Frogman mutation's whipping tongue mutation surpasses Metal Gear!

DillonSimeone commented 1 year ago

Describe the bug

Over my game, my frogman's tongue have grown so powerful that its range is greater than most handguns and shotguns, and have shown no signs of ceasing growth. I never asked for this in the first place, flu shots turned me into a frog! I was shocked by how powerful the frog mutation tree have turned out to be.

In short, right now, my frogman's tongue is capable of whipping out at a whooping 26 meters and pulling zombies, animals, victims, etc right into melee range to get splattered.

Plus, there's no stamina cost so I can stunlock targets while I catch my breath!

Things I've been doing:

Pulling deers out of the woods into front of my vehicle while driving at 200mph
Pulling fishes out of the local river and lakes
Standing on top of buildings, and pulling zombies up across z-levels, then letting them to drop back down to their death
Surpassing Metal Gear!

Attach save file

Damascus-trimmed.tar.gz

Steps to reproduce

Load my save
Open mutation menu
Use whipping tongue
SURPASS METAL GEAR

Expected behavior

26 meters of tongue in my body now? I'm more lick than man! I AM THE TONGUE!

Screenshots

Grabbing a snack from across the map

Dropping creatures to their death

Versions and configuration

OS: Windows
- OS Version: 10.0.19044.2846 (21H2)
Game Version: a3c3959 [64-bit]
Graphics Version: Tiles
Game Language: System language []
Mods loaded: [ Dark Days Ahead [dda], Disable NPC Needs [no_npc_food], Portal Storms Ignore NPCs [personal_portal_storms], No Fungal Growth [no_fungal_growth], Bionic Professions [package_bionic_professions], Aftershock [aftershock], Blaze Industries [blazeindustries], Magiclysm [magiclysm], Xedra Evolved [xedra_evolved], Bombastic Perks [bombastic_perks], My Sweet Cataclysm [my_sweet_cataclysm], Mythical Martial Arts [MMA], Crazy Cataclysm [crazy_cataclysm], SpeedyDex [speedydex], Stats Through Kills [stats_through_kills], Stats Through Skills [StatsThroughSkills] ]

Additional context

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fairyarmadillo commented 1 year ago

Pulling fish out of lakes and exploiting gravity to kill zeds with fall damage seems like exactly what the mutation should be doing, however google tells me that a typical frog tongue is only 1/3 the length of its body. Even if we account for fuzzy tile size and mutants exhibiting exaggerated traits, the range should probably be cut down to just a couple of tiles.

edit: Apparently poison dart frog tongues can get up to 1.5 times the length of their bodies, so there's a bit more justification for a couple tiles of reach.

DillonSimeone commented 1 year ago

Two important details just occurred to me:

At low throwing skills+stats, my tongue's range was in the single digits. The higher my throwing skill becomes, along with stats increasing, seems to be increasing the tongue's range.

In the save I posted, I'm wearing a helm with 100% cover for the head and mouth... So how is the tongue getting out? Down the chin, then straight out toward the targets!?

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