New head of security weapon:Energy Shotgun

[Boaz1111]

About the PR

I added an experimental energy shotgun with three fire modes:
Wide fire(lethal)
Narrow fire(lethal)
Disabler(non lethal)

Why / Balance

Was speaking with flare about this, the HoS really needed a unique weapon instead of a bland SMG that can be obtained in other ways. This will hopefully cause more playstyle variety for HoS. The weapon is also high risk, and a steal objective for syndies. My original idea was to add the X-01 from SS13, but flare showed me this shotgun and I instantly loved it.

Technical details

Media

Space.Station.14.2024-01-24.22-31-28.-.Trim.mp4

• I have added screenshots/videos to this PR showcasing its changes ingame, or this PR does not require an ingame showcase

Breaking changes

Changelog

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• add: The HoS has been given a new experimental weapon:An energy shotgun with multiple fire modes. This experimental tech is highly wanted by the syndicate, and agents will try to steal it.

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This PR contains new or changed maps:

01/24/24 21:34

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This pull request has conflicts, please resolve those before we can evaluate the pull request.

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RSI Diff Bot; head commit 23a3210 merging into a937f05
This PR makes changes to 1 or more RSIs. Here is a summary of all changes:

Resources/Textures/Objects/Weapons/Guns/Battery/energy_shotgun.rsi

State	Old	New	Status
base			Added
equipped-BACKPACK			Added
equipped-SUITSTORAGE			Added
icon			Added
mag-unshaded-1			Added
mag-unshaded-2			Added
mag-unshaded-3			Added
mag-unshaded-4			Added

Resources/Textures/Objects/Weapons/Guns/Battery/inhands_64x.rsi

State	Old	New	Status
energy-inhand-left			Added
energy-inhand-right			Added
wielded-inhand-left			Added
wielded-inhand-right			Added

Resources/Textures/Objects/Weapons/Guns/Projectiles/projectiles_tg.rsi

State	Old	New	Status
heavylaser			Added

Edit: diff updated after 23a3210

[asperger-sind]

This looks really, really overpowered.

A rechargeable shotgun that has 4 modes that allow the user to deal with most possible combat scenarios that is also roundstart and matches if not outdamages normal shotgun options while having a clip size of 10.

It is of course in single quantity, provided you can kill the HoS, but it's not hard to acquire at all considering it's basically guaranteed the HoS will carry it, and killing the HoS is rather simple as a traitor if you get the alpha strike on them and use one of the multiple "hey I win this encounter" 1v1 options, hypopens come to mind as being the easiest option.

And the clip mechanism is kind of a drawback because you have to get to a recharger, but this doesn't matter for most encounters on the HoS part because after killing or arresting someone they can just go back to sec or bridge and recharge there, 10 clip size is plenty enough even for extended fights so trips like that aren't too bad either.

Now don't get me wrong, I love this concept, but this really needs a balance pass.

[K-Dynamic]

This looks really, really overpowered.

A rechargeable shotgun that has 4 modes that allow the user to deal with most possible combat scenarios that is also roundstart and matches if not outdamages normal shotgun options while having a clip size of 10.

It is of course in single quantity, provided you can kill the HoS, but it's not hard to acquire at all considering it's basically guaranteed the HoS will carry it, and killing the HoS is rather simple as a traitor if you get the alpha strike on them and use one of the multiple "hey I win this encounter" 1v1 options, hypopens come to mind as being the easiest option.

And the clip mechanism is kind of a drawback because you have to get to a recharger, but this doesn't matter for most encounters on the HoS part because after killing or arresting someone they can just go back to sec or bridge and recharge there, 10 clip size is plenty enough even for extended fights so trips like that aren't too bad either.

Now don't get me wrong, I love this concept, but this really needs a balance pass.

The 8 tc eshield user:

The 8 tc eshield user then using the shotgun on the rest of the station:

[LordEclipse]

Don't try to add this to every map. Before even being considered to be added, remove all the map changes, as those need to be atomized in the first place.

