Sneeze Rework: Projectile Combat Edition

[Time-Green]

About The Pull Request

Reworks sneezing. Instead of a range check that checks if you're facing someone, it is now a skill check

get.sneezed.idiot.mp4

All sneezes shoot projectiles, but depends on the virus if they're infectious. Using the sneeze emote is the only method that doesn't shoot a sneeze

Why It's Good For The Game

I think the invisible infection mechanics are unfun. A lot of station dangers challenge your knowledge and mechanical skill, while viruses are gotten by being around people in a roleplay game. You can get a round seriously ruined if you walk past someone with a sneezing virus and don't immediately rush spaceillin or chemistry, which I don't think is mechanically interesting.

Now if you get infected, it's a skill issue. Get good and dodge the sneeze

Note that this is just one method of infection. I didn't touch coughing and airborne viruses, which do constant area checks and infect everyone around. I plan to, but not now. I'll probably make coughing do a cone or something, and ignore the airborne viruses since they can't be modified and are generally less broken

Changelog

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balance: You can now dodge sneezes
balance: Infectious simple diseases that use sneezes now infect with sneezes and have lowered airborn transmission
balance: Damageless attacks, projectiles, hugs etc no longer drain shields
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• Make sneezes shoot to your cursor so you can either intentionally sneeze on people or sneeze away from people if you react fast

[Sadboysuss]

how does this interact with manual sneezing?

[MrMelbert]

Doesn't this mean differentiating a fake sneeze from a real sneeze incredibly obvious?
For stuff like fake virus, but also for when you have a stealth virus?

[Time-Green]

Doesn't this mean differentiating a fake sneeze from a real sneeze incredibly obvious? For stuff like fake virus, but also for when you have a stealth virus?

I can make ALL sneezes shoot I guess. I kinda don't want it to devolve into a disgusting sneeze firefight, but I could probably make player emoted sneezes the only non-shooting sneeze

[the-orange-cow]

This looks gross, thumbs up.

Edit: does the high stat super sneeze have a unique animation/projectile?

[DaCoolBoss]

Could it spray a shotgun spread of disease instead of a single projectile? Seems a little too easy for a sneezer not to accidentally infect anyone. Also how does this work with sent diseases forced sneeze?

[Dawnseer]

Yeah give us that colossus final attack pattern for the sneezes

[LePiromano]

please make it parriable with the miner style meter attachment

[DrAmazing343]

I agree with the "Sneeze Skill-Shot," but I don't think the "Sneeze Particles" should be visible at all. It's a bit of visual clutter and when medbay is full of The Sneezerrrrs it'll be kinda funny to see crisscrossing attack patterns but ultimately, as I said, will be quite a bit of visual clutter.

[Admiral-Gigaton]

Incredibly funny, incredibly stupid

While you technically shouldn't be able to see a sneeze so easily, if you can in fact parry a sneeze or use the projectile slowdown module on a modsuit to avoid it, that's fucking gold. Especially if a wizard just tike stops to avoid a lil sneezy poo

[PKPenguin321]

please please please please please add something that lets you weaponize this so you can run around 360 noscoping people with sneezes. maybe a gene. it would be really funny

[Time-Green]

@necromanceranne @MrMelbert Shielded component now doesn’t consume charges for 0 damage shots (disablers and stuff do stamina damage which still counts)

[Exester509]

please please please please please add something that lets you weaponize this so you can run around 360 noscoping people with sneezes. maybe a gene. it would be really funny

Sneeze pistol for traitor doctors coming right up

[Time-Green]

Uploading get snipe sneezed.mp4…

Uses discrete mouse catchers during charge up phase, so it now sneezes where your mouse is (within your sneezecone). If you're hovering over someone, you're more likely to sneeze in their face. Really just intended to be unnecessarily mean and force people to sneeze on people they're likely interacting with

[Watermelon914]

Not entirely sold on this.
I don't think diseases spread being invisible is a bad thing, and it feels less authentic and interesting to make it more visible. Not everything needs to have blatant user feedback, and diseases are a good example of that. They're visible in the form of someone coughing or sneezing around you, but they're not blatantly visible to tell you that you've been infected by someone who's coughing and sneezing.

You can only deduce that you've been infected long after the symptoms start showing, and that's consistent with how I want diseases to be. It breaks my suspension of disbelief to know I've been infected or not based on whether a visible (should be invisible) particle hits me.

[Time-Green]

Sneezes now fire shotgun spread and have lowered opacity

Space.Station.13.2024-05-23.21-25-25.mp4

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