SS14 - Alert Levels

[@Liltenhead]

Video that is more involved than this one by "AcornANut" kzbin.info/www/bejne/a6ewfpStg9qVe6ssi=sMnlmjLrM_NkE5Um

[@mac6na6na26]

violet is used when theres specifically zombies so that everyone can know its zombies and not like, an incredibly robust tot going on a rampage or something

[@Liltenhead]

I feel like red alert and simply dropping an announcement that says zombies gives more instruction than just violet. Security has to kill the infected it won't just go away with medical intervention

[@DeadlyNightshadeZ]

Unless that medical intervention is high velocity lead injections and full body cauterization.

[@donk8961]

I can’t wait for violet to mean more than just zombies

[@Archangelm127]

Beat me to it; violet alert = zombies in my experience.

[@packmore9561]

​@@Liltenheadby that logic you can just violet and make an announcement. violet specifically makes it way easier for latejoiners which is why i prefer it.

[@alextinsley574]

Green: everything is fine Blue: things are not fine Red: THINGS ARE VERY NOT FINE Delta: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Yellow: SINGULOOSE Violet: ZOMBIES Gamma: WHAT IS GOING ON! Epsilon: Everyone is fired, effective immediately

[@JustagooberingGoober]

and by fired, your contract, and therefore life is terminated

[@agustron2479]

Green: nukies?, ya overdosing on meth. Blue: Heya give the nuke back or we gonna activate our nuke. Red: NUKIES ARE REAL AAAAAAAAAAAAA Delta: OHH SHIT WE GONNA DIEEEEEEE- oh... THIS MUSIC IS FIRE!!! Yellow: heya we got a móvile light source, AAAAAAAAA. Violet: YA BITCHES HAVE COVID 20. Gamma: IDK WHAT THAT MEANS BUT WE PROBABLY GONNA DIE. Epsilon: OH nice nuggets

[@bruhgaming5347]

when you hear epsilon you know shits bad And i think epsilon is a reference to half life 1 "We've got hostiles" chapter

[@DeadlyNightshadeZ]

I've only seen epsilon once and it wasnt for ban reasons, if was for a zombie outbreak that got out of control VERY quickly. Centcom sent in a death squad to 'contain the outbreak' and all contracts were considered terminated because they operated under the assumption that everyone was infected. Ao, Epsilon can be used for RP reasons.

[@0Cocoron0]

Most common occurrence for epsilon is zombies, usually if the zombie pandemic has wiped out ~80% of crew and all of command is dead than you get epsilon and even if you make it back there's a kill team waiting at Central to basically go through the shuttle and kill any and everything still "alive"

[@timteecvhn]

Often times I've seen that, it's not Epsilon/Deathsquad, but rather ERT Security tasked with inoculation of all individuals who made it to CC on the evac shuttle with cures if it's near complete wipeout on the station with zombies, or just total massacre of anyone who isn't of the ERT team. usually just a blood bath when that happens regardless. I've only like... seen Deathsquad once maybe. That isn't to say that it doesn't happen, I just like almost never see it personally.

[@SomeKittyCat]

The only time ive seen epsilon was when the Captain played chess against Nukies to determine if they destroy the station or destroy themselves. Captain even won. Nukies killed themselves. 10sec after Epsilon was announced.

[@4dmost991]

I was on that round, i hijacked the nukie ship and use it to rescue people since the other ships exploded, still i got killed by deathsquads and only 3 people manage to escape to the nukie post

[@nerbs_the_word]

I was there, botanist who was able to hide from deathsquad in a crate when they came checking the department

[@21unigoats]

Holy shit based captain and nukies, I would’ve payed to watch that game.