[BolloTea]

Too ridiculous and strong, even for high risk, better move the x-01, this is a more balanced weapon for hos

[K-Dynamic]

I don't like this weapon because hos will lose it and murderboners get a guaranteed source of a good weapon

[CrigCrag]

this should be a t3 research

[asperger-sind]

I don't like this weapon because hos will lose it and murderboners get a guaranteed source of a good weapon

They already have one via captain's antique laser gun but this adds an alternative.

[Hmeister-fake]

pretty sure Delta-V already has an x-01 for the HoS, just port it.

[Boaz1111]

I can nerf it, but debate this with flare, they requested it

[Flareguy]

Okay, going point-through-point:

• The main reason for having this over the X-01 (HOS's SS13 weapon) is that the X-01 was always kind of boring. Most people probably couldn't tell you how good it was because it's basically just another laser gun but Slightly Better:tm: and with an ion fire mode. In theory, this provides an interesting spin on the gun and makes it genuinely unique and valuable, like any good objective item should be.

• Traitors stealing this gun is kind of a given, I don't really see the point in this being a bad thing unless it's ridiculously overpowered.

• Shotgun disablers should be conceptually fine since these are supposed to do less damage per shot (they use the SMG disabler shots.)

• I'm kind of indifferent on ion, but it's only 1 bolt per shot so it should be fine, it was a feature of the X-01. If it makes the gun too versatile it probably wouldn't be out of the question to remove.

• 10 shots probably is pretty ridiculous considering how much pain this thing can dish out in theory.

[Boaz1111]

Okay, going point-through-point:

• The main reason for having this over the X-01 (HOS's SS13 weapon) is that the X-01 was always kind of boring. Most people probably couldn't tell you how good it was because it's basically just another laser gun but Slightly Better:tm: and with an ion fire mode. In theory, this provides an interesting spin on the gun and makes it genuinely unique and valuable, like any good objective item should be.

• Traitors stealing this gun is kind of a given, I don't really see the point in this being a bad thing unless it's ridiculously overpowered.

• Shotgun disablers should be conceptually fine since these are supposed to do less damage per shot (they use the SMG disabler shots.)

• I'm kind of indifferent on ion, but it's only 1 bolt per shot so it should be fine, it was a feature of the X-01. If it makes the gun too versatile it probably wouldn't be out of the question to remove.

• 10 shots probably is pretty ridiculous considering how much pain this thing can dish out in theory.

How many shots do you suggest? Five?

[Flareguy]

Five or four is probably good to put it at for now, considering the relative power of the shotgun.

[metalgearsloth]

Don't make mapping changes in the same pr.

[BolloTea]

The main reason for having this over the X-01 (HOS's SS13 weapon) is that the X-01 was always kind of boring. Most people probably couldn't tell you how good it was because it's basically just another laser gun but Slightly Better:tm: and with an ion fire mode. In theory, this provides an interesting spin on the gun and makes it genuinely unique and valuable, like any good objective item should be.

In part I agree with you. But you can always improve, refine or look at it from a new angle. Perhaps at the moment, for x-01, ion damage will be more useless, unlike disabler. As a last resort, it will be possible to look at the Dominator and do something based on its model. (Lethal, non-lethal and taser). Although these are all assumptions and ideas that most likely no one will consider in this request.

[VasilisThePikachu]

Did we not have a freeze for new weapons?

[metalgearsloth]

Delete this, it shouldn't be necessary and if it is then BatteryWeaponFireModes code needs fixing until it isn't.

[Doc-Michael]

I don't think it's been mentioned before, but what size is the Gun going to be?
Having it be 4x2 would be wonderful, would also match the size of the Enforcer.

[metalgearsloth]

@Boaz1111 is this still being worked on.

[Boaz1111]

not currently

[Boaz1111]

Going to undraft and work on this once #27773 gets merged

[Boaz1111]

closing this because I am doing the scorched earth strategy of making a new pr