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by Sheodir
Wed Jul 29, 2020 12:53 am
Forum: Video Games
Topic: Vermintide but it's 40K and not the giant toy soldiers
Replies: 37
Views: 9373

Re: Vermintide but it's 40K and not the giant toy soldiers

Posting to temper all this Fatshark hate. Vermintide was a bigger accomplishment than people give it credit for. Left 4 Dead but melee only sounds like shit on paper but they made it workable. I didn't care for it for reasons people have already discussed; the only real difference between character...
by Sheodir
Tue Jul 28, 2020 12:38 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Space Panda Review
Replies: 11
Views: 2413

Re: Space Panda Review

back to basics like halo infinite hopefully
by Sheodir
Tue Jul 28, 2020 2:19 am
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Revert "Revert Manuel's game mode chances"
Replies: 64
Views: 15111

Re: Revert "Revert Manuel's game mode chances"

Was having a pretty grand time roleplaying in a cult round, as a cultist mime had (unknowingly to me at the time) infiltrated Sec as an 'assistant detective' by pretending to put on an implant (I did not wear SecHuds, as the Det). It was going somewhere, then it went nowhere, because the moment the ...
by Sheodir
Mon Jul 27, 2020 4:53 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Introducing the Space Station 13 Demake you've all been waiting for.
Replies: 151
Views: 37871

Re: Introducing the Space Station 13 Demake you've all been waiting for.

snip By the way, releasing singulo is never worth it. I don't mean the XP penalty, I mean that for any method oil slime and more advanced it isn't worth it because of the time it takes to release it. 300 seconds for 1337 power (technically 1327 due to cost but whatever) vs 300 seconds (5x60) for 15...
by Sheodir
Mon Jul 27, 2020 12:12 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: New MRP rules discussion
Replies: 30
Views: 5468

Re: New MRP rules discussion

Sheo, janitor having a little something for self-defense isn't powergaming. Sec mindshielding all crewmembers, cargo bringing in guns and arming departments preemtively from roundstart, engies quad dooring+reinforcing all secure places, assistants arming themselves from top to bottom and roaming th...
by Sheodir
Mon Jul 27, 2020 11:21 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Yo my character prefs were wiped
Replies: 11
Views: 2703

Re: Yo my character prefs were wiped

skoglol wrote:Gone if you havent used them in the last 5+ months, sorry pal.
I had though, I'd used them less than a week before. Dunno what happened, honestly. Same computer, same BYOND account, same server.
by Sheodir
Mon Jul 27, 2020 11:07 am
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: New MRP rules discussion
Replies: 30
Views: 5468

Re: New MRP rules discussion

I severely doubt this is gonna change anything save for maybe cutting down on friendly antags instead those antags will just do nothing for fear of getting bwoinked cuz they breathed on someone and they went horizontal. Ehn, I feel the murderboning rules adequately explained you can totally kill so...
by Sheodir
Mon Jul 27, 2020 12:56 am
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Disable assistant maintenance access
Replies: 124
Views: 25551

Re: Disable assistant maintenance access

PKPenguin321 wrote:No wonder you're so bitter about this game, jesus christ
Do you have me confused with anyone else? I have a great time with this game.
by Sheodir
Mon Jul 27, 2020 12:32 am
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Disable assistant maintenance access
Replies: 124
Views: 25551

Re: Disable assistant maintenance access

If the game was ever purely about doing the boring minigame that is your job, nobody would have ever played it in the first place and it would not exist today. You cannot be telling me that all you ever do when you're a non-antag is your job and literally nothing else. It is the main context around...
by Sheodir
Mon Jul 27, 2020 12:22 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Yo my character prefs were wiped
Replies: 11
Views: 2703

Yo my character prefs were wiped

Pls help I'm too lazy to redo em
by Sheodir
Sun Jul 26, 2020 9:29 pm
Forum: Video Games
Topic: Vermintide but it's 40K and not the giant toy soldiers
Replies: 37
Views: 9373

