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Xhuis

During war, power is already a small concern due to the massive reduction in power costs for the cult. Crew priorities during war would include blessing sensitive areas with holy water to prevent incursion, getting the crew aware, armed, and protected, and producing tools and supplies for breaching ...

Xhuis

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Xhuis

That sounds incredibly amusing. I dunno how to implement that kind of power-check but it could probably be done.

Xhuis

The light laser does 10 damage, you have to literally hit every shot on an unarmored target to even crit one person.:roll: I think it's important to note that it's very easy to just carry around two tasers as a security officer. I already see people do it so that dual-wielding them in disable mode ...

Xhuis

Here are my issues with light lasers: They serve as ranged, lethal weaponry that every officer has on them at all times without needing to access the armory, and gives them a reason to have it and not be under suspicion. Lasers shoot through windows as well as do burn damage, which massively nerfs b...

Xhuis

Both of your PRs don't actually do anything to stop the ability for marauders to rush in and grab a dead cultist and proceed to just drop them onto a vitality matrix again. I made a PR with that, along with some other changes : Servants gain a one-minute debuff preventing vitality matrices from revi...

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I'm making another balance pass soon, so I'll make some changes. Securing cultist corpses is a good idea, though I'm not sure how best to tweak them.

Xhuis

You mean you flashed a borg, the flash didnt burn out, and the borg managed to get away? How is that a situation even possible to happen? I was whacking it with an extinguisher alone, and nobody else was helping. The flash burnt out after the first use (forgot to mention it) so I didn't have the ti...

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The eminence should be able to die considering it's a ghost role that works as both a commanding unit and a dedicated scouting unit. That or at least be sent back to reebe with a cooldown of returning to the station. It's like all the benefits of an AI and pAI without either of their downsides. You...

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The shuttle is always a dilemma for me. It's very binary as it is right now - either it does nothing or it ends the round. I'd like to make it matter somehow, but I don't know how that could be. I was thinking about maybe causing it to crash into the bottom spawn rooms on Reebe instead of arriving a...

Xhuis

snip When basebuilding does come into play, it often plays a massive role in determining whether the cult wins or loses. The snowballing aspect is more similar to rev, because once the Ark starts, any stragglers as well as any factions that have managed to resist the influence will immediately see ...

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Though I can understand the concerns, any mode with fixed antagonists (i.e. nuke ops and this) has that issue. Nuke ops can nuke the station in ten minutes if there's no captain or HoP, and similarly, they can accomplish it with no difficulty if there's no security force. Blob had the issue, wizards...

Xhuis

The Eminence can't understand anything that's said off of Reebe that a non-servant says unless they activate war. While from your demeanor I don't expect anything besides a Repukan-brand "just kill off the mode", if you have any solutions for the mode's issues, I'll take them into account....

Xhuis

I guess you're a pariah of game design, then. My mistake.

Xhuis

Not declaring war gives the servants the extra subtlety factor; claims of a clockwork cult might not even be accepted - the stealth factor means that unless someone is sloppy and leaves material evidence like a slab or sigil somewhere, people might be suspicious and even true claims might not get an...

Xhuis

I seem to have a curse in that when I log on to observe or watch a testmerge of a round of clockcult, the cult is always severely incompetent and dies really early on regardless of whether or not they declare war. War cult receives comparatively few buffs, such as less power requirement on scripture...

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the literal purpose of guns from the point at which they were conceived in real life was solely to kill and cause violence while dynamic circuits let you build interesting robots and machines that do interesting things beyond killing other players

Xhuis

dwarf fortress-style build-a-station would be very creative and unique but I feel like most /tg/ players can't be trusted to do anything more than kill each other with various blunt objects and there would likely be mass braindeath as soon as they spawned in and realized that they weren't on a prist...

Xhuis

The captain's gambit: unleash the swarm of xenos from Xenobiology as a last-ditch effort to defeat the now very powerful cult.

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After a long and grueling battle that took nine whole minutes, the winner became clear...

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Xhuis

>Sybil >An Yung, medical doctor >Gear up including using the SECRET OXYGEN TECHNIQUE to pressurize my emergency o2 tank to 2500 kPa pure, room-temperature oxygen >Ditch my backpack for a defib; I have a medical belt with a medkit's contents, and my pockets have a charcoal pill bottle and crew monito...

Xhuis

Night Vision is also handy at any stage in the game, since it lets you loot at night early on to avoid zombies and let you see them in the dark before they see you. I'm also lightly armored since I use Dragon Adept and like to use dodging instead, so being able to avoid fights is always good.

Xhuis

The patch is now live on GitHub, and you can view the full changes there.
I'm welcome to hear any thoughts on it, as well as ideas for traps since I'd be fine with adding more if I had sprites and concepts.

Xhuis

I'd recommend moving some of those points into melee skill (chance to hit, unarmed is mainly just damage) and maybe swapping out Fleet-Footed and Animal Empathy for some higher traits since those two aren't as useful As for up-to-date stuff, I honestly just learned myself; most guides and the like a...

