2017-05-01: 4dplanner: - tweak: Syndicate surplus crates now contain fewer implants Bawhoppen: - rscadd: Deep storage space ruin has been readded. - rscadd: Space Cola machines now stock bottles of water. Cobby: - balance: The Gang pen is now stealthy. Stab away! Cyberboss: - rscadd: You can now make holocalls! Simply stand on a pad, bring up the menu, and select the holopad you wish to call. Remain still until someone answers. When they do, you'll be able to act just like an AI hologram until the call ends Joan: - rscadd: Belligerent now prevents you from running for 7 seconds after every chant. - rscdel: However, you no longer remain walking after Belligerent's effect fades. - rscadd: Clockcult component generation will automatically focus on components needed to activate the Ark if it exists. - rscadd: Gaining Vanguard, such as from the Linked Vanguard scripture, will remove existing stuns. - rscadd: Proselytizers can now charge from Sigils of Transmission at a rate of 1000W per second. - rscadd: Sigils of Transmission can be charged with brass at a rate of 250W per sheet. Moonlighting Mac says: - bugfix: Due to a clerical error in the chef's cookbooks now being resolved, you can now make the pristine cookery dish "Stuffed Legion" out of exotic ingredients from Lavaland. - experiment: After being found again you will now be able to enjoy its special blend of flavors with your tastebuds. Mmm. QualityVan: - tweak: Saline glucose now acts as temporary blood instead of increasing blood regeneration Swindly: - tweak: Mercury and Lithium make people move when not in space instead of when in space. ninjanomnom: - tweak: TEG displays power in kw or MW now - tweak: TEG power bar only maxes over 1MW now - experiment: Moves TEG to SSair - experiment: Moves SM to SSair 2017-05-02: 4dplanner: - bugfix: Squishy plants will now affect walls and other turfs they get squished on Kor, Goof and Plizzard: - rscadd: Adds persistent trophy cases. They are not on any map yet. Shadowlight213: - bugfix: The biogenerator will now show its recipes again. XDTM: - tweak: Blood Cult's talisman of Horrors now works at range. It will still give no warning to the victim. - rscadd: Golems can now click on empty golem shells to transfer into them. - tweak: Plasma Golems now no longer explode on death. They instead explode if they're on fire and are hot enough. The explosion size has been increased. - tweak: Plasma Golems are now always flammable. coiax: - rscadd: When talking on the alien hivemind, a person will be identified by their real name, rather than who they are disguised as. 2017-05-03: BeeSting12: - bugfix: Omega shuttle now has lighting. Joan: - balance: Clockwork component generation is twice as fast. - balance: Scriptures cost up to twice as much; Driver scriptures are unaffected, meaning they cost 50% less, Script scriptures cost 25% less, Application scriptures cost about 12.5% less, and Revenant scriptures cost about 5% less. Jordie0608: - rscadd: Investigate logs are now persistent. - tweak: Game logs are now stored per-round; use .getserverlog to access previous rounds. - rscdel: .giveruntimelog and .getruntimelog removed. Kor, Profakos, Iamgoofball: - rscadd: The Librarian has been replaced by the Curator. - rscadd: Persistent trophy cases have been added to the library on Meta, Delta, and Box. These are only usable by the Curator. - rscadd: The Curator now starts with his whip. - rscadd: The Curator now has access to his treasure hunter outfit, stashed in his private office. coiax: - balance: Plasma vessels, the organs inside aliens that are responsible for their internal plasma storage, will regenerate small amounts of plasma even if the owner is not on resin weeds. - rscadd: Restrictions on Lizardpeople using their native language on the station have been lifted by Centcom, in order to maximise worker productivity. The language's key is ",o". deathride58: - tweak: Fixed the slimecore HUD's neck slot sprite. 2017-05-04: 4dplanner: - bugfix: revenants now properly resurrect from ectoplasm, as opposed to ectoplasm merely spawning a new grief ghost - bugfix: Turrets can no longer see invisible things, such as unrevealed revenants Joan: - rscadd: Mania Motors now do minor toxin damage over time and will convert those affected if the toxin damage is high enough. - balance: The effects of a Mania Motor continue to apply to targets after they leave its range, though they will fall off extremely quickly. - rscdel: Mania Motors no longer cause brain damage. - imageadd: Ratvarian Spears have new inhand icons. Lzimann: - rscdel: Gang game mode was removed Moonlighting Mac says: - rscadd: Courtesy of the art & crafts division, imitation basalt tiles themed on the rough volcanic terrain of lavaland are now available to be made out of sandstone. - experiment: The manufacturer even managed to replicate the way that it lights up with volcanic energy, it is the perfect accompaniment to other fake (or real) lava-land tiles or a independent piece. QualityVan: - rscadd: Point flashlights at mouths