From fb1b33138d6bc6c82aeb5a53e2f7fe33dee7fb96 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: generalthrax <139387950+generalthrax@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2024 12:58:54 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] The Tip-pening (#3171) ## 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 :cl: del: Removed some irrelevant old tips of the round add: Added 80+ new tips more relevant to Shiptest's gameplay loop /:cl: --- strings/sillytips.txt | 21 +++++---- strings/tips.txt | 104 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------- 2 files changed, 89 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-) diff --git a/strings/sillytips.txt b/strings/sillytips.txt index 192dbce6362f..165e3cbe54d6 100644 --- a/strings/sillytips.txt +++ b/strings/sillytips.txt @@ -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. @@ -23,14 +19,21 @@ Plenty of things that aren't traditionally considered weapons can still be used 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. diff --git a/strings/tips.txt b/strings/tips.txt index 6a8c54086d94..85eda2e01283 100644 --- a/strings/tips.txt +++ b/strings/tips.txt @@ -19,33 +19,26 @@ You can screwdriver any non-chemical grenade to shorten fuses from 5 seconds, to If you find yourself in a fistfight with another player, staying on the offensive is usually the smart move. Running away often won't accomplish much. Different weapons have different strengths. Some weapons, such as spears, floor tiles, and throwing stars, deal more damage when thrown compared to when attacked normally. A thrown glass of water can make a slippery tile, allowing you to slow down your pursuers in a pinch. -When dealing with security, you can often get your sentence negated entirely through cooperation and deception. -Experiment with different setups of the supermatter engine to maximize output, but don't risk the crew's safety to do so! We were all new once, be patient and guide new players in the right direction. On most clothing items that go in the exosuit slot, you can put certain small items into your suit storage, such as a spraycan, your emergency oxygen tank, or a flashlight. Most job-related exosuit clothing can fit job-related items into it, such as the atmospheric technician's hardsuit/winter coat holding an RPD, or labcoats holding most medicine. If you're using hotkey mode, you can stop pulling things using H. If there's something you need from others, try asking! This game isn't singleplayer and you'd be surprised what you can get accomplished together! You'll quickly lose your interest in the game if you play to win and kill. If you find yourself doing this, take a step back and talk to people - it's a much better experience! -Felinids get temporarily distracted by laser pointers. Use this to your advantage when being pursued by one. Don't be afraid to ask for help, whether from your peers or from mentors. As the Captain, you have absolute access and control over your ship, but this does not mean that being a horrible person won't result in mutiny and a ban. A medical hardsuit can hold an entire medkit in its suit storage! -While both heal toxin damage, the difference between charcoal and antitoxin is that charcoal will actively remove all other reagents from one's body, while antitoxin only removes various toxins - but can overdose. -You can surgically implant or extract things from people's chests. This can range from putting in a bomb to pulling out an alien larva. +While both heal toxin damage, the difference between charcoal and dylovene is that charcoal will actively remove all other reagents from one's body, while dylovene only removes various toxins - but can overdose. +You can surgically implant or extract things from people's chests using either organ manipulation or cavity implant surgeries. This can range from putting in a bomb to pulling out an alien larva. Using disarm attempt will intentionally fail a surgery step. Corpses with the "...and their soul has departed" description no longer have a ghost attached to them and aren't revivable or clonable. -Treating plasmamen is not impossible! Salbutamol stops them from suffocating and showers stop them from burning alive. You can even perform surgery on them by doing the procedure on a roller bed under a shower. +Treating plasmamen is not impossible! Salbutamol stops them from suffocating and showers or stasis beds stop them from burning alive. You can even perform surgery on them by doing the procedure on a roller bed under a shower. You can extract implants by holding an empty implant case in your offhand while performing the extraction step. There are dozens of chemicals that can heal, and even more that can cause harm. Experiment! Some