Re: Vermintide but it's 40K and not the giant toy soldiers

They hardly ever listen to their community, leading to expansions making swathing changes no one asked for or wanted. Right now they're holding a balance beta for VT2. All of the changes come from a fanmade balance mod. All of them, sans the tweaks they've added to some. That is how stupid they are...
by Sheodir
Sun Jul 26, 2020 5:39 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Disable assistant maintenance access
Replies: 124
Views: 25551

Re: Disable assistant maintenance access

>nooooo you can't enter my department and use my techfab to get tools for your maint base NOOOOO maintenance is the assistant's department, birdboat is the assistant's pet, assistants lurking in maint is a balancing act to cringesec. office simulator 13 makes me weep. >enters game about working a j...
by Sheodir
Sun Jul 26, 2020 2:39 am
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Disable assistant maintenance access
Replies: 124
Views: 25551

Re: Disable assistant maintenance access

>nooooo you can't enter my department and use my techfab to get tools for your maint base NOOOOO maintenance is the assistant's department, birdboat is the assistant's pet, assistants lurking in maint is a balancing act to cringesec. office simulator 13 makes me weep. >enters game about working a j...
by Sheodir
Sun Jul 26, 2020 12:13 am
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: Caped_candle banned by florraoten
Replies: 3
Views: 945

Re: Caped_candle banned by florraoten

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/671186108981182486/736737563859222548/unknown.png? Sadly, the rule is pretty clear. Whilst I understand you're trying to argue the spirit of the rule, there are also other reasons cited in past appeals for this blanket 18 or older ban. It sucks, but go chill...
by Sheodir
Sat Jul 25, 2020 8:26 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Disable assistant maintenance access
Replies: 124
Views: 25551

Re: Disable assistant maintenance access

foolish skoglol im going to play roles that have maint access JUST to greytide normally again Unrelated to the above ban, we should really ban players who take up specialized roles and jobs just to tide. Looking at the entirety of Cargo Tech. Hey techies gotta get paid somehow, it's like part of th...
by Sheodir
Sat Jul 25, 2020 7:43 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Disable assistant maintenance access
Replies: 124
Views: 25551

Re: Disable assistant maintenance access

saprasam wrote:foolish skoglol
im going to play roles that have maint access JUST to greytide normally again
Unrelated to the above ban, we should really ban players who take up specialized roles and jobs just to tide. Looking at the entirety of Cargo Tech.
by Sheodir
Sat Jul 25, 2020 2:12 pm
Forum: Video Games
Topic: Vermintide but it's 40K and not the giant toy soldiers
Replies: 37
Views: 9373

Re: Vermintide but it's 40K and not the giant toy soldiers

I've played vermintide 1 and 2. Vermintide 2 was basically just an improvement over 1, with more enemies, more mechanics, and better gameplay. The class system with it's perks/abilities rather than just weapon restrictions added a lot to the gameplay. The looting system they have is okay. The idea ...
by Sheodir
Sat Jul 25, 2020 10:00 am
Forum: Video Games
Topic: Vermintide but it's 40K and not the giant toy soldiers
Replies: 37
Views: 9373

Re: Vermintide but it's 40K and not the giant toy soldiers

terranaut wrote:whats wrong with the giant toy soldiers spacehulk is really fun
Saturation
I love the tonkerboys but they're everywhere and it's a big universe
by Sheodir
Sat Jul 25, 2020 9:25 am
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Disable assistant maintenance access
Replies: 124
Views: 25551

Re: Disable assistant maintenance access

Assistants don't need maintenance access. Breaking and entry is a 2 minute sentence, which allows sec to search those assistants who are caught in the maintenance. if you arrest for B&E into an area without that area's workers asking you to do so, you are shitsec and an arrestbot. Cry more grey...
by Sheodir
Fri Jul 24, 2020 6:11 pm
Forum: Video Games
Topic: Vermintide but it's 40K and not the giant toy soldiers
Replies: 37
Views: 9373

Re: Vermintide but it's 40K and not the giant toy soldiers

"Players will not be able to hide behind lethal ranged weapons," explains Fatshark's press release, "they'll need to combine both FPS and melee skills as they get up close and personal in visceral clashes between Imperium and Chaos factions." Unless you choose to bust out the ch...
by Sheodir
Fri Jul 24, 2020 2:30 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Introducing the Space Station 13 Demake you've all been waiting for.
Replies: 151
Views: 37871

Re: Introducing the Space Station 13 Demake you've all been waiting for.