to see what's inside them 2017-05-05: Incoming: - tweak: Display cases now require a key to open, which the curator spawns with Joan: - balance: Sigil of Accession, Fellowship Armory, Memory Allocation, Anima Fragment, and Sigil of Transmission are not affected by the previously-mentioned % reduction to Application scripture costs. LanCartwright: - rscadd: Lesser smoke book to Delta and Metastation - rscdel: Normal smoke book from Delta and Metastation - tweak: Civilian smoke book now has a 360 max cooldown (from 120) and halved smoke output. QualityVan: - bugfix: Dental implants stay with the head they're in bgobandit: - tweak: The Syndicate has added basic functionality to their state-of-the-art equipment. Nuke ops can now donate all TCs at once. lordpidey: - rscadd: There is a new traitor poison, spewium. It will cause uncontrollable vomiting, which gets worse the longer it's in your system. An overdose can cause vomiting of organs. - tweak: Committing suicide with a gas pump can now shoot out random organs. - bugfix: Toxic vomit now shows up as intended. 2017-05-06: 4dplanner: - rscadd: Internal Affairs Agents now obtain the kill objectives of their targets when they die. - rscadd: Internal Affairs Agents now have an integrated nanotrasen pinpointer that tracks their target at distances further than ten squares. - rscadd: Internal Affairs Agents will now lose any restrictions on collateral damage and gain a "Die a glorious death" objective upon becoming the last man standing, and revert if any of their targets are cloned. BeeSting12: - bugfix: Pubbystation no longer has two airlocks stacked on top of each other leading into xenobiology's kill room. - rscadd: Deltastation's chemistry now has a screwdriver. - bugfix: Deltastation's morgue no longer has a blue tile. - bugfix: Deltastation's chemistry smart fridge is no longer blocked by a disposal unit. Cyberboss: - tweak: Teslas now give off light Joan: - balance: Sigils of Transgression are slightly more visible and glow very faintly. LanCartwright: - rscadd: Reduction to nutrition when consuming Miner's salve. - rscdel: Stun/weaken that bypasses bugged chemical protection when consuming Miner's salve. Lzimann: - rscdel: Telescience is no more. PKPenguin321: - rscadd: Undid the gang gamemode removal. QualityVan: - rscadd: Cargo can order restocking units for NanoMed vending machines - rscadd: NanoMed vending machines can be build and unbuilt Robustin: - rscadd: Blood Cultists can now attempt to claim the position of Cult Master with the approval of a majority of their brethren. - rscadd: 'The Cult Master has access to unique blood magic that will aid them in leading the cult to victory:' - rscadd: The Cult Master can mark targets, allowing the entire cult to track them down. - rscadd: The Cult Master has single-use, noisy, and overt channeled spell that will summon the entire cult to their location. - rscadd: All cultists gain a HUD alert that will assist them in completing their objectives. - rscadd: Constructs created by soul shards will now be able to track their master. - rscadd: Cultists created outside of cult mode will now get a working sacrifice and summon objective and the summon rune will no longer fail outside of cult mode. - tweak: Gang Dominator max time is now 8 minutes down from 15m - tweak: Gang Tagging now reduces the timer by 9 seconds per territory, down from 12 seconds. coiax: - rscadd: Adamantine golems have special vocal cords that allow them to send one-way messages to all golems, due to fragments of resonating adamantine in their heads. Both of these are organs, and can be removed and put in other species. - rscadd: You can use adamantine vocal cords by prefixing your message with ":x". - rscdel: Xenobiology is no longer capable of making golem runes with plasma. Instead, inject plasma into the adamantine slime core to get bars of adamantine which you can then craft into an incomplete golem shell. Add 10 sheets of suitable material to finish the shell. - experiment: The metal adamantine is also quite valuable when sold via cargo. - bugfix: If you know more than the usual number of languages, you'll now remember them after you get cloned. - rscdel: Humans turning into monkeys will not suddenly be able to speak the monkey language, and will continue to understand and speak human. - rscadd: Ghosts can now modify their own understood languages with the language menu. - rscadd: Any mob can also open their language menu with the IC->Open Language Menu verb. - rscadd: Silicons can now understand Draconic as part of their internal databases. - bugfix: Golems no longer have underwear, undershorts or socks. - tweak: The lavaland Seed Vault ruin can spawn only once. - rscadd: It is now possible to make plastic golems, who are made of a material flexible enough to crawl through vents (while not carrying equipment). They also can pass through plastic flaps. - bugfix: Fixed adamantine vocal cord (F) links not working for observers. 