chemicals can only be synthesized by heating up the contents with a chemical heater or manually with lighters and similar tools. You can recharge a chemical dispenser with an inducer or by replacing its cell. Water and Potassium mixed together will create an explosion, with power scaling by amount used. Don't do it. -You can eject someone from cloning early by disabling power in the room. Note that they will suffer more genetic damage and may lose vital organs from this. -Being a hulk makes you capable of dealing high melee damage, stunlocking people, and punching through walls. However, you can't fire guns, will lose your hulk status if you go into critical condition. You can take AIs out of their cores by loading them into an intelliCard, which lets you see their laws, It can also be placed into an AI system integrity restorer computer to revive and/or repair them. -You can use the mutation toxin obtained from green slimes to create various mutation toxins by mixing it with various chemicals! -You can maximize the number of uses you get out of a slime by feeding it slime steroid, created from purple slimes, while alive. You can then apply extract enhancer, created from cerulean slimes, on each extract. You can repair your cyborgs with a welding tool if they have brute damage, if they have burn damage, you can remove their battery, expose the wiring with a screwdriver and replace their wires with a cable coil. You can reset a cyborg's module by cutting and mending the reset wire with a wire cutter. You can augment people with cyborg limbs. Augmented limbs can easily be repaired with cables and welders. @@ -55,45 +48,33 @@ As a AI, you can take pictures with your camera and upload them to newscasters. As a AI, you can use CTRL + 1-9 to set a location hotkey for your camera, allowing you to save the location and jump to it at will. Tilde and zero will return you to the last spot you jumped from, and the numpad numbers act as aliases to the regular number keys. As a Cyborg, choose your module carefully, as only cutting and mending your reset wire will let you repick it. If possible, refrain from choosing a module until a situation that requires one occurs. As a Cyborg, you are immune to most forms of stunning, and excel at almost everything far better than humans. However, flashes can easily stunlock you and you cannot do any precision work as you lack hands. -As a Cyborg, you are impervious to fires and heat. If you are rogue, you can release plasma fires everywhere and walk through them without a care in the world! -As a Cyborg, you are extremely vulnerable to EMPs as EMPs both stun you and damage you. The ion rifle in the armory or a traitor with an EMP kit can kill you in seconds. +As a Cyborg, you are impervious to fires and heat. +As a Cyborg, you are extremely vulnerable to EMPs as EMPs both stun you and damage you. As a Service Cyborg, your spray can knocks people down. However, it is blocked by masks and glasses. As an Engineering Cyborg, you can attach air alarm/fire alarm/APC frames to walls by placing them on the floor and using a screwdriver on them. As a Medical Cyborg, you can fully perform surgery and even augment people. You can rename areas or create entirely new ones using your ship expansion permit. The chief engineer’s hardsuit is significantly better than other engineering hardsuits. It has the best features of both engineering and atmospherics hardsuits - boasting nigh-invulnerability to radiation and all atmospheric conditions. The supermatter shard is an extremely dangerous piece of equipment: touching it will disintegrate you. So will touching it with telepathy. -You can electrify grilles by placing wire "nodes" beneath them: the big seemingly unconnected bulges from a half completed wiring job. +Wire "nodes" (big, seemingly unconnected bulges from half completed wiring jobs) are able to do several things: link up thrusters to prechargers, hook up PACMAN generators, and shock grilles among other things. You can cool a supermatter crystal by spraying it with a fire extinguisher. Only for the brave! You can repair windows by using a welding tool on them while on any intent other than harm. -Don't underestimate the humble P.A.C.M.A.N. generators. A RCD can be reloaded with metal, glass or plasteel sheets instead of just compressed matter cartridges. You can unwrench a pipe regardless of the pressures of the gases inside, but if they're too high they can burst out and injure you! -ATMOS holofan projector blocks gases while allowing objects to pass through. With it, you can quickly contain gas spills, fires and hull breaches. Or, use it to seal a plasmaman cloning room. +ATMOS holofan projector blocks gases while allowing objects to pass through. With it, you