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Hey what if I made Sleeping Carp better at nonlethal takedowns and al…
…so deflect with combat mode instead of throw mode (but cost more) (tgstation#79517) ## About The Pull Request It's been a hot minute hasn't it? When I initially reworked Sleeping Carp, we didn't have combat mode. Now that we do, and that Sleeping Carp has substantially less defensive power to justify having to make a choice between deflection and attacking, it's probably about time we updated this aspect back to what it was before my rework. Sorta. Now, we can have all the deniability of the previous method, while also letting you reliably protect yourself from ranged attacks at all times while it matters. Because of this, I increased the price up to 17 TC because of this change just to be on the safe side. The higher uptime of projectile immunity while also being able to attack during that time makes this a lot stronger overall. Secondly, Sleeping Carp presently just isn't as good as a good ol' baton. It takes a lot more hits to accomplish the same task that a baton can. Many people feel like they can't even reasonably fight anyone for fear of the baton, or they would rather use a baton and kill someone at their leisure. So we've updated some of the moves in order to facilitate Sleeping Carp as a substantial contender for 1v1 fighting, and lessen the need for a baton by adding a lot more Stamina damage overall to the various attacks; **Keelhaul**: Now a Shove Shove combo. Does literally zero lethal damage, but now temporarily blinds and dizzies the target as well as its previous effects. The amount of lethal damage it did was...extremely small, so this isn't a particularly big loss. **Grabs and Shoves**: Deal some amount of stamina damage (20). You need to be in combat mode in order to perform these special attacks (more deniability). Grabbing someone while they have 80 Stamina damage or more will cause them to fall unconscious. Yes, I really did just want to add a Vulcan Nerve Pinch, what do you want from me? That's it actually. Oh, I guess they are heavy sleepers now too. Because its funny. ## Why It's Good For The Game I often get told (read: thrown various insults and slurs at me while mentioning this as the justification) that Sleeping Carp is not very strong anymore since it lost all that invisible armor I added way back + I removed the stuns in my initial rework. This made some people upset (I think at least one person wished for my death). So, having given it at least 2 years, I wanted to recapture parts of what made the older Sleeping Carp (before my rework) strong, some of the benefits of the new version, and introduce a brand new aspect; nonlethal takedowns. This makes it beneficial for pacifists, as well as for kidnapping. This should not meaningfully make Sleeping Carp any stronger against the things that typically ruin its day. I suspect in a straight joust with a baton, Sleeping Carp will still struggle. But against what should be its strong points (lone targets and ranged weapons), it will be strong once again rather than clumsily unable to do very much at all. ## Changelog :cl: balance: Harnessing Shoreline Quay (bluespace energy, probably), a mystical energy (total bullshit) that permeates the Astral Waterways (bluespace quantum dimensions, probably), Sleeping Carp users can now once against deflect projectiles with their bare hands when focused in on battle (in combat mode). balance: The Keelhaul technique is now nonlethal (a philosophical acknowledgement of the familial bond of sleep and death), but causes the target to become temporarily blind and dizzy along with its previous effects. balance: Sleeping carp users, while in combat mode, deal Stamina damage with their grabs and shoves. If the target of their grab has enough Stamina damage (80), they are knocked unconscious from a well placed nerve pinch. balance: Sleeping carp users find it very hard to wake up once they fall asleep.... /:cl:
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