[@crowsenpai5625]

(NanoTrasen watching the crew negotiate with terrorists) “I don’t care if it ended in our favor, this can not go unpunished.” *[Attention! Station Alert Level is now Epsilon!]*

[@gavinjenkins2645]

I've seen the epsilon equivalent in SS13 (Usually just a CC announcement, rather than an actually implemented alert level) several times without anyone being in trouble, sometimes the station absolutely losing its mind and revolting against CC isn't necessarily command failing to RP as sufficiently servile staff, sometimes it's directly prompted by CC bullshitery, and once it was even a "Corporate Buyout" where one particularly dedicated(insane?) set of syndicate agents had managed to get together nearly five million credits to "Buy" the station. God this game is insane sometimes.

[@gavinjenkins2645]

Keep in mind they did this WITHOUT spending Telecrystals on cash, because that has a rate of 3TC to 5k, and the math for the 3 of them pooling 60 TC does not work out in their favour. (2% of what they had. I to this day have no fucking clue how they got that much.)

[@cainprescott4937]

If I had to guess, it was some sort of Cargonian black magic.

[@zankthegreat4291]

@@gavinjenkins2645 They probably extorted sci and got an artifact that just spat cash

[@gavinjenkins2645]

@@zankthegreat4291 No artifacts like that on TG code, I think it's more likely the Cargonian explanation. Maybe mining in conjunction with stock market shenanigans.

[@user-rs4sw7gs1m]

Once I almost managed to call Epsilon as a lone syndicate operative. Stole most of head's stamps as an engineer, and sent a paper with death threats to CentCom. That was on a server with CentCom fully implemented as playable roles. Operator that recieved my letter and read it, immediatly called back their inspector by shouting into radio and then decided to send an ERT instead. But after interrogation of the heads, blob happened, and everyone died :(

[@lasagna4142]

So this ain't ss14 you talking about huh

[@godabuse]

bro is going thru the basics

[@Liltenhead]

Indeed!

[@SimpleGamer3333]

Yeah, and this pretty cool tbh

[@zankthegreat4291]

@@SimpleGamer3333 Yeah, I like seeing how the game is meant to be played, not just how I interpret it to be played.

[@tiazoh]

I've seen some epsilon admemes but that's usually real late at night on lizard

[@Liltenhead]

I'm learning through this comment section that admins use epsilon alot more than I knew lol

[@DrEnzyme]

I don't know if it's a holdover from SS13 or what but the sound of the alert levels are SO GOOD. Especially when you get to Epsilon and Gamma and it's clear that this is not your average emergency. Gamma sounds like a space whale or something, it's haunting.

[@Liltenhead]

Epsilon is fantastic

[@siraxolotl2634]

Fun fact, Gamma is the alert siren from the star wars imperial ships when stuff is going bad. You hear it a few times during the original trilogy.

[@aydenlokey3641]

Green - Time for a greenshift! Blue - Huh... this is fine. Red - Things are very much NOT fine. Yellow - I should probably be worried. Violet - * Project Zomboid music intensifies * Gamma - Things are most definitely fucked. Delta - Hello Cargonians, Nothing personal but I will be promptly hijacking your ship. good day! Epsilon - Well shit.

[@icotica921]

So that’s what epsilon alert is from, remember hearing it in a cool song, thanks!

[@Piotr_Tokarz]

Thanks for all the basics! Even though I have almost 100 hours (I know, rookie numbers) I didnt know that there are so many alerts and the reasons behind using them

[@FrikandelKaaskroket]

He's running out of things to explain i know it. Anyways. Love the vids!❤

[@Liltenhead]

I just randomly started thinking of things I wish as a new player and am focusing on that.

[@PhilippeBG]

@@Liltenhead That's perfect

[@gangwolfgamer]

@Liltenhead I'm not sure if this stuff needs tutorials or if you already did them but something to do could be to go over misc interable items and machines? Stuff​ like fax machines, paint guns(?), cigarettes, etc. Stuff that isn't really a departmental tool or machine but just there for fun

[@icestormthedragon1499]

Hearing the admin codes again gave me shivers, don't hear them in CD at all just cause nothing that bad happens, but on mander, being HoS during gamma is a real "Oh God oh s---" moment

[@damonkatumaru]

On some servers, there's White alert which is all about glimmer. When the Glimmer is low, reality is stable because Epi makes sure that all anomalies and physics are under control. The high the glimmer, the more likely that there are physics on the station using their powers too much. When it gets too high, code white occurs when reality is ripping because of the high glimmer, causing ghostly enemies to spawn, the revenants. To lower glimmer, physics must be either be golumized or medicated to remove their powers. Worse case is the physic prober in Epi has to be destroyed since they tend to over-load and people have to evacuate because of the whole mess it makes.

