure that it still allows infinite spawners to remain infinite.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Code that works is always good for the game.
## Changelog
🆑 GoldenAlpharex
fix: Ghost role spawners that are set to have infinite uses no longer
run out of uses.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Turns out https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/pull/73833 happened
before my PR was merged, and somehow miraculously didn't conflict with
it.
However, it still made it so the ckey was now null, and the way that Git
handled the conflict, made it so the variable was now at the wrong spot,
and now it was null.
Fun times.
## Why It's Good For The Game
People gotta be able to spawn in from other spawners, that's the whole
point.
## Changelog
🆑 GoldenAlpharex
fix: Fixes ghost role spawners not allowing you to spawn from more than
one ghost role per round.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Turns out there was no verification to ensure that you weren't already
in the process of trying to join a ghost role, when clicking on a ghost
role spawner.
That resulted in people being able to double-click on a spawner and
basically, trying to spawn twice... Or thrice... Or even more than that
if they're fast.
Of course, that's not a good thing, so I made it so you can only try to
spawn one time at a time, which includes only getting one prompt at a
time. That includes ALL spawners, because I know that bug will otherwise
pop up at some point from someone thinking they're clever.
I added a CRASH() for the handling of ckey-less ghosts, in case someone
tries to do another subtype that somehow manages to bypass all of the
checks I already added. That way, they'll know if they fuck up.
I also made a second uses check considering there's stoplags in the
is_banned() check.
Fixes https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/issues/73619.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Having mindless bodies is just not very cash money and it can break
spawners to the point of making them go to negative amounts of uses,
which isn't very cash money.
## Changelog
🆑 GoldenAlpharex
fix: You should only be able to spawn as one ghost role at a time. Close
the prompt if you want to spawn as another one. Begone soulless
randomgen humans!
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Same issue as before, these skipped the spawn step and snowflaked their
own creation process.
So I split off the create part of attack ghost so these could share.
Fixes#73823 , may fix also #73822 but I don't *think* it will, whatever
changed spawners a few months ago is a little sus
## Why It's Good For The Game
Changeling pirate bad
## Changelog
🆑 Melbert
fix: Fixes pirates and starfury assailants keeping minds of past lives
/🆑
Midwife Spiders (the egg laying ones) can now double-examine their eggs
to see an approximation of how fully grown a given set of eggs are.
This should make the first 5-10 minutes of playing Broodmother slightly
less nerve-wracking. Knowing whether or not your eggs are almost ready
can be very important in deciding whether to fight or risk relocating
when John Maintcrawler accidentally opens the airlock to your nest.
## About The Pull Request
Gives a more 'proper' way for mob spawners to be infinite than just "set
a very large number".
## Why It's Good For The Game
Useful for admins
## Changelog
not really player facing
## About The Pull Request
Quite a lot of mobs had faction defines as a string, which always has a
chance for error. For example, the clown mob spawner had their faction
written as "clown", when the official faction name was "clowns", and a
define existed for it anyways! This PR moves every single string based
factions over here. No references or special role factions. Hopefully I
didn't miss anything.
I also moved a global define used for picking your uplink provider's
flavour to the only file that used it, datum_traitor.dm, and renamed
them a bit to avoid confusion.
I have also noticed that the mimic faction was assigned to the petrified
player with += instead of |=. |= would ensure no duplicate factions, so
I have changed it.
Future improvement:
I have noticed that there is a lot of bloat with factions that contain
only one or two entries (examples: gnomes, floating eyeballs, penguins,
the pet lizards), and some always appear in pairs (vines and plants, the
rare exceptions being killer tomatoes and strange reagent spawned pine
trees), but trimming consolidating them is a matter for a different
time.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Makes assigning factions a bit less error prone.
I can finally remove the ```/// Later all mob factions will be moved
here and their current factions replaced with faction defines.```
comment. Later is NOW.
## Changelog
Nothing player facing
## About The Pull Request
I made it so mob spawners transfer existing minds because of golem
shells but ghosts have minds on occasion.
