tarantula buff real?

I think that webs blocking bullets should be reserved for a different type of web. See tg spiders for what I mean

I think that webs blocking bullets should be reserved for a different type of web. See tg spiders for what I mean

it blocks a single bullet and dies

Is tarantula AI getting changet to be neutral mob and only respond to agression? Cause admins in past said you have to attack people if AI by default does otherwise you can get banned for friendly antag griefing, one of reasons they are team antags right now.

Likewise its one of many simple infestation events thats supposed to harm crew, make security go on higher alert for at least short while and sweep the station to make it secure again. Turning giant monsters neutral unless used as ghost role feels like old mothroach sidegrade kind of and can take away good portion of chaos on station.

Is tarantula AI getting changet to be neutral mob and only respond to agression? Cause admins in past said you have to attack people if AI by default does otherwise you can get banned for friendly antag griefing, one of reasons they are team antags right now.

Likewise its one of many simple infestation events thats supposed to harm crew, make security go on higher alert for at least short while and sweep the station to make it secure again. Turning giant monsters neutral unless used as ghost role feels like old mothroach sidegrade kind of and can take away good portion of chaos on station.

presumably where the spider spawns is its territory so it would be immediately angry

Is tarantula AI getting changet to be neutral mob and only respond to agression? Cause admins in past said you have to attack people if AI by default does otherwise you can get banned for friendly antag griefing, one of reasons they are team antags right now.

Likewise its one of many simple infestation events thats supposed to harm crew, make security go on higher alert for at least short while and sweep the station to make it secure again. Turning giant monsters neutral unless used as ghost role feels like old mothroach sidegrade kind of and can take away good portion of chaos on station.

I think its supposed to be more like a growing landmine. the AI spider puts down webs and only attacks people that step on the webs or try to destroy the webs. Spider AI currently is just run at closest person and die just like the slimes and snakes. Giant spiders having a lair that slowly gets bigger and bigger the longer people ignore them is much closer to how theyre usually portrayed in fiction. making them free agents outside of webs as a player isnt really their style though. Im thinking that we need to mechanically encourage the spider player to stay close and protect their lair. Im thinking of having a spider egg that would need to be guarded by the spider and eventually hatch into another spider. to stop this from exponentially scaling quietly in maints you could bring in another common trope with giant spiders, wrapping people up in web. so instead of being a role where you just hide in maints and quietly build a spider den, you need to actively go out and hunt people(and maybe pets to make smaller spiders) and bring them back to the nest to make more spiders and with suit coords being a thing they probably wouldnt take too long to get found out by sec.

You're pretty much describing ss13's spiders, at least on /tg/.
I actually got about halfway through porting them to 14, but got distracted and now there's #30820 which also sorta reworks spiders, so I've pretty much given up on it. If anyone wants the code branch, they're welcome to it.

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