Adds new marine race: Prototype Supersoldier

[TiviPlus]

About The Pull Request

See https://hackmd.io/ExRkEaTGR5GyECMeeQB1XA?view

naming Convention: [A-Z][num][A-Z] - [Fighting Role] e.g A2V Saboteur
Basically physically taller and weaker human (Slower at half of speed of walking with no shoes, 30 instead of 50 default max stam and -25 crit threshold instead of -50), but they get access to "Stims" which is temp buffs to stuff like melee, deafness immunity, stam increases, etc.

Every 10 minutes you need to reselect stims which needs a cast time, you can have up to 5 active at once, sequences are savable accross rounds, you can have up to 10 total

Default options is
no_ear_damage, no stack
no_flashbang, no stack
no_footsteps, no stack
"Quick Getup" decreases your unrest speed from 2 to .5 seconds
"Vehicle Crash Immunity" makes you immune to vehicle ramming
"Immediate defibbrillation" gives you robot style instant defib no matter the damage, but does 15 heart damage when defibbed
portal_toggle (makes you go through wraith portals if you want to), no stack
speed_increase, negates default speed decrease
stam_usage_decrease, stacks with decreasing returns, removing 30% cost every time
stamina_regen, stacks
melee skill increase, stacks until it reaches skill 2
powerloader skill increase, stacks but only up to below shipside level skills

Also included misc code improvements while making this

Why It's Good For The Game

This is more intended as a flex option for marines thats shittier by default but can adapt as needed and also provide something for people building specific strats to fiddle with

more erm ones like speed also have particles for xenos

Numbers subject to change as usual lmao

Changelog

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add: Added the new marine "Prototype Supersoldier" race which is weaker by default but can use stimulants to be more flexible
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[FosterGrime-Heymynameslouie]

ZENKAI BOOST MARINE

[iforgotmeword]

awful fucking idea
speed merge now :)

[demir-pl]

uhhhh is not being able to choose a hairstyle intended?
also when you select the species and join game... it doesn't spawn you as one
only works when you select them from spawn verb

apart from that pretty cool 👍

[Pariah919]

This seems like a bad idea and will lead to constant abuse by niche strats and being a downgrade everywhere else. 80% of those stims are bad, useless, or so incredibly niche it makes half the Dead by Daylight perk pool look usable. The other half is straight buffs.
Ignoring the max height change, which is ugly and will always look ugly since you're streching sprites by code.

[blackdav123]

might be worth rolling the ear and flashbang into one perk

[DrAmazing343]

VALIBROS...
>stam
>melee skill
>wraith portal
ARE WE FUCKING BACK???

[Apple-107]

holy based

[FunkyMonke47]

NANOMACHINES, SON

[yyzsong]

Fuck you bring back elves

[Lumipharon]

Wait, do Aeldari PROTOTYPE SUPER SOLDIERS just look exactly like normal humans lol?

[ilikesaying]

Taller Humans

[Wisemonster]

The powerloader skill hasn't been fixed yet, so it will literally do nothing but act as a noob trap. Even if it did work, there's not much use for it outside of a few shipside roles.

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[Lumipharon]

Super. Army. Soldiers.

[Lumipharon]

I would probs just make a single proc for getting Stam mods and have a signal, rather than doing multiple vars

[Lumipharon]

Probs not relevant for this pr, but maybe make this into some generic tts holder AM, since I assume other things can/will want to do this

[Lumipharon]

One handed slug shotty goes brrrr. Kuro problem tho

[Lumipharon]

This is definitely gonna be wack, aylmao

[Looking4bros]

For Melee, the 25 crit threshold difference is felt, however, with gigga mixes, it is reminiscent of RR, only in that you dip between crit and not crit more often. Funny, but not as effective, and leans towards ganked earlier. Niche, may try it with spear.

As there are zero buffs i would take situationally right now, The ability to lock in, or renew the timers of the current stims would be most appreciated. The thought that i could lose the wopping ~15 damage per hit i'm trading the crit threshold for mid fight rests on me.

Only "situational" buffs i could think of would be Engineering/Medical/Surgical skill buff. Otherwise.. 🤷

Very 👀

Was also some UI issues, but the buttons for the loadouts worked even if they read the list of stims wrong in the menu.

Edit: OH, OH WAIT, THE DEFIB ONE IS SITUATIONAL, it works on magmoor if you get dunked into lava and die there for three minutes. lets you get revived without having to get sutures.

[Looking4bros]

This stuff is baller with Spear, even when not using it with Tricordrazine(the damage dealing chem). This is also permissive of Researchers (me) playing like a sidegrade Corpsmen/Doctor hybrid. sidegrade, as you're without the medivac and other points stuff, but have some surgical skill. 👍 pretty neat.

[CaputCapital]

The prototype supersoldier race adds an interesting playstyle. It might take time to master but once you find a combination that works, it's lovely. As a supersoldier, you also have to get into the habit of re-stimming up once your combo expires and that's another interesting part I wouldn't mind keeping. The only criticisms I have are the "Quick Getup" stim and a UI bug.

Quick Getup stim doesn't seem to offer much apart from reducing the getup time, I might need to test this. In certain instances, even if you do get back up it's certain xeno attacks that will keep you stunlocked either way even if you get back up.

Switching from a saved preset combination glitches out in the form of adding stims to the preset, but thankfully it doesn't overwrite the save. Making a new preset without any stims, switching to that new preset without stims and then selecting the preset I wanted to select is a necessary workaround.

I'm interested in seeing where this addition goes!

[Looking4bros]

could we get them in Valhalla? 👁️ 👁️