Issues with space dragons

chromiumboy commented 4 months ago

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There seem to be a few issues surrounding space dragons. Here is a summary, which largely come from Liltenhead's video

Bugs

Slowed movement damage thresholds seem to be based on absolute rather than percentage values, so dragons are slowed after taking insignificant amounts of damage (60 to 80 damage)
Space dragons retain a full range of vision when asleep (does this affect other animals?)
Devoured players do not reappear when the dragon's corpse is butchered (#20405)
Corpses can rot inside the dragon, making them unable to be saved (#10816, very old issue, may have been fixed?)
Devouring corpses gives very little health back to the dragon (e.g., less than 20 HP recovered) (#17590)
Devoured players can attack the dragon with impunity from inside the dragon's stomach (#21449). This can result in zombification (#23540)

Game balance concerns

Space dragons can spawn right in the heart of the station. They should probably spawn in space, close to the station, instead
They metabolize chems very quickly, making poisons and sleeping agents very powerful against them

Request features

Space dragons will despawn if they do not place carp rifts in a timely manner, but there is no UI element to convey to the player how much time they have remaining, how many rifts they have placed, or how much health these rifts have
Visual effect when spawning / despawning the space dragon
Visual effect for the devour ability

deltanedas commented 4 months ago

should take more than 2 tranq darts to put a fucking dragon to sleep, its extremely op so should take a team effort of like 30 shells

Zadeon commented 2 months ago

Bodies eaten by the dragon are still not released when the dragon's corpse is butchered.

deltanedas commented 2 months ago

the dragon fix/rebalance pr isnt merged still

MissKay1994 commented 2 months ago

New issue nobody thought about that makes this a moderately more urgent to deal with. What happens when a dragon eats the captain, and there's nukies? Now there's no nuke disk

deltanedas commented 2 months ago

disk respawns if it gets deleted

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Issues with space dragons #26461

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