Terminator terminates the terrible tyrants

Heavy Is GPS

PROJECT LEAD

August 09, 2023

New Robots

Terminator
- Role: Tank
- HP: 3000
- Size: 115%
- Move Speed: -20%
- +75% damage resistance to bullets
- +75% damage resistance to sentries
- +50% damage resistance to explosives
- Weapons
  - Terminator's Shotgun
    - Deals mini-crits to target Targeted for Termination
    - -90% damage to buildings
    - On Successful termination
      - Restores full health
- Ability:
  - Target for Termination
    - HUD
      - Target's name, health, class and threat level
        
        Threat level is based off if the terminator has resistances to their target's active weapon or not
      - Looking at target grants speed boost
      - Target does not know they are Targeted for Termination
      - Target changes randomly if target dies, goes invisible, stays in to spawn or disconnects.
- Cost: FREE
- Designed by: HiGPS
  - The idea behind this bot is to make it feel like a terminator that ignores anyone except the target, and only shoots those in the way. Making it an interesting tank with a clear self contained objective
Astrobot
- Role: Disruptor
- HP: 3000
- Move Speed: -35%
- Low Gravity
- Weapons
  - Flamethrower
    - -85% damage vs buildings
    - Self push from airblast with a power over 175 force push units
- Cost: 0.75RC
- Designed by: HiGPS
Shredder
- Role: Damage
- HP: 6000
- Move Speed: -50%
- Weapons
  - Minigun
    - Penetrates targets
    - Pierces resistances
    - -25% damage dealt
    - +30% faster firing speed
    - -65% damage vs buildings
- Cost: 3 RC per Robot
- Designed by: HiGPS
  - This robot replaces Compressor, with a more easy to use robot that will simply shred through all targets and resistances, making it an actually good choice vs humans stacking all resistances

Humans

Taunt
- Added:
  - !w command triggers the kazotsky kick taunt, in order to deal with the changed Hoovy

Removed from Roster

Compressor
- Reason: Replaced by Shredder
HitBot
- Reason: Not very interesting or fun to play
Pumpkin Wizard
- Reason: Spell + Class synergy was trash
Ham
- Reason: MvM Shield on heavy was either OP or trash
Jouleson
- Reason: Not a good fit for a tank
Space Laser
- Reason: It flew off to space

Robots

Spies, Engineers, Snipers, Medics
- Added:
  - -10% voice pitch sound
Spies
- Changed:
  - Category from Support -> Spies
  - Decloak time to be standard +70% faster
  - Spawns cloaked
    - Uncloaking will trigger spy alert first time they do it
Snipers
- Changed:
  - Category from Support -> Sniper
Tanks
- Added:
  - Smoke effect on hats and weapons to distinguish from non tanks
Nuker
- Removed:
  - Melee weapon
HiGPS
- Changed:
  - Increased damage penalty vs buildings from -55% to -75%
Big Joey
- Changed:
  - Increased damage penalty vs buildings from -60% to -75%
  - Increased accuracy bonus to +45% more accurate
- Removed:
  - Overheat mechanic
Funke
- Changed:
  - Now uses cleaver model instead of Batsaber as the cleaver
MechaFace
- Removed:
  - Hype builds from kills
- Changed:
  - Increased damage bonus vs players from +25% to +30%
  - Now loses hype on damage taken
  - Builds hype on doing damage
Firewall
- Changed:
  - Cosmetics to be more fire based
Archibolt
- Changed:
  - Updated description from "HYAH! I think that enemy got the point" to "Shadowleap Spell"
Equalizor
- Changed:
  - Role from free Tank to Paid Melee
  - Reduced health from 9000 to 3500
  - Movespeed modifier from -30% slower to -25% faster
  - Damage bonus vs players from +50% to +15%
- Added:
  - RC Cost of 1
  - +270% higher jump height
Hoovy
- Added:
  - Knocks back players in opposite direction they are looking if they taunt to avoid being tickled
Sentry Buster & Bearded Expense
- Changed:
  - Now uses the new "No Knockback" condition instead of the quickfix one
Boxing Champ
- Changed:
  - Ability:
    - Crits and speed boost is now activated when letting go of crouch instead of when pressed
Rocketman
- Split into two robots. Astrobot
- Changed:
  - Returned category to Damage -> Flames
  - Health from 3000 to 3500
    - This makes him the beefiest pyro, also just has one weapon with no real gimmick other than faster airblast
- Removed:
  - Airblast self push
  - Longer flamethrower range
Spitfire
- Changed:
  - From paid to Free
- Removed:
  - +25% faster firing speed bonus
  - Projectile penetration
Black Shiv
- Changed:
  - Robot Type from Disruptor to Spy
- Added:
  - Dead Ringer with infinite cloak
  - Shiv is now silent killer
- This makes Black Shiv more viable, trading disguise kit for grapple hook makes him a more interesting pick
Sensor Armstrong
- Changed:
  - Cosmetics to look more like the Senator Armstrong with a yellow tie and fancy pants
Mortar Mack
- Changed:
  - Cosmetics to be Shrapnel Shell instead of the dumb pants
Long Range Robots
- Changed:
  - Color from The "Bitter Taste of Defeat and Lime" to "Indubitably Green" to better match the weapon skins

Backend

Robot Menu
- Fixed:
  - A bug that would cause menus to become invalid if someone picked a robot while you were looking in a menu
Added a new weapon creating process
- That allows for weapons to be created with attributes directly
Dead Ringer for Robots
- Fixed a bug that caused death when using deadringer on robots
Spies
- Spies now start cloaked
- Spy alerts now play when the spy decloaks once.
Robots with Parachutes
- Fixed parachute model not spawning correctly on robots

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