2016-01-01: Iamgoofball: - experiment: Redid how objectives are assigned, they're now a lot more random in terms of what you can get. Incoming5643: - tweak: Removed gender restrictions from socks. Joan: - rscdel: Storage Blobs are gone; they were effectively a waste of resources, as there are more or less no points at which you should need them, unless you were winning excessively hard. - rscdel: Blobs can no longer burst early; instead, the button gives some early help and serves to indicate you're a blob. - wip: Blobbernauts now poll candidates instead of grabbing a candidate immediately. The poll is 5 seconds, so that there's no significant pause between making a blobbernaut and it doing stuff. - rscadd: Blobbernaut creation replaces Storage Blob creation on the blob HUD. - tweak: Overmind communication is now much larger and easier to see, and blob mobs, such as blobbernauts, will hear it. Kor: - rscadd: The wizard has a new spell, Lesser Summon Guns. This summons an unending stream of single shot bolt action rifles into his hands, automatically replacing themselves as you fire. - bugfix: Fixes successive generations of grey tide clones not despawning. - tweak: Using challenge ops now delays shuttle refuel. - rscadd: Added a new wizard event, Advanced Darkness. MrStonedOne: - experiment: GHOST POPUP RE-WORK - bugfix: Ghost popups will no longer steal focus - bugfix: Ghost popups will no longer submit on key press (regardless of focus) unless you tab to a button first - tweak: Ghost popups will close themselves after the time out has ended - rscadd: Ghost popups are now themed. - tweak: Long actions (like resisting out of handcuffs) will no longer count space/nograv drifting as the user moving. - tweak: This does not apply to the target of a long action if that target isn't you. Pulling something while space drifting and working on it intentionally won't work. 2016-01-02: Kor: - rscadd: Guardians/Parasites are now named after constellations, and have new sprites from Ausops. Kor and GunHog: - rscadd: Malfunctioning AIs can now purchase Enhanced Surveillance for 30 points, which allows them to "hear" with their camera eye. MMMiracles: - rscadd: A distress signal was recently discovered with gateway coordinates attached to a far-off research facility owned by Nanotrasen. The signal was sent out in hopes of someone competent receiving it, unfortunately, your station was the only one to respond. Local security forces may not be welcoming your arrival group with open arms. 2016-01-07: KorPhaeron: - tweak: Doubled cost of Lesser Summon Guns to 4 and increased charge time to 75 seconds. TrustyGun: - rscadd: 'Added two new UI styles: black and green Operative and pale green Slimecore.' 2016-01-09: Wjohnston: - wip: AI Satellite has been remapped to make it more secure. 2016-01-11: Joan: - rscdel: Blob cores and nodes no longer cause normal pulsed blobs to animate. Factories and resource nodes will still animate. - imageadd: Holoparasite sprites have been updated again, are now named after silvery metals and flowers and can also be colored purple, blue or yellow. xxalpha: - tweak: Pipes and cables under walls, intact floors, grilles and reinforced windows will now be shielded from explosions until exposed. 2016-01-13: Joan: - imageadd: Alien whisper ability has a new icon MrStonedOne: - tweak: Control clicking on the thing you are pulling will no longer unpull, instead control clicking on anything too far away to be pulled will unpull. (reminder that the delete key also unpulls) OneArmedYeti: - imageadd: To help with colorblindness, gang HUDs have been changed so leaders have a border and normal gangster icons are smaller. 2016-01-15: Joan: - bugfix: Holoparasites can no longer beat their owner to death while inside of them. - spellcheck: Updates traitor holoparasite descriptions for accuracy. - spellcheck: Adds 8 additional silvery metals to the holoparasite name pool. - imageadd: Adds two new holoparasite colors, light purple and red. - imageadd: Holoparasite HUD buttons now have new sprites. - imageadd: Adds glow effects when guardians teleport or recall, including fire guardian teleporting and support guardian teleporting. Kor: - rscadd: Washing machines are activated via alt+click rather than a right click verb. 2016-01-16: Joan: - imageadd: Alien queens and praetorians have suitably large speechbubbles. - imageadd: Syndicate cyborgs and syndrones have suitably evil robotic speechbubbles. - imageadd: Blob mobs have suitably uncomfortable-looking speechbubbles. - imageadd: Holoparasites and guardians have suitably robotic and magical speechbubbles. - imageadd: Swarmers have suitably holographic speechbubbles. - imageadd: Slimes have suitably slimy speechbubbles. 