[2332] Marker Spitter

Morrow · March 29, 2023, 9:44pm

Marker spitter

cmss13-devs:master ← insertnamehere123:Marker_Redone

opened 12:11AM - 17 Jan 23 UTC

# About the pull request Adds a new strain to the Spitter caste, one that's b…ased on healing and supporting it's allies with buffs. Strain loses the acid spray. Gains a new type of spit that heals allies within 5 tiles of a hit target and applies a debuff that makes it's target take extra damage but does very little acid damage on the initial strike. Replaces the empowered spit with healing surge (a modification of empowered spit) that does no damage, but allows it to target a tile and heal xenos within an AoE of the tile. Hit targets have a yellow outline. ~~Gains the long range sight abilitiy of a boiler~~ ~~Sight reduced to 12 tiles~~ Normal xeno sight Edit: Dropped shields and put in healing as shields may be axed in the future Edit: needs a lot of balancing tweaks Edit: See above sight edit Edit: removed boiler sight, limit number of xenos that can be healed by the marking spit (max 3, with priority to those nearer to the hit mob) # Explain why it's good for the game Spitters didn't have a strain before, this PR is meant to give spitter players an extra option on how they want to play and also gives an extra option to those who like playing healers. # Testing Photographs and Procedure <details> <summary>Testing procedure</summary> ` Spit on a hostile while allies are nearby or while at close range. </details> # Changelog :cl: add: Added marker strain, Marking spit acid ammo balance: New stuff will affect balance /:cl:

DukeofCagliostro · March 30, 2023, 9:54pm

I think the Yellow outline is very gamey. Maybe something of a different color only on the armor.

Crimson · March 30, 2023, 10:48pm

Some marines don’t wear armor.

I suggest doing an outline around the head or particle effect around it, since we already have stuff for the feet, torso, and above the head, and sentinel shake.

Insertusername · March 30, 2023, 11:59pm

Okay, so this uses the bonus_damage_stack component from the holo-targeting and hornet rounds, so changing the yellow outline thing would involve making a separate component to do the exact same thing.

Also, I’m not entirely sure what could replace the yellow outline that wouldn’t come across as gamey without also being too subtle that nobody would really notice it.

It also needs to work for XvX so that’s another thing that needs to be taken into account.