diff --git a/code/modules/mob/living/carbon/xenomorph/strains/castes/boiler/trapper.dm b/code/modules/mob/living/carbon/xenomorph/strains/castes/boiler/trapper.dm index e6c8061bd0fe..f64bfd6b500f 100644 --- a/code/modules/mob/living/carbon/xenomorph/strains/castes/boiler/trapper.dm +++ b/code/modules/mob/living/carbon/xenomorph/strains/castes/boiler/trapper.dm @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ /datum/xeno_strain/trapper name = BOILER_TRAPPER - description = "You trade your ability to bombard, lance, and dump your acid in order to gain some speed and the ability to create acid explosions and restrain talls within them. With your longer-range vision, set up traps that immobilize your opponents and place acid mines which deal damage to talls and barricades and reduce the cooldown of your trap deployment for every tall hit. Finally, hit talls with your Acid Shotgun ability which adds a stack of insight to empower the next trap you place once you reach a maximum of ten insight. A point-blank shot or a shot on a stunned target will instantly apply ten stacks." - flavor_description = "Hsss, I love the smell of burnin' tallhost flesh in the mornin'." + description = "You trade your ability to bombard, lance, and dump your acid in order to gain some speed and the ability to create acid explosions and restrain enemies within them. With your longer-range vision, set up traps that immobilize your opponents and place acid mines which deal damage to enemies and barricades and reduce the cooldown of your trap deployment for every enemy hit. Finally, hit enemies with your Acid Shotgun ability which adds a stack of insight to empower the next trap you place once you reach a maximum of ten insight. A point-blank shot or a shot on a stunned target will instantly apply ten stacks." + flavor_description = "The battlefield is my canvas, this one, my painter. Melt them where they stand." actions_to_remove = list( /datum/action/xeno_action/activable/xeno_spit/bombard, diff --git a/code/modules/mob/living/carbon/xenomorph/strains/castes/crusher/charger.dm b/code/modules/mob/living/carbon/xenomorph/strains/castes/crusher/charger.dm index 84877b43571e..55e459cc6dde 100644 --- a/code/modules/mob/living/carbon/xenomorph/strains/castes/crusher/charger.dm +++ b/code/modules/mob/living/carbon/xenomorph/strains/castes/crusher/charger.dm @@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ /datum/xeno_strain/charger name = CRUSHER_CHARGER - description = "In exchange for your shield, a little bit of your armor and damage, your slowdown resist from autospitters, your influence under frenzy pheromones, your stomp no longer knocking down talls, and your ability to lock your direction, you gain a considerable amount of health, some speed, your stomp does extra damage when stomping over a grounded tall, and your charge is now manually-controlled and momentum-based; the further you go, the more damage and speed you will gain until you achieve maximum momentum, indicated by your roar. In addition, your armor is now directional, being the toughest on the front, weaker on the sides, and weakest from the back. In return, you gain an ability to tumble to pass through talls and avoid enemy fire, and an ability to forcefully move enemies via ramming into them." - flavor_description = "We're just getting started. Nothing stops this train. Nothing." + description = "In exchange for your shield, a little bit of your armor and damage, your slowdown resist from turrets, your influence under frenzy pheromones, your stomp no longer knocking down talls, and your ability to lock your direction, you gain a considerable amount of health, some speed, your stomp does extra damage when stomping over a grounded tall, and your charge is now manually-controlled and momentum-based; the further you go, the more damage and speed you will gain until you achieve maximum momentum, indicated by your roar. In addition, your armor is now directional, being the toughest on the front, weaker on the sides, and weakest from the back. In return, you gain an ability to tumble to pass through enemies and avoid enemy fire, and an ability to forcefully move enemies via ramming into them." + flavor_description = "Nothing stops this hive. This one will become both the immovable object and the unstoppable force." actions_to_remove = list( /datum/action/xeno_action/activable/pounce/crusher_charge, diff --git a/code/modules/mob/living/carbon/xenomorph/strains/castes/defender/steel_crest.dm b/code/modules/mob/living/carbon/xenomorph/strains/castes/defender/steel_crest.dm index f84566e9c841..cfbf85de299d 100644 --- a/code/modules/mob/living/carbon/xenomorph/strains/castes/defender/steel_crest.dm +++ b/code/modules/mob/living/carbon/xenomorph/strains/castes/defender/steel_crest.dm @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ /datum/xeno_strain/steel_crest name = DEFENDER_STEELCREST description = "You trade your tail sweep and a small amount of your slash damage for slightly increased headbutt knockback and damage and the ability to slowly move and headbutt while fortified. Along with this, you gain a unique ability to accumulate damage, and use it to recover a slight amount of health and refresh your tail slam." - flavor_description = "To handle yourself, use your head. To handle others, use your head." + flavor_description = "This one, like my will, is indomitable. It will become my steel crest against all that defy me." icon_state_prefix = "Steelcrest" actions_to_remove = list( diff --git a/code/modules/mob/living/carbon/xenomorph/strains/castes/drone/healer.dm b/code/modules/mob/living/carbon/xenomorph/strains/castes/drone/healer.dm index 0fcbb2ecf09a..5ebafc88eaef 100644 --- a/code/modules/mob/living/carbon/xenomorph/strains/castes/drone/healer.dm +++ b/code/modules/mob/living/carbon/xenomorph/strains/castes/drone/healer.dm @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ /datum/xeno_strain/healer name = DRONE_HEALER - description = "You lose your choice of resin secretions, a chunk of your slash damage, and you will experience a slighty-increased difficulty in tackling tallhosts in exchange for strong pheromones, the ability to use a bit of your health to plant a maximum of three lesser resin fruits, and the ability to heal your sisters' wounds by secreting a regenerative resin salve by using your vital fluids and a fifth of your plasma. Be wary, this is a dangerous process; overexert yourself and you may exhaust yourself to unconsciousness, or die..." - flavor_description = "To the very last drop, your blood belongs to The Hive; share it with your sisters to keep them fighting." + description = "You lose your choice of resin secretions, a chunk of your slash damage, and you will experience a slighty-increased difficulty in tackling hosts in exchange for strong pheromones, the ability to use a bit of your health to plant a maximum of three lesser resin fruits, and the ability to heal your sisters' wounds by secreting a regenerative resin salve by using your vital fluids and a fifth of your plasma. Be wary, this is a dangerous process; overexert yourself and you may exhaust yourself to unconsciousness, or die..." + flavor_description = "Divided we fall, united we win. We live for the hive, we die for the hive." icon_state_prefix = "Healer" actions_to_remove = list( diff --git a/code/modules/mob/living/carbon/xenomorph/strains/castes/hivelord/resin_whisperer.dm b/code/modules/mob/living/carbon/xenomorph/strains/castes/hivelord/resin_whisperer.dm index cf1cafde9267..538aacc63722 100644 --- a/code/modules/mob/living/carbon/xenomorph/strains/castes/hivelord/resin_whisperer.dm +++ b/code/modules/mob/living/carbon/xenomorph/strains/castes/hivelord/resin_whisperer.dm @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ /datum/xeno_strain/resin_whisperer name = HIVELORD_RESIN_WHISPERER description = "You lose your corrosive acid, your ability to secrete thick resin, your ability to reinforce resin secretions, sacrifice your ability to plant weed nodes outside of weeds, and you sacrifice a fifth of your plasma reserves to enhance your vision and gain a stronger connection to the resin. You can now remotely place resin secretions including weed nodes up to a distance of twelve paces!" - flavor_description = "Let the resin guide you. It whispers, so listen closely." + flavor_description = "We let the resin guide us. It whispers, so listen closely." icon_state_prefix = "Resin Whisperer" actions_to_remove = list( diff --git a/code/modules/mob/living/carbon/xenomorph/strains/castes/praetorian/dancer.dm b/code/modules/mob/living/carbon/xenomorph/strains/castes/praetorian/dancer.dm index f9a5dbedb614..7de4b93aad19 