feat: Ground Combat 2.0

[EttyKitty]

This is a placeholder PR, just so stuff won't get lost. I'm not sure if this whole thing will work out in the end, or if I'll have to scrap it.

Purpose

• Make combat better (worse).
• Refactor the unreadable code and make it even less readable.
• Add cool new mechanics.
• Ease future modification and additions.

Describe your changes/additions

• Most of the enemy column targeting code in obj_enunit/Alarm_0.gml is refactored.
• Most of the enemy related leftover code in scr_shoot is refactored (killed).
• A bunch of code in scr_clean is refactored (WIP).
• Most of the player related target selection and damage allocation code in scr_shoot is refactored.

Armour Piercing and Armour are reworked

• Piercing now reduces the armour value of the target by a flat amount, for the purposes of damage calculation.
• I adjusted it on some player and ork weapons, to test.
• Armour reduces damage from each shot by a flat amount.

Max Kills are now Attack Count

• This is now the amount of times the weapon attacks, no more esoteric stuff or damage spillover.
• Still undecided on how to handle weapons with a lot of shots VS weapons with a big AoE, whenever they should be different.
• Still undecided whenever weapons with >1 shot count should be allowed to kill more than 1 unit, or if that should be reserved for AoE.
• I adjusted it on some player and ork weapons, to test.

Damage formula is a bit reworked

• Universal minimum damage.
• Damage randomization in a x0.005 - x2 range.

How enemy weapon stacks pick player columns to attack

• There is now a logical priority queue that is built out of all player columns in range, with some randomization.

How enemy weapon stacks pick targets after picking a column

• The enemy weapon stack will continue shooting until they run out of shots or all units in the column are dead.
• This means, that if the enemy wanted vehicles, then if all vehicles are killed after 2 shots, the rest of the shots will target normal units.
• Dreadnoughts now also count as vehicles for this purpose, as before they counted as infantry and were breaking the targeting.

Enemy and player vehicles are no longer made of paper

• Huge armour and HP bonuses (to the enemy, for the most part), as a test.
• Huge resistance cut. Please, stop using this everywhere.

Weapon reload mechanic (broken now, due to weapon stack constructor introduction)

• A new property on weapons - reload (wip name), means how many turns it'll take to reload the weapon.
• When a unit (weapon stack) run out of ammo, it'll spend the reload amount of time to reload it to full capacity.
• Very small amount of enemy weapons and player weapons have this for now, as I was just testing it.
• Yes, it works for both the player and the enemy.
• Vehicles have x2 ammo (wip).
• Weapons can be non-reloadable or have infinite ammo.

Global enemy accuracy multipliers per faction

• Enemies have their shot count (weapon count * shot count stat of the weapon) multiplied by a global "accuracy mod".
• Works for both melee and ranged.
• Different factions have different melee and ranged accuracy.
• The main reason, is to alleviate the insane enemy counts, that wipe out player units.
• It kinda mirrors the old doom variable, that was nerfing a bunch of shit for enemies, depending on the faction.

Item rebalance P2

• Most weapons, armour and gear are rebalanced to comply with the new system.
• DW and TT are used as a reference.

What can/needs to be improved/changed

• Allow vehicles to shoot in melee.
• Refactor how player columns pick their targets, and fix the idiota "let's all shoot corpses" bug.
• Refactor enemy and player columns.
• Refactor enemy and player stacks. Parallel arrays are hell.
• Generally move more shit into structs and constructors, where applicable.
• Refactor the scr_clean abomination. It's became very big and inefficient.
• Transfer the rest of the enemy weapon and armour, player weapon and armour, values to the new system.
• Adjust player and enemy HP values, if needed.
• Adjust enemy counts, if needed.

Testing done

• Still doing a lot.

Related things and/or additional context

• Discord project post: https://discord.com/channels/714022226810372107/1360227614098325603

The base branch was changed.

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