Xhuis

It's not just a couple, at any rate; the number is currently 12, and you can superheat and cool down walls instantly with no delay, so a quick-thinking Eminence could funnel people on the fly by superheating walls as needed. That can also be used to do clever things like funnel into a killzone since...

Xhuis

Them building a mass of walls is a creativity problem on the part of the players. I've seen a lot of death labyrinths, though the hulk/mech issue greatly discourages it. The Eminence can superheat a limited number of walls that hulk and mech-proofs them, so that plus other stuff I'm making should ma...

Xhuis

That's one thing I'm looking at in what I'm hoping to make after the freeze. People have raised a lot of concern about basebuilding being a very weak part of the mode; I agree, so I'm looking to improve it. For starters, one of the servants (or a ghost, if the vote for that passes) can elect themsel...

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Definitely intended.

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I think so. I heard great things about Krav, but even starting at unarmed 3 it would never be worthwhile for me and usually ended up in me dying pretty quickly, but with Dragon style I could smear zombie soldiers across the wall without breaking stride. Do keep in mind, though, that unless you start...

Xhuis

A few points in dodging (starting with skill 2 or 3) is massively useful to stop you from dying right away. If you're okay with losing a bit of early-game utility for mechanics and the like, picking up Shaolin Adept and going with the Dragon style, then starting with at least 4 unarmed, makes combat...

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Xhuis

If you can make the mode generally more fun for the majority of people, then you're welcome to it. I just lack the motivation to keep working on this when I already feel that it's enjoyed by enough people to call it a success. Having a solid base to work off of (i.e. clear ideas and a design focus) ...

Xhuis

While I'm glad you have inclination to work on the mode, your attitude of "make this change or the mode is doomed to fail" seems rather childish, especially because the feedback I hear is that the mode is fun right now for both sides. Marauders are the only outstanding problem to me, and w...

Xhuis

I agree with him on the points about disguise, and to a degree the ones about base defense. I don't agree with his proposed solutions of lanes and the like, but I'll admit that there are some kinks with what's there already that could very well stand some ironing out. I'm currently burnt out on cloc...

Xhuis

Giving them a PDA is very easy, I can probably do that in a few minutes. There are some obvious tells like the work boots that I'd like to address, but in the end a lot of how well a servant can stay hidden depends on them; I've seen a lot of people go to the station without even changing their jump...

Xhuis

I'm already burned out, but I do occasionally feel like coding, which is when I make stuff like this. I think CC is functional and the reception is primarily positive so I'm making other stuff so I still enjoy the work.

Xhuis

This post was made by Nilons who is currently on your ignore list. Display this post. I suggested adding this since forever and I got told it was pointless to add due to virology Who's laughing now? This was actually in some way prompted by a PR that Kor made that removes the passive healing symptom...

Xhuis

I've made a PR for this at GitHub, so feel free to see how it's implemented there and offer input.

Xhuis

I've made another balancing pass to marauders, it's currently up on GitHub here . If it doesn't end up working out, they're likely on the chopping block. They're now dense and function like they're on harm intent Each marauder summoned within the last 20 seconds increases recital time by five second...

Xhuis

After playing Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead for the past few weeks, I had an idea about changing food and nutrition in a few ways, but I wanted to get some feedback before I just made it out of nowhere. The gist of it would be that there is now a hidden value for overall "health" - not in the...

Xhuis

Marauders are always addressable, and I'll give them another balancing pass.

Assaulting the spawn area can only be prevented in so many ways, but I can take a look.

Xhuis

Wallspam isn't much of a problem since a mech/tools/RCD/hulk/what-have-you can easily smash them down. I do like the idea of them dropping misc "pickups", though. Manned defenses, mortars, and emitters have all been proposed to be and all sound varying degrees of good. I'm considering repl...

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Xhuis

That's actually quite a neat thought! I'll have to give some consideration how I could implement it in a polished way.

Xhuis

Xhuis is stopping any changes I'm not stopping changes at all. If you've read what I said before, if someone wants to make a change, I generally won't shout for the PR to get closed and I'll at least request it be testmerged to see how it plays out. You made two clockcult PRs, and neither of which ...

Xhuis

I saw a mime trump an entire cult with a welding tool once.

Xhuis

This mode cannot ever be a success if the assault on Reebe is primarily MAN v. DENSE OBJECTS. I appreciate the concern, but player feedback and general reception to the mode indicates that it already is as a success. The fact you sincerely believe that is disturbing. You've had 23 connections in th...

Xhuis

This mode cannot ever be a success if the assault on Reebe is primarily MAN v. DENSE OBJECTS. I appreciate the concern, but player feedback and general reception to the mode indicates that it already is as a success. There are multiple ways to do the mode, and there is no right or wrong way; only a...

Xhuis

That's the kind of defenses I like seeing, as it doesn't favor either side. I imagine that with fifty or so repeats of the same battle it could go differently either way depending on coordination, who attacks who, and which side can keep it together. There's no easy fix to making bad servants not bu...

Xhuis

Xhuis can you PLEASE describe what you envision Reebe defense looking like. Reebe defense can look like nearly anything. There's a huge space for the servants to build anything they want to, so it varies on a by-round basis. Right now the meta is 1) Spam walls and tables and windoors interspersed w...

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