Little things you learned that are game changing

[PKPenguin321]

Bottom post of the previous page:

If you throw someone at a wall its like tabling but with a much shorter stun and it does damage
So instead of relying on disarms like a plebian, just grab and throw for essentially a guaranteed damaging push

works even better if it's an electrified grill.

quadruply better if the power grid is wired directly into the singularity.

sure, but the thing about my tip is that it works with walls
which are, you know, literally everywhere but space

Not sure if i want to grab a guy with a esword or a taser stun baton tho

if you can do the inputs fast enough (click to grab, usekey to upgrade, throwkey, click on/behind a wall) it can be about as fast as a disarm
basically it's like a disarm except not RNG and harder to input (and i guess it wouldn't work if the target is actively moving)

that's right, SS13 has advanced inputs. we street fighter now

[Ezel]

You just learned me a new way to murderbone easier

[Grazyn]

As a ghost, you can simply click on a xeno-spawned spider to gain control. You don't need to wait for someone to use a sentient potion. Also you won't be bound to serve anyone if you gain control this way

[Zilenan91]

Whaaaat is that for real

[Grazyn]

indeed it is

[capi duffman]

If you insert an item inside a bread or a cake, and then construct a new recipe (birthday cake, for example) the inserted item is destroyed. Slicing the resulting cake or bread won't return the item.

[Ezel]

As a ghost, you can simply click on a xeno-spawned spider to gain control. You don't need to wait for someone to use a sentient potion. Also you won't be bound to serve anyone if you gain control this way

This should be removed tbh this gives you like free valid hunting sentiemt spider powers

[Zilenan91]

It's fiiiiine

Also I wouldn't call it valids because if a nurse spider gets sentienced they lay eggs and then suddenly everyone is dead.

[Wyzack]

Player spiders are op as fuck and snowball out of control 100 percent of the time

[Zilenan91]

If xenobiologists don't want this then it's up to them to kill them, or do hostile gold slimes so they all murder each other while locked in the pen.

[Ezel]

Wait nvm i thought the xeno event thingy not xenobiologist spawned ones

[ShadowDimentio]

You can pick up knocked over monkeys with the xenobio console before the slime has killed it. If the slime is large, this has a very good chance of making it pop early.

Yes I discovered a secret in xenobio that makes it a million times better.

Why yes you can make a statue of me if you'd like. Make sure you get my good side.

[Ezel]

You can pick up knocked over monkeys with the xenobio console before the slime has killed it. If the slime is large, this has a very good chance of making it pop early.

Yes I discovered a secret in xenobio that makes it a million times better.

Why yes you can make a statue of me if you'd like. Make sure you get my good side.

Only if the lights get turned off

[Helios]

You can emote rejecting an implant and convince everyone there's a revolution

[DemonFiren]

You can emote rejecting an implant and convince everyone there's a revolution

How.

[MMMiracles]

You can emote rejecting an implant and convince everyone there's a revolution

How.

me "seems to resist the implant!"

Grayshirt seems to resist the implant!

[Helios]

You can emote rejecting an implant and convince everyone there's a revolution

How.

me "seems to resist the implant!"

Grayshirt seems to resist the implant!

I got tricked by it. It seemed to work

[Anonmare]

The Bartender's ability to throw a glass without spilling it extends to all forms of containers.

I've yet to find a use for this antagonistically but it's fun to impress people who didn't know.

[newfren]

The Bartender's ability to throw a glass without spilling it extends to all forms of containers.

I've yet to find a use for this antagonistically but it's fun to impress people who didn't know.

It actually hurts a bunch of antagonistic uses for it like dousing people in fire chems and mutagen from range.

