Replaces spin/flip's uses in mining's style meter and bitrunner's projectile parrying and instead uses a new emote, taunt. It also does not play a sound effect for emoting, only when you successfully block a projectile.
The parrying time from the flip was 1.4 seconds, with taunting it is now 0.9 seconds. Taunting also has a cooldown of 1.5 seconds between uses.
Spin and flip are emotes that get a little boring and repetitive, which makes its complete overuse quite annoying to see.
Compared to spin, taunting is a quick turn, which stacked with the cooldown, makes it a shorter and un-overusable emote.
It also has a cooldown of 1.5s between hits, so players now actually have a limit to how much they can parry/style. Currently if you have some way to regenerate stamina damage, you're pretty set to spam parry all projectiles at essentially no cost, since emotes cost nothing to use, removing the limit of having to actually time it.
I wouldnt say falling over is necessarily a downside since anyone who uses these items for a while can quickly figure out exactly hwo to maximize parrying time.
Changelog
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add: Added Taunting, a faster and cooldowned version of the Spin emote.
balance: Wizards blocking projectiles with Transparence and the bitrunner matrix skillchip now have a visible effect of deflecting the projectile.
balance: The bitrunner skillchip now uses taunt instead of flip.
balance: The style meter now uses taunting instead of flips and spins.
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Original PR: https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/pull/85605
About The Pull Request
Replaces spin/flip's uses in mining's style meter and bitrunner's projectile parrying and instead uses a new emote, taunt. It also does not play a sound effect for emoting, only when you successfully block a projectile.
The parrying time from the flip was 1.4 seconds, with taunting it is now 0.9 seconds. Taunting also has a cooldown of 1.5 seconds between uses.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJGuEqNhqUs
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/1c6bf8b2-6a0d-4ae2-9b5b-9c6e619e76d6
Why It's Good For The Game
Spin and flip are emotes that get a little boring and repetitive, which makes its complete overuse quite annoying to see. Compared to spin, taunting is a quick turn, which stacked with the cooldown, makes it a shorter and un-overusable emote.
It also has a cooldown of 1.5s between hits, so players now actually have a limit to how much they can parry/style. Currently if you have some way to regenerate stamina damage, you're pretty set to spam parry all projectiles at essentially no cost, since emotes cost nothing to use, removing the limit of having to actually time it. I wouldnt say falling over is necessarily a downside since anyone who uses these items for a while can quickly figure out exactly hwo to maximize parrying time.
Changelog
:cl: add: Added Taunting, a faster and cooldowned version of the Spin emote. balance: Wizards blocking projectiles with Transparence and the bitrunner matrix skillchip now have a visible effect of deflecting the projectile. balance: The bitrunner skillchip now uses taunt instead of flip. balance: The style meter now uses taunting instead of flips and spins. /:cl: