Buffs scientist bio suits against slimes

[SECBATON-GRIFFON]

[balance][qol][tweak]

What this does

something requested by @DeityLink, makes scientist biosuits do moderate protection from melee (ie slime) attacks and also block half of the power of them feeding on you

Why it's good

less of a hassle when slime raising goes wrong

How it was tested

posess slime, attack and feed player, go back to player

Changelog

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• tweak: Scientist biosuits now offer some protection from slime attacks and slime feeding. (half reduction for the latter)
• spellcheck: Messages from slime feeding sent to the slime and feedee are now formatted better.
• spellcheck: Biosuit descriptions now spell "contaminant" properly.

[Dacendeth]

Feels like just checking for 100 bio coverage on all parts would be less snowflaky, also your current check doesnt care if they have the related helmet on or not.

[SECBATON-GRIFFON]

Feels like just checking for 100 bio coverage on all parts would be less snowflaky, also your current check doesnt care if they have the related helmet on or not.

i mean slimes don't really feed on that area do they? will add it if you think its necessary though, easy one line fix

[jwhitak]

This is too strong of a buff - it nearly completely eliminates the risk of xenobio! Other methods of getting immunity come with severe downsides (sliming oneself being the main example). Might as well port the tg style monitor remote management system.

I'd be fine with a tweak level of buff, but complete immunity is a no.

[SECBATON-GRIFFON]

This is too strong of a buff - it nearly completely eliminates the risk of xenobio! Other methods of getting immunity come with severe downsides (sliming oneself being the main example). Might as well port the tg style monitor remote management system.

I'd be fine with a tweak level of buff, but complete immunity is a no.

complete immunity has now been removed, feeding damage has been halved instead

[angryturnip]

I think the risk of being killed by your slimes is part of the job and shouldn't be mitigated by a roundstart item. I'd rather something like this be gated behind being an advanced bio suit in the trader item pool or from using a slime core from a slime type that's at the end of one of the lines on a biosuit.

[angryturnip]

That being said, I started writing that comment before seeing the change you made above. Still iffy on it though, but with the change I no longer think it'd need to be locked behind any other content

[jwhitak]

I'm still iffy on it... I'm actually willing to merge this if people like it now though.

I do like an upgrade to give immunity. This seems to be a really good chance to add a slime suit upgrade for the biosuit using the new slime_act system. Good for a future PR.

[DeityLink]

Yeah I didn't suggest that they offer total protection, but if only that they at least delay slime dealing you clone damage. Since it's annoying to heal it should give you time to shove them off.

[RealestEstate]

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