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Substituting metal/aluminum in the recipie for metal foam with a synthflesh creates creates flesh foam instead of metal foam. Flesh foam behaves similarly to metal foam, spreading across an area and leaving behind it's effect. Instead of metal foam walls the effect creates blob wall.

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That's a great idea for it to be some new type of wall, but that requires a lot more work for coders and spriters. The sprite work could give it some Blood Cult vibes. The walls of flesh leave messy gibs everywhere, and when broken they drop meat. I still think it would be worth experimenting with it being blob wall. Blob wall that's disconnected from the blob core is pretty harmless, especially if there's no actual blob core on the station. I imagine traitors using the blob walls to divert the crew to a "false" blob, and pranks. I just had another idea. What if instead of a flesh wall, the flesh foam just leaves messy gibs everywhere it touches that the janitor has to clean up? There's lots of room to experiment with this idea. We won't know what's the best way to handle "flesh foam" until it's made and released to the public to play with and see how it balances.

Bit of a thread revival but I've had more time to play with this change, and I'm not sure I like it. This change does make dealing with locker pullers without backup somewhat easier, but in 1 by 1 hallways on like shepard it's still an effective strategy. I also don't really think it's too much of an issue, when it does become frustrating it's when they use other stuff like meth and an autolathe for ammo with it, which I would argue is significantly more problematic than pulling objects. One think this Pr did NOT address is structure pushing by mobs like terrors, which I find to be way more oppressive as you have no way to deal with it in most cases, while they get a much easier push. In game this kind of seems to just make normal stuff you were already doing a bit more frustrating and really only affects people who don't realize they can just push objects. it's not too terrible but it's just kinda janky and annoying. I've been thinking about putting up a revert that adds a limited piercing upgrade for disablers and lasers at RND, I feel that's a better compromise than making things generally more frustrating to use overall to kill off a pretty niche strat.

The cowboy miner, Dalton Allen