Disassociates mind before spawning from ghosts.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Wizard golems Fixes#73577
## Changelog
🆑 Melbert
fix: Ghost roles from spawners keeping antag datums
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Fixes#73468
The admin message in `mob_spawn/ghost_role/attack_ghost` was warning
admins any time a ghost role spawner did not create a mob, however
clicking a spider egg opens a radial menu. Neglecting to choose one of
the options (and closing the menu) does not return a mob, and was
implying that some kind of error occurred when this is actually expected
behaviour.
Also as noted in the comments this probably needn't message admins in
the first place, we now log it as a crash instead.
## Why It's Good For The Game
We shouldn't print a log message in admin chat for expected behaviour.
Logging changes will help diagnose if this was masking an _actual_ bug.
## Changelog
🆑
fix: Clicking a spider egg and then closing the radial menu won't print
a message in admin channel informing admins that the egg didn't spawn
anything.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Fixes#73368
Golems didn't mind transfer on body swap until after the body was
finished creating, this created an issue as golems also did mind
assignment business while creating the body. So the
`mind.enslave_to_creator()` part runtime error'd and caused the create
to fail, which in turn caused the shell to not be consumed.
While sorting this out, I noticed that shells and golems hold a hard
reference to their owner. Yep, hard deletes. Changes mind `enslaved_to`
to a weakref, changes golem `owner` to a weakref, straight up removes
golem `owner` tracking on species because it was ONLY used for card
board golems when it could've just grabbed mind master
## Why It's Good For The Game
No more infinite golem shells
## Changelog
🆑 Melbert
fix: Transferring golem shells no longer make you a free man and also
results in infinite golem shells
fix: Servant golems are considerably less free
fix: Fixes some hard deletes related to mob minds being enslaved to
other mobs
/🆑
# Don't merge this without leading the headmins know so they can update
the server configs
### For headmins:
The following roles need to be updated:
- "Obsession" -> `/datum/antagonist/obessed`
- "Heretic" -> `/datum/antagonist/heretic` (Though this one will still
work, change it to message them on spawn)
- "Headslug Changeling" -> `/datum/antagonist/changeling/headslug`
- "Pyroclastic Anomaly Slime" -> `/datum/antagonist/pyro_slime` (Though
this one will still work, technically, change it to message them on
spawn)
## About The Pull Request
So, we have this whole system in the code to allow all mob typepaths,
species typepaths, and even antag datum typepaths to have a set policy
But we like, don't use it? For some reason we rather set a million
`get_policy` calls than use this. They're all stuck in the policy verb
and not sent to the player in any obvious.
(Also, it's super fragile, which I hate. Change the typepath and the
policy silently fails. Maybe someone can change that afterwards)
This PR updates that. All antag datums will check in `on_gain` for
policy to show to the player if there's any.
It doesn't solve the entire issue. Mob policy and species policy is not
conveyed to the player in any way BESIDES the policy verb which no one
uses. So people have no idea that it's a thing. But it helps a bit.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Better ways to convey to players how they should be playing.
Also Valentines day, because... it's crazy.
## Changelog
🆑 Melbert
config: Policy.json config got updated. The following values need to be
updated:
config: "Obsession" -> /datum/antagonist/obessed
config: "Heretic" -> /datum/antagonist/heretic
config: "Headslug Changeling" -> /datum/antagonist/changeling/headslug
config: "Pyroclastic Anomaly Slime" -> /datum/antagonist/pyro_slime
config: ALL antags in the policy.json file will now get notified of any
existing policy set by the admin team, rather than only a handful.
/🆑
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Co-authored-by: san7890 <the@san7890.com>
Co-authored-by: Tim <timothymtorres@gmail.com>
## About The Pull Request
This PR converts giant spiders into basic mobs and resultingly fixes
#37793
They _should_ have the same behaviour as their simple mob versions
although I can't verify that their movement speeds are _exactly_ the
same. It should at least be pretty close.
A quirk of spiders is that they had a pretty large `move_to_delay` which
made them slow in the hands of AI (because it would just pause for ages
between taking steps) and faster in the hands of players, and they often
appear in both forms so I had to implement this as a speed modifier
based on player control.