[Zilenan91]

It still douses them if it hits them directly afaik

[Ezel]

That a modified detective revolver can two shot sec officers into crit
By leaving 60 brute 3 shots the captain and if it blows in your face it does 20 burn reasonblr enough to modify it

[Zilenan91]

Would you rather have an infinite stun ggnore gun or would you rather have a revolver that blows up in your face

[Ezel]

Would you rather have an infinite stun ggnore gun or would you rather have a revolver that blows up in your face

Well if the gun can get its first shot on the person by slowing him down by the damage then the second downs him then yes

And a taser you can adrenal out of it a very lethal gun not

[Cheimon]

Execution shots (mouth, countdown, timer) do much more damage than regular shots. They always crit, and a second shot kills. I am certain it works that way with the stechkin and laser gun, I haven't tried the detective's revolver with it but I'd be very surprised if it's different. It is, then, a good way to save ammunition.

[Ezel]

Would you rather have an infinite stun ggnore gun or would you rather have a revolver that blows up in your face

Well if the gun can get its first shot on the person by slowing him down by the damage then the second downs him then yes

And a taser you can adrenal out of it a very lethal gun not

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/obj/item/projectile/bullet
	name = "bullet"
	icon_state = "bullet"
	damage = 60
	damage_type = BRUTE
	nodamage = 0
	flag = "bullet"

...

/obj/item/projectile/bullet/weakbullet2 //detective revolver instastuns, but multiple shots are better for keeping punks down
	damage = 15
	weaken = 3
	stamina = 50

15*6 = 90 damage + 300 stamina and whatever weaken does. Two shots and they're bleeding, three shots and food won't solve their open wound. Any number of shots and they're either reaching for adrenal or they're done for.

I can't figure out where the modified revolver's chances are for have .357 chambered but I think it's at the least chance with one bullet in... which isn't efficient and RNG will always bite your arse in the end if you want to not get hurt or die.

Oh and as you're the detective against people with adrenal glands or implants, I imagine you're on the station's side with a team of redshirts with tasers/a HoP with the armoury in their backpack. You might not need to shoot to kill.


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if(!do_mob(user, target, 120) || user.zone_selected != "mouth")

If you do the "Pointing at thingy's head, deciding whether or not to spare their life" thing, I don't get the first part (I couldn't get an intuitive method to work) but if you swap what you're targeting to being the mouth, you'll shoot them after the timer's done... however it doesn't do any more damage that the usual bullet, just like any point blank shots, I think? Still it's pretty neat for an RP situation though if you have a strong gun/hurt victim.

I gone murderbone with it and it inly backfired 3-4 times auctally out of 45 shots

[Malkevin]

How do you do these execution shots?

[Remie Richards]

How do you do these execution shots?

Be next to your victim, Aim at the mouth, and click them with the gun.
After 12 seconds you'll automatically shoot them for 5x the damage of a normal bullet from the gun.

[Malkevin]

Well, I know what I'm doing next time I'm HoS

[TheWiznard]

I think I found a bug with a certain rectangular container but I don't want to report it on github because of the implications it gives for silicon players. (it's not gamebreaking but it's still a bug, I think)

Not really game changing but lately I've been setting up solars and adding an extra 6-7 solar crates to whichever one I choose and it seems to make decent power. default solars seem to make about 90000 power and adding one full solar crate brings it up to like 108000. On meta I like doing this thing Franz talked about in deadchat once where you remove the rwall to containment by engineering solars then wire the solars directly into the containment.

probably everyone knows this but the teleporter gate function is actually really useful. I set up a teleporter on mining after making an RnD/ore proccess station there and then made a gate to the bar. towards the end of the shift I moved the bar 'porter to the escape shuttle brig and managed to link it to mining before it took off. you could leave back and forth calmly every time, and it doesn't seem to fail and turn you into a fly no matter how many times you run though it.

this is totally game breaking so I'll let you in on a secret - trashbags of holding can hold 60 air horns and you can step on air horns to make them go off. 60 air horns is enough to cover the three wide tiles from departures to the escape shuttle plus some towards robotics. the cool down is extremely short for running over them. if you're a drone or have running virus you can sound worse than a Brazilian football match

[Erbbu]

this is totally game breaking so I'll let you in on a secret - trashbags of holding can hold 60 air horns and you can step on air horns to make them go off. 60 air horns is enough to cover the three wide tiles from departures to the escape shuttle plus some towards robotics. the cool down is extremely short for running over them. if you're a drone or have running virus you can sound worse than a Brazilian football match

Holy fuck.