100644 --- a/code/modules/mob/living/carbon/xenomorph/strains/castes/praetorian/dancer.dm +++ b/code/modules/mob/living/carbon/xenomorph/strains/castes/praetorian/dancer.dm @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ /datum/xeno_strain/dancer // My name is Cuban Pete, I'm the King of the Rumba Beat name = PRAETORIAN_DANCER - description = "You lose all of your acid-based abilities and a small amount of your armor in exchange for increased movement speed, evasion, and unparalleled agility that gives you an ability to move even more quickly, dodge bullets, and phase through tallhosts. By slashing tallhosts, you temporarily increase your movement speed and you also you apply a tag that changes how your two new tail abilities function. By tagging hosts, you will make Impale hit twice instead of once and make Tail Trip knock hosts down instead of stunning them." - flavor_description = "Demonstrate to the talls what 'there is beauty in death' truly symbolizes, then dance upon their graves!" + description = "You lose all of your acid-based abilities and a small amount of your armor in exchange for increased movement speed, evasion, and unparalleled agility that gives you an ability to move even more quickly, dodge bullets, and phase through enemies and allies alike. By slashing enemies, you temporarily increase your movement speed and you also you apply a tag that changes how your two new tail abilities function. By tagging enemies, you will make Impale hit twice instead of once and make Tail Trip knock enemies down instead of stunning them." + flavor_description = "A performance fit for a Queen, this one will become my instrument of death." icon_state_prefix = "Dancer" actions_to_remove = list( diff --git a/code/modules/mob/living/carbon/xenomorph/strains/castes/praetorian/oppressor.dm b/code/modules/mob/living/carbon/xenomorph/strains/castes/praetorian/oppressor.dm index 91ea59661462..b9541a13ca80 100644 --- a/code/modules/mob/living/carbon/xenomorph/strains/castes/praetorian/oppressor.dm +++ b/code/modules/mob/living/carbon/xenomorph/strains/castes/praetorian/oppressor.dm @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ /datum/xeno_strain/oppressor // Dread it, run from it, destiny still arrives... or should I say, I do name = PRAETORIAN_OPPRESSOR - description = "You abandon all of your acid-based abilities, your dash, some speed, and a bit of your slash damage for some resistance against small explosives, slashes that deal extra damage to prone targets, and a powerful hook ability that pulls up to three talls towards you, slows them, and has varying effects depending on how many talls you pull. You also gain a powerful punch that reduces your other abilities' cooldowns, pierces through armor, and does double damage in addition to rooting slowed targets. You can also knock talls back and slow them with your new Tail Lash and quickly grab a tall, slow it, and pull it towards you with your unique Tail Stab." - flavor_description = "Dread it. Run from it. The Hive arrives all the same, or, more accurately, you do." + description = "You abandon all of your acid-based abilities, your dash, some speed, and a bit of your slash damage for some resistance against small explosives, slashes that deal extra damage to prone targets, and a powerful hook ability that pulls up to three enemies towards you, slows them, and has varying effects depending on how many enemies you pull. You also gain a powerful punch that reduces your other abilities' cooldowns, pierces through armor, and does double damage in addition to rooting slowed targets. You can also knock enemies back and slow them with your new Tail Lash and quickly grab a tall, slow it, and pull it towards you with your unique Tail Stab." + flavor_description = "My reach is endless, this one will pull down the heavens." icon_state_prefix = "Oppressor" actions_to_remove = list( diff --git a/code/modules/mob/living/carbon/xenomorph/strains/castes/praetorian/vanguard.dm b/code/modules/mob/living/carbon/xenomorph/strains/castes/praetorian/vanguard.dm index 2a344523e974..310db35ab370 100644 --- a/code/modules/mob/living/carbon/xenomorph/strains/castes/praetorian/vanguard.dm +++ b/code/modules/mob/living/carbon/xenomorph/strains/castes/praetorian/vanguard.dm @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ /datum/xeno_strain/vanguard