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By metashield i meant more metabreaking to prevent instavaliding once you see [traitor-only item] in someone's pocket. I might've misunderstood the term though.
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The rabbit is speaking the truth - the day we ban murderboning is the day /tg/ changes entirely. Not necessarily for the worse, but it will change everything.
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Post by Qbopper » #275296

Yeah, it's a pretty radical change and isn't likely to happen because of that

I disagree with Kor in that I think we can encourage non-murderbone play with more interesting stuff, but I will agree that there's only so much you can do with code
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Post by Gun Hog » #275319

I personally feel that our antagonist rules are fine the way they are. I myself am a fan of mass destruction (explosions, singulo, plasma flood, etc) and antagonists that draw the attention of the entire crew (WarOps, blob, certain Wizard spells, etc). A Traitor that kills only his target or stealthily steals an item is uninteresting to me.

Now, that being said, an antag after my unique item may attempt to bargain (or threaten) with me instead. That kind of interaction is often loads of fun! But, if that antag DOES kill me for my item, I would want him to use it to kill more people instead of going into hiding until the shuttle is called.
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Post by IcePacks » #275325

this is more an issues with stuns than anything else

let's just throw stamina damage at it and hope that the stunstacks don't get worse!
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Post by Doctor Pork » #275331

danno is right shadow is le meme

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IcePacks wrote:this is more an issues with stuns than anything else
probably true, stun and done combat is an issue imo but I don't know a good way to solve it and it's been discussed before
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Post by cedarbridge » #275333

Jacough wrote:
If we banned murderbone, we'd have to ban validhunting. It's not fair on the antags if they can't murderbone while they have a lynch mob armed with stunprods after them.
If the lynch mob comes knocking and the traitor whips out his murder boner to kill them all that's fine and all. Banning them for that would be stupid. If they just do the same ebow/esword or dual esword shit every time they roll traitor just so they can disregard their objectives and immediately try to murder the crew, especially on low pop then fuck yeah, antag ban them.
There's already precedent for doing this with outstanding permabans to match. These are, to my knowledge, exclusive to lowpop, constant recall then camp the new arrivals style cancer though.
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Post by Steelpoint » #275371

I would take a ebow over any Taser or Egun any day of the week.

The only issue I see here is how powerful stuns are. Why would veteran players bother wasting 12tcs on a ebow when they can get a bottle of spray cleaner and water for free, then spend the rest of the tcs on adrenals or a Revolver.

At the end of the day, a stun + any item that deals damage is better than 90% of the actual weapons we have in game.

If anything else, I would support removing or reworking the ebow. I can accept people dying to eswords and revolvers since they are loud, have a critical drawback (ammo or melee) and need more than one hit to kill. But the ebow is silent, has no real drawback and one hit is a instant stun, which is GG in SS13.
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Because slips are pretty bad now.
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InsaneHyena wrote:Because slips are pretty bad now.
Steelpoint wrote:If anything else, I support removing realiable range stun from traitors - it should only be allowed for security.
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I said I support removing or reworking the Ebow.

My position on stun is clear, I dislike them in general. Outside of a melee stun weapon I really would enjoy it if we reworked our stun system to be less rigid and more flexible and better open to counterplay and riposte.
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Post by Dr_bee » #275418

I wonder why traitors even get access to more powerful weapons in the first place. why not simply have the TCs be used to send them bog-standard equipment that can be ordered from cargo? it would give traitors a bit more of an alibi and remove the "traitor gear = Valid" idea security tends to have.
Plus it would power down the mass murder ability of traitors.

If TCs were simply used for easier access to weapons that you could otherwise steal it would make balancing them a bit easier and would encourage a bit more creative play.

on the subject of the e-bow, you can always go the gooncode route and make it a ranged weapon that just deals toxin damage. Theirs actually irradiates those hit by it, but because /tg/ radiation stuns, it wouldnt really remove the "cheap easy ranged stun" aspect of the e-bow if it used /tg/rads
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I would be wary of adopting Goon's combat system in piecemeal, I don't think individual parts would work in isolation without the rest of the system.

