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## About The Pull Request Completely removes sentient disease from the game ## Why It's Good For The Game Sentient disease is a unique antag and seems fun on paper, but really doesn't work that well. Sentient disease is a pretty binary antagonist: you either get cured and watch helplessly as you lose all your hosts, or you infect everyone and wipe out the entire station. Its everything bad about conversion antags, but there's not even any fighting. I also don't think any amount of balancing can fix sentient disease. If we make it harder to cure, the disease gets an easier station wipe, but if we make it less lethal, it loses all ability to stop cure generation. The core gameplay pitches the entire crew against one disease, and it's merely a timer before either it gets cured or wipes out everyone This is my latest sentient disease round, where I wiped out the entire station. I only even greentexted because there was one guy on the escape shuttle in crit that barely made it because they had the sense to take spaceilline.  The removal of the virologist lets us balance viruses to be fairer challenges to the player, but as long as sentient disease exists we'll always have to balance viruses somewhat in favor of the enjoyment of the disease blowing your head and making you spontaneously combust. ## Changelog 🆑 del: Removes sentient disease from the game /🆑 Hopefully, once we get virology truly sorted out, we can readd sentient disease, but this would require our diseases to have endgoals that aren't focused around killing every person, being widespread while also not being instantly curable. A reworked sentient disease would have to be so different, it's better to leave it out, fix virology and then consider if we can truly add a new sentient disease and have it be fun and fair