2016-01-17: Joan: - bugfix: You can once again repair a hacked APC by using an APC frame on it instead of welding it off the wall, at the same stage as you'd weld it off the wall. MrStonedOne: - bugfix: Control clicking on a turf now un-pulls 2016-01-19: neersighted: - rscadd: Many many interfaces have been ported to tgui; uplinks and MULEbots being the most important - rscadd: You can now tune radios by entering a frequency - bugfix: Air Alarms now support any gas 2016-01-23: neersighted: - experiment: Refactor wires; port wire interface to tgui. - rscadd: Wire colors are now fully randomized. - rscdel: Remove pizza bombs, as the code and sprites were terrible. - rscadd: Add pizza bomb cores, which can be combined with a pizza box to make a pizza bomb. octareenroon91: - bugfix: Chemistry machinery should now all equally accept beakers, drinking glasses, etc. 2016-01-27: Joan: - tweak: Golems have about a 40% chance to stun with punches, from about 60%. - tweak: Millitary Synths have about a 50% chance to stun with punches, from literally 100%. - wip: Blobbernaut creation costs 30 points, and does much more damage to the factory. - rscdel: Blob factories regenerate at half normal rate. - tweak: Blob reagents tweaked; - rscadd: Ripping Tendrils does slightly more brute damage, but less stamina damage. - rscdel: Lexorin Jelly does less brute damage. - rscadd: Energized Fibers does slightly more burn damage. - rscadd: Sporing Pods does slightly more toxin damage. - rscadd: Replicating Foam will try to replicate when hit more often. - rscadd: Hallucinogenic Nectar does slightly more toxin damage and causes hallucinations for longer. - rscadd: Cryogenic Liquid does more burn damage. - experiment: Synchronous Mesh does slightly less damage with one blob but massive damage with more than one nearby blob. - rscdel: Dark Matter does less brute damage. - rscdel: Sorium does slightly less brute damage. - rscdel: Pressurized Slime has a lower chance to emit water when killed and when attacking targets. - tweak: Supermatter explosion is no longer capped, and under normal conditions will produce a 8/16/24 explosion when delaminating. - imageadd: Blob tiles now do an attack animation when failing to expand into a turf. - imageadd: Overmind-directed expansion is more visible than automatic expansion. Kor: - rscadd: Capture the flag has been added in space near central command. The spawners are disabled by default, so be sure to harass admins when you die until they let you play. The arena was mapped by Ausops. - rscadd: Nuke ops can purchase mosin nagants for 2 telecrystals. MrStonedOne: - bugfix: Fixes the powersink drawing less power than the smeses put out. - tweak: Made the powersink hold significantly more power before overloading and going boom. - tweak: Buffed the explosion of the power sink when it overloads. You are suggested to think twice about wiring the engine to the grid. PKPenguin321: - rscadd: The Autoimplanter, a device that can insert cyberimplants into humans instantly and without the need of surgery, has been added to the game. It is currently only obtainable by nuke ops, by way of being included in the Box of Implants. 2016-01-28: Joan: - rscadd: Blobs can communicate before bursting to allow for more coordination. Kor: - rscadd: Butchering mobs by attacking them with sharp objects will only happen on harm intent. This means it is possible to do surgery on aliens again. 2016-01-29: Joan: - rscadd: Holoparasites can now see their summoner's health at all times. The health displayed is a percentage, with 0 being dead. - imageadd: Holoparasites now have visual flashes on the summoner's location when recalled due to range limits and when manifesting. Kor: - rscadd: Red xenobio potions now work on vehicles (janitor cart, ATV, secway, etc), causing them to go faster. - rscadd: Stuffing people in bins uses clickdrag instead of grab. 2016-01-30: Boredone: - tweak: Due to an experiment gone wrong, the Research Director's Teleport Armor now causes some mild radiation poisoning on teleportation to the wearer. Francinum: - rscadd: Added two new female underwear styles. Kor: - rscadd: You can now use the abandoned white ship as an escape route at round end. This is possible on Box, Meta, and Dream. - rscadd: Added support so that mappers can make any shuttle function as an escape shuttle. MMMiracles: - rscadd: Three new bra sets have been added for the ladies out there who want to show their patriotism. xxalpha: - rscadd: Blueprints will now allow the expansion of an existing area by giving its name to a new adjacent area. - rscadd: Added a no power warning cyborg verb to Robot Commands. 2016-01-31: Kor: - rscadd: Added a special AI upgrade disk that allows normal AIs to use malf modules and hack APCs. It is admin only. - rscadd: Added an AI upgrade disk that grants AIs the lipreading power. It is admin only.