Boiler gas is now transparent, AP on direct hit increased slightly and gas radius increase

[Barnet2]

About The Pull Request

What it says on the tin.

Why It's Good For The Game

I said in the root removal PR that after some testing with antigas and such, we could come back to Boiler walance. There are a multiple of options to try, but sent gas nade becoming translucent worked well there to help it from becoming oppressive but still a form of area control (without LoS block). The AP increase was inspired by Elsa, direct hits with how telegraphed they are should do some more damage. Radius increase requested by Kuro to give boiler area denial.

Changelog

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balance: Boiler gas is now translucent, AP on direct hit for all glob types increased by 10
balance: Normal boiler gas (non-lance) has 1 more tile of radius
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[Xander3359]

Suggested change

	smoke_traits = SMOKE_XENO|SMOKE_XENO_NEURO|SMOKE_GASP|SMOKE_COUGH|SMOKE_EXTINGUISH|
	smoke_traits = SMOKE_XENO|SMOKE_XENO_NEURO|SMOKE_GASP|SMOKE_COUGH|SMOKE_EXTINGUISH

[Oscari-pog]

Maybe make acid gas translucent and keep neurotoxin gas vision-blocking given how laughably easy it is to ignore neurotoxin?

[Ennanyasha]

Maybe make acid gas translucent and keep neurotoxin gas vision-blocking given how laughably easy it is to ignore neurotoxin?

I agree to this. much more better than just straight up removing vision-blocking gas. Gas spam was the reason xenos are delaying/stopping the marine ball. I think losing the LoS block will just make pushing too easy. and we already had anti gas grenades to counter it and this gives marine reason to invest in it too. also we will never feel the joy to see the aftermath when the boiler gas dissipates.

[Barnet2]

Maybe make acid gas translucent and keep neurotoxin gas vision-blocking given how laughably easy it is to ignore neurotoxin?

If Zack has taught me anything, neuro is pretty alright and LoS block is incredibly powerful. Personally I would rather deal with the issue of why gas spam is necessary in the first place, which to me is IFF hordes. One idea for this PR is to increase gas radius to make it specifically for area denial.

[MiniMeatwad]

Maybe make acid gas translucent and keep neurotoxin gas vision-blocking given how laughably easy it is to ignore neurotoxin?

I think this happened in an older version of TGMC, boilers just exclusively used neurotoxin. Might've been a bug, but I remember some rounds where that was a thing.

[Arturlang]

Issue is everyone just runs around with gas masks making gas castes much much weaker, as there's no reason NOT to

[SimplySmiley123]

Issue is everyone just runs around with gas masks making gas castes much much weaker, as there's no reason NOT to

At the same time there's so much gas spammed everywhere at every opportunity that you're fucked without a gas mask.

[Oscari-pog]

Issue is everyone just runs around with gas masks making gas castes much much weaker, as there's no reason NOT to

At the same time there's so much gas spammed everywhere at every opportunity that you're fucked without a gas mask.

Gas masks are free and you do not gain anything by not wearing one

[efzapa]

Issue is everyone just runs around with gas masks making gas castes much much weaker, as there's no reason NOT to

make gas masks give a recoil/accuracy malus :)

[SimplySmiley123]

Issue is everyone just runs around with gas masks making gas castes much much weaker, as there's no reason NOT to

make gas masks give a recoil/accuracy malus :)

Axe sources of gas spam, at least some of them while at it and sure. Otherwise fuck no.

[Technical-l]

Issue is everyone just runs around with gas masks making gas castes much much weaker, as there's no reason NOT to

so? i think everything is balanced around marines HAVING gas masks.