can quickly contain gas spills, fires and hull breaches. Beware, they wear off after an amount of time highlighted by numbers on the fans. You can change the layer of a pipe by clicking with it on a wrenched pipe or other atmos component of the desired layer. -As a Clown, if you lose your banana peel, you can still slip people with your PDA! Honk! -As a Clown, eating bananas heals you slightly. Honk! -As a Clown, your Grail is the mineral bananium, which can be used to build you a fun and robust mech beloved by everyone. -As a Clown, you can use your stamp on a sheet of cardboard as the first step of making a honkbot. Fun for the whole crew! -As a Clown, spice your gimmicks up! Nobody likes a one-trick pony. -The null rod has anti magic functions: it makes you immune to magic. Books can be turned into a container that can store small items using wire cutters, bibles have this ability without needing to cut it. You can hack the MegaSeed Vendor to get access to more exotic seeds. These seeds can alternatively be ordered from a express console You can mutate the plants with unstable mutagen or, as an alternative, grow glowshrooms for their radium which also mutates plants to start you up! While growing plants you should look into increasing the potency of your plants. This increases the size, amount of chemicals, points gained from grinding them in the biogenerator, and lets people know you are a proficient botanist. You can create a very wide variety of food with the crafting menu. You can find it by looking for the hammer icon near your intents. You can rename custom food with a pen. -any cooked food will be much healthier than the junk food found in vendors. Having the crew routinely eating cooked will provide minor buffs. +Any cooked food will be much healthier than the junk food found in vendors. Most non-custom foods will have a secondary effect, ranging from healing you to making you move at lightspeed. Experiment! Mousetraps can be used to create bombs or booby-trap containers. -You can order contraband items from a express console without hacking it. -You can earn more cargo points by shipping back crates, liquid containers, plasma sheets, rare seeds from hydroponics, and more! -The express supply console can instantly delivers crates by drop pod. The impact will cause a small explosion as well. Every monster has a pattern you can exploit to minimize damage from the encounters. You can harvest goliath plates from goliaths and upgrade your explorer's suit, mining hardsuits as well as Firefighter APLUs with them, greatly reducing incoming melee damage. You can craft a variety of equipment from the local fauna. Bone axes, lava boats and ash drake armour are just a few of them! -As a Monkey, you can crawl through air or scrubber vents by alt+left clicking them. You must drop everything you are wearing and holding to do this, however. -As a Monkey, you can still wear a few human items, such as backpacks, gas masks and hats, and still have two free hands. As a Drone, you can ping other drones to alert them of areas in need of repair. As a Ghost, you can see the inside of a container on the ground by clicking on it. As a Ghost, you can double click on just about anything to follow it. Or just warp around! @@ -106,3 +87,72 @@ You can light a cigar on a supermatter crystal. Using sticky tape on items can make them stick to people and walls! Be careful, grenades might stick to your hand during the moment of truth! In a pinch, stripping yourself naked will give you a sizeable resistance to being tackled. What do you value more, your freedom or your dignity? Wearing riot armor makes you significantly more effective at performing tackle takedowns, but will use extra stamina with each leap! It will also significantly protect you from other tackles! +As the Captain of your vessel, do not neglect the responsibilities of your command. You are the anchor the crew is expected to rely upon, and not being present or authoritative will hurt the experience. +As a vessel's second in command, you have the unique position of being able to temper the behaviour of the Captain. Obey their orders, but do not be afraid to offer your own advice or shoulder some of command's responsibilities. +It is highly ill-advised to run off on your own while exploring. Many ruins and planets are perilous and a match for even experienced players, and having someone to watch your back will save you a lot of trouble. +More often that not, most ships will be apply-only. Don't be afraid to read the memo and try for an application, many captains simply want to curate a certain type of behaviour aboard their vessels. +Captaining is one of the best ways to curate a faction. Set standards, distinguish yourself and your