[@kyokonull]

delta-v is interesting

[@salem-salem4426]

I saw an epsilon alert during a rev, the deathsquad had for goal to eliminate the three headrevs. Seemed more like an ERT goal to me but it was fun. These purple light are scary as frick and I merely saw a glimpse of a deathsquad member, a blue light pulsing, before running away... It was a fun final boss for revs I guess, when they win too fast

[@Nickyonzaza]

i only seen Epsilon being activated ONCE and it was on ss13, command where breaking all the roleplay rules and ignoring the space law, the crew where doing a non-rev revolution to get rid of command, security had become basically traitors with extra gear as an assistant, the only thing i could do was to try and flee the station, only to be caught by a Death Squad member and executed shit was intense

[@tvorimkozak6779]

its nice someone is explaining stuff for new people

[@Todthepotato]

in my 2 years of plays space station 14 i have never heard epsilon ever go off but i have seen deathsquad a few times for some roleplay moments

[@ashleybyrd2015]

I've only seen epsilon once, if I recall correctly someone in command found some telecrystals and kept it for personal use which NT didn't take kindly to. I assumed epsilon was for RP reasons, didn't know it was due to rulebreaking.

[@cainprescott4937]

So, to sum it up from what experience I've had: Green - Nothing's gone wrong. *Yet*. Blue - Something's going wrong, but whoever's doing it is being inconspicious. Red - Something's going wrong, and whoever's doing it is being the opposite of inconspicious. Yellow - Something's going wrong and it's causing structural damage to the station. Violet - There are zombies afoot. At a later date, this may also indicate that there are dangerous diseases about, but those don't exist yet. Delta - There are Nukies, and they've set up us a bomb. Run. Gamma - Like Red, but rarer. Epsilon - Someone fucked up real badly and the Deathsquad's about to make all remaining crew members pay for it.

[@crowsenpai5625]

I assumed Gamma is: “Something is wrong! We have absolutely no idea what it is, but *SOMETHING* is VERY wrong!”

[@JamesMowery]

I've changed the alert level on the computer approximately 20 times. I've never played anything above entry level (I have < 25 hours in the entire game), and I never play as an antag character. Only play on Wizard West. Pretty interesting stories as to how I managed to make that happen. Most of the time right in front of the captain and head crew, lol.

[@whistlingjake3687]

YESSSS IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS!!

[@MouseHats]

Gamma and Epsilon are quite terrifying to hear, and uh… look, I’ve heard Gamma like 3 times in-game, and that was when shit was *rrreeeaalll* bad. Epsilon? Only once. Never again.

[@gyn9471]

more guides)!

[@Jolfgard]

unless you're part of an exclusive club (or the server has less than 15 concurrent player through some sort of miracle), you'll basically only experience 2 alert levels and maybe one or two flavors of said 2 alert levels.

[@backstab147]

I've just been in a code gamma as a dead HoP, Nukies killed nearly all of the station, and basically in Delta-V, I'm not from Wizden anymore, but it's basically martial law at that point

[@Pvariety441]

My favourite alert is Epsilon, because I know that it means someone(s) is getting banned

[@Liltenhead]

I wish it was implemented naturally somehow. Like 2+ hour event only or something and really rare. I think the audio for it is too good to only mean bad things.

