About the PR

New species to expedition faction pool:

• Aberrant flesh. Features sprites by wax391 (discord). Expedition specific version don't breathe and are not affected by low pressure and shouldn't be affected by dangerous/volatile atmos.
• Argocytes. Expedition specific version has lower health and damage than base game one (those were kinda bs imo), don't breath, shouldn't be affected by dangerous/volatile atmos, can path through airlocks.
• Dinosaurs. Taken from Dinosaurs! space-wizards/space-station-14#26883 by @Vonsant (I edited ymls though a bit), sprites by belay5 (discord). Changes to original yml were made to allow dinosaurs to survive on planets: they don't breath, shouldn't be affected by dangerous/volatile atmos, can path through airlocks.
• Mercenaries. Based on this idea thread. Armed with weapons one can obtain from LiberationStation. The mob visuals derived not from gear loadouts but from sprite layering in yml. If this proves to be a viable solution, in time, I'll rework syndicate/cultist/wizards mob in this fashion to cut down entity spam from those mobs.
• Explorers. Based on this idea thread. Armed with mining tools and gear. The mob visuals derived is mix of loadouts and sprite layering in yml. Supposed to be a beginner friendly enemy, like aberrant flesh or carps.
• Rogue AI. Challenging enemy: rogue machines can not be killed - only temporary incapacitated (it takes about 2-3 minutes for robot to raise from dead; word of advice keep that diagnostic hud ready), unlike other expedition enemies ranged rogue borgs deal heat damage. Reliable source of machine parts and circuit boards. Sprites for bots were taken from BayStation12 and Goonstation (both are under CC-BY-SA-3.0 afaict, but Goonstation sprite are also NC). Features sprite randomization.

Other major changes:

• Made expedition specific versions of carps: they don't breath, shouldn't be affected by dangerous/volatile atmos, can path through airlocks and mob range includes sharkminnows.
• Made expedition specific versions of xenos: they don't breath, shouldn't be affected by dangerous/volatile atmos, can path through airlocks and mob range includes runners.
• Lowered the cost for Xeno salvageFaction to increase the chance for encountering them on minimal difficulty.
• Removed artificial reflection from expedition mobs.
• All expedition mobs now have all access and ability to pry open doors.
• All expedition mobs and bluespace event mobs (syndicate agents, blood cultists and wizards) got MovementIgnoreGravity.
• Most of the gear from hostile human NPCs can't be stripped off (in reasonable time).
• Mobs that have ranged attack can now shoot over railings.

Bundled minor changes:

• Fixed solution transfer from syndie darts.
• Cleaned up NPC gloves: removed .rsi files - everything can be done through .yml.
• Removed Gloves.rar someone left in game files.

New items:

• IFF strobe: wearable tiny "strobe" - 1 to 3 blinking unshaded pixels. Can be printed from salvage techfab.
• Turbo laser - 4 retro laser pistols in a single package. Requires 2 hands to wield, slows you down by 30%, has a bit of a spread, fun to shoot. 10% chance to loot one from boss enemies on rogue AI expeditions.
• Salvage radar - destruction objective for expeditions with explorers enemy faction.
• Rogue AI Node - destruction objective for expeditions with rogue silicons enemy faction.

Why / Balance

Some enemy variety for expeditions on low/mid difficulties.

How to test

Run expeditions or spawn new mobs.

Media

• I have added screenshots/videos to this PR showcasing its changes ingame

Breaking changes

• edits to \Resources\Prototypes\Procedural\salvage_factions.yml
• edits to \Resources\Prototypes\ai_factions.yml
• moved \Resources\Prototypes\_NF\Entities\Mobs\NPCs\argocyte.yml to \Resources\Prototypes\_NF\Entities\Markers\Spawners\Random\argocyte_mobs.yml because it's spawner.

Changelog
🆑 erhardsteinhauer

• add: Added hostile mercenaries to expedition enemy faction pool.
• add: Added hostile salvagers to expedition enemy faction pool.
• add: Added hostile robots to expedition enemy faction pool.
• add: Added aberrant flesh to expedition enemy faction pool, new sprites by wax391 (discord).
• add: Added argocytes to expedition enemy faction pool.
• add: Added dinosaurs to expedition enemy faction pool. Original mobs by Vonsant, sprites by belay5 (discord).
• add: Wearable IFF strobe. Can be printed from salvage techfab.
• add: Turbo laser.
• fix: Fixed solution transfer from syndie darts.