Undersized and Holosynth Interaction

[DireWaff]

Client Version:

516.1669

Issue Summary:

So, with holosynths, they have a special interaction with people walking through them, where they fuzz and are able to be passed through.

With undersized holosynths, they are instead stepped on, as is normal for undersized characters. With the way holosynths take more damage in general, it takes four times of being stepped on to send them into hard crit. It felt immersion breaking to me, that only this specific type of mostly intangible synth could be stepped on.

Round ID:

2928

Test Merge Information:

• cargo uniform resprite :3c
• [TESTMERGE ONLY] Temporary Fix to USB Cable Endless Recursion Hell

Reproduction Steps:

Create a holosynth with the undersized quirk.
Get stepped on!

[tiramisuapimancer]

To be honest I think it might be time for Undersized stepping to be moved to combat mode-only or something similar? It exists for two reasons, firstly to be funny, which has run its course, and secondly to prevent sprite size from providing a combat advantage, which "not being in combat mode" isn't that hard to change so it's not really an advantage to them. People kind of dropped off playing undersized characters, because the goofiness of always being stepped on made it feel hard to make one that wasn't a gimmicky joke. And it's also really annoying having to constantly rp out the "ARE YOU OKAY OMG"