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Isaac posted:I had a botanist weld the doors to botany shut and bolted and electrified them. Then he attempted to kill me for entering the department. I was also a botanist but this didnt matter to anyone To be fair though when some shitheel latejoins and pours all your saltpeter into what is essentially the trash while you're tryna make fuckin' omegaweed so you can further your Victory Position posted:Try dumping some magnesium on the floor sometime! can I snort it? Also can I do the same thing with potassium so when I flood the station is also simultaneously explodes? Motherfucker fucked around with this message at 11:46 on Sep 21, 2018 |
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For best results, use a combination of potassium and thermite.
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Sep 21, 2018 13:06
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To chime in on defending your department, you sort of have to play that way if you want to actually last through the round. When someone just busts into a department where they shouldn’t be, you have to assume they are a changeling and be aggressive. If they aren’t an antag, fine, they get the hint and you can go on doing whatever the hell you were doing. If they are an antag, you at least have a chance to put up a fight before getting murdered. I have had way too many rounds end early not to be immediately suspicious of every single person or borg I see. If that’s my attitude, I assume that is other people’s attitude. So, if I need something from a department, I use the radio instead of just breaking in and taking it. Most people are pretty accommodating if you are polite, the exception being people doing chemistry or genetics.
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Sep 21, 2018 14:26
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SnotGrumble posted:To chime in on defending your department, you sort of have to play that way if you want to actually last through the round. When someone just busts into a department where they shouldn’t be, you have to assume they are a changeling and be aggressive. If they aren’t an antag, fine, they get the hint and you can go on doing whatever the hell you were doing. If they are an antag, you at least have a chance to put up a fight before getting murdered. I have had way too many rounds end early not to be immediately suspicious of every single person or borg I see. If that’s my attitude, I assume that is other people’s attitude. So, if I need something from a department, I use the radio instead of just breaking in and taking it. Most people are pretty accommodating if you are polite, the exception being people doing chemistry or genetics. I'm sure genetics would be polite if you let them experiment on you and riddle you with any lovely genes they found.
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Sep 21, 2018 15:41
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I only riddle them with the non-lethal lovely ones though You might be a glowing lizard man with tourettes that can only say BUFFFF but your round isn't over
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Sep 21, 2018 17:44
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Booty Pageant posted:asking??? is a fart not enough of a formality for you?? i mean, basically the only thing the chef can loving do is cook food in the kitchen that will almost never actually get eaten if the few people who actually want cooked food just break into the kitchen and wordlessly make it themselves, despite the chef being right there, then there's no point to being a chef at all - it's just a staff assistant who has a funny hat and can't talk right if i need something from a department, and the department is manned by someone who isn't obviously uninterested in doing the job, i'll usually at least give them the opportunity to do the job for me before I break in and just do it myself there is also the fact that someone breaking into your department without a word has a much higher chance of being there to murder you, yeah. but if i'm not going to get to do my job/gimmick anyway, i might as well just loving die, rather than trying to graysuit up and come up with a new gimmick when the round's already half over
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Sep 21, 2018 17:53
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Goast posted:but your round isn't over indeed, it has only just begun bring back the random mindswap mutation, by the way, it was the best
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Sep 21, 2018 19:11
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Oshan disaster round someday..
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So, what are the rules regarding the treatment of player-controlled monkeys as a non-antag? Last night, someone playing a monkey was being a nuisance and followed me into the stock trading area, so I closed the door on them and trapped them in there as a I left. I was going to leave them, but I felt bad to potentially ruin someone’s round, so I let them out after a couple of minutes. I think I did the right thing, but was it within my rights to leave them there?
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SnotGrumble posted:So, what are the rules regarding the treatment of player-controlled monkeys as a non-antag? quote:Even though it is a jerk move to attack other players without an excuse, monkeys are usually considered fair game. Since monkeys are frequently a changeling in disguise, people are likely to attack them on sight. Also the monkey probably could've escaped just fine if there was a mail chute in the room.
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Sep 24, 2018 16:32
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SnotGrumble posted:So, what are the rules regarding the treatment of player-controlled monkeys as a non-antag? Given that you're not the AI and aren't specifically following laws of some sort, pretty sure the rules apply to all player-controlled entities equally, outside of certain edge cases.