[@Pvariety441]

@@Liltenhead agreed, the audio is chilling

[@Bruno-dv3ym]

i had forgotten about the diseases, i miss the mokey chaos

[@Cojoke]

I got a request to be searched on green before, but I denied it because I was a musician playing music and didn't want to stop to be searched. Sec detained me and dragged me into sec to be searched. I then stole the lawyer's job and sued sec, I had paperwork and everything. The court was boring as hell though because the HOS did not say anything that made any sense, even the HOP, who was the judge, had no idea what point they were trying to make. Luckily the warden made sense and I had a little fun debating with them.

[@ibagiousvii4458]

I remember on round 30,000 on wizden (I think on salamander) a deathsquad got pulled in. I actually got to be one of em. Killed a few lads before running out of ammo and getting pushed over and robusted by one of the few survivors. Fun times.

[@user-kl7vs9tx8t]

I think it is worth adding more codes. To the zombie threat, to the anomalous threat, etc.

[@tanukies]

waiting for the day until epsilon alert appears on one of the wizden rounds…

[@tiazoh]

I've seen it a few times and I only have 50 or so hours

[@cainprescott4937]

I've seen it a couple times on Lizard/Leviathan, the first time being a round where the nukies chose to challenge the station to a trial by boxing (and lost).

[@Krunklehorn]

I see violet alert used for zombies all the time.

[@Liltenhead]

Yeah I guess that is an infection, but it doesn't guide security what to do, and red alert telling people to shelter in place covers the not spreading infection part of violet.

[@sean7221]

Fuck that, I'll give shitsec the biggest hassle if they attempt to search me on green!

[@Liltenhead]

I respect that

[@artem599]

hopefully the heads will no longer set red alert to call the shuttle on teslaloose/singuloose as if they're going to shoot it down with firearms

[@shawnamizik2620]

Can you do a video on drafting in papers? The guidebooks and wikis aren't detailed enough. I, for the life of me, can't figure out how to add spacing between paragraphs and other basic formatting.

[@idiosyncratxenophile]

Love it. I miss viral outbreaks.... when will we return to monke T_T

[@ibbles7766]

Back before revolutionaries was removed I experienced on-duty admins setting the station's alert level to Epsilon prior to deploying an ERT/Deathsquad team as a response to most or all heads of command being killed or held prisoner (and the revolutionaries usually also delaying the shuttle). As for Violet; I know everyone has already said it but it's just a Romerol outbreak. Until virology is reimplimented, if ever. Is it meta? Sorta?? But it's more specific than Red, and I think that's a good thing. The announcment states crew should stay distanced which is absolutely crucial to surviving a zombie outbreak; and the open-endedness of "...perform safety measures to prevent further spread." can insinuate everything from barricading medical to pump out vaccines to security handing out lethals loaded with incendiary munitions (maybe a bit excessive). As a footnote: I don't see enough people requesting search warrants on green when specific individuals are suspect. It's always straight to Blue so anybody who might fail a search is going to hide their contraband anyway... Go ask your warden for a warrant! They'd love to write one for you. : )

[@Liltenhead]

Yeah alerts are metad super hard. People just flip to blue instantly so they can search whoever. And violet only meaning zombies is interesting too.

[@siraxolotl2634]

All this time i thought epsilon was caused by a phone call from the HoP or a similar when revs had overtaken the station and gotten out of hand.

[@captainatlanta]

Can you go over some of the new chem recipes? Im not sure exactly how much has changed or if its server specific but I went to make space lube for the clown and it was usually oxygen-silicon-water 1-1-1 etc, but it dident work, so I asked the other chem and he was saying something about it needed sulfasilicate (thats not what it was exactly but it was something-silicate) and im like a base level knowledge chem and that threw me for a huge loop and I mostly rely on your videos for all the fun chem stuff :(

[@hasvideos]

Hey man, what is the command for changing codes inside private servers? Ik the nuke is "Nukearm" but what about stuff like code epsilon?

[@Liltenhead]

setalert

[@hasvideos]

@@Liltenhead thanks!