2017-05-07: Anonmare: - tweak: Removes organic check from mediborg storage container Joan: - rscadd: Cultists of Nar-sie have their own language. The language's key is ",n". - balance: Sigils of Transgression are slightly brighter. Moonlighting Mac: - experiment: Due to budget cuts and oil synthesis replacing expensive processes of digging up haunted primeval ashwalker burial grounds, Nanotransen has taught chemists how to make plastic from chemicals in the hopes that new plastic products can reduce expenditure on metal and glass. - rscadd: you can now make plastic sheets from chemistry out of heated up crude oil, ash & sodium chloride MrStonedOne: - bugfix: fixed bug that caused an infinite connection loop when connecting on a new computer or computer with recently changed hardware. - rscadd: Moved to a new system to make top menu items easier to edit. - tweak: Moved icon size stuff to a sub menu - rscadd: Added option to change icon scaling mode. - bugfix: Byond added fancy shader supported scaling(Point Sampling), this sucks because it's blurry, the default for /tg/station has changed back to the old nearest neighbor scaling. Penguaro: - bugfix: Adjusted the Examine description of the right-most tiles of the Space Station 13 sign to be consistent with the rest of the tiles. - bugfix: Anywhere there was lava below a tile on the station is now space. Robustin: - tweak: c4 planting is now 40% faster coiax: - bugfix: Smartfridges no longer magically gain medicines if deconstructed and rebuilt. - rscadd: Ash walkers now know and speak Draconic by default, but still know Galactic Common. Remember, Galcom's language key is ",0" and you can review your known languages with the Language Menu. octareenroon91: - rscadd: Showers and sinks added to gulag and mining station for hygiene and fire safety. - rscadd: Watertanks added to mining station for convenient fire extinguisher refill. 2017-05-08: Dorsisdwarf: - bugfix: Fixed being unable to hit museum cases in melee Joan: - tweak: The verb to Assert Leadership over the cult has been replaced with an action button that does the same thing, but is much more visible. Moonlighting Mac says: - tweak: After a recent trade fair, employees have took it upon themselves to learn how to craft leather objects out of finished leather sheets, for novices they are pretty good at it! Try it yourself! - rscadd: Muzzles to silence people are now craftable out of leather sheets. - rscdel: You can no longer print off designs from a bio-generator that can now be crafted out of leather sheets. - tweak: Complete sheets of leather can be printed from the bio-generator for 150 biomass to accommodate for a loss of designs. - experiment: Specialist objects from the leather & cloth category bio-generator category were not removed as to encourage interdepartmental interaction & balance. Penguaro: - rscadd: The Slime Scanner is available from the Autolathe. - tweak: The Design Names in the various machines are now capitalized consistently coiax: - bugfix: Fixes various mobs speaking languages that they were only supposed to understand. - bugfix: Fixes being able to bypass language restrictions by selecting languages you can't speak as your default language. ninjanomnom: - tweak: Highlander no longer breaks your speakers 2017-05-09: Expletive: - rscadd: Curator's fedora has a pocket, like all the other fedoras. - tweak: Treasure hunter suits can now hold large internal tanks, to ease the exploration of lavaland. - tweak: The curator can now access the Auxillary Base and open doors on the mining station. MrStonedOne: - tweak: Lighting now defaults to fully bright until the first update tick for that tile. This makes shuttle movements less immersion breaking. - experiment: Rather than remove the light source from the system and then re-adding it on light movements, the system now calculates and applies the difference to each tile. This should speed up lighting updates. Penguaro: - tweak: Adjusts Meteor Shuttle Name - bugfix: The Central Command Ferry will now dock at one of the ports in Arrivals - tweak: '[Meta] The Slime Control Console boundaries have been adjusted around the Kill Room' XDTM: - rscadd: Added bluespace launchpads. They can be built with R&D, and can teleport objects and mobs up to 5 tiles away (8 at max upgrades), from the pad to the target and viceversa. - rscadd: To set up a launchpad, a launchpad and a launchpad console must be built. The pad must be opened with a screwdriver, then linked to the console using a multitool. A console can support up to 4 pads. - rscadd: Launchpads require some time to charge up teleports, but don't require cooldowns unlike quantum pads. Upgrading launchpads increases the range by 1 per manipulator tier. - rscadd: A special variant, the Briefcase Launchpad, has also been added to the traitor uplink for 6 TC. - rscadd: Briefcase Launchpads look like briefcases until setup (which requires a few seconds). When setup, the launchpad will be functional, but can still be dragged on the ground. To pick a pad back up, click and drag it to your character's sprite. - rscadd: Unlike stationary launchpads, briefcase pads only have 3 tiles of maximum range. - rscadd: Briefcase pads are controlled by a remote (that is sent with the briefcase) instead of a console. The remote must be linked to the briefcase by simply hitting it. Each remote can only be linked to one pad, unlike consoles. coiax: - rscadd: Visible ghosts emit light. 