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This is a such a great game, even if it's a loving pain in the rear end to figure out how to even move around and interact with anything. There doesn't seem to be a janitor anymore, according to the OP? That was my favorite job. I'd be washing a corridor outside my closet and "forget" to put out the warning: wet signs. Somebody would run past, slip and go prone then I'd drag them into my closet and dump them into the trash chute, bye bye! I'm happy that the game seems to have gotten a lot of love over the years.
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SHISHKABOB posted:This is a such a great game, even if it's a loving pain in the rear end to figure out how to even move around and interact with anything. Janitor is still in as far as I know. Just missing from the OP. As for mopping without signs, well, keep fighting the good fight brother. Let the cries of "kill the janitor" be as a sweet music to your ears.
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# ? May 30, 2013 09:00 |
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Admiral Funk posted:Janitor is still in as far as I know. Just missing from the OP. Because of you guys I can't just be the nice janitor and clean up gibs and be friendly with people because I get knocked down and have my boots stolen and no one cares.
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# ? May 30, 2013 09:10 |
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Clearly you should throw traitor jan grenades at people and cube them.
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# ? May 30, 2013 09:55 |
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Dr. Cogwerks posted:It was a bug. Job preference backend code was changed recently and it messed up the job loadouts for some people.
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# ? May 30, 2013 12:14 |
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How was this not posted on the first page?? quote:Dauntasa posted: quote:Dr. Cogwerks Oh, have some screenshots too!! lay egg is TRUE Matty fucked around with this message at 14:24 on May 30, 2013 |
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Geight posted:PDAs seem like they have a whole lot of potential that is completely wasted because they are inconvenient and people are lazy. Yeah, the private chat feature could be really useful if it was more convenient. Maybe it should be available via a simple chat command if you have the PDA in your hand. Or if you want it to be really convenient, also if it's in a pocket.
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Sindai posted:Yeah, the private chat feature could be really useful if it was more convenient. Maybe it should be available via a simple chat command if you have the PDA in your hand. Or if you want it to be really convenient, also if it's in a pocket. Trying to pocket text should garble up the message. I agree that PDA's should be much more desirable, with fun and useful tools so that people don't just toss it or use it as a flashlight. Perhaps there can be something like a 3D printer app/cart that can build a several-use version of any small tool on a moderate cooldown? That way you're never totally screwed if you get stuck and people can leave the full toolboxes for jobs that really need them. Other low-use specialized items like the cameras and audio logs could probably be condensed into a PDA app too.
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# ? May 30, 2013 17:28 |
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PDA cameras and audio recorders make a great deal of sense now that I think about it. Command-based PDA chat is also a really good idea. It could really be as simple as letting people use a "chat" or "text" command in the client's text bar to quickly feed a message to the PDA, and displaying a little "Grife Robusterson taps a message into his PDA" message to anyone within view. PDAs should also be able to print things if used on a piece of paper. Print out e-mails sent to you, or print out photos you've snapped. Print out incriminating chat logs and show them to the HoS. Print out fake incriminating chat logs and show them to the HoS.
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# ? May 30, 2013 18:00 |
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Angry Diplomat posted:PDA cameras and audio recorders make a great deal of sense now that I think about it. Command-based PDA chat is also a really good idea. It could really be as simple as letting people use a "chat" or "text" command in the client's text bar to quickly feed a message to the PDA, and displaying a little "Grife Robusterson taps a message into his PDA" message to anyone within view. I've been thinking that the messaging function would be more useful if there was a way to target a specific subset of people. Like, say, I'm trying to tell scientists that they should pick up that crateful of weed I just sent through the cargo belts without some Staff Assistant overhearing and snagging it from the dock. Being able to do it with a chat command would just be wonderful.
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# ? May 30, 2013 18:07 |
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Here's my engine as of now, it's not generating a lot of power though I'm probably forgetting something really obvious.
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# ? May 30, 2013 18:21 |
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The game could maybe use a more general science headset, so if you are a scientist by any definition of the word, you can broadcast a message to the other "real jobs" people. So the assistants plodding the hallways wont hear about the weed crate but anyone working in engineering, botany, medical, etc will all get the message. The chef is also clearly a scientist. Then again I'm pretty bad at this game.