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Sep 24, 2018 16:34
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What if it was a clown monkey
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I played my first few rounds yesterday. My first round I entered the station midway to find some sort of death machine rigged up, with the words SUICIDE written on the floor. I asked who my boss was and was given a name, but was also informed that that was currently a monkey who was throwing people into the suicide machine. As they said that the monkey appeared and tried to throw someone into the suicide machine. Next round I wandered over to some sort of blob to see if it would consume me after starting as a miner, crashing my mine pod into most things, and driving into a trench where some sort of fish attacked me. Final round I was a cyborg. I hung out in the starting area (robotics?) for awhile as a mediborg. Someone came in and started crafting things followed by someone else dragging a space bear with them. They asked for help doing surgery so I cut off the requested arm (I guess I have to alternate between saw & scalpel?). I couldn't figure out how to pick things up to stick the arm on him but I guess he figured it out himself, cause he jumped up with a wiggly bear arm and proceeded to leave on his own via smashing through the wall. This game is fun and weird. Switching items seems really funky tho, like selecting them seems to take a couple clicks.
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Hotkeys are going to be your biggest friend. A few useful ones (when in WASD mode): C - Use item in active hand. This will activate a PDA in your hand, let you eat food, or many other actions where you would normally need to click the item in your active hand. E - Switch active hand. This will toggle between your left and right hands. Q - Drop item. This will put the item in your active hand on the ground. V - Equip item. This will either equip the clothing item in your active hand to an equipment slot, or swap an existing item in that slot with the item in your hand. Much faster and easier than unequipping clothes, then having to find the slot the clothing goes into. This will also let you change your jumpsuit without dumping your entire inventory on the ground. Shift - Run! Holding this will let you move faster at the cost of stamina. This also works in Walk mode, with the added benefit of not slipping on water or banana peels. F - Fart. Press this to get people's attention. Combine with Ctrl-S for proper spaceman ettiquette.
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Sep 25, 2018 19:45
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Dieting Hippo posted:F - Fart. Press this to get people's attention. New thread title please
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Sep 25, 2018 19:58
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Ive played for years i didnt know you could run
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Sep 25, 2018 20:21
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Why run when you can get horribly murdered?
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Sep 25, 2018 20:24
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Isaac posted:Ive played for years i didnt know you could run I miss the bug, pre stamina and running, where pressing 1 on the numpad to move southwest made you move so much faster than any other direction. Saved my butt many a time.
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Sep 26, 2018 06:06
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monolithburger posted:I miss the bug, pre stamina and running, where pressing 1 on the numpad to move southwest made you move so much faster than any other direction. Saved my butt many a time. I don't think that was a bug, it was just that 7, 9 and 3 were all assigned to hotkeys but there was nothing for 1 so it was 'move south-west' when no other diagonal key existed.
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Sep 26, 2018 06:45
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be nice to monkeys if they aren't trying to kill you, it's rude to toolbox non-antags also on most maps monkeys can rush security over the table and nab a box of flashbangs or something, its fun if you want a quick death
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Dabir posted:I don't think that was a bug, it was just that 7, 9 and 3 were all assigned to hotkeys but there was nothing for 1 so it was 'move south-west' when no other diagonal key existed. You're probably right. Still, it spawned my favourite start of round 'tip'.
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Had my first real round of actually doing something last night. Started off as a quartermaster, pretty much instantly made a plan with the other quartermaster to go get filthy rich by selling plants and stealing money, and then rolled traitor. I guess my traitor goal was to be the best quartermaster team the station ever saw? I don't really get it. We quickly fell in bed with Old Man Jenkins who gave us a stun baton. I think he was HoS. He wanted 30k by 35 minutes in, which would later inflate all the way up to 100k. On the way to botany to mug some nerds we both got sunglasses which mixed well with out constant finger snapping. Finger snapping as a response, finger snapping to emphasis a point, finger snapping before breaking the knees of an inspector who decided to question why the quartermaster office was filled with plants and space-bees. A handful of battles broke out in the quartermaster office. A ton of birds appeared there too, somehow, and I guess one of them was a player? I didn't notice that till after the round, although it did explain why a large kiwi looking bird saved me from being arrested by security. Ultimately I was beaten to death by Old Man Jenkins. His money was never payed to him, as my accomplice and boss stepped on a pipebomb on his way to pay him. I died in wealth and in victory, as I succeeded all my goals and the QM department ended the round with over 200k in it. I got a couple medals for it all, no clue what those are for. Oh, also, what's 'robust'. Just a meme term?
