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It is possible to distinguish changeling from crew by looking at their OxyLoss #5835

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NethIafin opened this issue Nov 1, 2016 · 5 comments
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NethIafin commented Nov 1, 2016

Problem Description:
You can find that dead body is changeling by looking at its oxyloss

What did you expect to happen:
Changelings should be indistinguishable from other crew, unless they use their visible abilities. This also means that their oxyloss is capped at 200 and does not increase after death

What happened instead:
Oxyloss wasn't capped or it continued to grow after death

Why is this bad/What are the consequences:
This may give medical crew some insight on the crewmember. Also allows some meta-gaming practices

Steps to reproduce the problem:
Have changeling with regeneration ability. Beat it into crit. Let it die of oxyloss. Changeling should start regeneration process. Monitor oxygen damage during that process.

Possibly related stuff (which gamemode was it? What were you doing at the time? Was
anything else out of the ordinary happening?)
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I was playing changeling and died from exsessive batoning and sarin. Person with health scanner was able to determine that I was a ling because something was wrong with my Oxygen Damage. While still borging dead person for doing a capital crime is good, the reasoning behind this sounded wrong and potentially abusable. Correct me if I'm wrong

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Danuis commented Nov 1, 2016

I agree, remove/fix this. It's too gamey.

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Plotron commented Nov 1, 2016

Holy shit - I shouldn't have viewed this issue!

Now I won't be able to stop myself from meta-powergaming!

@Twinmold93
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You can already beat a changeling and if it even STARTS to regenerate at a more rapid than nutrition allows rate, giving it away that it's a changeling.

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that actually makes you research and watch over living body for a period of time. Rarely medics scan person more than once without applying any medications.

@marlyn-x86 marlyn-x86 added the Misdesign This issue is caused by a misdesign in terms of code label Feb 24, 2017
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Newcrit would seem to mitigate this

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