The slightly-good ninja nerf of 2024

[Therealdoooc213]

About The Pull Request

In the title. Nerfs ninjas, katana damage/bleed lowered (4 hits to crit instead of 3), suit protection values lowered, cant use guns anymore.

Why It's Good For The Game

Ninja has been overpowered for some time, able to delimb in 3 hits, near infinite teleports, insane armor, and was able to use guns. This changes all of that.

Testing Photographs and Procedure

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Changelog

🆑 Therealdoooc
balance: Ninjas can no longer use guns
balance: Ninja suit has lowered protection values
balance: The Energy Katana dashing ability takes longer to recharge now, has a lower damage, and deals lower bleeding
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[EvilDragonfiend]

Incorrect practice of trait system. NINJA_TRAIT is not how its name means, and trait source shouldn't be given by such method.

[Rukofamicom]

The ninja, like wizards, are supposed to be an exceedingly powerful enemy to fight.

I like the alternate PR's more measured approach to toning them down substantially more.

[PowerfulBacon]

This PR is a nerf for the sake of nerfing and fails to understand what is making the ninja so powerful:

• ridiculous speed
• overpowered katana
• impossible to chase due to overpowered movement options
• invisibility that grants laser immunity usable in combat

If we nerf them in this way, we are making them harder rather than simply less powerful making now player Ninjas worse while not addressing the issues that make skilled players too powerful with ninja.

[github-actions]

This pull request has conflicts, please resolve those before we can evaluate the pull request.

[PowerfulBacon]

Now that the other ninja nerf is in, I think it's best that we look at the effects of that and reconsider this going forward