Your talking about the combat system where Laser and projectile weapons can kill in two rounds, where even the weakest armour offers very high defence from attacks, of note that armour is far more complicated in practice, with each armour having different defence thresholds that interact differently with different kinds of attacks, and certain weapons (alt bullet types) can have a more devastating effect against armour, such as armour piercing rounds that ruin armour in a few hits. Where stuns are rare and are very rarely a one hit stun, and where actually killing someone outside of executing them with a gun is very hard to do.
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InsaneHyena wrote:The rabbit is speaking the truth - the day we ban murderboning is the day /tg/ changes entirely. Not necessarily for the worse, but it will change everything.
There was a no murderbone policy trialed way back that was a disaster. It was so bad it inspired me to come to the forums to voice my feedback (and pretty much lead to me sticking around in the community). Please don't try pushing it again, I will not allow it.
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PKPenguin321 wrote: I will not allow it.
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InsaneHyena wrote:The rabbit is speaking the truth - the day we ban murderboning is the day /tg/ changes entirely. Not necessarily for the worse, but it will change everything.
There was a no murderbone policy trialed way back that was a disaster. It was so bad it inspired me to come to the forums to voice my feedback (and pretty much lead to me sticking around in the community). Please don't try pushing it again, I will not allow it.
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It incentivizes admins to harass players.
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so are we fixing the ebow to be less of a piece of shit or no
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What even constitutes murderbone? Outside of the obvious round start, weapons bought, kill everything in sight, there are so many ways this game could play out that basically any traitor would be forced to devolve into murderbone or just roll over and die.

>traitor has to steal the CE's magboots
>CE has only been drinking in the bar with 3 other people all round
>no chance he's leaving any time soon

What do you do? Slaughter him and all the witnesses in the bar? What if someone gets away and now the entire station is after you? Public enemy number one, you will no doubt be tracked by the AI and your location reported by anyone who gets a chance to see you and speak. You would have to kill basically anyone who comes across unless you want to put yourself in peril of being caught by the lynch mob.

Perhaps you detonate an explosive, to distract the CE or to just to kill them. You could either explode a completely vacant area, risking the CE not even going to repair it. Alternately, you explode a important area like medbay, which would force the CE to actually do their job, but the casualties of blowing up medbay could easily be spun into a tale of murderbone.

It all seems completely subjective, outside of pacifism or killing only your objective holder, anything a traitor does could easily be explained as a means for the end objective(no witnesses), or just mindless murderboning.
Something as set and stone as a rigid kill limit would kill alot of potential creativity, and worse, could back traitors into corners of being too scared to kill anyone so they dont spark a chain reaction, or they are just forced to give up on the round because they already hit their threshold.
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Post by FantasticFwoosh » #275532

Its gotten worse over time.

Before people used to throw syndie handheld explosives/C4 at people to gib them out of the round for murderbone or space them, but now you can effectively remove every chance of a revive by slaying them with a esword, decapitating them and then removing the brain easily. I've easily seen 1 traitor put the entire crew through the incinerator in a massive murderbone spree.

- Without strange reagent, the only option with a disembodied brain & a body that goes past the living limit for a defib is that first you have to sow the head back on (or use a prosthetic replacement) just to clone the body which takes a additional 5 minutes, and is power/machinery reliant. It removes them out of the round using only a edged weapon tool, rather than delicate surgery, infact roboticists prefer to hack the heads off people & saw brains out because its QUICKER.

Removing someone out of the round for the sake (rather than actually being a obstacle to your objective or threat) of removing them out of the round and chasing everyone down around the station for the purpose of killing them all is murderboning.

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oh and on the topic of the ebow: i think it's not so bad by itself, but stacking it with destroying comms and picking off people one at a time is kinda lame. if you have more than one person, it's not impossible to take out a guy with an ebow, but if they get an EMP flashlight or whatever and play so they avoid conflict with more than one guy at a time the crew's fucked (and they wont even realize it until it's too late). i'm not sure there's any real way to fix this
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Stun weapons were a mistake, whether its a stolen taser or a E-bow that causes you to collapse they are too cheap.

- Why can't tasers be re-worked to make you stand up but instead paralyze your body, your hands release and you shake briefly but keep

The fact that people fall on their backs into such a area of vulnerability is a problem. I think falling on your ass in response to weapons is definitely wrong unless you're falling into critical health, its unfun to be stunlocked on your ass while people fumble with you.

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Kel wrote:What even constitutes murderbone? Outside of the obvious round start, weapons bought, kill everything in sight, there are so many ways this game could play out that basically any traitor would be forced to devolve into murderbone or just roll over and die.
your first sentence is what i've always considered murderboning, if you end up getting caught then things are different

Going all out lol ecks dee kill everyone from the start is the main issue imo
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PKPenguin321 wrote:
InsaneHyena wrote:The rabbit is speaking the truth - the day we ban murderboning is the day /tg/ changes entirely. Not necessarily for the worse, but it will change everything.
There was a no murderbone policy trialed way back that was a disaster. It was so bad it inspired me to come to the forums to voice my feedback (and pretty much lead to me sticking around in the community). Please don't try pushing it again, I will not allow it.
Should probably be paying a bit closer attention to the attitudes of the admins you've been promoting then, many of the newer admins skew anti violence in general, whether murder sprees or IC crime.
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PKPenguin321 wrote:
InsaneHyena wrote:The rabbit is speaking the truth - the day we ban murderboning is the day /tg/ changes entirely. Not necessarily for the worse, but it will change everything.
There was a no murderbone policy trialed way back that was a disaster. It was so bad it inspired me to come to the forums to voice my feedback (and pretty much lead to me sticking around in the community). Please don't try pushing it again, I will not allow it.
Should probably be paying a bit closer attention to the attitudes of the admins you've been promoting then, many of the newer admins skew anti violence in general, whether murder sprees or IC crime.
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Just because some admins dislike things like random low effort (key words right there) murderboning doesn't mean they can't recognize that a 'no murderboning' policy won't work, though