Additionally this is the first basic mob which can be set on fire.
This is currently implemented as a var on `mob/living/basic` but I know
there was some annoyance at adding the environment tolerances as vars on
there so if desired I can try and extract it out, I'm just not sure how
easy it will be.
Something else I noticed is that spiders seem to take stamina damage
from bug spray... but stamina damage does nothing to either simple _or_
basic mobs. I have left it in for now in case I am missing something,
and rebalancing it to do something else would be more like a balance
change.
Oh also I killed the `mob/basic/retaliate` folder because that isn't a
classification that needs to exist or makes sense.
## Why It's Good For The Game
We don't want to use simple mobs any more.
Sergeant Araneus can finally actually be a spider, instead of being a
bat.
## Changelog
🆑
refactor: Spider code has been refactored and AI-controlled spiders may
have slightly different movement or reaction times.
fix: Basic mobs can now be slowed when they take stamina damage, however
currently only spiders actually _can_ take stamina damage.
fix: Spiders should now more reliably disable their AI when controlled
by a player.
fix: Araneus is no longer considered to be a bat and so cannot fly.
fix: Araneus is no longer considered to be a bat and so is no longer
frightening to people who are scared of the supernatural.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
By means of making a particularly popular ghost role (do NOT put
catgirls on icebox bro you don't know the consequences) I have
discovered a strange bug where despite any of the checks that are in
place, it will still attempt to spawn more people than the role should
allow. I've found the likely caused to be that a lot of people are
clicking the role then clicking spawn at once, and the spawner simply
does not have time to tell everyone "wait no you can't do that" before
it deletes itself from running out of uses.
The solution? Even easier than the reservation thing: Subtract uses
**BEFORE** spawning the mob, as spawning the mob can take some time,
then if it fails to spawn somehow we can refund the uses.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Ghost roles spawning in the nullspace spawn room every now and then is a
bad thing I think.
## Changelog
🆑
fix: Ghost role spawners will now no longer try and spawn people when
they /should/ have been out of uses but due to a bug were not
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
This morning a man presented me with a mission
I realised that I can achieve this in merely _three_ pull requests.
...because I'm leaving one that adds new AI until after feature freeze
february.
This one pulls all of the ability code out of the giant spider mob file
and spruces it up a bit in preparation for making them into basic mobs.
It removes an ancient "todo" about merging the spider and genetics web
abilities by, doing that.
Spider abilities no longer extend from a shared and reasonably pointless
"innate" root ability and also don't require their owners to be spiders
to work properly any more.
Also while I was in there I fixed a bug where the "set directive"
ability did not actually pass that into the antag datum of a new spider
unless they logged out and back in.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Code should smell nicer now.
Removes an essentially duplicated ability.
Clears up some chat log spam which didn't need to be in there.
You can actually set an objective for spiders you create as a spider
brood mother.
I guess you can make spiders-man as an admin by giving spider abilities
to other mobs.
## Changelog
🆑
refactor: Tidied up spider ability code, they should all work the same,
but please report if they do not.
refactor: Spiders and Geneticists now use the same ability to make webs
rather than two virtually-identical ones, which should also perform just
as it did before this change.
fix: Setting a directive as a Spider Midwife should properly pass and
announce itself to new spiders.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
A very minor change but one that will save headache down the line. Adds
plasmaman support to mob spawners, meaning they will be guaranteed to
get their internals and suit upon spawning from those.
Modified the equip proc to be able to automatically turn hand slot
internals on without the need for snowflakey open_internals checks
everywhere, as that should already handled by the it (shown below). Just
modified it to work on hand slots.
https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/blob/4b832e7d01c079e2548940d352fb089bb336ec54/code/datums/outfit.dm#L245-L248
## Why It's Good For The Game
Adds support for present and future mob spawners involving plasmapeople.
## Changelog
🆑
qol: prevents mob spawner plasmamen from spawning without their suit and
internals.
code: the equip proc can now find internals in the hand slot and
automatically open them, allowing for less snowflakey code down the
line.
