Incendiary ammunition nerf.

[DisposalUnit]

Short description

This PR removes HitscanIgniteEffect component from incendiary ammo, making it not grant fire stacks on shooting a person.
That's it. As much as i wanted to reduce it on buckshot - i don't think you can without knowing C#.

Why we need to add this

Incendiary by itself is a very solid early tech ammo by the virtue of applying most of it's damage as blunt and heat damage mix.
However, addition of it being able to add fire stacks has made it completely impossible to fight against anywhere outside of spaced areas - no hardsuit besides Atmos and elite hardsuits - do not provide perfect fire resist, making it into a DoT applied on you every single time.
What made it worse was how fire system works without a hardsuit - and that is: fire stacks applying a temperature increase, making the heat damage constant and heavily punishing for not having fire protection(which is REALLY scarce and outside of hardsuits, and elite web vest - there isn't much safety from it besides a fire suit. Which, c'mon).
It was bad on both a buckshot(due to every pellet counting towards the effect, giving you max of them in a single shot) and regular shots(due to volume of fire just giving you massive fire stacks in almost a second).

Media (Video/Screenshots)

incen.test.mp4

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Changelog

🆑 DisposalUnit

• tweak: Incendiary ammo of all types no longer applies fire stacks.

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• Resources/Prototypes/_Starlight/Entities/Objects/Weapons/Guns/Projectiles/hitscan.yml

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• Resources/Prototypes/_Starlight/Entities/Objects/Weapons/Guns/Projectiles/hitscan.yml

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📝 Walkthrough

Summary

Removes HitscanIgniteEffect from five Starlight incendiary projectile prototypes: magnum, pistol, light-rifle, rifle, and shotgun.

User impact

Incendiary ammunition no longer applies fire stacks when it hits a person. This includes incendiary buckshot and regular incendiary shots. Existing blunt and heat damage remain unchanged.

File changes

• Updated Resources/Prototypes/_Starlight/Entities/Objects/Weapons/Guns/Projectiles/hitscan.yml.
• Removed five HitscanIgniteEffect declarations.
• No upstream or Shared files changed.

Risk areas

• Confirm that all intended incendiary variants no longer apply fire stacks.
• Confirm that existing damage and projectile behavior remain unchanged.
• Confirm that incendiary ammunition retains its intended heat damage.

Guideline gaps

• The PR does not state whether the Starlight-only placement follows the Shared-first convention.
• The PR does not include a Starlight ownership comment.
• The PR does not describe the design rationale or impact beyond the fire-stack reduction.

Walkthrough

The change removes HitscanIgniteEffect from five incendiary hitscan projectile prototypes. Their damage and projectile behavior remain unchanged.

Changes

Cohort / File(s)	Summary
Incendiary projectile configuration Resources/Prototypes/_Starlight/Entities/Objects/Weapons/Guns/Projectiles/hitscan.yml	Removes HitscanIgniteEffect from incendiary magnum, pistol, light-rifle, rifle, and shotgun projectile prototypes.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~2 minutes

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely identifies the main change: reducing incendiary ammunition effects.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains that removing HitscanIgniteEffect stops incendiary ammunition from applying fire stacks and gives the balance reason.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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[Rinary1]

rejected, Incendiary should provide fire... Because their purpose lies in their incendiary effect

[DisposalUnit]

Imo incendiary would be just fine with just "burning the target from inside out"(aka dealing heat), which would be the more intended purpose of it.
Considering that fire in this game is overpowered, period. But eh.