Haine posted:

the problem with the game is that there's a lot built on top of those tangled scraps and every attempt to remake it has failed because there is just so much stuff that would have to be remade

and as someone that spent a few years thinking I couldn't get over the interface, it's not that bad once you're used to it! it has its own weird logic that is kinda consistent sometimes except when it isn't but you can get used to the weird inconsistencies too! then eventually you start coding for it and you add to the problem because oh my god gently caress it, whatever, it works finally so it's good enough

ha ha hah ah h a I'm not crying you're crying

Jazerus posted:

one time a few years ago i was a changeling that got borged

i was able to regenerate from my brain alone by changing form, which caused my borg body to explode in all directions in its parts and a naked human to pop out

also i could reborgify at will as my borg body had been added to my transformation list

Omi no Kami posted:

Dumb question: what's the etiquette with regards to being an idiot? The wiki is absolutely sprawling, and since there doesn't seem to be a singleplayer option, the only way I can see to actually start learning the game is to join a new round as an assistant, do something/everything wrong, and die horribly early on. Is that fine, or should I be trying to memorize/internalize a fairly large amount of knowledge before actually playing?

Omi no Kami posted:

Just as soon as I read several hundred pages of wiki and learn the ins and outs of clowns, monkeys, and tactical bartending.

Shrieking Muppet posted:

I do stupid poo poo every round because I don't have a clue what I'm doing, if you stay away from explosives and monkeys you should make it to the end of the round. Avoid assistant only because you can't do anything except die. botany, chef, janitor, Chaplin, and barman are good starting ones since they have good learning opportunities that show you the basics and you can still cause mischief. If those are all taken if you join late then pick anything and proceed to do the job poorly.

Regarding monkeys, how does grabbing work exactly? I feel like I'm missing most of the fun in not being able to make monkey meat as a chef or use one as a test subject in science.

LuiCypher posted:

One thing I learned from experimenting with the deep fryer is to never throw anything flammable in the deep fryer with the hopes of infusing whatever food product with its essence.

Whoever came across my blackened kitchen and fried corpse must've gotten a good kick out of it.

Dr. Arbitrary posted:

Is this just weird physics? Why have the doors open?

Ciaphas posted:

IIRC, temperature differential is what creates electricity in the generator, so the colder you can get the cold loop and the hotter you can get the hot loop the more megaterayottawatts you can get to the station.

Thief posted:

Malpais Legate posted:

It's not even a genetics thing. Stable mutagen and blood in an injection can confer the blood donor's appearance, and higher doses can change their name permanently.

I did this once as Iggy Azalea, by flashing people and applying mutagen patches. I converted like a dozen people until they formed a mob of Azaleas and lynched me, their original.

I also used this gimmick to convince a crew that I, a simple traitor, was a dangerous changeling. Stable mutagen and identity theft are honestly my favorite parts of this game.

Neddy Seagoon posted:

If you want to be an rear end in a top hat, get some stable mutagen and turn yourself into another player. Then rob them of their ID stuff and spend the round convincing people you're the real one.

TooMuchAbstraction posted:

There exist perfectly safe plans for nuclear reactors. I fully expect that the SS13 reactor would involve multiple Demon Cores and a monkey with a screwdriver.

neogeo0823 posted:

There was a quote upthread a ways where basically, the whole station is designed around the idea of "what is X was made ludicrously dangerous?" I actually have to hand it to the coders, for the most part, they manage to reliably find a balance with nearly all tasks, where if you wanna just get it done and gently caress off elsewhere, you totally can, but if you wanna sperg out and do some ridiculous poo poo, you can also do that.

Like, you can totally set up the engine and then go gently caress with learning to hotwire the station as an engineer. Or you can totally learn to crank the engine up to silly levels, to the point where entire sections of the station are rendered instantly lethal to life while you sit there with fire resistance, laughing about how you blue-shifted the engine and produced more power than the center of the universe.

You can apply that thinking to just about anything in this game. You always have the option to either (ignore it entirely OR do a bare minimum slap-job so you can gently caress off elsewhere) OR (go completely balls to the wall with it and push it to comedy levels)

Isaac posted:

Pretending you are a doctor is a timeless method of murdering people

Methylethylaldehyde posted:

Medical needs a spray bottle of something that knocks you out fast. Both for immediate use on trauma cases, and for de-escalating confrontations with idiots. Bonus points since it'll be abusable by anyone with the antag role.

rndmnmbr posted:

I can packet-hack doors, but is there an actual tutorial on going at it with a full toolbelt and not electrifying it? FFS, I have better luck with tearing down reinforced walls than door hacking. Alternatively is there a way to add the packet sniffer/sender to my PDA if I don't come default with it?

Scaramouche posted:

Janitor is ace because you can just go around and no one really wonders why you're there. The only downside is people robusting you for your boots but I think newer maps have more of them.

dmboogie posted:

security being too lenient is always better than security being too harsh, imo; unless you’ve got like a silent c-saber rampager that’s ruining everything