/🆑
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## About The Pull Request
This buffs scythes, goats, and plantbgone vs PLANT biotypes:
- Scythes now deal x1.5 damage to venus flytraps (3 hits to kill)
- Scythes now target the flower bud vines
- Goats now target flower bud vines and deal 15 damage to PLANT biotypes
- Goats have a eating sound whenever they bite PLANT biotypes
- Plantbgone now does 2 dmg per unit to PLANT biotypes (10 dmg per
spray)
- Plantbgone now has a 75% chance to remove weeds and deals large damage
to flower buds
- Weed control crates now come with a pair of leather gloves
- Golems are immune to thorn effects
- Any kind of thick glove material will prevent thorn effects when
attacking
- Flower buds will now take x4 damage from fire and sharp weapons
(unless they have fire trait)
- Regular scythes are now a sharp object
Also this fixes a few runtimes with spacevines and nulls. The bane
element now accepts `mob_biotypes` bitflags as an argument.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Before my changes:
- Plant-b-gone was doing 0.4 dmg per unit to PLANT biotypes (2 dmg per
spray)
- Scythes took 5 hits to kill venus flytraps
- Goats only affected podpeople
- Flower bud vines were being ignored by weed killing code
- Plantbgone only had a 50% chance to remove weeds (and this was very
inconsistent due to RNG)
- Botanical gloves and thick gloves didn't protect from thorns
- Golems were getting pierced by thorns despite having pierce immunity
- Flower buds were not taking the x4 damage like they should have been
- Regular scythes were not a sharp object, but other scythes
(chaplain's, megafauna loot) were sharp
This makes the weed killer crate more effective since people were
complaining about it being worthless vs vines and flower buds. These
changes give people more options to respond to threats vs plants.
## Changelog
🆑
add: Add a pair of leather gloves to weed control crate
balance: Mobs with the PLANT biotypes (venus flytraps, pod people,
killer tomatoes) are now much weaker vs scythes, goats, and plantbgone.
balance: Plantbgone is now more effective at destroying weeds.
balance: Regular scythes are now a sharp object
fix: Fixed scythes, goats, and plantbgone not affecting flower bud
vines.
fix: Thick and botanical gloves not protecting from thorns
fix: Golems not having pierce immunity from thorns
fix: Runtime where vines tried to spread into null turf
fix: Runtime where null vines that were destroyed were trying to spread
to nearby turfs
soundadd: Add eat food sound when goats eat plants
code: Improved goat targeting code
code: The bane element now accepts `mob_biotypes` bitflags as an
argument.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
revive of #68760
this time a proc, not an element
this time supports cardboard cutouts
this time supports mob corpses
## Why It's Good For The Game
prevents these icons ever being outdated, they'll always look what they
are supposed to, saves spriting work
## Changelog
🆑 Fikou, a hood by Viro
refactor: humanoid mobs and cardboard cutouts automatically generate
their sprites, they no longer will be outdated
/🆑
Co-authored-by: Time-Green <timkoster1@hotmail.com>
## About The Pull Request
repaths a lot of gloves off /color because they were incredibly stupid
firefighter gear has gotten an update (it doesnt cover hands anymore
though, you need something else)
firefighter helmets no longer hide your mask or glasses
fixed engine goggles starting with darkness vision
to the atmos lockers adds atmospheric gloves, a pair of thick (chunky
fingers) gloves that are fireproof and fire protective, slightly shock
resistant and let you fireman carry people faster.
atmospheric firefighter helmets now are a subtype of welding hardhats,
you can enable a welding visor.
welding hardhats change mode with right click instead of altclick
## Why It's Good For The Game
im not a good spriter but i think this resprite makes them fit nicer
with other engi equipment
lets me firefighter rp
## Changelog
🆑
add: Atmospheric Gloves, thick gloves that are fully fireproof and fire
protective and let you fireman carry people faster.
fix: fixes engine goggles starting with darkness vision
qol: firefighter helmets can now enable a welding visor
qol: welding hardhats change mode with right click instead of altclick
balance: firesuits no longer protect your hands
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Just my average reorganization of outfits into a better order.
