Aftershock: Toxic Weaponry

[John-Candlebury]

Summary

Mods "Aftershock: Add poison based bullets, grenades and 'toxic flamethrower'"

Purpose of change

Making a sci-fi greenhouse where you could use incredibly toxic pesticide as a weapon, I noticed that the toxic part was actually getting quite weighty.

So these are toxic weapons for the mod. Mostly balanced around doing enough damage to counteract Moxphore regen. So they are pretty deadly, hazmat suits or prayers recommended.

Describe the solution

Creates a "fataly poisoned" effect that quickly kills anything organic (for human HP foes its fatal in about 5 turns) and several ways to apply it through direct attacks or map fields. The effect can be resisted with antivenom or through a few extra mod means.

Creates a new toxin type damage types for stabbing weapons and ballistic weapons. These work exactly as the base types but add the fatally poisoned effect if any damage is dealt.

Although flavored slightly differently from each other, all of these share the same effects and fields for simplicity sake.

Adds:

• Wide-range pesticide foam for the foam gun. Allowing you to use it as a toxic flamethrower instead of a building gun.
• Neurotoxic grenades that deploy a small circle of neurotoxic foam, cool for rapid area denial inside buildings.
• "Fang" flechettes that give out the same fast acting poison status to anything damaged, resisted by cut armor.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Testing

Used toxic weapons against diverse foes to ensure the effect immunities and armor levels were working correctly,

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• A broad white-ceramic knife that is constantly kept coated in neurotoxic oil by a handle mounted reservoir. Don't cut yourself.
• A neurotoxic device that deploys thick swathes of toxic foam upon detonation. Exposure proves fatal within seconds. Use against human targets is considered in breach of the Ganymede Accords.
• A neurotoxic device that deploys thick swathes of toxic foam upon detonation.. It's currently active.
• An old Thistle Industries neurotoxic pesticide that can be used to kill insects, plants, mammals, nematodes, fungi and most organisms not genetically engineered to withstand its assault. Even short exposure is likely to prove fatal. Frontier rated only.
• GG Fang 3x35mm NTX flechette
• GG Fang 3x35mm NTX flechettes
• Gibson Gear Fang flechettes loading a small ampoule of neurotoxic poison within a hollow cobalt dart. Although principally designed to neutralize the heavily augmented, they are effective against most organic targets.
• neurotoxic knife
• neurotoxic knives

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