ghost locator maints loot

[Ilya246]

About the PR

adds an item that works like the anomaly locator, but for ghosts

reacts to ghosts, revenants and AI eye in an 8-tile radius

is very rare maints loot, took me 110 maints lockers in testing to roll just one

Why / Balance

i think this would be quite fun to have while not significantly affecting game balance, ghosts can lead you places with it, but they also can (and likely will) troll you; the rarity further minimises effect on game balance, so i think the fun is worth any potential problems this may (not that i think it will) cause

discord discussion (including some maintainers) at https://discord.com/channels/310555209753690112/1008709214006427689/1286339786369405018 viewed it favourably

as for the AI eye or revenant detecting aspect, i don't believe the item can reasonably be used to help people find/avoid either of those

if maintainers/comments discussion think that this shouldn't be obtainable, i will instead make it an admeme item and remove it from maints pool

Technical details

adds a marker component to mark the entities it spots

Media

tested, works

spectrallocator.mp4

Requirements

• I have read and am following the Pull Request and Changelog Guidelines.
• I have added media to this PR or it does not require an ingame showcase.

Changelog

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• add: Spectral locator, rare maintenance loot that lets you know if any ghosts are nearby.

[lzk228]

as i can see it also works on aghosts, don't think it's quite good, requires a discussion

[Ilya246]

as i can see it also works on aghosts, don't think it's quite good, requires a discussion

could move the marker component from incorporeal to the specific entities this is supposed to detect then

[lzk228]

ask admins in discord first, what they think about it

[superjj18]

Put in a sci research tree, now chap can become an exorcist lmao

[baddiePRO]

Put in a sci research tree, now chap can become an exorcist lmao

more ghost interaction would be so fun, give us a ouija board that you can talk to ghost gang with

[Nimfar11]

Perhaps also give traitors a device that can show that they are only being watched by AI?

[Ilya246]

Put in a sci research tree, now chap can become an exorcist lmao

would have to be a tech with 1 item which is kinda eh, or could alternatively put it into the same tech as the anomaly locator but i don't think it quite fits

[superjj18]

Put in a sci research tree, now chap can become an exorcist lmao

would have to be a tech with 1 item which is kinda eh, or could alternatively put it into the same tech as the anomaly locator but i don't think it quite fits

Lmao I just think it'd be cool for the chap to have a way to access this sort of functionality for giggles. Doesn't need to be a part of this pr, but maybe the item can be added to chaplain's loadout item choices or give the Bible a chaplain-only function similar

[github-actions]

RSI Diff Bot; head commit c1d423a merging into 99101f2
This PR makes changes to 1 or more RSIs. Here is a summary of all changes:

Resources/Textures/Objects/Fun/spectrallocator.rsi

State	Old	New	Status
icon			Added
inhand-left			Added
inhand-right			Added
screen			Added

Edit: diff updated after c1d423a

[Everturning]

i think the chaplain vs ghosts thing should be put in some sort of chaplain gameplay PR. also I like this item and I will be using it in the future

[Ilya246]

sprite added (nobody said it's bad when i asked people so it seems it's okay) and description updated to fit the sprite, should be good for review