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# ? May 30, 2013 18:25 |
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UglyDucklett posted:Then again I'm pretty bad at this game. It's not an easy game to master, getting 'competent' is about as far as you can go really. I don't know anyone that knows how to do everything, and I'm sure there's lots of stuff lost in the code that people don't even know about. Confession: I've worked on this game for 6 years and I've never learned how to use the ThinkDOS computers
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# ? May 30, 2013 19:09 |
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Nobody should learn how to use ThinkDOS computers, it is a thankless endeavor.
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# ? May 30, 2013 19:27 |
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Glad to hear a remake on a proper engine is in the works, I'd try playing again but doing anything time-sensitive is pretty much the worst and attempting to chase someone turns into a horrible game of click the laggy moving square at exactly the right split-second. I just want to apply medical creams to your butt, please stop running.
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# ? May 30, 2013 19:45 |
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Medical Doctors should have the ability to apply injury or burn patches by throwing them. "You deftly fling the burn patch onto Sanic Von Lagdance."
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# ? May 30, 2013 19:49 |
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My greatest SS13 moment was showing the game to a friend for the first time, and out of loving nowhere comes MACHO MAN RANDY SAVAGE breaking through walls like the Kool Aid man never could. My friend asked me to explain what was happening, but I'd never seen anything like it. I'd seen aggressive monkeys, I'd seen telepathic hulks, I'd seen Batmans explode people MK Brutality style, and I even once saw George Melons robust his way out of a pickle. But Randy Savage is the most intimidating robuster I've ever seen. It was terrifying and hilarious and left a hell of a first impression.
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# ? May 30, 2013 19:52 |
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atomicthumbs posted:He is Humble Bee. I remember Pookie ! being assaulted over and over by him for just being a clown. Pookie then knocked him out, killed him, cloned him, and made Humble Bee burgers to which he fed back to Humble Bee who was strapped naked to a chair. Best way to deal with people like that IMO.
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FAT BATMAN posted:My greatest SS13 moment was showing the game to a friend for the first time, and out of loving nowhere comes MACHO MAN RANDY SAVAGE breaking through walls like the Kool Aid man never could. My friend asked me to explain what was happening, but I'd never seen anything like it. I'd seen aggressive monkeys, I'd seen telepathic hulks, I'd seen Batmans explode people MK Brutality style, and I even once saw George Melons robust his way out of a pickle. But Randy Savage is the most intimidating robuster I've ever seen. It was terrifying and hilarious and left a hell of a first impression. One of my earliest rounds I was rude to, I think, Mary Abandon (she caught me busting out windows for no real reason, a minor scuffle ensued), and she sent Macho Man hurtling from deep space like a comet, through several layers of bulkhead, just to clothes-line me. I stepped out of the way at the last second, and the guy standing behind me got absolutely ruined. I then led Macho Man on a merry chase through some of the more populated areas of the ship while screaming "The macho man is loose!" I managed to ditch Macho while he was busy beating up the crew and hid in the bar. Then there was a message from centcom "Loose? The goose is loose", and roughly 30 geese shot out of my rear end and pecked me to death. That's the first story I always tell when I'm describing SS13 to someone.
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# ? May 30, 2013 22:46 |
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I think I'm nearly halfway done with the engine. It generates quite a lot of power, but it needs constant maintenance to make sure it doesn't suddenly stop or overload.
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# ? May 30, 2013 23:32 |
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Just because you aren't going fast, doesn't mean you don't have sugar in you.