[PKPenguin321]

Execution shots (mouth, countdown, timer) do much more damage than regular shots. They always crit, and a second shot kills. I am certain it works that way with the stechkin and laser gun, I haven't tried the detective's revolver with it but I'd be very surprised if it's different. It is, then, a good way to save ammunition.

revolvers will do multiplied damage but i don't think they'll crit. they'll max out the target's stamina damage, though.
fun fact: a slip from the clown's PDA puts a victim down for just enough time to fire an execution shot

[Remie Richards]

As I said before, execution damage is a 5x multiplier.

[Helios]

If you have the space in your bag as an officer, you can carry 4 sheets of metal. It allows you to arrest 2 people at once, by buckling one to a chair while you deal with the other.

[Anonmare]

>This revives tactical chairs

[newfren]

If you have the space in your bag as an officer, you can carry 4 sheets of metal. It allows you to arrest 2 people at once, by buckling one to a chair while you deal with the other.

You might as well carry a full stack so you can do it more often.

[Malkevin]

Drag a roller chair with you

[Ezel]

Drag a roller chair with you

If you only could attach fire extinguishers on the chair for extra speed

[Anonmare]

You can use a fire extinguisher while buckled ot propel yourself at great speed in one direction.

[Cheimon]

Drag a roller chair with you

The disadvantage of this is that roller chairs can be stolen. If someone steals it and your buckled prisoner, they have a 100% shield against taser shots behind them and can make a swift escape. A static chair cannot be moved, and is therefore one click harder to rescue a friend from.

[Helios]

Drag a roller chair with you

The disadvantage of this is that roller chairs can be stolen. If someone steals it and your buckled prisoner, they have a 100% shield against taser shots behind them and can make a swift escape. A static chair cannot be moved, and is therefore one click harder to rescue a friend from.

Yeah, it requires a regular click followed by a Ctrl click, and when they Ctrl click their intention is shown before they drag the prisoner

[InsaneHyena]

You can't sacrifce people with god hand. But you can steal their soul with a soulstone.

You can sacrifice cyborgs. Holy shit, you can sacrifice cyborgs.

[Gun Hog]

You can't sacrifce people with god hand. But you can steal their soul with a soulstone.

You can sacrifice cyborgs. Holy shit, you can sacrifice cyborgs.

The god hand is a reskinned, runtime-var-edited null rod child of the null rod, all the chaplain's weapon choices are. As such, they confer all of the protections and bonuses the null rod does (because it is same child path).

You should try sacrificing !

[PKPenguin321]

You should try sacrificing !

do not do this

[Anonmare]

You should try sacrificing !

do not do this

Do, do this.

And for newfriends.

+ washing machine =

[Malkevin]

You also always summon Nar Nar, even when she's not an objective.

[Drynwyn]

You also always summon Nar Nar, even when she's not an objective.

She's always an objective for newcult, though.

(return oldcult 2016)

[Cheimon]

I can't remember when this was last posted, but:

List menus are navigated quickly by pressing the first letter of the name of your target.

So: if watching cameras, and you need to skip to "gravity generator room", tap "g". If hypnotising someone, and you need to switch to "Joe Stunbaton", press "J". If teleporting somewhere, and you need to skip to "Wizard's den", press "W". Then press enter. It's that simple. These menus are faster than many other options if you're familiar with this usage of them, but I still see people saying the shadowling gaze interface is too slow to use, and so on. It can be virtually instant if you know the name (or can tap "u" for unknown) and press the buttons quickly.

[Venticular]

The fact that you can put an ID, a pen, and a PAI into a PDA and fit it all on your ID slot.

This is so well known but to me, when I first started, a little pubbie, this was game changing.

[Helios]

DON'T EAT ZOMBIES AS A MORPH
THE SECOND IT "WAKES UP" IT WILL SWIPE YOU FROM THE INSIDE AND KILL YOU, AND THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN DO TO STOP IT

[newfren]

The same thing happens if you eat a changeling (rip).

[InsaneHyena]

It seems that shadowlings can still ascend if their thralls were turned into zombies.