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[TTT] BoI-Style Pill Powerups

All of my addons are up for adoption.
If you're interested in the continuation of one or more of my projects, please feel free to do so.
You are free to change, add and reupload. However I would greatly appreciate you mentioning me as original author.

Have you ever played the Binding of Isaac? No? Well then go ahead and do so, it's a great game.
But in all seriousness: After hundreds of hours of TTT in a fixed group of friends, there are moments where the game just gets a bit stale. Sure, you can always add new traitor and detective weapons or new randomly spawning weapons but that can only ever get so cool.

My solution for this struck me, who could have guessed, during a run of tBoI: "What if there was exactly this system in TTT? It does a pretty good job at keeping tBoI runs mixed up.". And so I got working. These are the first fruits of this effort.

For everyone who has neither played the Binding of Isaac, nor left already bc they don't give a damn about anything about it, I will break it down:

Every round of TTT, a certain number of pills will spawn in ADDITION to weapons, randomly but always in the vicinity of them. These pills always alter your gameplay for a few seconds. Their effect is randomly distributed each round, so the same pill will most likely never have the same effect in consecutive rounds. The pill's effect is always a kind of tradeoff. For example: Invisibility. Sounds pretty OP at first, right? To fix that, we also throw in a tradeoff, like everytime you shoot from complete invisibility, you will make an enormous sound and are revealed for a brief period of time, drawing ALOT of attention to you.

Another example is Double Damage. It does EXACTLY what is says on the tin: It doubles all damage you deal... and receive.
Bad Gas allows you to make ridiculous jumps, however it will knock everything and everyone away from you during launch, so you will risk pushing people to their deaths, which you didn't intend to kill. Also, the enormous gas cloud will reveal exactly where you went.
Regeneration will slowly heal you, but it also impairs your vision at low health.
You will have to figure the rest out on your own.

You don't like an effect? You think one of them is OP, so you'd like to keep it but tweak it a little?
Have a look at the configurable variables in the console, you can tweak almost every aspect of every effect in there. Or just disable any pill effect you like.

You're itching to implement a pill effect which just so happened to spring to your mind?
Easy, feel free to decompile and take a look. Writing and uploading an Addon which just implements new effects is a piece of cake, make sure you don't reupload the whole thing, though. It IS in fact moddable itself. If there is enough request for this, I will try to help out and write some documentation or even make a tutorial video about it.

Of course, you can do whatever you please to. But let's please keep to these two conventions:
1) A pill effect can NEITHER be purely disadvantageus, NOR the other way around. You should also avoid making effects permanent, as you have to bear in mind that finding an effect is purely based on luck.
It's always helpful to put yourself in both roles: The one that finds and eats the pill and the one that encounters another player under the effects of that pill.
Also, keep track of effects interacting with each other. Yes, it is possible AND intended. The theory behind it is that the more you take and the more your advantages stack up, so will your disadvantages.

2)Since all of this is pill based, you should also make your effect influence the perception of the player. Either alter the rendering for the duration of the effect like I prefered to or make them hallucinate, be creative. After all, they're still drugs and no drug is without side effects. This will also help the player to determine what the effect is doing to them or if it's still there, since there is no timer bar and i never intended to add one. Be creative.