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Original PR: https://github.com/BeeStation/BeeStation-Hornet/pull/6885
About The Pull Request
Someone suggested this to me at some point a while ago, but I never got around to coding it in (so sorry to whoever that was). This PR makes it so that chestbursters won't gib their hosts. Instead, it'll just kill them and make all the organs in their chest spill out. I also tweaked the logic on alien embryo growths to be a bit more consistent. Now, instead of checking prob(3) every time the egg processes, it just sets a timer from 1-1.5 minutes for each stage and progresses when that timer's up. If the embryo's removed, the stage timer resets. There's probably a better way to manage the stage times, but I'm not entirely sure if there's something else I should use.
Why It's Good For The Game
Because full gibbing + brain deletion from a worm coming out of you never really made sense to me. That, and getting fully round removed kinda sucks.
The change for growth should also hopefully make embryo growth more consistent.
Testing Photographs and Procedure
It compiles, and there's no runtimes or incredibly broken things during embryo processing/chestbursting.
Changelog
:cl: tweak: Xeno chestbursters no longer gib their hosts. tweak: Tweaks alien embryo growth logic /:cl: