Current Events

Major changes from hell/important stuff listed in no particular chronological order.

Total Food Rebalance

• Stacks of nutrition only remove 1 point of hunger instead of 2 when applied.
  • (This means that, for a given amount of hunger restored, one gets twice as full afterwards compared to what one used to.)
• Every player-accessible food in the game has had its nutrition values tweaked to account for this and also be more sensible.
• Fast food and sweets now give negative stress when consumed, in exchange for their poor nutrition.
• Homecooked food now gives a minor buff that restores minor stress, heals, and dehungers on heartbeat.
• Nutrition's healing is now in general proportion to the corresponding reflexes penalty, but consumes the excess nutrition if successful in doing so (on top of decaying naturally).
  • (Billygoat nutrition doesn't heal extra, before you get too clever.)
• Hunger-inflicting actions done while having nutrition now consume nutrition instead of adding more hunger.
• 'Hot' foods now dose a drug which raises one's perceived temperature. This matches how certain 'cold' foods already did so.
• Rations can be gotten from Camp Benjamin.

Picking malus tweaks

• Thin and fingerless gloves now don't penalize lockpicking. Rings don't either.

Aim tweaks

•   The aim verb on guns has been changed to now have a slight delay before you are aiming at your target.
  • Delay depends on gun speed and your Quickdraw total. Vector and American-180 are lightning fast, while sniper rifle is turtle slow.
• You can now aim at NPCs.

Sneak and pathing changes

• Sneak is now substantially more powerful and important.
  • You can still path through enemies, but once sneak is finalized this will be removed.
  • You can only sneak against other players if you're PvP enabled (even if they are not), and cannot sneak against your corpmates.
  • When entering a room with monsters or players, sneak is rolled against target with highest appraise.
    • Flashblind effect (flashbangs) and smoke (Writhing Smoke or smoke bombs) aid with sneak rolls.
    • Upon success, you are given 'sneaky' stacks which prevent you from being detected for few heartbeats by said targets (better roll = more heartbeats).
  • creep command will add +10 to your sneak rolls, but makes you move twice as slow. Use creep again to stop sneaking.
  • Dodge malus on your feet is also applied to your sneak (if you wear boots that give you -1 dodge, you also get -1 sneak).
  • NPCs are also able to sneak, but are hilariously bad at it.
  • @prefs -sneak to stop trying to sneak.

PvP changes

• PvP is now on per-contract per-player basis dubbed Death Classic contracts.
  • Contracts are 1 week-long (168 hours)
  • PvP time only counts down when in open, PvP-enabled areas. You can't grief someone and wait out retaliation in a cum fort.
  • Contracts are bought in Abandoned high-rise in Freedom City (From Fourth and High, head north-east, down, east.)
  • N-tags cannot sign Death Classic contracts, but will keep their PvP status if they become N-tag again through tutoring/rerolling.
• On 'who' list, PvP-enabled players have numbers that dictates their "hazard level", a very rough approximate of their power level.
• PvP has reputation attached to it with several ways of losing and gaining it
  • It is listed as "Death Classic initiative". As all faction reputations it very slowly gravitates towards zero.
  • Ways to earn:
    • Kill people above/near your hazard level.
    • Signing Death Classic contracts gives rep equal to amount of hours (12 hours contract = 12 rep)
    • Hack gangland cameras.
    • Download sensor cluster data in Necropolis while PvP-enabled.
  • Ways to lose:
    • Kill people below your hazard level.
  • Death Classic shop stocks normalization hypos (clear ATP stacks), beef juice boxes, speed and berserker hypos as well as 'gold plating kit', making your weapon the snazziest on the block.
    • All these items require and consume reputation upon buy.
  • You will be unable to buy Death Classic contract if you have too low reputation. Either wait it out or kill someone of your own size.
• All PvP damage is apparently halved.
• The Pit still exists, as a separate PvP thing.

Other

• You no longer die if your health, on heartbeat, dips below 0 but raises above 0 after. (2332 on *clp)
• Sneaking against enemies is now substantially (-10 on all rolls) harder, but is still very effective for most builds. (2334 on *clp)
• Attacking an enemy mid-combat no longer makes you draw your readied weapon if you have it stowed.
• Cannot gain XP from STAT ip (gymming) (speed bags etc). (undocumented?) Overlooked bugged change, fixed in 2326 on *clp
• Rescuing another player should now properly transfer all ongoing attacks towards that player to the rescuer, instead of simply redirecting the next attack. (2321 on *clp)
  • Seemingly bugged, rescuing now works only half the time?
• Salamander got reworked - it still takes stress, but now it converts normal nutrition (but not the billygoat kind) into additional health. (2297 on *clp).
• Preference to allow other people to loot your corpse has been added. (2351 on *gr)
• When powerattacking, some fists weapons now sum up all their damage instances into one. So if you have a fist weapon with 5-10 slash and 1-5 bleed, on powing it will roll both separately, then sum them up into slash dmg. (2276 on *clp)
• Vampires and zombies do not age from mutations or aging, but will jump towards their counted year should they demute.
• Instead of having a 9% chance to gain 100 hunger per movement while flying with the flight mutation, players now gain 18 hunger per movement.
• Every 0.1 attackspeed higher 3.0 gives +1 min primary damage, up to the max damage.
  • Shotguns instead get +1 to all damage types per 0.3 speed.
  • This applies to both players and mobs.
• Combat fatigue is substantially more impactful than in Hell.
• The 'baby farmer' journal and the 'baby farmer' job have been unified: bringing a live infant to the shoggoth, or a monster baby to the bone pile, contributes to both.
• Permanent Revolutionary has been added to Macero, dropping the schematics for a Headsman.
• Major RV has been added to the Wasteland, dropping the schematics for a Hobgoblin SMG.
• Vector buffed to 2.6 speedcap with increased damage per bullet, added 2-burst and automatic fire modes.
• SPAS-12 damage nerfed.
• wristpad history now shows 100 lines by default like most other nets.
• Headsman now speedcaps at 3.0 with crit rate lowered to 33%.
• Necronata and w00tz bo staff cannot be modded with monowire and force enhancer mods.
• Dodging ensnaring enemies (silicate, glass trees) now works properly instead of roll being harder the more dodge you have.
• Some of the armor sets have been separated into -over and -under armors (leech/lampther, armordillo/bouilli) to allow set mix-ups.
• You can tempposture and posture to set your appearance in rooms. tempposture is cleared on room move while posture persists.
• Chud minions don't suck ass and are easier to keep around.
• Cat Ears is a proper mutation now.
• Ammo pouches, bandoliers, and vests now exist; they store ammo more efficiently than just carrying it, and can automatically be reloaded from. This is compensation for an upcoming ammo weight rework.
• Eelskins are now immune to bends, lose thirst in water and move very fast in the water.
• Dodging status effect grenades (flashbangs, THC, etc.) now works properly instead of being harder the more reflexes you have.
• Few information commands were added:
  • @grindreport to see how much you left to grind.
  • @owned to see your possession (boats, apartments, planes).
• Smoke bombs are now on par with Writhing Smoke.
• Things stolen from Cialis Tower safes in Corpclave and stereos from other apartments now count for Burglar job.
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