Goonhub
01-27-2023, 10:42 PM
I support the general sentiment of handheld artifacts being more dangerous; there was a bit of an issue in the past because some of the handhelds were absurdly good (0 CD teleporters, gibbing melee artifacts), so it was pretty optimal to just run around scooping them all up. Worst case you'd get like, an instument.
Material transporter sounds neat, but I feel like just dumping chems on the floor isn't super interesting. Could maybe have varying effects based on originIe, eldritch ones steal your blood and dump it out, precursor ones can take reagents from things at range, martian ones replace reagents with synthflesh, etc etc (very rough ideas).
Drone sounds good and relatively easy to implement; just needs a mob with some simple AI that shoots things. Alternately, just give artguns a 50-ish% chance to spawn as drones that shoot the gun at you, and make them turn into a standard gun when you kill the drone.
Egg sounds fun, but difficult to code (needs custom mob sprites/behavior for each origin. Could use existing mob types, but that's not super interesting).
Even if these specific ideas aren't used I'm 100% on board with adding more negative/dangerous handhelds.
Material transporter sounds neat, but I feel like just dumping chems on the floor isn't super interesting. Could maybe have varying effects based on originIe, eldritch ones steal your blood and dump it out, precursor ones can take reagents from things at range, martian ones replace reagents with synthflesh, etc etc (very rough ideas).
Drone sounds good and relatively easy to implement; just needs a mob with some simple AI that shoots things. Alternately, just give artguns a 50-ish% chance to spawn as drones that shoot the gun at you, and make them turn into a standard gun when you kill the drone.
Egg sounds fun, but difficult to code (needs custom mob sprites/behavior for each origin. Could use existing mob types, but that's not super interesting).
Even if these specific ideas aren't used I'm 100% on board with adding more negative/dangerous handhelds.