2017-05-11: Joan: - rscadd: You can now buy double eswords from the uplink for 16 telecrystals. They cannot be bought below 25 players. - rscdel: You can no longer use two eswords to construct a double esword. Joan, Robustin: - rscdel: Harvesters can no longer break walls, construct walls, convert floors, or emit paralyzing smoke. - rscadd: Harvesters now remove the limbs of humans when attacking, can heal OTHER constructs, have thermal vision, and can move through cult walls. - rscadd: Harvesters can now convert turfs in a small area around them and can create a wall of force. - tweak: Harvesters are now cultists. - rscadd: When Nar-Sie is summoned, she will convert all living non-construct cultists to harvesters, who will automatically track her. Kor: - rscadd: a new mysterious book has been discovered in lavaland chests! - tweak: weird purple hearts found in lavaland chests have started beating again! what could this mean? MrStonedOne: - bugfix: Fixes t-ray mode on engineering goggles not resetting the lighting override properly. QualityVan: - tweak: Machine names will be capitalized when they talk on radio Robustin: - tweak: Dominators now require a significant amount of open (non-walled) space around them in order to operate. TehZombehz: - rscadd: Sticks of butter and liquid mayonnaise can now be produced via a new 'mix' function on the grinder. Please eat responsibly. XDTM: - bugfix: Plasma Golems now have the correct updated tip. - tweak: Plasma Golems no longer take damage from fire, and take normal instead of increased burn damage from other sources. They will still explode if on fire and hot enough. - rscadd: Plasma Golems can now self-ignite with an action button. - tweak: Plasma Golems are now warned when they're close to exploding. - tweak: Plasma Golems now have a constant chance of exploding after 850K instead of a precise threshold at 900K, making it less predictable. bandit: - tweak: Nanotrasen has enhanced personality matchmaking for its personal AIs. pAI candidates will now see who is requesting a pAI personality. duncathan: - tweak: opening a dangerous canister will only alert admins if it contains meaningful amounts of a dangerous gas. No more being bwoinked because you opened an empty canister that used to have plasma in it. lordpidey: - tweak: Modified chances for returning someone's soul using an employment contract. Now everyone has a chance, not just lawyers and HoP. - rscadd: Particularly brain damaged people can no longer sign infernal contracts properly. - tweak: Infernal contracts for power no longer give fireball, and instead give robeless 'lightning bolt' spell. - rscadd: Devils can now sell you a friend, for the cost of your soul. - tweak: The codex gigas should now be easier to use, and less finicky. - rscdel: The codex gigas no longer sintouches readers. ma44: - tweak: Doubles the amount of points wooden planks sell for (now 50 points) 2017-05-12: Joan: - tweak: Manifest Spirit will no longer continue to cost the user health if the summoned ghost is put into critical or gibbed. - rscadd: Ghosts summoned by Manifest Spirit are outfitted with ghostly armor and a ghostly cult blade that does slightly less damage than a normal cult blade. - balance: Manifest Spirit now consumes 1 health per second per summoned ghost, from 0.333~. - balance: Manifest Spirit can now only summon a maximum of 5 ghosts per rune, and the summoned ghosts cannot use Manifest Spirit to summon more ghosts. - rscadd: Wraiths now refund Phase Shift's cooldown by attacking; 1 second on normal attacks, 5 seconds when putting a target into critical, and a full refund when killing a target. - balance: Increased Phase Shift's cooldown from 20 seconds to 25 seconds. KorPhaeron: - rscadd: Zombies can now see in the dark. If you steal their eyes you'll be able to see in the dark as well! MMMiracles (Cerestation): - tweak: Hydroponics has been revamped, adding a few things missing before and adding a bee room in place of the backroom. - bugfix: Fixed some other stuff. New Antag Alert sounds: - soundadd: added sounds that alert players to their antag status - soundadd: Blood cult has a new alert sound - soundadd: Clock cult has a new alert sound - soundadd: changeling has a new alert sound - soundadd: Malf/traitor AI has a new alert sound - soundadd: Nuke Ops has a new alert sound - soundadd: Ragin' Mages has a new alert sound - soundadd: Traitor has a new alert sound Swindly: - tweak: Solid plasma now begins burning at the temperature at which it was ignited. - balance: Snow walls no longer block explosions, are deconstructed faster, and no longer leave girders when deconstructed. coiax: - balance: Nanotrasen Cloning Divison's three hundred