name = PRAETORIAN_VANGUARD - description = "You forfeit all of your acid-based abilities and some health for some extra speed and a rechargable shield that can block one attack. Use your Pierce from up to three paces away to stab through talls, while stabbing through several will completely recharge your shield. Use your charge to plow through enemies and use it again to unleash a powerful AoE slash that reaches up to three paces. You also have a Cleave ability, amplified by your shield, which you can toggle to either immobilize or fling a target away." - flavor_description = "They are my bulwark against the tallhosts. They are my Vanguard and they shall know no fear." + description = "You forfeit all of your acid-based abilities and some health for some extra speed and a rechargable shield that can block one attack. Use your Pierce from up to three paces away to stab through talls, while stabbing through two or more will completely recharge your shield. Use your charge to plow through enemies and use it again to unleash a powerful AoE slash that reaches up to three paces. You also have a Cleave ability, amplified by your shield, which you can toggle to either immobilize or fling a target away." + flavor_description = "Fearless you are born, fearless you serve, fearless you die. This one will become my Vanguard" icon_state_prefix = "Vanguard" actions_to_remove = list( diff --git a/code/modules/mob/living/carbon/xenomorph/strains/castes/praetorian/warden.dm b/code/modules/mob/living/carbon/xenomorph/strains/castes/praetorian/warden.dm index 313778baf038..9dc9404ee498 100644 --- a/code/modules/mob/living/carbon/xenomorph/strains/castes/praetorian/warden.dm +++ b/code/modules/mob/living/carbon/xenomorph/strains/castes/praetorian/warden.dm @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ /datum/xeno_strain/warden // i mean so basically im braum name = PRAETORIAN_WARDEN - description = "You trade your acid ball, acid spray, dash, and a small bit of your slash damage and speed to become an effective medic. You gain the ability to emit strong pheromones, an ability that retrieves endangered, knocked-down or sitting allies and pulls them to your location, and you gain an internal hitpoint pool that fills with every slash against your enemies, which can be spent to aid your allies and yourself by healing them or curing their ailments." - flavor_description = "Only in death does your sisters' service to the Queen end. They will be untouched by plague or disease; no sickness will blight them." + description = "You trade your acid ball, acid spray, dash, and a small bit of your slash damage and speed to become an effective medic. You gain the ability to emit strong pheromones, an ability that retrieves endangered, knocked-down or resting allies and pulls them to your location, and you gain an internal hitpoint pool that fills with every slash against your enemies, which can be spent to aid your allies and yourself by healing them or curing their ailments." + flavor_description = "This one will deny her sisters' deaths until they earn it. Fight or be forgotten." icon_state_prefix = "Warden" actions_to_remove = list( diff --git a/code/modules/mob/living/carbon/xenomorph/strains/castes/ravager/berserker.dm b/code/modules/mob/living/carbon/xenomorph/strains/castes/ravager/berserker.dm index 365304259ac8..5b8981157bda 100644 --- a/code/modules/mob/living/carbon/xenomorph/strains/castes/ravager/berserker.dm +++ b/code/modules/mob/living/carbon/xenomorph/strains/castes/ravager/berserker.dm @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ /datum/xeno_strain/berserker name = RAVAGER_BERSERKER - description = "You lose your empower, charge, and scissor cut, decrease your health, and sacrifice a bit of your influence under frenzy pheromones to increase your movement speed, slightly increase your armor, and gain a new set of abilities that make you a terrifying melee monster. By slashing, you heal yourself and gain a stack of rage that increases your armor, movement speed, attack speed, and your heals per slash, to a maximum of six rage. Use your new Appehend ability to increase your movement speed and apply a slow on the next target you slash and use your Clothesline ability to fling your target to heal yourself, even more-so if you have a rage stack that will be used up. Finally, use