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Egg morphers now generate facehuggers on their own [CODE BOUNTY] #7226
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This pull request has conflicts, please resolve those before we can evaluate the pull request. |
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Your goal to see a bunch of perma bodies conflicts with #3644 doesn't it? I think you would have to revert that PR too for this to work out? Also this will put things in a weird state where xenos are incentivized to build a ton of egg morphers because you're in essence building a 3x3 area of 12 eggs which refill themselves every time. |
burst bodies don't get eaten up by weeds afaik (one of the cases for that is to not be intractable to xenos, which burst corpses are). as for balance concerns-- yeah, i get that. i just kinda wanna wait till a maintainer gives their thoughts before i start changing anything |
Yeah but the reason for that is so that bodies can be put in the morphers - if this PR goes through there's no more reason for the exemption and I assume someone will remove the exemption. Which leads back to what I was saying about this PR not fulfilling the goal of seeing burst bodies. And if the exemption is left in, what happens when a xeno wants to build stuff on the tile with the body? You can't plant eggs on tiles that have things that 'obscure it' - even light fixtures which is silly - are we expecting xenos to now move the bodies out of the hive into some trophy room or something? |
There are some good questions posed by zzzmike, I'd like you to give an answer to them and how you expect to see egg morphers be used with this change. Besides that, i do agree seeing burst bodies are soulful in general. |
repeating the points i made on discord here:
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I forgor to finish my comment on here, but I am fine with this and will balance approve it on the assumption you can make it so EGG morphers can not be hidden under tall grass. Besides that, tweaking numbers after will be needed potentially. |
About the pull request
CODE BOUNTY: https://forum.cm-ss13.com/t/proposed-eggmorpher-change-code-bounty-30usd/10466
removes the whole body decomposing aspect of egg morphers and replaces it with timed generation.
every 2 minutes, a facehugger will get generated until it reaches 6 huggers stored. you can still refill egg morphers with eggs and facehuggers, though.
adds the ability for carriers to refill egg morphers with eggs automatically
stops light fixtures from preventing egg planting
eggs can now get planted under nested mobs
egg morphers can no longer be built in tall grass
Explain why it's good for the game
ORIGINAL POST:
I think eggmorphers in current state suck, allow me to explain why.
So: An egg morpher consumes bodies, deleting them and their contents from the game, in return for some huggers.
But, in all Aliens media the Aliens have areas with just tons of fucking burst bodies embedded in the walls, and that’s a huge soulful thing to see all your dead comrades instead of >corpse blender
Therefore my suggested change is have burst bodies do nothing at all for the hive, and eggmorphers simply produce huggers at a rate of like 1 per 2 minutes or something.
This also makes eggmorphers have a point at the front, and eases on the actual suffering that is standard Carrier reloading.
some personal thoughts: i actually don't see egg morphers on the front that often mostly because it's a chore to keep them filled, especially if the hive is lacking a hive tunnel. this might help xenos cap more often which would be a pretty nice addition
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works fine from my testing. cooldown was shortened here just to speed things up. the "will grow in X seconds" message disappears when max capacity is reached.
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balance: Egg morphers now generate facehuggers on their own, up to 6 in total every 2 minutes. Bodies can no longer be fed to egg morphers. Eggs can now get planted beneath light fixtures and nested mobs. Egg morphers can no longer be built in tallgrass.
qol: Carriers can now automatically fill egg morphers with their own egg supply by using the Retrieve Egg ability on them.
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