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I definitely think the durability system would be extremely interesting, with many more features which could be tacked on, e.g. repairing armor, makeshift armor, crafting, sliding in armored plates and stuff, armor mods... And it'll also make fights more dynamic - you could possibly win through attrition in prolonged gunfights, instead of trying to cheese it by injecting sleepy juice and slicing their head off. Also, cross resistance damage. Taking a bullet in your radiation suit means radiation will leak in - leading to both reduced bullet and radiation resistance. However, it'll also make it exponentially harder and a P.I.T.A to code as well as balance properly, since you know, there's so many variables. Unless you're up to it, of course, which means just no problem.

I would also like to observe

Well, I guess 'not everyone' was kinda vague. What I meant like, there's definitely groups of people who do and don't. There's no real majority in either way, so we've gotta take a more careful, neutral approach. You know the only thing I'm going to be a little staunch on here is on medical/employment records, because those IRL are biological sex Flavortext and examine can be whatever. [ aliens and robots are the exception here ] Anyway, my response is mostly the same as Skull's.

Allow me to play Devil's Advocate here. I'm not against this, I just wanted to express some of my thoughts 1. We can already just push for this in flavor-text Just echoing what Carver said, I guess. 2. Female and Male sprites have visible differences Like, for example, Unathi muzzles, Human sprites in general. You know, this isn't really a problem for IPCs and Dionae, since there isn't any sexual dimorphism 2.5. We'd have to seperate genders and the sprites in the code I'm not sure how old this code is, but it'll be somewhat of a challenge to seperate the gender stuff and pronouns, like MALE use MALE sprite and FEMALE use FEMALE sprite 3. Medical Terminology Since we have medical and employment records, It's usually standard to use biological gender. Since you know, not everyone deals with pronouns like this on a daily basis, and I know myself pretty well that I need to make a sustained effort to use neutral pronouns. It's going to be confusing for the guy when he types out an entire paragraph of medical records. It's a lot easier to deal with absolutes, and we've gotta cater to the average joe around here.

inb4 people die because of scalding ramen chemical reactions when adding water

Honestly, the only realistic knives are penknives for Cargo for opening boxes, or the knives in the kitchen. Imagine you're eating at McDonalds and the janitor's just casually carrying a knife for self defence. Other than being powergamey, it's just stupid.

The entire research department relies on mining. And the reliance on Research could be solved by just giving them science access. The only equipment they're qualified to distribute are mechs, borgs, bionics, the like WHY? Doesn't that literally defeat the entire purpose of Scientist as an actual job? So you're moving the problem of Scientists being bored of the minigame to Roboticists who are equally uninterested to do said minigame, because they picked roboticist SPECIFICALLY to avoid it and build mechs instead. ...this just shoves them out of their job scope. They're supposed to mostly focus on mechs, bionics, synths, the like. They aren't supposed to be researching. Scientists get a tightening on focus...on what, exactly? This just encourages to make weapons and bombs to their heart's content, since all responsibility to make important things are now shoved to the Roboticist. This basically tips the balance ALL to the roboticist's side, further exaggerating the problem you're trying to solve. Speaking of which, the mapping changes are questionable at best. Replacing about 1/5 of the entire department with a break room (containing an oven, for some reason) AND smoking room (which has no place to be there), shoving Science's actual equipment to the wayside.

So I went to take a look at the new terminal sprites. They look out of place. The screens are this weird teal color which matches NOTHING in our game right now, and the original holographic style is gone. I honestly preferred the old intercoms. They didn't pop out as much, and they felt like they belonged in the walls. Same with the APCs. They now have way too much visual clutter and don't look like they actually fit on the wall - it's like they got glued on. They've also got exposed wires, and this weird white outline, which makes no sense to me.

The tiles have way too little contrast between colors, creating this "blur" effect, making it look smudged. It is the most obvious in the while tile sprites, but I can attest to the darker sprites having the same problem, however it's less noticeable in the darker colors. Also, again with the scrubbers and vents - they only seem to look good in certain areas, and terrible in others. They need to be tested in different environments first. Just because they look good in one region doesn't mean they look good in another by extension. And here - the paint doesn't fit in the tiles properly.

I think it's fine Medals are criminally unused anyway

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I say we remove the events. Keep the code n' stuff in game, let the department be remapped into an abandoned-ish section Like, sure, you can still do virology, but on a shoestring budget. But it won't be an actual thing that people are gonna do.

...It's a problem. That's why I brought it up. If it "doesn't matter" I wouldn't even have brought it up in the first place. Also, less visual space. I hope you like your blue floor squares even bigger.

Not feeling too hot on the new wall sprites. They are a frankenstein inbetween of the perspective top down walls and our current ones. Reference image. I can see what the new walls are aiming for - the cool perspective of ERIS and BAY. But the corners don't go all the way, it's too afraid to commit to the new style. So it's this weird inbetween. Make the corners go all the way down, please. Also, the reinforced walls look way too similar to regular walls but with a dot in the middle. Next up, the vents and holopads. Left is the old ones, right is the new I don't know, it feels like a straight downgrade to me. The vents are less detailed and spinning the wrong way Again, less detail (and making engineering a little harder to click the damn thing) These changes are good, yes, but they still need a little more work put in to be great. Just calm down and pull the handbrakes for a bit and we should be gucci.

They look like barrels NGL