identical scientists have announced an upgrade to the cloning computer's software. You can now scan brains or dismembered heads and successfully clone from them. Brains seem to remember the DNA of the last body they were attached to. 2017-05-13: QualityVan: - bugfix: Pizza boxes once again look different when open 'Tacolizard Forever: It''s hip to fuck bees': - rscadd: Added a honey jar item. It's not implemented yet. - balance: Honey is now more robust at healing, but don't eat too much or you'll turn into a fatty landwhale. TehZombehz: - rscadd: Butter noodles, butter biscuits, buttered toast, and pigs in a blanket can now be crafted using sticks of butter and other ingredients. coiax: - rscadd: Servant golems now follow the "Material Golem (123)" naming scheme. octareenroon91: - rscadd: Hermit ruin now includes a portable seed extractor. 2017-05-14: coiax: - rscadd: Free Golems can purchase Royal Capes of the Liberator at their mining equipment vendor. 2017-05-15: Dorsidwarf: - balance: Nanotrasen Robotics Supply Division has successfully petitioned to replace the "My First Robot" motors in turret coverings with a standard commercial brand. As such, they will now open faster. Expletive: - rscadd: You can now create water bottles and wet floor signs by using plastic sheets. - rscadd: You can create toy swords out of plastic sheets, a piece of cable, and a light bulb. Joan: - tweak: Glowshrooms now have a less saturated glow. - balance: The summoned ghosts from Manifest Spirit can no longer break airlocks with their standard blade. - balance: Manifest Spirit now does a small amount of damage when initially manifesting a ghost. McBawbaggings: - tweak: SMES units will now accept charge from the power network even if the available load is less than the input rate. Credit to Zaers for the original code. - bugfix: Wizards are now at least 30 years old. Apprentices will be in-between ages 17 to 29. Penguaro: - bugfix: The Gravity Generator description now mentions a graviton field as opposed to a gravaton field. What is Gravaty anyway? - bugfix: Centcom Engineering has reviewed the plans for the Box series station and has addressed some concerns related to some APCs not affecting their designated section. APCs for the Detective's Office, Cargobay, and Gateway, now control those rooms. The Bridge Maintenance APC has been removed from future construction as it serves no purpose and thus is an unnecessary construction cost. - bugfix: The pipe from the station to the AI Satellite has been completed. Profakos: - rscadd: Centcom has decided to upgrade the Ore Redemption machines with a floppy drive, intended for design disks. Qbopper: - tweak: The supermatter crystal now sends its warning messages to the engineering channel. (if it's in critical condition the message will be sent to the common radio channel as before) Swindly: - balance: Nitrous oxide now causes anemia. coiax: - bugfix: Curator soapstones now successfully leave messages for future shifts. - rscdel: Soapstones can no longer be purchased in cargo. - rscdel: The janitor no longer starts with an empty soapstone. - experiment: Engraved messages can be left anywhere in the world, but be wary that the terrain of places like lavaland and space can change shift to shift. - rscadd: Goats on the station have developed a taste for glowshrooms, and will eat them if they encounter any. ma44: - tweak: Seed vault remapped - tweak: The seed vault random seed spawner can now spawn cherry bombs instead of regular cherry seeds - rscadd: BEES to plant vault octareenroon91: - rscadd: Ambrosia Deus can now mutate into Gaia, and Gaia into Deus. - rscdel: A single branch of Ambrosia Gaia will not immediately make a hydroponics tray self-sufficient. - balance: A (total) dose of 20u Earthsblood (from Gaia) will make a hydroponics tray self-sufficient. uraniummeltdown: - rscadd: Ambrosia Gaia is back 2017-05-16: Moonlighting Mac says: - rscadd: Starthistles now return seeds when they are harvested, amongst having a overhaul of description, alteration of statistics & a mutational path into harebells. These seeds have been supplied into the hydroponics seed vendor. - imageadd: Starthistle tray sprites have been restructured & also fixed from a issue of them being broken and not appearing in trays. In addition there are new sprites for its seeds. Penguaro: - bugfix: There is now Space under the rocks at the Dragoon's Tomb - bugfix: Centcom Intelligence reports that the Hidden Syndicate Research Base may have received a shipment of viruses. QualityVan: - bugfix: Fixed fire alarms not being repairable if the board was broken - bugfix: People without eyes and ears are no longer susceptible to flashbangs they aren't directly on top of Robustin: - rscadd: Summoning Nar'Sie now triggers a different ending. No shuttle is coming! Survivors must escape on a pod or survive the Red Harvest for 3 minutes. If Nar'Sie acquires enough souls, the round ends immediately with a **special ending**. - rscadd: New Harvester Sprite - rscadd: Harvesters can now track a random survivor on the station, then switch back to tracking Nar'Sie, via a new action button. fludd12: - rscadd: You can now add grills to a bonfire, letting you cook things on top of them. 2017-05-17: 4dplanner: - bugfix: revenant respawning will not spam up deadchat so much, and is less likely to break. Expletive: - rscadd: Syndicate Tomes have been added to traitor uplinks for 9 TC. They let an agent or an operative provide both weal and woe. Penguaro: - bugfix: Centcom Engineering has reviewed the power schematic for the engine room and added an Area Power Controller. coiax: - balance: Magic eightballs are now tiny items, able to fit into a box and pocket. 