ID > Uniform > Suit > Backpack > Other clothing in alphabetical order >
Pockets > Hands > Others
Since I was there, I put some things into ABC order when it made sense,
lists with 1 item per line, trailing comma, yadda yadda yadda.
Also, as power tools are medium sized now and wouldn't spawn on a
corpse, I moved it into their belt slot to close#71885
## Why It's Good For The Game
Easier to clean code, bug fix.
## Changelog
🆑 Guillaume Prata
fix: Legion infested golem corpses can drop power tools again (Drill,
Jaws, Experimental Welder) but they were moved away from their pockets
and into the belt slot.
/🆑
Co-authored-by: Fikou <23585223+Fikou@users.noreply.github.com>
## About The Pull Request
So, a huge issue with memories and - what I personally believe is the
reason why not many have been added since their inception is - they're
very annoying to add!
Normally, adding subtypes of stuff like traumas or hallucinations are as
easy as doing just that, adding a subtype.
But memories used this factory argument passing method combined with
holding all their strings in a JSON file which made it just frustrating
to add, debug, or just mess with.
It also made it much harder to organize new memories keep it clean for
stuff like downstreams.
So I refactored it. Memories are now handled on a subtype by subtype
basis, instead of all memories being a `/datum/memory`.
Any variety of arguments can be passed into memories like addcomponent
(KWARGS) so each subtype can have their own `new` parameters.
This makes it much much easier to add a new memory. All you need to do
is make your subtype and add it somewhere. Don't need to mess with jsons
or defines or anything.
To demonstrate this, I added a few memories. Some existing memories had
their story values tweak to compensate.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Makes it way simpler to add new memories. Maybe we'll get some more fun
ones now?
## Changelog
🆑 Melbert
add: Roundstart captains will now memorize the code to the spare ID
safe.
add: Traitors will now memorize the location and code to their uplink.
add: Heads of staff winning a revolution will now get a memory of their
success.
add: Heads of staff and head revolutionaries who lose their respective
sides of the revolution also get a memory of their failure.
add: Completing a ritual of knowledge as a heretic grants you a quality
memory.
add: Successfully defusing a bomb now grants you a cool memory. Failing
it will also grant you a memory, though you will likely not be alive to
see it.
add: Planting bombs now increase their memory quality depending on how
cool the bomb is.
refactor: Memories have been refactored to be much easier to add.
/🆑
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I got home, sat on my computer ready to work on an Goliath Infused
hermit idea I had, instead, I found more outfits that slipped through
the cracks and are not reorganized properly so I'm doing this again!
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## About The Pull Request
Closes#72141
Roundstart humans weren't in control of their mob by the time
`AssignQuirks` was called.
The call chain for roundstart goes `create_characters` ->
`equip_characters` -> `AssignQuirks` -> `transfer_characters`.
For latejoin, `create_character` -> `transfer_character` ->
`AssignQuirks`.
I could simply move around the call chain, but that feels much more
fragile and more liable to cause other issues to me. So instead, I
simply allowed add quirk to be passed a client, so that a client's
quirks can be applied to a mob they are not currently inhabiting.
In doing this, it became possible to show visual quirks on the prefs
dummy, like nearsighted glasses and heterochromia. So I put in a little
work to accomplish that as well.
Along side, some refactoring and documentation for quirk datums.
## Why It's Good For The Game
People get what they expect on roundstart.
## Changelog
🆑 Melbert
qol: The preview dummy in the preferences menu now shows some visual
quirks, like Heterochromia or nearsighted.
fix: Fixed some quirks which read a preference roundstart not applying
the preference.
refactor: Refactored some bits of quirk datums and the quirk application
process.
/🆑
Co-authored-by: Time-Green <timkoster1@hotmail.com>
The HoS' beret were not pathed properly so were no longer subtypes
of legitimate hos armor, this fixes that.
Now the HOS and syndicate berets have had their missing armor and strip
delay readded
## About The Pull Request
### Refactor
Pirate gangs are now datumized for extendability, custom dialogue, etc.
