The Big Blob update, Part 3 (assuming that Part 2 was the Blob HUD)

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• Removed the obsolete and broken Blob random event
• Added two new random events, Blob Cluster and Blob Conglomerate. The former is like a medium intensity meteor shower, sending a handful of blobs and node blobs at the station (about as rare as Communications Blackout). The later is a high intensity meteor storm, sending blobs, node blobs, and a few blob cores (I had 2-3 cores per showers during testing. This one is much rarer, one of the rarest events in fact, along with alien infestation and electrical storm). Both events can only trigger after 30 minutes have elapsed.
• Blobs now make sounds when they attack mobs.
• Added a new meteor gun intended for testing and debugging that lets its user choose which type of meteor to fire.

testing the new meteor gun: http://i.4cdn.org/vg/1462595027361.webm

ghost perspective when selected to become the overmind of a meteor blob core: http://i.4cdn.org/vg/1462601572814.webm

aftermath of a blob conglomerate: http://i.4cdn.org/vg/1462601972747.webm

[Exxion]

Maybe the lower limit on time for these events should be longer
And what happens if a ghost becomes the overmind of a meteor core and then that core misses the station?

Otherwise, looks cool

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@Exxion if the core meteor falls off the Z level, it gets destroyed. And the ghost gets freed. (well the ghost can cancel camera view to free himself anytime from the perspective anyway)

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As confirmed by dylan, meteors aren't supposed to move from a Z Level to the next. So it's getting fixed at last.

[Exxion]

Isn't this now a duplicate definition?

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Added support for large projectile sprites. (the initial offset is now re-applied after every update_pixel() )

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@clusterfack That's not what he told me. He even said that you helped him implement Z-level delete.

@SarahJohnson489 Well blobs represent hardly a challenge when they don't have overminds. Nodes are basically like spacevines that spread through walls but not far.

[CptWad]

Did you remove all the maps blobspawn landmarks?

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I don't do map changes but these can be removed later.

[ComicIronic]

Would this not also filter out anyone following the meteor as an observer?

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nope. following someone/an object locks your ghost to that mob/object. Your eye is still tied to your ghost. the only way for your eye to become tied to the meteor is by getting picked as a candidate, or varedit.

[gbasood]

A few things:

• I noticed some people talking about removing blob spawn landmarks. Don't. They're not JUST for blob spawns.
• Did you really add a random event to rotation that spawns multiple blob cores? Because that is going to end poorly for lowpop especially. I mean it's cool as a admin-firable event but random is maybe a bit much Nevermind, 30 minute requirement, so it's fine.

[Exxion]

I still think the requirement should be more like an hour

[gbasood]

@Exxion If R&D is doing their job then players are more than capable of dealing with blobs at even the 20 minute mark in my opinion

If not, then it's a SUPER RARE EVENT so it should be 👌

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@Exxion
@gbasood
I was wrong. Random events cannot fire at all before 50 minutes have elapsed, so that 30 minutes check serves no purpose at all. So the minimum requirement will be about an hour.

Don't worry, I didn't touch the landmarks, nor did I plan to.

[CptWad]

The landmarks for blobspawn might be used for something else so removing them might not be wise

[CptWad]

Yo diety can you also update the wiki, specifically the random events page

[DeityLink]

will do