2017-05-18: Joan: - rscadd: Proselytizing alloy shards will now proselytize all the shards in the tile, instead of requiring you to proselytize each one at a time. Lordpidey: - tweak: Space ninjas now use action buttons instead of verbs for a more consistent user experience. - rscadd: Toy toolboxes with realistic rumbling action have been added to arcade prizes. 'Tacolizard Forever: Plasmaman Powercreep': - tweak: Plasmaman tanks are the same size as emergency oxygen tanks. coiax: - rscadd: Syndicate agents can purchase a "codespeak manual", that teaches them a language that sounds like a series of codewords. You can also hit other people with the manual to teach them. One use per manual. - rscadd: Nuclear operatives have access to a deluxe manual that is more expensive but has unlimited uses. - rscadd: Syndicate AIs know Codespeak for free. - bugfix: Spacevines can no longer spread on space transit turfs. - balance: Plastic explosives can no longer be detonated by EMPs. - rscadd: Various vending machines, when shooting their inventory at nearby people, will "demonstrate their products features". This means that if a cigarette vending machine throws a lighter at you, it will be on. Vending machines also choose random products when throwing, rather than the first available one. kevinz000: - rscadd: Peacekeeper cyborgs now have projectile dampening fields. 2017-05-19: 4dplanner: - balance: the Hierophant club has gained in power 2017-05-20: Joan: - balance: Proto-kinetic crushers have been worked over by our highly qualified techs, will recharge 12% faster, and no longer require very low-pressure atmospheres to fire! - balance: In addition, our techs have tweaked the quantum linker module and proto-kinetic crushers can apply multiple marks to different targets! Marks applied may eventually expire if not detonated. Steelpoint: - rscadd: All Pulse weapons now accurately show, by their sprites, what fire mode they are in. - rscadd: ERT, non-red alert, Security Response Officers spawn with a Tactical Energy Gun. This is a military variant of the Egun that, in addition to laser and disable rounds, has access to stun rounds. - tweak: Pulse Pistols can now be recharged. Swindly: - rscadd: Added modified syringe guns. They fire DNA injectors. Geneticists and CMOs can buy them from the traitor uplink for 14 TC. coiax: - rscadd: When a shuttle is called, sometimes an on-call admiral, using available information to them, will recall the shuttle from Centcom. octareenroon91: - bugfix: Golems touching a shell can now choose to stay in their own body. 2017-05-21: Gun Hog: - bugfix: The Auxiliary Base can no longer land outside the lavaland map's boundaries. RandomMarine: - tweak: Drone laws no longer restrict drones to the station. Steelpoint: - rscadd: The Warden's Cycler Shotgun has been replaced with a Compact Combat Shotgun. A unique weapon, it can fit in armour slots but at the sacrifice of a smaller ammo capacity of four shells. 2017-05-22: Joan: - tweak: Resonator fields now visually show how long they have until they burst. - bugfix: Hitting a legion skull with a resonator will now produce a field. - balance: Swapped how far plasma cutter blasts go when going through rock and in open air. This means blasts through air will go 4/5 tiles, but will mine 7/10 tiles, for normal/advanced plasma cutters, respectively. - tweak: There is now a buffer zone between the mining base and lavaland where megafauna will not spawn. - tweak: Ruins will no longer spawn directly in front of the mining base. Lzimann: - rscadd: Pandemic is now tgui! Robustin: - rscadd: Gang influence is now decentralized, each gangster has their own influence that they can increase by spraying (and protecting) their tags and new influence-enhancing bling. - rscadd: Gang uniforms are now created based on your gang's color and can be purchased by any gang member. They will increase the wearer's influence and provide protection, but will make it fairly obvious which gang you belong to. - rscadd: Gangs have access to a new surplus rifle; it is a semi-automatic rifle that is very bulky and has a very low rate of fire. Gang members can buy this gun for just 8 influence. - rscadd: Gangs have access to the new machine gun turret; it unleashes a volley of bullets with an extended view range. It does not run out of ammo, but a significant delay between volleys and its