### Psyker Gang 🧠
Psyker-gang Members are pirates who are... yes, Psykers. They're on a
gore-binge and need some money for more hits of gore!
- Gore autoinjectors, filled with dirty kronkaine. Don't overdose,
you'll go splat.
- Psykerboost armor, reactive armor that refreshes psychic abilities.
Given to the leader.
- [x] @Fikou is making the map :D
## Why It's Good For The Game
God I fucking love variety also now we can add as many different pirates
as we so desire
<details>
<summary>Spoiler warning</summary>
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## Changelog
🆑 Tralezab code, Fikou's map, PigeonVerde and Halcyon for sprites!
add: Psyker-gangers are new pirates
refactor: refactored pirate code so we can add more in the future
/🆑
Co-authored-by: Fikou <23585223+Fikou@users.noreply.github.com>
## About The Pull Request
**Comes with an UpdatePaths!**
Removes the tablet subtype, PDAs now replaces them entirely.
Nukie and Silicon tablets are now subtypes of the PDA instead, while
contractor ones were removed entirely as they didn't do anything and
were unused (though it wouldn't be hard to re-add).
Nukie PDAs are now the only type of PDA that uses modular_tablets.dmi,
which is just larger icons of modular_pda. Each application requires an
icon state in both of these, for 2 different sizes, which makes it
annoying to make new applications, especially if it can also run on
computers/laptops.
### Icons
Because Silicon tablets are now a subtype of PDA, they use PDA icons
instead of tablet ones. Luckily for us, they already exist in code.
AI's don't use a tablet icon though, so they aren't affected.
## Why It's Good For The Game
There's very little difference between tablets and PDAs, PDAs overshadow
them in every single way, so at this point I don't see why we should
have both of these, and if you compare the two in usefulness and actual
in-game use by players, it's a no-brainer than the item all players get
roundstart and comes with a messenger should be the one we go with.
Also as said in the about section, when making an app you would need to
make icon states for the program running for all hardware it can run on,
which is Computer, Laptop, PDA, and Tablet.
Laptop is just a smaller computer icon
PDA is just a smaller tablet icon
However, you can't simply shrink the size of the icon, instead you have
to completely resprite the same app icon FOUR TIMES for it to not
bluescreen on all these different devices.
<details>
<summary>
Here's examples of it
</summary>
Computer (NOTE: *They share the same icon file as regular computers*)
<img
src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/53777086/203876801-486a8054-489a-4983-bdad-a2599b4dc379.png"/>
Laptop
<img
src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/53777086/203876333-58e5d135-f4c6-4a02-8948-1df771e294a4.png"/>
Tablet
<img
src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/53777086/203876352-816c7fb1-c681-40b9-99e0-052f49632c7f.png"/>
PDA
<img
src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/53777086/203876358-1cf7253d-3c6a-456a-8133-ebf7f0351637.png"/>
</details>
If we wish to help in simplifying this, we should remove tablet icons
entirely, which means 1 less icon to worry about. To do this, we'd need
to resprite nukie PDAs, however I am very much not a spriter and never
tried GAGS, so I'll leave it to someone else to do.
## Changelog
🆑
del: Tablets are now removed, PDAs are now the base 'tablet'. Silicon
and nukie tablets are now PDAs.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Currently, if you fail the allow_spawn test for Ashwalkers or
Battlecruiser Crew you will get the deny message even if the check was
silent. Meaning every time you open the spawners menu you get "You have
exhausted your usefulness to the Necropolis." or "You have already used
up your chance to roll as Battlecruiser." All the other allow_spawn
checks have a `!silent` check before sending the message so that they
only show this message if the player actually clicks the spawner.
Also for some reason the ashwalker message is bold and it shouldn't be.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Consistency is good, as is not giving the player unnecessary chat
messages.
## Changelog
🆑 VexingRaven
fix: Ashwalker Eggs and Battlecruiser spawners no longer give you a
warning every time you open the spawn menu if you've already spawned as
that role once.
spellcheck: Ashwalker Egg warning message for having already spawned
once is no longer bolded for no reason.
/🆑
MrMelbert
