Replace the machete and laser in the borg weapons module with an e-dagger and recharging viper

[Blackern5000]

About the PR

Replaces the weapons in the syndicate borg weapon's module with
An energy dagger that is NOT disguised as a pen.
A recharging viper called the "Echis" (A type of viper) that generates one bullet every four seconds and holds up to 10 at a time.

Also adds an undisguised version of the energy dagger which is louder and cannot write, which borgs with the weapons module use.

Why / Balance

Syndies don't get lasers, they use ballistics and energy melees.

Media

2024-07-12.08-32-11.mp4

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Changelog

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• tweak: The syndicate agent's cyborg weapons module now uses syndicate weaponry rather than NT weaponry.

[SoulFN]

LoL, i wanted to do the same thing

[Dutch-VanDerLinde]

what about a viper instead

[SoulFN]

what about a viper instead

Cobra is silent and doesn't leave a bullet casing

[SoulFN]

Maybe, you should replace e-sword with e-pen, cobra is 4 TC, e-sword is 8 TC, getting an weapons for a borg that costs 12 TC for 5 TC is not fair.

[Blackern5000]

Maybe, you should replace e-sword with e-pen, cobra is 4 TC, e-sword is 8 TC, getting an weapons for a borg that costs 12 TC for 5 TC is not fair.

You still need to spend 8 tc to hijack the borg, so it's actually 13 tc to do this. 18 if you have two borgs though.

[SoulFN]

You still need to spend 8 tc to hijack the borg, so it's actually 13 tc to do this. 18 if you have two borgs though.

But you still have emag, not only borgs

[Everturning]

machetes and advanced lasers are barely used ingame, also poses the question of "how can it make these caseless bullets inside its chassis".
"syndie borgs" you say, but those are specially built for it. this is just a hijacked borg with no space for it. even saying it's the module is iffy.

[SoulFN]

machetes and advanced lasers are barely used ingame, also poses the question of "how can it make these caseless bullets inside its chassis". "syndie borgs" you say, but those are specially built for it. this is just a hijacked borg with no space for it. even saying it's the module is iffy.

As i remember, you can put L6-SAW module into regular borg, why he can produce bullets to L6-SAW, but can't produce ammo to cobra?

[SoulFN]

Engi borgs can also produce infinite resources (RCD), producing pistol ammo makes sense

[superjj18]

"how can it make these caseless bullets inside its chassis"

How do we get so many bullets in them? Like this! Plus, we fire the whole bullet. That's 65% more bullet per bullet. This is the same technology we've been using on robots for decades. Scares the hell out of them.

[K-Dynamic]

Can we just agree on 'bluespace magic' or something, otherwise we'll be arguing about physical and energy limitations of borgs for a while rather than balancing

[deltanedas]

if you are going to argue that infinite cobra is op see infinite l6 which is broken

[Blackern5000]

I'd love for this to be reviewed before the feature freeze

[thebadman4662]

Yes, death to borg legions with lasers!

[Blackern5000]

I made it an energy dagger instead of a sword I'd love if someone could merge this in the next 6 hours.
I believe it is important that syndies getting lasers is removed

[Emisse]

Closed due to feature freeze May 10th-June 14th. Comment to have it reopen after this.

[Blackern5000]

Open please

[Plykiya]

Apparently this PR is needed because people are (reportedly) giving their nukie borgs lasers...?

[metalgearsloth]

Make it not silenced as it sounds too goofy.

[github-actions]

RSI Diff Bot; head commit f5a06c6 merging into c94c727
This PR makes changes to 1 or more RSIs. Here is a summary of all changes:

Resources/Textures/Objects/Weapons/Melee/e_dagger_loud.rsi

State	Old	New	Status
e_sword			Added
e_sword_blade			Added
icon			Added
inhand-left-blade			Added
inhand-left			Added
inhand-right-blade			Added
inhand-right			Added

Edit: diff updated after f5a06c6

[Blackern5000]

Make it not silenced as it sounds too goofy.

Done, I made it a viper instead of a cobra.

[Tayrtahn]

This will need to be updated to work with the changes to item toggling introduced by #28039

[IProduceWidgets]

Do held items still drop when borgs are gibbed? If so this will run into the problem the l6 module has where it drops for crew to use.

[Plykiya]

Do held items still drop when borgs are gibbed? If so this will run into the problem the l6 module has where it drops for crew to use.

the L6 "spawns" but attempting to interact with it does nothing, it's like a weird cursed item parented to the module is how that worked last time I saw it being weird

think that got fixed at some point and nothing but the module itself probably drops now

[Golinth]

Can you still cryo Borgs to access their held item? Same issue as above, if the crew gets their hands on this it could be pretty wild

[Blackern5000]

Can you still cryo Borgs to access their held item? Same issue as above, if the crew gets their hands on this it could be pretty wild

That sounds more like an exploit that needs to be fixed with borgs rather than something that needs to be fixed with my pr.

[deltanedas]

cryoing borgs just deletes items you take out, no exploit here

also borgs just shouldnt be allowed in cryo