stationary nature leaves the gunner vulnerable to flanking and return fire. Holding down the trigger will allow you to aim the gun while firing. It will cost gangs 50 influence. - rscadd: The sawn-off improvised shotgun is now available to gangs for 6 influence. With buckshot shells being easy to produce or purchase, this gun gives the most "bang for your buck" but its single-shell capacity will leave you vulnerable during a pitched gunfight. - rscadd: The Wetwork boots give gangs access to a lightly armored noslip variant. - tweak: The armored gang outfits are now slightly more resistant to ballistic and bomb damage Swindly: - balance: Monkeys can be weakened by stamina loss kevinz000: - bugfix: Nanotrasen decided to remove the integrated jet engines from jetpacks. They can no longer be used successfully indoors. 2017-05-23: ClosingBracket: - spellcheck: Fixed very minor inconsistencies on items & punctuation on items. Joan: - rscdel: Nanotrasen has taken a lower bid for their meson suppliers, and meson scanners will no longer display terrain layouts while on the planet. - tweak: However, they have discovered that, with some tweaks, mineral scanners will no longer actually require you to be wearing mesons. - tweak: The cheaper mesons will not completely remove reliance on light. - tweak: Ripleys will collect all ore in front of them when they move with a clamp and stored ore box. - tweak: Chasms will glow dimly, like lava. Joan, Repukan: - rscadd: Traitor miners can now buy up to 2 KA Pressure Mods for 5 TC each. - balance: KA Pressure Mods now only take up 35 mod capacity each, allowing traitor miners to use 2 and have space for 1 other mod. - rscdel: R&D can no longer build KA Pressure Mods. Robustin: - rscadd: Added a sexy new icon for the harvester's AOE conversion spell - bugfix: Fixed construct's forcewall being invisible - bugfix: Fixed cult constructs "Locate Master" and "Locate Prey" not functioning - bugfix: Fixed spell action buttons not showing their actual availability status - tweak: Changed the duration of a few frames for the new Cult ending Steelpoint: - rscadd: Auto Rifle alt ammo mags (AP, Incendiary, Uranium Tipped) now have a coloured stripe to denote them. That Really Good Soda Flavor: - bugfix: Martial arts are no longer lost when mind-swapping, cloning, moving your brain, et cetera. - bugfix: Fixed a bug where paper bins could swallow up pens into the void. coiax: - rscadd: Galactic Common has been added to silicon's internal language database, meaning even if a cyborg is created from someone who previously did not know Galactic Common, they will be able to speak it as a silicon. kevinz000: - bugfix: Spessmen seems to have stopped suffering from the mental condition that makes them believe they can't move fast if they have only one leg, even if they're in space and using a jetpack! ma44: - rscadd: Reports of syndicate base on lavaland has been outfitted with a state of the art donksoft toy weapon dispenser. 2017-05-24: Joan, WJohnston: - rscadd: Adds marker beacons to mining as a vendible item. They can be bought in stacks of 1, 10, and 30 at a rate of 10 points per beacon. - rscadd: Miners start with a stack of 10 in their backpack, and the Extraction and Rescue Kit contains a stack of 30. - rscadd: Marker beacons come in a large selection of colors and simply light up a small area when placed, but are useful as a path marker or to indicate dangers. QualityVan: - rscadd: Hairless hides now become wet when exposed to water - rscadd: You can microwave wet leather to dry it - bugfix: Inserted legion cores no longer work if they went inert before implanting Steelpoint: - rscadd: Sketchin alternative magazines (Armour Piercing, Hollow Point, Incendiary) now have unique sprites to better identify them. - rscadd: ERT Sec Tactical Energy Guns now have a unique sprite. - tweak: Changes to production of Nanotrasen Auto Rifle armour piercing bullets have now made AP bullets better able to penetrate armour, but at the cost of the amount of possible damage the bullet can do to soft targets. - rscadd: Many Ballistic weapons now have new sounds related to reloading or placing bullets into magazines. - rscadd: Boxstation armoury weapon racks now have glass panes to help prevent the weapons easily flying out of a breached hull. - bugfix: Fixed Battleship Raven's bridge blast doors not working. Tacolizard: - tweak: Station based armour is slightly more descriptive of what it does. That Really Good Soda Flavor: - tweak: Changed spray tan overdoses to be more realistic. - rscadd: People who are high and beach bums can now talk in their own stoner language. - tweak: Beach bums can only communicate with other beach bums and people who are high. 2017-05-25: 4dplanner: - bugfix: crushers now apply marks properly - rscadd: 20% of internal affairs agents are actually traitors 4dplanner, robustin: - bugfix: c4 has always taken 3 seconds to plant, and you are not allow to believe otherwise Crexfu: - spellcheck: typo fix for origin tech Cyberboss: - experiment: Explosions