feat(content): Patir 2

[beccabunny]

Content (Artwork / Missions / Jobs)

Summary

Happy April fools! The long awaited sequel to the Ka'sei plotline is here - unraveling Patir's secrets, throught a whole new universe to explore

The story starts right where the previous mission chain ended, right when Dusk thinks of a way to avoid the "complications" that abruptly ended your previous attempt. A few missions use the game mechanics in ways they weren't really intended intended for; a "cloak checker", that identifies whether a player remained cloaked during the mission or not, and a complex (for ES mechanics) boarding mission later on in which NPCs need to do very specific things at very specific times. From my testing, they both work very consistently; however, to reduce uncertainity with them (as well as to make the mission chain less annoying, and because it fits the lore) I have removed the ember waste hazard from the system. You will find black holes and neutron stars, one-way wormholes and strange machines; weird creatures await, with a peculiar interaction with the Ka'sei that will be relevant later on for reasons that should be quite obvious

Their stats are the least final of the stuff in the PR (partly because of the little direct interaction with them and no direct combat, both now and in the current future plans), but they show the idea clearly: a race incredibly hard to kill (low hull, but enormous regen), with weapons that by themselves would be unbalanced (first of all because of the lack of an energy requirement) but that cannot be installed in any normal ship - in the future, when they become important to the story, they will be installable only by adding another outfit first, with hefty requirements that will reduce their effectiveness significantly. They all have act in a pretty unique way, and will require further tweaking to make the AI use them right; for example, the antimissile is nearly impenetrable, but has a peculiar weakness in its extremely short range, shorter than most ships the player will be likely to use in late game (plus a longer range variant, which the player won't see available for a looong time if ever). All of this is a framework of future Patir stories as well; most of the assets they will need are in this PR, with this likely having the largest amount of images in it by a good margin.

As a side note, between the fact that it took over two years and a half to write this and my notorious lack of organization, the way it was done was particularly messy; as I made this stuff by continously modifying an instance of the game, copying very little of it in separate folders, making updating it to newer changes impossible. As such, I had to develop it in a year+ old game version with the changes being difficult to see, and I could have easily forgotten to copy part of the stuff needed for the missions here. This is the first thing I'm going to address, but I could miss something, so if I do just tell me - and the same is true for deprecated functions, one of which I have already updated (scan efficency).

This PR wouldn't exist without the work of many, many people: @GefullteTaubenbrust2 for his incredible black hole sprites, @1010todd for the projectile code from which most weapons in this PR are derived from, @Azure3141 for proofreading all the missions I have written (blame him for any mistake you find) and help putting all of this together, @Hurleveur for helping me figure out how to make the more complex missions actually work - and a lot of other people that reviewed, gave feedback and helped correct the earlier missions whenever I posted them on the discord. Thank you, really.

Screenshots

Map

A video of the jd effect I made for it, on an earlier iteration of the asteroid ship's design

jd.effect.mp4

And videos of some of the weapons in the PR in action (again many, many thanks to Todd for his help)

2021-09-03_13-11-41.mp4

Video.senza.titolo.-.Realizzato.con.Clipchamp.6.mp4

## Testing Done Tested the missions from start to end on both the available paths, it should work so as long as I didn't forget to port anything from my testing area to this PR

Save File

Courtesy of @Quantumshark, all I did was moving to a suitable planet and check that it starts by pressing spaceport (60% chance)
Sara Kujou.txt

Artwork Checklist

(If any artwork was added or changed by this PR, the following must be provided.)

• I updated the copyright attributions, or decline to claim copyright of any assets produced or modified
• I created a PR to the endless-sky-assets repo with the necessary image, blend, and texture assets: {{insert PR link}}
• I created a PR to the endless-sky-high-dpi repo with the @2x versions of these art assets: Patir 2 high DPI endless-sky-high-dpi#403

[Zireael07]

I hope this is for real and not an April Fools because the images are downright beautiful <3

[ziproot]

Patir 2 will never be finished april fools

[Saugia]

Dang, looks like a lot of neat stuff in this PR. When I have the time to get in-depth with it for myself it will give me a better idea of what's actually going on, regardless, looks very interesting and I'm eager to dig into it at some point. (Had some questions answered outside of Github from before.)

[OcelotWalrus]

Definitely interesting... The images look amazing!

[Azure3141]

Patir 3 when?

[beccabunny]

Here's a comparison of all the black holes with Sag A* - while the overall size of some of them approaches that of our dear supermassive black hole I would say that he still remains the most imposing of the bunch

[ziproot]

🎉

[Anarchist2]

This review covers up to Mystery 9.

[tibetiroka]

I'll try to get to the missions soon.

[eebop]

I'm playing through it and found a bug: In the "Lab Deployment" mission, you still get the text upon entering Patir about the probe even if you haven't picked it up from Babiali first.

[eebop]

Another issue: returning from Patir after exploring the other place has a bugged text: it just says

[beccabunny]

I'm playing through it and found a bug: In the "Lab Deployment" mission, you still get the text upon entering Patir about the probe even if you haven't picked it up from Babiali first.

Another issue: returning from Patir after exploring the other place has a bugged text: it just says

Both should be fixed now, thank you