Hivelord Strain: Designer #7703

Venuska1117 · 2024-11-29T20:44:15Z

About the pull request

Add new Hivelord Strain: Designer

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Thanks to vile beggar and gay harry for general help with code and explanation.

Explain why it's good for the game

As Xeno Player, who have 800h as xeno, and spend 150h as builder castes (Hivelord, Drone, Queen) it always made me feel pain, when i spend 20-30min building fortyfications, just for them to be destroyed by CAS spam or OB's, i know its their purpose to create opportunity and destroy blockages, but most people get de-motivated to play as builder, in nearly 50-70% of games, there is no one who want to go hivelord, and the ones who go hivelords are ones who actually "care" to make impact in game.

This create issues like quick game ends, where xenos get rushed to the hive (if even queen cares to build their hives with any reinforcements), this strain is going to change that, in exchange of lacking ability to build, it now do "synergy" where it help other builder castes like: Drone, Hivelord, Whisperer, Queen and Lesser Drones Build.

Designer Abilities:

Far Sight:
Silimar to Whisperer, it was added to this strain, so it can give intel or help Whisperer build.

Design Speed Node:
-Reduces Speed of making structures by 50%
-Speed Buff DO NOT apply on Hivelords (all types)
-Speed Node can be constructed on Semi-weedable, as long as there are weeds present, its because of "Greather Resin
Surge" ability.

Stats:

Plasma Cost: 100
Cooldown: 0.5s
Ability Windup: 1s
Ability Range: 10 Tiles
Max Alive Nodes: 6

Design Cost Node:
-Reduces Cost of making structures by 50%
-Cost Reduction only apply on: Resin Walls, Doors, Reflective and Membrane
-Cost Node can be constructed on Semi-weedable, as long as there are weeds present, its because of "Greather Resin Surge" ability.

Stats:

Plasma Cost: 125
Cooldown: 0.5s
Ability Windup: 1s
Ability Range: 10 Tiles
Max Alive Nodes: 6

Greater Resin Surge:
-This Ability Replaces all existing Design Nodes like Speed Node and Cost node, with weak resin walls (similar to gardener resin surge).

Stats:

Plasma Cost: 250
Cooldown: 30s
Ability Windup: 1s

Wall stats:

Health: 100
Life duration: 10 seconds.

Designer Summary:

Summary: A Strain That can improve other builders life for exchange of not be able to build by itself, it require other players to make walls/structures, it behaves similar to resin whisperer, so it can build Design nodes on range, but with bigger impact.

Pros:

Can create Speed Nodes.
Can create Cost Nodes.
Have Far Sight
Can use Greater Resin Surge
"tacklestrength_max" is increased from 6 to 7.
Phermones Tier: Strong.
Max of 12 Nodes sustained at same time (6 per Node type)

Cons:

Cannot Build Resin structures.
Its dependant on other builder castes.
-80 Health. (470hp)
-50% plasma pool. (500p)
can only "Design" on weeds
Slower plasma gain (4.5 instead of 5.5)

Video and Photos

Screenshots & Videos

2024-12-27.15-23-06.mp4

Changelog

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- Added hivelord description and flavor text. - Added Animations for weeds building. - Added New icons for Abilities. cleaned some code.

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code/modules/mob/living/carbon/xenomorph/strains/castes/hivelord/designer.dm

PhantornRU

So many spaceeees...

Your code blocks are the same and are a continuation of its execution. There is no need to separate them in such cases, otherwise it creates unnecessary ladders.
Use divisions when you need to specifically separate code blocks indicating the execution of different operations.
I.e.: If you do something with animation, then you have a whole block of code for animation, you should not separate it into pieces and separate lines.
It is the same with checks.

code/modules/mob/living/carbon/xenomorph/strains/castes/hivelord/designer.dm

PhantornRU

Length() better then .len

code/modules/mob/living/carbon/xenomorph/strains/castes/hivelord/designer.dm

code/modules/cm_aliens/weeds.dm

code/modules/mob/living/carbon/xenomorph/Powers.dm

PhantornRU

OOP...

code/game/turfs/walls/wall_types.dm

PhantornRU · 2025-01-05T04:07:28Z

out-of-date

Venuska1117 · 2025-01-05T20:43:40Z

out-of-date

done.

cm13-github · 2025-01-10T05:43:34Z

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cm13-github · 2025-01-11T14:38:55Z

Conflicts have been resolved. A maintainer will review the pull request shortly.

kiVts

probably missed something, not cooking today.

kiVts · 2025-01-11T19:20:08Z

code/modules/cm_aliens/weeds.dm

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 	desc = "Weird black weeds..."
 	icon = 'icons/mob/xenos/weeds.dmi'
 	icon_state = "base"
+	var/icon_state_weeds //Change icon_state for weeds/node subtype.


new var definition after overrides

kiVts · 2025-01-11T19:23:23Z

code/modules/mob/living/carbon/xenomorph/strains/castes/hivelord/designer.dm

+	return ..()
+
+/datum/action/xeno_action/activable/design_cost_node/proc/remove_oldest_cost_node(mob/living/carbon/xenomorph/xeno)
+	if(xeno.cost_node_list.len > 0)


Venuska1117 and others added 8 commits October 6, 2024 23:55

It works but not fully.

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Making some progress i guess?

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Still trying to figure it out.

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Merge branch 'cmss13-devs:master' into y|hivelord-designer-strain

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Venuska1117 changed the title ~~New Hivelord Strain: Designer~~ Hivelord Strain: Designer Nov 29, 2024

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- Added hivelord description and flavor text. - Added Animations for weeds building. - Added New icons for Abilities. cleaned some code.

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maybe this will fix issue.

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Designer Abilities:

Designer Summary:

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