crew, and keep them engaged, and they'll be coming back not only to your ship, but also to the faction. +Most improvised ways of providing medical aid or reviving the dead can be slow or dangerous to the person if you or your character are inexperienced with medicine. Don't be afraid to call for a medical ship if the situation is dire. +In the event most or all of your crew is incapacitated or dead, don't be afraid to ahelp to ask for a distress call. They'll be happy to get you back into the round and the medical ships will be happy as well. +Don't be afraid to ahelp if you're unsure about another player's conduct. If they're making you uncomfortable or hurting the experience, the admins would be happy to sort things out. +Many plants on sand and lava worlds are medicinal, and can stretch your supplies. +For higher tier drill contracts, its recommended to bring a toolbox, spare stock parts, and plasteel if you're not confident in your abilities. The drill is prone to running low on power or needing to be repaired if damaged. +Many weapons can get sawed off, hurting their accuracy and occasionally ammo capacity but wildly compacting them. Hunter's Pride shotguns, the Flaming Arrow, the Illestren, among others, are included. +Static anomalies will cause brain damage in close proximity. Minimize contact with them. +Gravitational anomalies (thronglers) can quickly kill if they're intense. Sometimes, a chair can be used to get close to neutralize them, but do so at your own risk. They cause heavy brute damage. +Certain anomalies like heartbeat, vein, jumper, or plasmasoul anomalies can interact with you through walls. Be careful docking to worlds with anomalies. +Safe speed for carp migrations are under 2 GM/s, for asteroids are below 3 GM/s, and for dust is below 7 GM/s. There is no safe speed for electrical storms, you need full grounding rod coverage. +You can sometimes minimize damage from electrical storms by turning off lights and preventing all source of passive light from touching the outside of the vessel. It is notoriously gimmicky, though, do so at your own risk. +Dwarf legions tend to try and run back towards you if you're too far away. Lure them in for an attack by withdrawing before they retreat again. +Brimdemons oftentimes will strike you with a single melee attack before fleeing for another beam. Back away once they're done firing to minimize chip damage. +You can examine someone twice to see which limb they're bleeding from, to administer gauze or sutures. +Vox are allergic to Ephedrine, Atropine, Epinephrine, Mannitol, Antihol, and Stimulants. Not lethal in small amounts, but it is recommended to purge these reagents if you've made a mistake. +Grinded iron or iron pills from oxygen deprivation kits can be used to slowly regenerate blood in living people, if your blood supplies are thin. +Crystal goliaths, elite mobs, and ancient goliaths give research points on dissection, varying from 5000 to 40000 depending on technology and mob. +Crystal legions and crystal goliaths are extremely dangerous up close. Try and eliminate them quickly from range with powerful firearms. +The smaller the vessel, the more throttle will effect your acceleration. If you're piloting a subshuttle, it's recommended to keep low throttle and adjust to your liking. +Plasma thrusters can allow for extreme speed, but it is recommended to conserve them. You can minimize fuel consumption by using them in small bursts with a low throttle before turning them back off. +Jackhammers can be used to quickly break down walls for breaching or salvage. +Blast doors can be taken apart for a fair amount of plasteel, if you're hurting on fuel. +Kepori have an innate ability to tackle. It can take the enemy off guard, but recommend a helmet if you're using it near walls or prone to miss. +Laser and energy weapons have a cell that can be removed with a screwdriver. If you're removing a cell from a weapon that is not in your hand (on a suit storage slot, for example), the cell will go into your hand instead of the ground. +Frontiersmen clothes and Ramzi Clique rusted red hardsuits are established pirate equipment, and you're likely to be fired upon if you wear them. Use at your own risk. +You can access the black market by building an uplink with a handheld radio, analyzer, and scanning module. It tends to have a random selection of unique items at highly varied prices. You can purchase a LTSRBT from the outpost for a more convenient delivery. +Most armour sets outside of hardsuits do not cover the limbs. Give yourself an advantage by firing on someones legs or arms to slow them down or shoot out their weapon. +You can remove prosthetics or IPC / FBP limbs with prosthetic removal surgery, even on yourself. +You can