Reactive Teleport Armor

[Oldman Robustin]

Just going to nip this one in the bud.

It needs to slow down the user like it used to. Or maybe into some crazy lategame RND armor.

I haven't used the armor or had it effect my game yet, but spectating those who have... my god. That armor is basically a recharging "get out of fail free card" for the RD. Almost certainly the best armor in the game, sitting in the goddamn RD's closet.

[onleavedontatme]

Just to compare

When I added it:
35% block
Slowdown 1
Can put you into space

After ??? buffed it
50% block
No slowdown
cant put you on space tile

I dont want to see the slowdown back but it should be able to space you at least.

Also worth noting is that with disablers the armor is much stronger than it was against the tasers it was designed for

[DemonFiren]

Now there's a reason to aim for anything but the chest.

[lumipharon]

It is pretty powerful (if they're aiming at your chest) in terms of survivability/juking. But it doesn't (least I thin it doesn't) give you any actual damage mitigation.
But armor got nerfed anyway, so that doesn't matter.

It should definately be able to space you though, don't see why it wouldn't.

[onleavedontatme]

Actually because I'm a coding genious reactive armor uses riot shield code. It will block hits to any location/nullify said hit. So fully 50% of attacks will get blocked entirely.

[DemonFiren]

Well, undo that shit (please.)

And, if you take suggestions from yelling assholes with no idea how to code, give taser electrodes/ion bolts a chance to overload the armour, causing cooldown without teleport.

[duncathan]

Remove damage reduction, add spacing. Way back when I first played, the spacing both screwed me over and saved me. So much fun.

[Steelpoint]

The theme of the reactive teleport armour was that it was a high risk but high reward armour to wear.

It was very dangerous to use, because while it can save your life from situations where not even the Head of Security could not survive (Less so now his armour is identical to normal armour) yet you had just as much chance of being thrown into deep space. Not only that but it fitted well with the theme of science in that this armour was highly experimental and thus dangrous.

What we have now is a 'safe' item that won't spoil your round, with there being almost no down side to not wearing it at all. Before hand there was a clear decision on if to wear it or not, with obvious and great advantages and disadvantages, now just wear the thing and suffer no real drawback.

[Gun Hog]

High risk was what I intended when I buffed it. Before, no RD would wear it unless he knew he was going into a combat situation and had nothing better. It did not hold its value as a traitor target, and I admit to trading it for TC items to traitors so I could get illegal tech levels up. To me, it was worthless. At first, I did only remove the slowdown so that more RD players would wear it, and someone in the PR suggested that I up the teleport chance. I was iffy on it, but I was okayed on that.

There is a line in the code that makes the RTA prefer to avoid spacing the player (but still can if a suitable spot is not found). I do not want to put the slowdown back, as it would put it back to being vendor trash you sell to traitors for access to TC items as a non-antagonist. What if I simply removed the line that makes it check for space turfs? I did not really think about it when I first read the code.

Oh, and none of you have mentioned the player behavior based downside to wearing the RTA. It reacts to harmless projectiles and hugging, which means that assistants/clowns will troll you with it. Being trapped in walls and grills happens at times as well.

Tl;dr = Do you want me to greatly increase the chance of the RTA spacing the user if he happens to be in range of a space turf?

[Not-Dorsidarf]

RTA should have 2 ranges.

One being, like, fifteen tiles. If the teleport location picked for this one is space, you get spessed. Otherwise, go to second
Second range being the current range, and can still teleport you into space

[lumipharon]

Just make it plain random.
An invention that TRIES to space you seems really fucking retarded.

[Amnestik]

This armour is why I always hug the RD