I'm sure you'll all be happy to hear that the job is going to be at least 10% faster in patch 1.3. The power cost is being reduced by 1 and their name added to the skill for the first ten people that max the skill and gives me proof. But yeah the job is kinda just a shitpost that you shouldn't take...
by Sheodir
Fri Jul 24, 2020 12:56 pm
Forum: Video Games
Topic: Vermintide but it's 40K and not the giant toy soldiers
Replies: 37
Views: 9373

Re: Vermintide but it's 40K and not the giant toy soldiers

Fardshit stated on their website that melee combat will be equally as important as ranged. They also made the following comment to PCgamer. "Players will not be able to hide behind lethal ranged weapons," explains Fatshark's press release, "they'll need to combine both FPS and melee ...
by Sheodir
Fri Jul 24, 2020 12:03 pm
Forum: Video Games
Topic: Vermintide but it's 40K and not the giant toy soldiers
Replies: 37
Views: 9373

Re: Vermintide but it's 40K and not the giant toy soldiers

So now we're getting 40k reskin of WHF reskin of L4D? Future is now, old man! And it's more boring than ever! I feel this is a fair bit unfair. The only thing they have in common is "4 player coop vs horde" which totally deserves to be a genre rather than be limited to a single series. Sp...
by Sheodir
Fri Jul 24, 2020 11:44 am
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: fetus1 Enut
Replies: 75
Views: 14491

Re: fetus1 Enut

snip because massive I'll bite. You are again missing the point entirely. Whether or not the player accurately communicated he wanted them to stop or not is largely irrelevant - it was clear from what he was saying that it was unwelcome if nothing else, and as the OOC logs have shown, the AI player...
by Sheodir
Fri Jul 24, 2020 3:20 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Introducing the Space Station 13 Demake you've all been waiting for.
Replies: 151
Views: 37871

Re: Introducing the Space Station 13 Demake you've all been waiting for.

I just idled until I got to 10 mil mining bananium. On the secret job, The goof rants are fucking hilarious on the tutorial bar and I'm never dismissing them. The actual mechanic of balancing energy costs with brain juice is neat. I'm nearly done with it. it relies almost entirely on engineering, th...
by Sheodir
Fri Jul 24, 2020 3:14 am
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: fetus1 Enut
Replies: 75
Views: 14491

Re: fetus1 Enut

Player should not be encouraged for going out of their way to ruin someone's round. Banning them is too much, yeah, but I'd warn someone or maybe even add a note if they literally went to ruin someone's round for no fucking reason. It's literally in the rules. The rules do not mention anything about...
by Sheodir
Thu Jul 23, 2020 10:52 pm
Forum: Video Games
Topic: Vermintide but it's 40K and not the giant toy soldiers
Replies: 37
Views: 9373

Re: Vermintide but it's 40K and not the giant toy soldiers

Any project in 40k dealing with non Space Marines has my approval. It's Fatshark, though, so given Vermintide 2's track record I expect a great launch product and middling post-launch support.

PS: The Halo Infinite showcase sucked.
by Sheodir
Tue Jul 21, 2020 4:22 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: [all servers] Job Standards
Replies: 28
Views: 5409

Re: [all servers] Job Standards

Complimenting Anne's Paramedic comment from above, spoilering because not all that relevant to the main discussion. My favorite part of weirdo Paramedic Access is that for a good while (haven't tested if still works) Paramedics were locked out of the entirety of Engineering, even through Maint... bu...
by Sheodir
Tue Jul 21, 2020 11:59 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Has Discord ruined SS13?
Replies: 73
Views: 14069

Re: Has Discord ruined SS13?