your Eviscerate to unleash a devastating windmill attack that heals you for every host you hit after an immobilizing wind-up." - flavor_description = "They shall be my finest warriors. They will rend and tear, crush and butcher, and maim and rage until every tallhost falls." + description = "You lose your empower, charge, and scissor cut, decrease your health, and sacrifice a bit of your influence under frenzy pheromones to increase your movement speed, slightly increase your armor, and gain a new set of abilities that make you a terrifying melee monster. By slashing, you heal yourself and gain a stack of rage that increases your armor, movement speed, attack speed, and your heals per slash, to a maximum of six rage. Use your new Appehend ability to increase your movement speed and apply a slow on the next target you slash and use your Clothesline ability to fling your target to heal yourself, even more-so if you have a rage stack that will be used up. Finally, use your Eviscerate to unleash a devastating windmill attack that heals you for every enemy you hit after an immobilizing wind-up." + flavor_description = "Unbridled fury fills this one. You will become an extension of my rage." icon_state_prefix = "Berserker" actions_to_remove = list( diff --git a/code/modules/mob/living/carbon/xenomorph/strains/castes/ravager/hedgehog.dm b/code/modules/mob/living/carbon/xenomorph/strains/castes/ravager/hedgehog.dm index 5cb756d8889d..b88df4068cec 100644 --- a/code/modules/mob/living/carbon/xenomorph/strains/castes/ravager/hedgehog.dm +++ b/code/modules/mob/living/carbon/xenomorph/strains/castes/ravager/hedgehog.dm @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ /datum/xeno_strain/hedgehog name = RAVAGER_HEDGEHOG description = "You lose your empower, charge, scissor cut, and some slash damage in exchange for more explosive resistance. Your resistance scales with your shard count and at 50% grants you immunity to some explosive stuns. You accumulate shards over time and when taking damage. You can use these shards to power three new abilities: Spike Shield which gives you a temporary shield that spits bone shards around you when damaged; Fire Spikes which launches spikes at your target to slow them and deal damage when they move; and Spike Shed which launches all your spikes, grants a temporary speed boost, and disables shard generation for thirty seconds." - flavor_description = "They will be of iron will and steely muscle. In great armor shall they be clad, and with the mightiest spikes will they be armed." + flavor_description = "You will pierce them a million times, show them what it feels like. This one will become my shield." icon_state_prefix = "Hedgehog" actions_to_remove = list( diff --git a/code/modules/mob/living/carbon/xenomorph/strains/castes/runner/acid.dm b/code/modules/mob/living/carbon/xenomorph/strains/castes/runner/acid.dm index 7b9bafadeb7b..f98263871707 100644 --- a/code/modules/mob/living/carbon/xenomorph/strains/castes/runner/acid.dm +++ b/code/modules/mob/living/carbon/xenomorph/strains/castes/runner/acid.dm @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ /datum/xeno_strain/acider name = RUNNER_ACIDER description = "At the cost of a little bit of your speed and all of your current abilities, you gain a considerable amount of health, some armor, and a new organ that fills with volatile acid over time. Your Tail Stab and slashes apply acid to living lifeforms that slowly burns them, and slashes against targets with acid stacks fill your acid glands. You also gain Corrosive Acid equivalent to that of a boiler that you can deploy more quickly than any other caste, at the cost of a chunk of your acid reserves with each use. Finally, after a twenty second windup, you can force your body to explode, covering everything near you with acid. The more acid you have stored, the more devastating the explosion will be, but during those twenty seconds before detonation you are slowed and give off several warning signals which give talls an opportunity to end you before you can detonate. If you successfully explode, you will reincarnate as a larva again!" - flavor_description = "Burn their walls, maim their faces! Your life, for The Hive!" + flavor_description = "This one will be the last thing they hear. A martyr." icon_state_prefix = "Acider" actions_to_remove = list(