Asakim Tweaks

[kotobdev]

About the PR

pr freeze over? splendid! 500 microbalance PRs

• Asakim armor is now practically unusable by other species, as it comes with a base 80% slowdown. Asakim now ignore all armor slowdown.
• Asakim crit/death thresholds have been raised to 120/240, since Euphoria did that and nobody's complained yet. I think.
• The Asakim autopulser can now fire 30 lethal or 40 disabler rounds at full charge, up from like 20 lethal and something like 30 disabler. Recharge rate has been adjusted to match, and should be a little bit faster.
• The >UPGRADE objective has been removed, as shitmed no longer exists. This will bias Asakim towards being hostile more often.
• Ghostrole rules have been reworded to be less friendly, but it's not like anybody reads those anyways
• Asakim fixture size has been lowered, as this allegedly caused a bug with fitting through doors. Haven't seen it myself, but it was reported downstream

Why / Balance

Judging by the overall sentiment I've seen on the Discord, Asakim have been generally underperforming in combat situations against crew. While this is largely due to the inherent aspect of a rare ghostrole getting taken by unrobust gamers, I do believe there are some changes that should probably be made to counteract this. A single hostile asakim should be a genuine threat to Security, and should probably require an armed response to take down.

Crewmembers really should not be wearing the literal springtrap suit that Asakim armor is. 80% slowdown should be a good enough deterrent, or at the very least, will be an entertaining punishment for those who wish to powergame. Fully ignoring equipment slowdown is something that would only end up being an issue in the most niche of niche circumstances, especially considering Asakim are already the rarest antag in the game. And in that case it would probably be really funny

I felt it would probably be overkill to straight up say "DO NOT VALIDHUNT" in the ghostrole rules, and a bit overly limiting at that. It's already way too long as-is.

Technical details

mono namespaced changes are taken from Monolith-Station/Monolith#2372, and are thus not commented

Media

non-asakim armor slowdown

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Requirements

• I have tested all added content and changes.
• I have added media to this PR or it does not require an in-game showcase.

Licensing

• I confirm that I am the creator of the code in this PR, and allow licensing it under the following license(s), or that the original author(s) has given me permission to do so:
  • AGPL (https://github.com/DeltaV-Station/Delta-v/blob/master/LICENSE-AGPLv3.txt)
  • MIT (https://github.com/DeltaV-Station/Delta-v/blob/master/LICENSE-MIT.txt)

Changelog
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• remove: Removed a shitmed-remnant Asakim objective.
• tweak: Asakim ghostrole rules have been reworded to be a little less friendly.
• tweak: Asakim armor now slows any non-Asakim by 80%, to discourage crewmembers from intentionally springlocking themselves.
• fix: Asakim shouldn't get stuck in doors.

[delta-v-bot]

Triaged by keke38:
This PR requires a content review discussion, which will be held in public.

yeah its a good few changes but all relatively minor, i really dont think this will take that long (watch me be completely wrong yay)

You can view the discussion here and write comments starting with !discord to send messages into the thread.
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[delta-v-bot]

Changes requested by CR

heya tthere
just gonna request to not touch the gun and hp for now i suppose thats how folks want it
thank ya gor it!

Sent by keke38.