early eject the en bloc of Illestrens by not firing the last round and clicking on the rifle with your empty hand to take it out manually, for a fast and tactical reload. +The HP Shadow cannot reload all rounds at once with a speedloader, it must be reloaded one round at a time. +You can make an emergency landing by docking to an empty space if you've lost control of your speed or are about to crash into hazards. +It is safe to cross over the tile the system sun is on. Trust me, I've tried. +Acid tiles and acid from anomalies can be sprayed off with fire extinguishers. +You can extinguish yourself without walls nearby by clicking the tile you're on with your extinguisher. +It's wise to carry a pocket extinguisher on sand and lava worlds, for acid and lava respectively. +Directional firelocks can quickly minimize pressure loss from holofield failures, if your vessel lacks them. +Holofields rely on extra power being on the wire net. Make sure power load is a fair bit higher than the draw so you don't get launched into vacuum. +Elzuose are able to heal a respectable amount of damage by rooting in soil or grass. It gives a sizable mood increase, as well as charging your battery. +If you're confused about the contents of an alcoholic drink bottle, you can examine to more often than not see what it contains on the label. +If you don't feel like grinding 500 basic power cells to make potassium, you can buy chemicals from the outpost in bulk. +You can synthesize most chems by clicking certain reagents with stock parts. Examples being Iodine to Bromine with a scanning module and water into 2:1 hydrogen / oxygen with a capacitor. +Perfluorodecalin in oxygen deprivation kits convert oxygen damage to toxin damage at a very effective ratio. Just know what you're doing and be prepared to administer anti-tox chems if it is a large amount of damage. +Epi-pens contain a small amount of formaldehyde, that prevents organs from decaying while they're in a body's system. Use it to give yourself more time while reviving. +Anomalies will give two frequencies when you analyze them, a primary and a secondary, unstable frequency. The primary will neutralize, and the unstable will more often than not cause an explosion or a similar negative effect. +Landmines have 4 wires; one disarms the mind, the other deactivates the pressure plate, another blows it up, and another blows it up on a delay. +You can tamper with landmines from range by pulsing the wires with signalers. +Not everyone is from their species' homeworld. It can be common for a human to have a Kalixcian or Teceian name, for example. +It can be fun to brainstorm new characters. Give it a shot, you might like it. +You can create entire new shuttles and subshuttles with a shuttle manipulator either from RND or from the outpost. It's usually resource and money-intensive, so be prepared! +Class 3 drills are incredibly dangerous alone or in small groups, even if you're experienced with mining and combat. Bring along a larger crew or call someone willing to help if you're thinking of taking them on. +Most smaller ships can be easily made immune to electrical storms if grounding rods are spaced out around the hull. You can make some quick money from rarely-taken storm contracts. +Ripleys are able to hold up to ten crates and other miscellaneous items like PACMAN generators using a hydraulic clamp. The scrapper's favourite. +Fights can be heavily in favour of the defenders if you play your cards right. Get good angles, turn off lights to give yourself cover, and be able to fire from multiple areas. More than likely, you'll know your environment better than the attacker. +Crate shelves can be used to maximize storage in your cargo bays. No more messes for you. +You can fashion cloth into a rag to clean up your vessel if you've tracked in some blood. +Some ships might prioritize characters exclusively from a faction in their memos, and that's okay! You can experiment with new characters to join, or join / captain another ship. +Moths, if their wings are intact, have full mobility in zero gravity environments that have an atmosphere. +Vox are near-unmatched in hand-to-hand fighting; their kicks deal extra damage and hurt organs. +IPC posibrains are contained in the chest, not the head. +Shiptest has uptime on Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays. +Exosuits are not as durable as they might feel, and it is still wise to take cover with them. +Turning on strafing mode on a mech for combat is wise, and allows you to keep your firing lines constantly on the enemy. +A Gygax's leg actuators drain the cell very quickly. Use sparingly. +Installing higher tier capacitors on mechs increases power efficiency on mech abilities, weapons, and idling.