[@88b13]

I used to be the one who trolled entire station with communication console, switching alert levels for fun

[@jessemillions5249]

I'm sure you have plenty of video ideas but I would appreciate a emote guide are some sort of video explaining what different emotes have effects or just some simple ways to type in emotes as I see everyone doing them so quickly

[@somerandomserbian7077]

to avoid use of internet speak, certain word abbreviations get changed into their full meaning/an emote (ex. typing “lol” is the same as typing @laughs, “idk” turns into @shrugs etc.)

[@Przemko27Z]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/lYavZ5-slK2Mapo Covers keybinds

[@Przemko27Z]

@@somerandomserbian7077 smh becomes "looks unimpressed" Frankly, that kinda makes the "don't use internet speak" rule extra annoying, since it actively covers up a pretty useful feature.

[@don_the_red2657]

are you planning on more videos about frontier? like guides or smth?

[@Kfo221]

He will when you learn to type properly.

[@Liltenhead]

Probably not guides but will most likely play them again.

[@godlysmoking]

we got epsilon cus theres two(3 eswords and a captain saber) dual wielding esword super drugged on meth syndicate murdering 80% of the crew. They manage to kill 2 death squad operatives. granted they also took the ERT command armor but still.

[@ICanHazRecon911]

I helped a detective blow himself up with water and potassium injections once as CMO and the station instantly got called to blue

[@turkturkleton4995]

this video should be mandatory for all sec and they should be forced to watch it five times a week

[@igobraz]

My second round on HoP. 🤗 I am the Syndicate Traitor.😍 Capitan falls into SSD.🤔 "You are the Captain now"😮 Admin pop-ups with "Do you want to have some fun?" 💀 Threat level is now [REDACTED]🤡

[@Blackern5000]

Hop can't roll traitor, this is fake.

[@igobraz]

@@Blackern5000 that was on russian ss14 server. I think that's the special server rules or someone's mistake. So I agree that HoP must have a "mindshield" by default... cause having card console and all access is legally cheating. ))

[@donk8961]

Digging these basics videos. I have close to 500 hours in-game and I still never learned some things the proper way.

[@axosotll]

In Russian servers I see Gamma code A LOT. It usually activates when nukies arrive and sec is kinda dead, sometimes for zombies.

[@Joe-nv3mm]

have you ever seen an Epsilon?

[@Liltenhead]

Yeah

[@zrlg3241]

Ive seen yellow used for powersinks and it kind of fits

[@whistlingjake3687]

Whatre the admin commands to set these codes?

[@Garrry2121]

You should do admin commands next will be very useful to people!!!

[@awksSPEKTER]

3:18 - 3:27

[@stormirr]

forgot vermillon alert ;)

[@dusanrakic5955]

Why are there so many features removed like viruses, PDA functions and location damage?

[@salem-salem4426]

Some are considered unfun (viruses) and might happen if someone finds an interesting way to implement them, some are just waiting to be implemented (PDA functions maybe?)

[@dusanrakic5955]

@@salem-salem4426 locational damage can be done on where you click on the character and diceroll for it

[@foty8679]

Also its only the "main" fork he usually covers. There may or may not be servers out there that have viruses.

[@kyokonull]

viruses: removed because the code for it was bad or something? pda functions: nobody's done it yet location damage: in a week

[@elliottprehn6342]

>doesn’t mention brown alert All hard working Jani know what this means…

[@gab_solo2391]

hi

[@mrteco4236]

Eh at this point new players can just read /tg/'s wiki and learn way faster

[@Liltenhead]

We don't operate the same way TG does though

[@mrteco4236]

@@Liltenhead You do, because I could join ss14 right now without knowing anything about it, and know exactly what an alert level is, and many other things that have been copied over.

[@kyokonull]

​@@mrteco4236 i will read /tg/ wiki to do wizden chem

[@Colonist_amirka]

lmao

[@Werddrewtv]

Day 102 of asking Liltenhead to unban me in his comments