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Sep 26, 2018 15:37
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It means 'good at combat.'
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Wrr posted:I got a couple medals for it all, no clue what those are for. Certain medals unlock special variant skins you can apply to items you've got, such as turning your backpack into a stylish messenger bag. One medal for the AI unlocks a special "malfunctioning" face variant, good for freaking out inexperienced players.
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EclecticTastes posted:Certain medals unlock special variant skins you can apply to items you've got, such as turning your backpack into a stylish messenger bag. One medal for the AI unlocks a special "malfunctioning" face variant, good for freaking out inexperienced players. Oh cool. I Look forward to checking those out. Is there any server culture regarding choosing traits at character customization? I like the different accents there but I was wondering if talking like a chav or swede nonstop is frowned upon.
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Wrr posted:Oh cool. I Look forward to checking those out. There's nothing wrong with using a dumb accent, but keep in mind that one of the keys to survival is being able to shout out that so-and-so is a traitor/changeling or otherwise let the crew know when you're in trouble and need help. This gets difficult as you start stacking accents, and a traitor with a sleepypen full of alcohol can completely ruin your ability to communicate in preparation for murdering you. It can be hard enough to understand what a drunk person's saying, but if it's got accent filters on, it can end up as complete gibberish.
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Wrr posted:Oh, also, what's 'robust'. Just a meme term?
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Sep 26, 2018 20:34
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I've seen it used as a verb too. E.g. "I was injecting a monkey with donkey semen when this guy rolled in and robusted the poo poo out of me"
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Whatever else, you seem to have the hang of things. That was a good-rear end QM round story.
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Sep 26, 2018 22:25
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Getting beaten to death by the HoS is definitely something every new player should aspire to.
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I also had a giant golden top hat on that really made me feel like a true successful mafioso
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Bum the Sad posted:Kind of is. The byond engine page used to brag it had a "robust combat system." People found that hilarious for obvious reasons and it went from there. It also had to do a lot with the fact that the game was HORRIBLY optimized back then, and combat usually involved guessing where your enemy would be when your moves actually went through to the server. Nowadays you just click a man, but back then it was "hit left a couple times then click him, wait 5 seconds and see if that actually worked". It was like playing toolbox chess. It also meant that those of us who had brain meats that naturally could time lag and guess enemy movements had free run of the station and were unstoppable monsters.
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Of course, being good at combat is best relied on as a fallback position when traps, ambushes, social engineering, and other forms of indirect combat fail. If you find yourself facing somebody in a fair fight, you've already screwed up at some point along the way.
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Sep 27, 2018 19:01
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Deception is half the fun. The other half is welding them into a crate.
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Tellaris posted:It also had to do a lot with the fact that the game was HORRIBLY optimized back then, and combat usually involved guessing where your enemy would be when your moves actually went through to the server. Nowadays you just click a man, but back then it was "hit left a couple times then click him, wait 5 seconds and see if that actually worked". It was like playing toolbox chess. It also meant that those of us who had brain meats that naturally could time lag and guess enemy movements had free run of the station and were unstoppable monsters. bring this back and instant tabling, also the nerd security that ran around with their stun batons out
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Goast posted:bring this back and instant tabling, also the nerd security that ran around with their stun batons out Goddamn tabling was amazing(ly broken and poo poo). Grab the captain in a moment of lag, stuff him on a table, shift him over and over as you strip him naked and steal his gun, and murder him with it and there isn't a single damned thing he can do in defense. There were spots you could grab someone, toss them on a table and then shift them over and they would be stuck. Or you could go to the line at the hop desk and start feeding people into his area.
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Most robustness comes from knowing where everything is. Its alot harder to kill someone who aleays knows where a fire extinguisher is
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theres two sides to being robust, it isn't just about being good at fighting. it's about being good at setting up situations where it's nearly impossible to lose and knowing what to do when those situations go to poo poo anyway (aka: run the gently caress away).
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i once killed myself as a lone syndie 4 minutes into the round because you really shouldnt walk around with a rpg out and misclick on the floor does that count as robust?
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Robust is misclicking with the RPG at the exact moment your syndicate colleague just happens to run past.
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