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The Tip-pening (#3171)
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## About The Pull Request

Removes a grand majority of the station-based / bad tips from selection,
and adds around 80 new ones.

## Why It's Good For The Game

A lot of these old tips were no longer relevant to Shiptest's gameplay
loop. These new ones are a combination of roleplay, command, combat,
survival, and general gameplay tips that come from my own knowledge of
in-game mechanics.

## Changelog

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del: Removed some irrelevant old tips of the round
add: Added 80+ new tips more relevant to Shiptest's gameplay loop
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generalthrax authored Jul 8, 2024
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Expand Up @@ -5,16 +5,12 @@ When a round ends nearly everything about it is lost forever, leave your salt be
Killing the entire sector isn't fun except when it is.
You can win a pulse rifle from the arcade machine. Honest.
Just like real life the entropy of the game can only increase with time. If things aren't on fire yet, just wait.
Completing your objectives is good practice, but the best antagonists will strive to do more than the bare minimum to really leave an impression.
The more obscure and underused a game mechanic is, the less likely your victims are to be able to deal with it.
Space is cold and it will quickly freeze you to death if you don't protect yourself. This isn't how thermodynamics really works but just go with it.
Blobs are weak to fire! Use a flame thrower for maximum damage!
Cleanbot.
The wizard is supposed to be extremely strong in one on one combat, stop getting mad about it.
Sometimes a round will just be a bust. C'est la vie.
This is a game that is constantly being developed for. Expect things to be added, removed, fixed, and broken on a daily basis.
It's fun to try and predict the round type from the tip of the round message.
The quartermaster is not a head of staff and will never be one.
The bird remembers.
Your sprite represents your hitbox, so that afro makes you easier to kill. The sacrifices we make for style.
Sometimes admins will just do stuff. Roll with it.
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DEATH IS IMMINENT!
This game is older than most of the people playing it.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Flashbangs can weaken blob tiles, allowing for you and the crew to easily destroy them.
Just the tip?
Some people are unable to read text on a game where half of it is based on text.
As the Captain, you can use a whetstone to sharpen your fancy fountain pen for extra robustness.
As the Lawyer, you are the last bastion of roleplay-focused jobs. Even the curator got a whip to go fight people with, that sellout!
There are at least 11 ways to get through plastic flaps. How many can you name?
FEED ME A STRAY CAT
Did you know that tossing the clown into a singularity will either increase or decrease its size by a large amount?
Most items have names longer than "soap".
Demoman takes skill.
Ask and you shall receive.
Top Ten Goliath Moments!!!
Sometimes your ship will randomly disappear or obliterate you or get cleaved in half or any combination of the above. Don't dock to a planet at the same time as someone else or undock as someone is docking.
Go on. Saw off those beautiful Hunter's Pride stocks. The Huntsman is watching.
The Drinkening has put countless shiptester's basic reading compehension to the test. Will you succumb?
No, going really really fast through an electric storm won't render you immune.
None of you would survive the uptime drought.
Innumberable frontiersmen have died valiantly in a subshuttle chokepoint attempting to board. Sometimes, a direct subshuttle dock isn't the best tactical move.
Full-body prosthesis are still biological and have normal blood. Don't pump a full bag of coolant into their veins, you.
The shotgun may never miss, but it has low armour penetration with buckshot.
When your gun gives off a pathetic click, it's out of ammo. Mashing the trigger more in a panic won't restore your ammo.
The Trabuco is a crime against the Huntsman and the universe. There's a possibility it'll kill either yourself, your crew, the target, or all of the above.
Don't be the captain found dead in a pit, legioned, with 600 brute and every bone in their body broken.
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