Expedition Balance Tweaks

- Removes hostile mobs from V4 Beach
- Adds Giant Snakes and Giant spiders in generic V4 Cave spawners
- Reduced respawn rates to cut down on incidences of 'deathclaw swarms'
- Giant Snakes and Deathclaws have reduced overall spawn rates, Giant Spiders and Frogs will generally be more common.
- Replaced Ion hivebots with Ion Spiders
- Reduced expedition phaser to 5 shots

code/modules/mob/living/simple_animal/animals/giant_spider_vr.dm

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+// Slightly placeholder, mostly to replace ion hivebots on V4
+/mob/living/simple_animal/hostile/giant_spider/ion
+	desc = "Furry and green, it makes you shudder to look at it. This one has brilliant green eyes and a hint of static discharge."
+	tt_desc = "X Brachypelma phorus ionus"
+	icon_state = "webslinger"
+	icon_living = "webslinger"
+	icon_dead = "webslinger_dead"
+
+	maxHealth = 90
+	health = 90
+
+	melee_damage_lower = 8
+	melee_damage_upper = 15
+
+	ranged = 1
+	projectilesound = 'sound/weapons/taser2.ogg'
+	projectiletype = /obj/item/projectile/ion/small
+	firing_lines = 1
+	cooperative = 1
+
+	poison_chance = 15
+	poison_per_bite = 2
+	poison_type = "psilocybin"

code/modules/vore/fluffstuff/custom_guns_vr.dm

@@ -744,8 +744,8 @@
 
 	projectile_type = /obj/item/projectile/beam
 	firemodes = list(
-		list(mode_name="normal", fire_delay=12, projectile_type=/obj/item/projectile/beam, charge_cost = 300),
+		list(mode_name="normal", fire_delay=12, projectile_type=/obj/item/projectile/beam, charge_cost = 600),
-		list(mode_name="low-power", fire_delay=8, projectile_type=/obj/item/projectile/beam/weaklaser, charge_cost = 60),
+		list(mode_name="low-power", fire_delay=8, projectile_type=/obj/item/projectile/beam/weaklaser, charge_cost = 120),
 		)
 
 /obj/item/weapon/gun/energy/frontier/unload_ammo(var/mob/user)

maps/tether/submaps/beach/_beach.dm

@@ -95,8 +95,9 @@
 	prob_fall = 25 //Chance goes down by this much each time it spawns one (not defining and prob_spawn 100 means they spawn as soon as one dies)
 	guard = 40 //They'll stay within this range (not defining this disables them staying nearby and they will wander the map (and through step teleports))
 	mobs_to_pick_from = list(
-		/mob/living/simple_animal/hostile/giant_snake = 3, //Snakes are 3x more likely to spawn than,
+		/mob/living/simple_animal/snake
-		/mob/living/simple_animal/hostile/frog = 1 //these frogs are, with these values
+		// /mob/living/simple_animal/hostile/giant_snake = 3, //Snakes are 3x more likely to spawn than,
+		// /mob/living/simple_animal/hostile/frog = 1 //these frogs are, with these values
 	)
 
 /obj/tether_away_spawner/beach_outside_friendly
@@ -115,12 +116,14 @@
 	faction = "beach_cave"
 	atmos_comp = TRUE
 	prob_spawn = 100
-	prob_fall = 10
+	prob_fall = 40
 	guard = 20
 	mobs_to_pick_from = list(
-		/mob/living/simple_animal/hostile/deathclaw,
+		/mob/living/simple_animal/hostile/giant_snake = 1,
-		/mob/living/simple_animal/hostile/frog,
+		/mob/living/simple_animal/hostile/deathclaw = 1,
-		/mob/living/simple_animal/hostile/hivebot/range/ion
+		/mob/living/simple_animal/hostile/frog = 3,
+		/mob/living/simple_animal/hostile/giant_spider = 3,
+		/mob/living/simple_animal/hostile/giant_spider/ion = 2
 	)
 
 // These are step-teleporters, for map edge transitions