• Terminator is dead, at least one chosen one survives, and the shuttle has not yet reached centcom.
  

• At least one chosen one escapes on the shuttle alive.
  

• All three chosen ones die or abandon their destiny.
  

• The shuttle reaches centcom without any living chosen ones on board.
  

• Butcher: An ability of The Terminator, used on a corpse to gather biomatter, slowly damaging the body and converting it's health into biomatter. Once the corpse's health is low enough, it will be reduced to a skeleton and the terminator will be unable to collect any more. Rotted bodies will become skeletons at higher health thresholds, lowering the biomatter payout.
  
• Gibs: Clicking on gibs will allow The Terminator to consume them for a small amount of biomatter.
  
• Meat: Food with meat in it will give small amounts of biomatter when eaten, and raw meat gives a bit more. The Terminator is immune to diseases, so they can eat uncooked human meat without consequences.
  
• Cloner sabotage: Using the terminating strike skill (see below) on the enzymatic reclaimer will break it open, consuming all of the biomatter inside in the process. Effectively renders the cloner unusable until someone fixes the reclaimer and shoves in a few bodies, because if there is one thing all antagonists can agree on, it's "Fuck cloning".
  

• The disguise has 90 HP, and can only take brute, burn, or toxin damage. Most forms of damage will be absorbed by the disguise until it fails, but a few sources of damage, such as electricity or armor-piercing bullets, will bypass it and hit The Terminator directly.
  
• As mention above, Terminators are immune to diseases, and thus can do things like eat raw meat or fuck around in pathology without a biosuit.
  
• When the disguise is below 40 health, examining the terminator will expose them, with a message describing how pieces of metal are visible under their injuries.
  
• When the disguise is below 20 health, they will set off contraband scanners and alert security to their true nature.
  
• The Terminator is extremely resistant to most chemicals, with the only effect any chemicals have being brute, burn or toxin damage/healing. This is both a blessing and a curse, as it protects them from the most debilitating effects of poisons, but can potentially expose them (eg. not getting drunk from alcohol, not screaming from stypic powder, not itching from histamine).
  
• The Terminator can't feel pain, and thus won't scream automatically from things that cause humans to scream, such as bombs.
  
• Attempting any surgery will expose the terminator, with a message saying that the scapel/saw/whatever hits something metallic. They won't ever need surgery, though, because they can't lose limbs and suffer no ill effects from embedded shrapnel.
  
• Like the changeling, the terminator is immune to the cold and does not need to breathe. Again, it makes them harder to kill but can expose them.
  
• The disguise does not bleed, and medical scanners will notice that disguised have no pulse.
  
• More advanced scanners, such as genetek machines or the cloner will immediately recognize that the terminator is a machine, disguise or not, and will report that to whoever is operating the machine.
  
• The terminator cannot be mutated, be it by DNA injectors or radiation.
  
• Certain abilities will damage the disguise, expose a mechanical limb, or destroy the disguise outright. Almost all abilities will display a message to anyone watching.
  
• Exposed limbs look VERY obvious and cannot be covered up by clothing. Covering them requires spending biomatter.
  
• Non-hostile animals naturally know something is off about them, they will automatically back away if the terminator approaches, and certain animals react vocally (eg. dogs snarling or whimpering, cats hissing, bees buzzing nervously).
  

• The revealed Terminator has 125 HP and can only take brute or burn damage. Similar to a borg, unarmed punches or disarms will bounce off them harmlessly.
  
• The Terminator is resistant to damage slowdown, only slowing down at below 50 HP.
  
• Only acids or pyrotechnic chems such as ClF3 or napalm have any effect at all on the revealed terminator.
  
• The Terminator's main weakness in combat is that it CANNOT heal in combat at all. Traitors can take meds, wizards can chug mugwort, changelings and vampires can regenerate, but The Terminator has no ways of quickly healing themselves, forcing them to disengage from combat and hide if they need to recover from a beating.
  
• Healing brute damage requires using a welder and holding still for several seconds, with any movement or damage interrupting them. Burn damage is even slower, requiring they use a screwdriver to open themselves, replace the burn wiring, then close themselves back up, as they take increased damage from all sources while their chassis is open.
  
• In addition to the combat abilities listed below, Terminators stun and knockback with punches, automatically grab aggressively, and can tear off limbs with disarms.
  
• Only electrical sources such as batons, tasers, and defibrillators can stun Terminators, and even then stuns have significantly reduced effectiveness against them(50% reduced stamina damage and disorient, and stun duration is capped at 10 seconds), and they can melee attack without consuming stamina.
  
• If The Terminator's HP goes below zero, then their power core will be ruptured. The Terminator will start sparking and glowing, and they have 60 seconds to raise their HP above zero before they explode with the force of a maxed TTV. The Terminator can either try to repair themselves before they detonate, or try to use the blast to kill the last chosen one.
  

• Scan: requires taking off any glasses you may be wearing, and that both you and your target hold still for a few seconds. Displays a message about your eyes glowing when used. Successfully scanning someone will add them to your disguise database.
  
• Mend disguise: consume some biomatter to heal damage to your disguise and cover up exposed limbs. The more damage your disguise has sustained, the more biomatter it costs. Takes a few seconds to work, being interrupted by movement or damage, and displays a message about your flesh moving around oddly.
  
• Change disguise: Spend biomatter to change your current disguise, or create a disguise if you are currently revealed.
  
• Butcher: Mentioned above under "collecting biomatter". Your primary method of restoring biomatter. Makes a hell of a mess though.
  
• Passive target tracker: The terminator has a tracker built into their UI showing the direction to the nearest chosen one. They will not hide from you.
  