You can encourage gameplay in one direction without resorting to hard rules
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I still feel that removing the roundstart superior-to-every-alternative weapons will curb roundstart murderboning, if nothing else because the wannabe murderers have to find a weapon first. Murderboning with a non-standard weapon can be fun, and a murderboner later in the round can give bored people something to aim at while they're generally better prepared; the kind that's very rarely fun is the roundstart ebow esword, or double esword + noslips, or revolver, which is easy for the traitor but unfun for victims and observers. Even for newbies, i think it'd be nicer if the equipment didn't encourage deathmatch as a gameplay.
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XDTM wrote:I still feel that removing the roundstart superior-to-every-alternative weapons will curb roundstart murderboning, if nothing else because the wannabe murderers have to find a weapon first. Murderboning with a non-standard weapon can be fun, and a murderboner later in the round can give bored people something to aim at while they're generally better prepared; the kind that's very rarely fun is the roundstart ebow esword, or double esword + noslips, or revolver, which is easy for the traitor but unfun for victims and observers. Even for newbies, i think it'd be nicer if the equipment didn't encourage deathmatch as a gameplay.
I'm probably in the minority, but I'm ok with certain weapons on the roster that are "superior-to-every-alternative" like the Revolver. I'm ok wtih that one because generally speaking its a finite resource. You aren't going to be able to infinitely fight off the station with a revolver because eventually your ammo runs out. It gives you a leg up in lethality, but its quite loud and nobody picks up shell casings so it leave evidence beyond just the bloodtrail of your victim.

What tends to produce murderboning on large scales are weapons like the ebow that are infinite and produce a disproportionate benefit for being infinite.
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XDTM wrote:I still feel that removing the roundstart superior-to-every-alternative weapons will curb roundstart murderboning, if nothing else because the wannabe murderers have to find a weapon first. Murderboning with a non-standard weapon can be fun, and a murderboner later in the round can give bored people something to aim at while they're generally better prepared; the kind that's very rarely fun is the roundstart ebow esword, or double esword + noslips, or revolver, which is easy for the traitor but unfun for victims and observers. Even for newbies, i think it'd be nicer if the equipment didn't encourage deathmatch as a gameplay.
I'm probably in the minority, but I'm ok with certain weapons on the roster that are "superior-to-every-alternative" like the Revolver. I'm ok wtih that one because generally speaking its a finite resource. You aren't going to be able to infinitely fight off the station with a revolver because eventually your ammo runs out. It gives you a leg up in lethality, but its quite loud and nobody picks up shell casings so it leave evidence beyond just the bloodtrail of your victim.

What tends to produce murderboning on large scales are weapons like the ebow that are infinite and produce a disproportionate benefit for being infinite.
Yeah, that's a nice balance imo

it should be that the objectively better and super useful weapons are limited use and are pretty obvious - this is one of the things I think eswords does right (maybe make them go farther and have your wild swinging of the thing cause gashes in the floor) and, like you said, the revolver

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All the traitor gear has hard limits that you hit and get killed if you aren't careful.

The dual esword is only effective at point blank range and can be countered by running away and getting gear to dunk them, and if it works they're literally out of options because they blew nearly their whole load on the dual esword.

The revolver is extremely powerful and has effectively limitless ammo if you have access to a lathe, but you have to reload and it does nothing to protect you from getting shot yourself.

The ebow is good at surprise attacks and pinning people down but is bad at finishing them off and active combat.
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ShadowDimentio wrote:All the traitor gear has hard limits that you hit and get killed if you aren't careful.

The dual esword is only effective at point blank range and can be countered by running away and getting gear to dunk them, and if it works they're literally out of options because they blew nearly their whole load on the dual esword.

