Current Events

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

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 no longer path through enemies.
  • When entering a room with monsters or PvPable 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).
  • You cannot sneak against:
    • Your corpmates.
    • PvE players.
  • NPCs are also able to sneak.
  • @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.

Other

• 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.
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