Metacomming was always easy if you were half clever about it. The thing is, it makes the game LESS fun to the people doing it. This has always been the main incentive against metacomming, and why people who do it are usually shitters trying to coordinate mass shitting rather than anything useful.
by Sheodir
Mon Jul 20, 2020 10:34 pm
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: thread not about ikoden in any fashion
Replies: 12
Views: 2836

Re: thread not about ikoden in any fashion

asked sseth on discord about this here's what he had to say

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by Sheodir
Mon Jul 20, 2020 4:42 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: i am eating pizza
Replies: 15
Views: 3359

Re: i am eating pizza

Onions are pretty great

I like a lot of raw onion slices in my pizza personally, I think caramelized/crispy are kinda overrated for pizza situations
by Sheodir
Mon Jul 20, 2020 1:18 am
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Melee combat sucks
Replies: 42
Views: 9434

Re: Melee combat sucks

oranges wrote:I'm not opposed to changing to a swing based system for melee, but who's willing to drive the project through to completion and test it?
I know this guy, he has an orange theme, you'll love him
by Sheodir
Fri Jul 17, 2020 8:31 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: [Manuel?] We're all here to have a good time.
Replies: 34
Views: 8599

Re: [Manuel?] We're all here to have a good time.

I think we may just have different definitions of what constitutes boring. what do you mean by 'gimmicks'? Say you have a HoP forcing people to sign paperwork. You could ignore this, shove him and take the ID - or engage with it in an interesting way. Get the lawyer on it, try to sue them for highe...
by Sheodir
Fri Jul 17, 2020 8:07 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: [Manuel?] We're all here to have a good time.
Replies: 34
Views: 8599

Re: [Manuel?] We're all here to have a good time.

You rarely play Manuel and when you do it's at the weirdest most lowpop times I play at peak pop and still, nothing happens i mean that 100% unironically, literally, actually nothing of note happens besides business as usual. 3 hours of a traitor round with NOBODY doing ANYTHING. it's the only serv...
by Sheodir
Fri Jul 17, 2020 8:04 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: [Manuel] Manuel does not have roleplay
Replies: 28
Views: 5062

Re: [Manuel] Manuel does not have roleplay

Manuel being hugbox means it is a place where you can feel comfortable to roleplay, and are strongly encouraged to . A place in which you ideally won't have to deal with extremely disruptive tiders toeing the line, silent murderboning antags, players that give priority 500% of the time to mechanics...
by Sheodir
Fri Jul 17, 2020 7:41 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: [Manuel] Manuel does not have roleplay
Replies: 28
Views: 5062

Re: [Manuel] Manuel does not have roleplay

find creative things to do with their loot and actually try to build on the round. i straight-up don't believe you. 'creativity' on manuel, every time I've seen people claim it, is just a codeword for "at least I didn't kill people look at how chill I am" see: friendly wizards, lings, and...
by Sheodir
Fri Jul 17, 2020 1:12 pm
Forum: Roleplaying
Topic: Why is technology so backwards if it's 2557?
Replies: 69
Views: 30963

Re: Why is technology so backwards if it's 2557?

if the universe is so big, why won't it fight me
by Sheodir
Fri Jul 17, 2020 1:04 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: [Manuel?] We're all here to have a good time.
Replies: 34
Views: 8599

Re: [Manuel?] We're all here to have a good time.

sounds like you need to take some adderall you fucking adhd fuck no rounds were like 5 hours long the hallways were littered with SSD people, like geez it wasn't exaggerating when I said "nothing" https://scrubby.melonmesa.com/ckey/tarchonvaagh You rarely play Manuel and when you do it's ...
by Sheodir
Fri Jul 17, 2020 4:25 am
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: [Manuel] Manuel does not have roleplay
Replies: 28
Views: 5062

Re: [Manuel] Manuel does not have roleplay

This take is not entirely incorrect but it is also very tiresome. The fact of the matter is, there's no real right way to enforce roleplay in a server and every method is going to have problems. Manuel is in a weird spot where it both is trying to not be too strict with forcing flowery overly long d...
by Sheodir
Thu Jul 16, 2020 11:09 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: [Manuel] Change MRP title to simply RP
Replies: 15
Views: 2629