will no longer have a start up delay - bugfix: Indestructible objects can no longer be destroyed by bombs Oldman Robustin: - tweak: Gang mode now calls a 4 minute unrecallable shuttle once 60% of the crew is dead ohnopigeons: - balance: The cost of plasma has been reduced from 500 to 300, but retain their immunity to saturation 2017-05-26: Moonlighting Mac says: - rscadd: You can now craft a strong cloak with a hood made out of goliath and monster materials from within the primitive crafting screen. - rscadd: The cloak has a suit slot for all kind of primitive supplies, however it cannot carry most electronic miner equipment. - balance: Due to the recipe requiring leather, it is not normally accessible to all ghost roles without a source of water & electricity. kevinz000: - rscadd: You can now add bayonets to kinetic accelerators. However, only combat knives and survival knives can be added. Harm intent attacking things will cause you to attack that thing with the bayonet instead! 2017-05-28: ClosingBracket: - tweak: Allows explorer webbings to hold marker beacons. Expletive: - tweak: E-Cigarettes can now fit in your pocket. Iamgoofball: - bugfix: After the Syndicate realized their top chemist was both mixing a stamina destroying drug with a stimulant to avoid slowdowns entirely in their sleepypens, they fired him and replaced him with a new chemist. Joan: - rscadd: Miner borgs can now place marker beacons from a storage of 30. - bugfix: Necropolis tendrils will once again emit light. - rscadd: The kinetic crusher can now gain bonus effects via trophy items gained by killing bosses with it. - rscadd: Yes, you do have to kill the boss primarily doing damage via the kinetic crusher, or you won't get the trophy item and the bonus effect it grants. Kor: - bugfix: The chaplains possessed blade, shades, and constructs, can once again speak galactic common. QualityVan: - bugfix: Bayonets can now be used for butchery - tweak: Cloning pods which are interrupted by a emagging will now produce a slightly lumpier smoothie - bugfix: Cloning pods that have stopped cloning early can no longer be broken open to extract leftover parts - bugfix: Crew monitoring consoles once again have minimaps while you're on the station level Steelpoint: - rscadd: A New Iron Hawk troop transport ruin has been added to lavaland. Can the sole surviving Marine somehow survive the horrors of lavaland? Lore fluff included. - rscadd: Central Command has listened to complaints and, as such, has now stationed "real" Private Security Officers at centcom docks. - rscadd: A new Nanotrasen Security Officer NPC variant is available to admins, this 'peaceful' version will only attack people who attack it first. Great for keeping order. Swindly: - bugfix: fixed not being able to attach heads without brainmobs in them cacogen: - rscadd: You can now rename dog beds by buckling a new owner to them - rscadd: Dogs that spawn in an area with a vacant bed will take possession of and rename the bed - rscadd: Adds AI follow links to holopad speech and PDA messages. Note that PDA messages point to the owner of the PDA and not the PDA's actual location. - bugfix: Fixes PDA icon not showing up beside received messages for AIs kevinz000: - rscadd: Nanotrasen's new titanium wall blueprints are smooth enough that it can reflect projectiles! 2017-05-29: Joan: - spellcheck: Renames hivelord and legion cores to 'regenerative core'. Their descs have also been updated to be more clear. Nanotrasen Plasmaman Outreach Division: - tweak: plasmaman tank volume has been increased from 3 to 6. XDTM: - balance: Abductors have learned how to properly delete the memories of their test subjects. bandit: - tweak: The officer's sabre standard in Nanotrasen captain rollouts can be used to remove the tails of lizard traitors, or lizards in general. oranges: - rscadd: AI's can now hang up all holocalls at a station with alt+click 2017-05-30: Expletive: - rscadd: Luxury versions of the bluespace shelter capsule are now available! Purchase them at the mining equipment vendor. - rscadd: 'Cardboard cutouts have a new option: Xenomorph Maid' - rscadd: Black Carpet can now be crafted using a stack of carpet and a black crayon. - rscadd: Black fancy tables can now be crafted using Black Carpet. - rscadd: Shower curtains can now be recoloured with crayons, unscrewed from the floor, disassembled with wire cutters, and reassembled using cloth, plastic, and a metal rod. kevinz000: - rscadd: Research and Development have recieved designs for new prototype Beam Marksman Rifles. These rifles require a short aiming cycle to fire, however, have extreme velocity over other weapons. - experiment: Aiming time is 2 seconds, hold down mouse to aim, aiming time increases if you change your aim based on angle changed, or if you move while aiming. The weapon can not be fired while unscoped. - rscdel: However, someone tripped and pulled out the power cord while your servers were being updated with the latest revision of accelerator laser cannons. All data have been lost...