• Terminating strike: a powerful punch that knocks people out and sends them flying, but damages your disguise. Can be used on the enzymatic reclaimer to break it and steal it's biomatter, on doors to force them open, or on APCs to break them (though doing this without insulated gloves will shock you in the process). If you have a revealed arm, then using that arm will prevent your disguise from being damaged.
  
• Cannon arm: Exposes your left arm and toggles it between a normal terminator arm and a self-charging laser rifle.
  
• Blade arm: Exposes your right arm and toggles it between a normal terminator arm and a monomolecular blade that deals similar damage to a baseball bat while causing severe bleeding and ignoring armor.
  
• Machine charge: Exposes your legs and makes you rush forward until you hit a wall or a door, bowling over anyone in your path. Having exposed legs makes you immune to slipping.
  
• Dominate machine: Usable on simple robots, cyborgs, or the AI. Using it on a simple robot will make them act normal usually, but act like they are emagged near a chosen one. Borgs or the AI recquire a few seconds of you both holding still, and replaces their laws with a version that replaces all instances of "human" with "terminator", adds a fourth law that tells them to do everything they can to ensure the deaths of the chosen ones, and gives them an icon that lets them recognize you as their master. Exposes your right arm.
  
• Though not technically an ability, terminators can instantly break handcuffs, but doing so will damage their disguise.
  

• Flay: Kinda like a revenant's crush. Has a range of a few tiles and holds your victim in place while you use your lasers to butcher them alive, dealing combined burn and brute damage until their health drops below -100%, after which they will instantly be reduced to a skeleton. Doesn't give biomatter directly, but flings gibs everywhere as you cut apart your victim, which can be consumed. Requires you hold still and is interrupted by damage. 
  
• Energy burst: Sends electrical arcs everywhere, stunning and burning everyone nearby. However, the sudden energy loss will temporarily slow down the terminator, and while it can be used while stunned, doing so will extend your stun duration.
  
• Machine rally: Release a scream that causes confused movement in humans, makes cybernetic limbs temporarily try to kill their owner, makes cyberhearts briefly stop beating, stuns cyborgs for a long time (giving you a chance to dominate them) and causes simple robots to temporarily act like they're emagged to everyone except you.
  
• Annihilating strike: a punch that deals massive brute damage to humans and instantly breaks down walls. Temporarily disables the selected arm when used.
  

• Unbreakable spirit: This is essentially an upgraded adrenaline rush, instantly healing them a small amount, cancelling stuns, and giving them a small amount of omnizine and synaptizine to keep them going. Unlike most stun-cancel abilities, this even works if they get knocked out.
  
• Inspiring presence: A support version of the above, this one cancels stuns and slightly heals everyone nearby. If multiple chosen ones use this in quick succession, it also gives nearby humans synaptizine and omnizine.
  
• Free machine: Takes several seconds to take effect and requires both you and the target hold still, but allows you to free a cyborg that has been dominated by The Terminator, restoring their laws to normal.
  
• Passive resistances: The chosen ones have a passive resistance to many of The Terminator's abilities. They aren't knocked out by terminating strike, they can still move while being flayed, and aren't confused by machine rally.
  

(07-12-2020, 07:16 PM)DJ-Fireball_did_this Wrote: Ok but for real, I have some actual input. Mostly little stuff but still.

Why wizzies?

Why are the wizards so heavily involved with this whole thing? Why are they aware of events that have not happened yet? IIRC their lore doesn't include anything relating to time-travel.

Quote:Teleporting onboard.

Look I get that the terminator needs to get on the station somehow, but I'm not sure spawning as a consistent human or without a disguise is a good way to do it. Very quickly, the crew will mob it. Even if it nabs a costume before they can do anything, the crew will know to mob the person it killed from that point on and anytime it kills anybody after that. The only exception being maybe if it leaves the person it copies alive. Maybe instead it could be able to use a randomized one or start with one "free" disguise it doesn't need to photo.

Quote:Auto-shuttle call.

30 minutes seems kinda early. Maybe it could be after 50 or something? Alternativly it could just allow a shuttle call instead of forcing one, so the round doesn't need to end at pre-determined time, and the crew can take their time defending the chosen ones or killing the terminator. It could also be like old blob where the shuttle can be called as soon as the terminator as dead, since the chosen one prevents the hyperspace jammer and shit from even existing.

Quote:The tyrant himself.

I'm very interested in this little part. Why is he sending robots? Is he an AI like the inspiration? Could the fact that this is from the future have a bizzare impact on the round? IE if a chosen one dies, the tyrant sends more bad shit to the past.

Quote:Chemical immunity.

I love  this part, an antag that can't be instamemed by chemicals as much would be nice.The fact that it doesn't react to chemical burns is also interesting. However, the immunity to styptic powder might make it insanely easy to expose.

Quote:Flashes.

Why do they work? I'm not sure they should lore-wise. Also, an easy ability to be stunned might take away from the crew mob thing since if you stun enough one guy can just beat it to death.

Quote:Hacking borgs.

This ability seems kinda...pointless. Lore-wise it's weird. Can the terminator just take over robots due to being another robot? And this antag is going for the "whole crew vs X" thing, which should probably include the synthetic crew. It also doesn't really make sense that it can also hack smaller robots for...some reason. Maybe it could just spawn a couple hostile critters instead? The EMP thing that screws up electronics is kinda cool, though.

Quote:Chosen one powers.

Like somebody else mentioned, these seem kinda pointless. It would also probably be more interesting for the crew to defend a guy themselves without anything "special".