Re: [Manuel] Change MRP title to simply RP

Eris changed from MRP to RP so that they aren’t associated with acts like para sage and manuel, so now we gotta do a quick name change to continue to fuck them over Jokes aside though not a terrible idea, the less in common with para the better I now approve of changing it to RP just to fuck with E...
by Sheodir
Thu Jul 16, 2020 8:55 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: [Manuel] Change MRP title to simply RP
Replies: 15
Views: 2629

Re: [Manuel] Change MRP title to simply RP

stop signing your posts that's space panda's thing

anyway no all tg servers are roleplay servers, LRP is still RP and we should take steps toenforce this
by Sheodir
Thu Jul 16, 2020 8:22 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Introducing the Space Station 13 Demake you've all been waiting for.
Replies: 151
Views: 37871

Re: Introducing the Space Station 13 Demake you've all been waiting for.

Nabski wrote:Slower attack - less ammo usage
Faster attack - less overkill on mobs
The ammo usage is the same, you just kill them slower, unless attack speed is somehow tied to damage. I don't really get the logic here.
by Sheodir
Thu Jul 16, 2020 4:27 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Introducing the Space Station 13 Demake you've all been waiting for.
Replies: 151
Views: 37871

Re: Introducing the Space Station 13 Demake you've all been waiting for.

I think something's wrong with the slimes, because green slime is a straight upgrade to the pink slime one tier over.

Green converts your attack speed to 1s
Pink to 4s
by Sheodir
Thu Jul 16, 2020 2:40 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: [Manuel] Glorious Death: Murderbone or No?
Replies: 25
Views: 4476

Re: [Manuel] Glorious Death: Murderbone or No?

Just rename die a glorious death with something like "Survival is not expected - compensation is for your family only as agreed on the terms of our contract." So the objective becomes "die" rather than "die in bombastic ways that can be rules lawyered to be murderbone" ...
by Sheodir
Thu Jul 16, 2020 12:28 pm
Forum: Ideas
Topic: [MRP] Make anesthetics desirable during surgery
Replies: 31
Views: 5393

Re: [MRP] Make anesthetics desirable during surgery

Program in a rhythm game that slightly speeds up surgery when you get it right. As long as lag and time dilation exist it's probably best to avoid anything based on timing. I was mostly memeing. I think injured parties just have to accept they won't be talking for a while doing a surgery. The only ...
by Sheodir
Thu Jul 16, 2020 12:01 pm
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Medibots are the new Medbay crutch
Replies: 52
Views: 13346

Re: Medibots are the new Medbay crutch

I think there's a keen difference between combat and healing other players. One used and still is dominated around who gets a stun first. Stuns equal winning in nearly all situations. So over time stuns have slowly getting phased out because SHOCKINGLY that shit isn't fun. I think most players woul...
by Sheodir
Wed Jul 15, 2020 9:47 pm
Forum: Ideas
Topic: [MRP] Make anesthetics desirable during surgery
Replies: 31
Views: 5393

Re: [MRP] Make anesthetics desirable during surgery

Cobby wrote:here's what I said about it in a PR
snip
Program in a rhythm game that slightly speeds up surgery when you get it right.
by Sheodir
Wed Jul 15, 2020 9:42 pm
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Medibots are the new Medbay crutch
Replies: 52
Views: 13346

Re: Medibots are the new Medbay crutch

Do you accept the possibility that a majority of players don't like how medical is currently handled? I'm not talking a majority of people who currently play medical doctors with the current system, but rather if you poll 80 players on Sybil 41 might say they dislike the way it's handled. Both to a...
by Sheodir
Wed Jul 15, 2020 7:51 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Comms Agent & AI: Can You REALLY Law 2 Murder The Crew?
Replies: 22
Views: 6239

Re: Comms Agent & AI: Can You REALLY Law 2 Murder The Crew?

Perhaps it would finally be time to drop Asimov as the main lawset, and move towards another one which covers the non-human crew as well? That'd remove context from non-human races and make them more boring. As someone who played on a /tg/branch were Crewsimov was the default, it just made the game...