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# ? May 30, 2013 23:42 |
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Had my first changeling round in a while as the detective. Mostly business as usual, with a wizard around to keep most of the heat off me - with some great moments and terrible one-liners like neurotoxining the HoS as he tried to fix himself up with tricord, whispering "allow me" - and then a magical thing happened. Damian Garneys (I think) jabbed me with a hypospray of Capulettium, so I ran away and speed regenerated. He grabbed me and dragged me into tech storage, whereupon I woke up! What followed was a flurry of lasers firing, hyposprays jabbing, flesh regenerating and acid flying. Into the middle of this wandered a confused staff assistant. "...I'm new" he whimpered, and attempting to intervene, injected himself with capulettium. A nice pod flew past, and cheerily shouted "hi changeling! Have fun eating them!" I protested that Damian was the changeling, but the pod didn't care, so I just sat about shooting the poo poo with it while taking off Damian and the assistant's masks to prepare for feasting. I made sure to kill Damian, but my energy gun ran out of charges, so I just had to keep disabling the poor hapless assistant. "Hey, you might want to come out here and jump in my pod when you're done, he's woken up" *zap* "Are you sure you have enough" *spit* "That poor assistant" "*clonk* "Well, throw them in the pool when you're done" *jab* It was indescribably zen.
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# ? May 31, 2013 00:24 |
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Spriters are needed to help implement dismemberment, if you're willing to help check out this thread!
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# ? May 31, 2013 19:17 |
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I hope this means we can make guillotines. Or is it only arms that can come off? I guess recreating The Fugitive in space will be nice too. Mice Everywhere fucked around with this message at 19:25 on May 31, 2013 |
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Currently arms but eventually legs and maybe heads too, hopefully!
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# ? May 31, 2013 19:31 |
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Oh man. And I hope said limbs can be reattached by a helpful medic? Now I really want to replace somebody's legs with somebody else's arms.
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# ? May 31, 2013 19:37 |
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Make it so you can put peoples legs on the wrong way and it reverses their movement controls.
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# ? May 31, 2013 19:42 |
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Make it so that you can have an arm for a leg and a leg for an arm.
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# ? May 31, 2013 19:51 |
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I'm just hoping that a helpful roboticist might be able to graft cyborg limbs onto a hapless amputee whose limbs got stolen by the chef.
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# ? May 31, 2013 20:15 |
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Someone giving you poo poo? Cut off their arms and replace em with legs. They will have to cartwheel everywhere they go.
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# ? May 31, 2013 20:16 |
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If dismemberment works out I may just have to start playing as Rocky Balboa, Professional
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# ? May 31, 2013 20:18 |
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Why stop at just leaving them with the same number of limbs as they started? Everyone could use a third arm. Or second head. (Although I imagine this would probably be difficult to sprite. Still, imagine the possibilities!)
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# ? May 31, 2013 20:23 |
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Last night I had my first traitor round in a while. Ordered the surplus crate and got His Grace. I had never seen anyone use it, but decided to give it a try based on info from the wiki...found out the hard way you have to empty it occasionally. Fun while it lasted though!
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# ? May 31, 2013 20:42 |
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I'm looking forward to draping myself in grizzly trophies as traitor when I get a chainsaw or csaber. New traitor objective: escape with the severed heads of 5 nanotrasen infidels.
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AndroidHub posted:I'm looking forward to draping myself in grizzly trophies as traitor when I get a chainsaw or csaber. New traitor objective: escape with the severed heads of 5 nanotrasen infidels. Can we make some sort of grotesque buttbot-like amalgam of a butt and an arm?
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# ? May 31, 2013 20:59 |
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frodnonnag posted:Can we make some sort of grotesque buttbot-like amalgam of a butt and an arm? "You add the arm to the butt, you monster." Something like this should be possible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfVssMRb8Wg
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WEEDLORD CHEETO posted:Had my first changeling round in a while as the detective. Mostly business as usual, with a wizard around to keep most of the heat off me - with some great moments and terrible one-liners like neurotoxining the HoS as he tried to fix himself up with tricord, whispering "allow me" - and then a magical thing happened. Damian Garneys (I think) jabbed me with a hypospray of Capulettium, so I ran away and speed regenerated. He grabbed me and dragged me into tech storage, whereupon I woke up! What followed was a flurry of lasers firing, hyposprays jabbing, flesh regenerating and acid flying. This is the epitome of SS13.
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# ? May 31, 2013 21:09 |
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I demand a Stop Hitting Yourself medal if I club someone with their own arm.
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# ? May 31, 2013 21:40 |
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Cyborgs should be able to use human limbs in place of their own limbs.
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Slime posted:Cyborgs should be able to use human limbs in place of their own limbs. A new way of creating replicants?
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