Not to be snarky, but what can the average crew member "gear up" with to take down a desword user

The revolver is extremely powerful and has effectively limitless ammo if you have access to a lathe, but you have to reload and it does nothing to protect you from getting shot yourself.

no complaints here, I agree

The ebow is good at surprise attacks and pinning people down but is bad at finishing them off and active combat.

it's also pathetically easy to finish them off with literally anything else due to the way stuns work - you don't need to make or buy a weapon if you have an ebow because a fire extinguisher does the job just the same
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A molotov, IED, bomb lance, literally any throwing weapon, soap, disarm intent if you're suicidal. Basically don't get within murder range of the man with the glowy sword
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Post by XDTM » #276066

I agree with limited use or at least not too easily rechargeable weapons. As i've seen in some rounds, though, people can stock up huge amounts of revolver bullets, needing just two per kill. Energy weapons don't really suffer from this due to not being able to stockpile at all, but it'd be hard to move the revolver thematically to a battery-based weapon.

ShadowDimentio, the point isn't that they're able to take out the entire server because eventually they do get stopped, but they're strong enough at roundstart that they can often force a shuttle call through chaos and depopulation before someone manages to land the lucky disarm.
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Try running.
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XDTM wrote:So yeah use those other options instead of the ebow, at least you have to kill a sec officer to get your taser, and you have to stop to recharge it
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Re: Da Ebow

Post by Slignerd » #276106

I would be fine with mini energy crossbows being removed, as long as regular energy crossbows remain available in RnD.

With enough effort, a traitor can get an energy crossbow just fine with a powersink and an emag - then throw an esword into the mix and the classic loadout is still possible, just not at roundstart.
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Post by confused rock » #276108

thats like fucking saying its not removing the flash if you remove all forms of flashes except flashbangs and make flashbangs only makable via chemistry
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Post by Incomptinence » #276110

Oh man people who stun someone have a real easy time finishing them off with something other than the ebow.

We should make it 2 shot kill people like the revolver to balance this injustice and prevent ignoble deaths for our most vulnerable players.
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Post by Slignerd » #276115

Chemistry is pretty tedious and impossible to get anything complex from if you don't join specifically as one of the two available Chemist jobs. - and if you go there without being a Chemist, you're definitely going to raise suspicion and get interrupted. In contrast, RnD is much less guarded and all it takes is hacking or emagging one or two doors to get there with no one but the most fervous Scientists or RDs doing anything about your presence.

It would remove ebows from routine playstyle, that much I'm not denying - but even with it being removed, you can still get it with a little effort.
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Post by Wyzack » #276116

I urge you all to look at this from a standpoint of how it can improve the combat of the game rather than just seeing it as a hugbox attempt to make things safe. Less stuns does not need to mean less lethality and i think there is a bit of kneejerk reaction any time the murder meta is touched
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Post by confused rock » #276121

"less stuns" and "removing a stun" and "stun overhaul" are different things
its like if you made the surgical drill do 5 brute but kept the saw as is
its like if you made helmet crates explode if they touch lava but not any other crate to counter lavaland crate opening
its like if the retro laser gun did 25 dmg but no other kind of laser gun
its like if shotgun buckshot did 30 dmg max but slugs were normal
its like if dual eswords did 25 damage but normal still did 30
its like if cargo techs had no maint access but assistants still did
its like if you removed every gun from the game EXCEPT the tesla revolver
its like ok im done
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Post by Qbopper » #276122

Wyzack wrote:I urge you all to look at this from a standpoint of how it can improve the combat of the game rather than just seeing it as a hugbox attempt to make things safe. Less stuns does not need to mean less lethality and i think there is a bit of kneejerk reaction any time the murder meta is touched
thank you, it's frustrating to think "this isn't encouraging fun combat/gameplay" and have people interpret it as "we should make people kill less often"

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Re: Da Ebow

Post by confused rock » #276123

thats a legit point I don't understand what you mean
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Post by cedarbridge » #276125

If you need a roundstart infintitaser to keep up your traitor KDR you need to de-casual yourself
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confused rock wrote:thats a legit point I don't understand what you mean
your wall of text post, I mean
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Re: Da Ebow

Post by confused rock » #276133

I was saying xdtm has a stupid argument
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cedarbridge wrote:If you need a roundstart infintitaser to keep up your traitor KDR you need to de-casual yourself
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Post by Slignerd » #276145

Anonmare wrote:You can't buy an e-sword and an e-bow except in the rare event of a discount though.

An e-sword is 8 TCs and an e-bow is 14 TCs. Basic maths tells us that is 22TC in cost.
Did I miss something? I distinctly recall it costing 12 TC, and being just enough to spend all 20 TCs when combined with an esword.
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Post by XDTM » #276160

confused rock wrote:I was saying xdtm has a stupid argument
Your counter argument seems based on me saying that tasers are better, which they're not (except in the very specific case where you have five targets in front of you to stun quickly). My point is that people shouldn't be able to murderbone roundstart, not never, and they can get similar tools in other ways if ebows are removed. Not that '''inferior''' items should be removed in favor of better ones.
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Post by danno » #276163

That man just had an argument with himself in a single post and it took him over an hour to write
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