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## About The Pull Request Adds a quiver to the traitor "Syndicate Rebar" kit, can be used to store rods and reload the Rebar more efficiently.  Fixes Rebar bows having more ammo than intended. Rebar bows will now draw their string with left click instead of just the use button. Quivers are now a neck storage item. Hydrogen bolts have lost their ability to embed and pierce an infinite number of targets in exchange for a small damage buff , increased accuracy on bodyparts and the ability to pierce walls. ## Why It's Good For The Game This PR is the fruit of a discussion spanned over the course of several months between me and KingKumaArt (the creator of the rebar bows.), He's now busy abroad, so I'm pushing these changes in his stead. **Changes to the syndie rebar and quivers** The syndicate rebar bow is a fun albeit slightly underwhelming weapon, at least compared to its direct competitor, the revolver. The numbers prove this, as according to the charts it's very rarely bought on LRP and doesn't even show on the MRP charts. https://superset.moth.fans/superset/dashboard/4/?native_filters_key=cBYTbRt2At8pt1VkwV8O7NEZZZeDiIQ5fZgSMfjoICB0yow1BWJXDG5SyV9MJKTf I think most of the issues with the weapon can be attributed to the horrible jank that surrounds it. Reloading and storing ammunition for this weapon is a management nightmare, as the rods cannot be stacked and have to be manually loaded by hand, making it horrendous to use in combat. While that's fine for the makeshift crew version, Traitor weapons should be more realiable in a combat scenario. **So i'm squashing both problems by introducing a traitor version of the quiver.** It comes packed with the box you get the crossbow from, can be worn on the neck, stacks up to 20 rods, and features an action button that allows you to slowly chamber your rods into the rebar. Video demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG9efFOyauw The crew version has also been moved to a neck storage item, but has half the capacity and lacks the ability to quick reload. I've also made the firing process slightly less annoying by having left click draw and undraw the string; as it stands, you have to alternate left click and use on hand after each shot, which is just jarring. Created 2 new variables to replace the ALWAYS_HIT_TRAIT, so we don't have to slap a new trait every time we want to dictate how accurate a gun or projectile should be at range. Lastly, I fixed an issue that allowed the bow to fit 1 extra bolt than its intended capacity. if you were to chamber your last rod, it does end up nerfing the burst of the syndie variant, as it drops down from 4 to 3, but the smoother reload should make up for it. **Hydrogen bolts** As it stands, all the atmosian bolt variants occupy different niches and they are more or less balanced. Except for the hydrogen bolts. With zauker bolts doing 60 toxin damage, guaranteed embed, and Syndie bolts doing 55 brute + the high delimb chance, Hydrogen bolts just don't have any real purpose to exist with their lower damage and lack of the ability to delimb. Metallic hydrogen in general doesn't have any good applications, the armor is weaker than your run of the mill sec vest, the axe is a downgrade over the roundstarting one....; I could go on, point being that something that requires in depth atmos knowledge and 30-40 minutes of hard work shouldn't be outclassed by what's readily available at the start of the shift. So what if we made the hydrogen bolts go through walls? Long range weaponry is a niche that remains mostly unfilled in the traitor arsenal. The syndicate rebar technically does have a scope, but requiring direct line of sight makes it unreliable and far too risky to use, since you could be jumped at any times while you are zoomed in. So i've made the hydrogen bolts a weaker version of the nukie penetrator rounds, with slightly lower damage, no infinite pierce and inability to damage the AI core. I've also improved their long range accuracy, as these bolts are meant to be accurate at longer ranges, (they drop off massively past the 15 tiles) Now yes, the bolts will be accessible to the crew as well, so why am I discussing this as if it were a traitor change? Well for starters, the actual applications of a crew atmos tech using these are fairly limited. Regular rebar bows can only fire 1 shot at a time, don't have a scope, and you won't get much mileage out of the wall piercing component unless you get thermals or x-rays, which are very much a stretch to acquire as an atmos tech. In the hands of a traitor, however, I can see it as a potential use for a long-range sniping tool, if you are willing to commit half of your round to make the bolts that is. ## Changelog 🆑 add: A Syndicate Rebar Quiver has been added to the uplink qol: Left clicking with a rebar crossbow will now draw/undraw the string. balance: Rebar quivers are now a neck slot item. balance: Hydrogen bolts damage has been upped to 55 brute and can now pierce through walls, they no longer have infinite piercing and can no longer embed however. code: removed the TRAIT_ALWAYS_HIT_ZONE, replaced with 2 new variables. fix: fixes rebar crossbows having a higher capacity than intended if a bolt had already been chambered. /🆑 --------- Co-authored-by: Xander3359 <66163761+Xander3359@users.noreply.github.com>