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## About The Pull Request ### Changes Fitness skill to Athletics skill; Removes the sprite growth as the only meaningful reward Basically just a rebranding so that it is more broad in its concept. It isn't just about peak physique. It's about how you can apply it too. Reaching Legendary rewards you with the Golden Gloves. ### Boxing Overhaul I started it in this pr here https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/pull/80635 But this is a more significant overhaul of boxing from the ground up. Namely, it now is majorly influenced by the Athletics skill, and also more thoroughly aligns with conventional punching in its current state. However, a major component of this is that boxing's breadth of mechanics is only relevant when used against another boxer. Non-boxer targets are only ever going to get smacked by a stamina punch, as it is currently (and more or less the same values too). Additionally, boxers cannot punch someone who is either unconscious or in stamina crit, so it can't be used to maintain stamcrit. - Boxing now has a One-Two Punch mechanic. Swapping between the left and right mouse buttons to punch and maintaining this causes every second punch to do more damage (to boxers). Breaking this chain by punching with the same button twice will cause you to lose damage (against boxers). - Boxing now can have crits occur below 50 stamina damage (against boxers). However, to knock someone out clean, the target must be staggered from a previous crit first. (Or I guess be staggered at all, maybe their shoelaces were tied or something). Crit probabilities are determined by adding your Athletics probability skill bonuses to your unarmed effectiveness, and then reduced by the targets own Athletics skill bonuses. It is hard for two athletes to knock each other out in one blow. It is trivial for a legendary boxer to knock out a novice in a single punch. Cybernetically enhanced boxers are dangerously effective at boxing. - Boxers can block other boxers by using throw mode, but the chances of doing so is based on Athletics skill bonuses. A successful block causes the attacker to take stamina damage (as does the blocker, but less so). - Participating in boxing increases the Athletics skill. Your gains are probably slower than normal training, but you at least get some reward for doing so. Only relevant if your opponent is a boxer. Get a sparring partner! ### Evil Boxing (Admin Only) So this is all well and good, but what if you're a scoundrel with no care for the other person in this equation? Well, that's where Evil Boxing comes in. Evil Boxing has absolutely no restrictions at all, and can freely use its boxing abilities against anyone. Even non-boxers. You can even grab people! Wow, what a scumbag. I bet you even king hit people. Thankfully, only an admin can make you into an Evil Boxer. ### Strength and Stimmed Mutations now benefit Exercising and Boxing (against boxers) Both mutations have a flimsy increase to instability of 5 because of how incredibly particular the bonus is. Strength now reduces the amount of stamina damage inflicted via exercising by half. Strength also adds a +2 damage bonus on boxing punches while boxing against boxers (this doesn't influence normal unarmed attacks whatsoever, or boxing against nonboxers). Obviously, evil boxers just get this benefit against everyone because they're knaves. Stimmed increases the duration of the exercised status effect by one factor. (That is, if you have no other modifiers, it will double the duration on its own) ## Why It's Good For The Game @Jacquerel was racking their brain trying to come up with an alternative to the skill rewards of Fitness. At the moment, sprite growth is not only a really bad bonus (it does literally nothing but make you big, and thus is actually a detriment due to how intrusive sprite size is with interaction, and plays weird with other sprite changing effects), but isn't really all that interesting for all the effort put in. Problem is, how do you make Fitness meaningful without making it a powergame mechanic? Simple! You make it applicable to a really niche, self-contained but still utilized game mechanic that is engaging to participate in and makes you meaningfully very good in it. AND scratches that power scaling itch that many players have. Boxing is reasonably self-contained as is, but pretty bland due to how old it is. While maintaining that self-contained nature, I hoped to expand the interactivity of boxing a little bit by giving it a small mini-game in of itself. And also introduce ways to simulate the idea of boxing a bit better. The idea of being an Evil Boxer is funny. For every Rocky, there is a [Insert Rocky Villain Here that isn't Creed]. But in this case, it's probably some Syndicate douchebag looking to punch clowns into a coma and inspire the mime to take up shadowboxing in revenge. ## Changelog 🆑 add: Replaces Fitness with Athletics; same skill, but now more specifically applicable to boxing. add: Athletics does not increase sprite size. balance: Overhauls Boxing to add a lot more depth to the interactions. Only applicable to other boxers, however. You can still punch the snot out of non-boxers though. But only up to stamcrit or unconsciousness. No hitting someone who can't fight back! balance: Adds Evil Boxing, which is the evil and fucked up version of boxing that you kill people with and are allowed to flout the sacred rules of boxing as you please. Everyone is a victim! /🆑