Antagonist

The 'bad guy' for a given round. They are exempt from the rules about griefing and murdering and come with a set of special objectives. Most are purely optional and really more of a suggestion, with exception of the ones for Nuclear Operative (which shows them where they must plant their bomb to win) and Revolutionary (which shows the Heads of Staff they must kill to win).

When you spawn in as an antag, you'll get a special pop-up that offers a basic overview of your powers and abilities. If you want to see it again, you can just use the Special role popup command.

Am I an Antagonist?

How do you know if you're an antagonist? Mechanics-wise, the game usually makes it pretty obvious. If the game makes you one, it'll send you a huge red message in the chat and a big ol' popup telling you that you're one of the antags listed below. There's usually also some sort letter icon in the top right corner of your character's sprite/model; this is different from the icons used by SecHUD vision, which puts them in the upper left.

If you're unsure though (e.g. your game crashed when you spawned and you couldn't see if there was an antag popup), you can always ask via adminhelp; the hotkey for that is F1. Don't be shy. It's actually a pretty common question, and it takes just a few seconds for an admin to check if you're an antag, so you're not inconveniencing them at all.

A common misconception, particularly among those coming from other SS13 codebases/branches, is that if you have objectives, you are an antagonist. That's incorrect; non-antagonists get objectives too, so it's not a reliable means of ascertaining if you're an antag.

Current Antagonists

This table lists the current slate of antagonists by the method the game may spawn them. Keep in mind:

• Except for "Spawns in Spooky at Round Start?", the categories shown do not differentiate between the Classic and Roleplay servers. For example, Nuclear Operative has its own game mode, so its column is marked "Yes", but that game mode does not appear on Roleplay.
• Different game modes have different sets of possible late-join antags. "Can Be Late-Join Antag?" simply indicates if there is any game mode where the antag can possibly appear as a late-join. Similar story with "Can Appear at Round Start?"

Name	Requires at least 5 rounds played?	Has Own Game Mode?	Can Appear at Round Start?	Can Be Late-Join Antag?	Can Be Random Event Antag?	Spawns in Action at Round Start?	Spawns in Intrigue at Round Start?	Spawns in Spooky at Round Start?	Other Spawn Conditions?
Traitor		Yes	Yes	Yes		Yes	Yes
Wizard		Yes	Yes		Yes	Yes
Nuclear Operative	Yes	Yes	Yes
Blob		Yes	Yes		Yes	Yes
Flockmind			Yes		Yes	Yes
Gang	Yes	Yes	Yes
Revolutionary	Yes	Yes	Yes
Conspirator	Yes								Yes
Spy Thief		Yes	Yes	Yes		Yes	Yes
Changeling		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Arcfiend		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Vampire		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Wraith			Yes		Yes	Yes		Yes
Werewolf			Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes		Yes*
Salvager		Yes**	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Wrestler			Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Hunter				Yes	Yes
Krampus									Yes
Grinch			Yes			Yes	Yes
Sleeper Agent									Yes
Broken									Yes
Gimmick antag roles									Yes

*Only in Classic's version of Spooky | **Only on Roleplay servers

Antagonists can also recruit lackeys in the form of mindhacks and Syndicate cyborgs, or subvert the AI and its regular Cyborgs. Vampires may also convert the dead into thralls. Wraiths can transform ghosts into poltergeists. Changelings can turn their own body parts in eyespider, handspider, legworm, and buttcrab minions. Sometimes, hostile antag critters appear through random events. Emagged cyborgs are renegades bound to no one!

Admins can also spawn a unique array of antags, often with unique abilities seen nowhere else.

Antag Selection

Roundstart Antagonist Selection

Player selection for antagonist is purely random. Basically, the game creates a certain number of antagonist slots based the amount of people who readied up, with different ratios and types of antags depending on the game mode, and then for each slot, randomly selects from the group of people who have that antag type enabled.

Antagonist selection happens before job selection. Thus, as a certain Tip of the Round will tell you, it is entirely possible to end up the round antagonist even if you have Security Officer or Head of Security on Favorite, in which case the game picks a job based on your preferences for other station jobs and available job slots.

Latejoin Antagonist Selection

Players can also be selected for antagonist when they join after the round has started, if the game mode supports such. Each latejoining player has a simple random chance of being selected for antagonist. If all the antagonists are dead, the more likely they are to selected. Players who join as Head of Security, Security Officer, or Security Assistant cannot spawn as latejoin antagonists.

Random Event Antagonist Selection

Main articles: Random Events#Intruder Alert, Random Events#Hostile Critter

Partway through a round, random events usually trigger. One such event, the intruder alert event, either creates an AI Blob or asks eligible ghosts if they want to be respawned as a random antagonist, randomly decided from among several different antag choices, ranging from Vampire to Wraith to Wrestledoodle. There's a similar event that also picks from ghosts, but instead creates a malevolent spider, gunbot, or fire elemental. These events cannot occur if the game mode type doesn't allow for latejoin antags.

To be eligible either of these, a ghost must not have...

• logged out.
• set DNR.

Antag Tokens

If a new round is starting, and you have at least one token, you'll get a special option to use a token for the upcoming round. If the round has started, you get a normal options menu.

Antag tokens grant a guaranteed antagonist round when used before roundstart. They are not in-game items (like, say, Discount Dan's tickets); rather, they're purely out-of-game. The choice to redeem these will appear when you join the server during the pre-round lobby, as shown on the image to the right, and can be used any time before the round starts.

You can't use antag tokens after roundstart, so the Declare Ready and use an antag token option does not appear if you're late-joining. Therefore, if you've recently received a token, join a round that's ongoing, and notice that the button to use a token is missing, don't panic! You still have your token(s). The button to use it is simply not available, and you cannot use a token at the time.

Antag tokens ignore antag preferences, so you can't become a Wraith by configuring your preferences to only accept being a Wraith and then using a token. As the prompt says, if using that token would make you into an Antagonist that isn't supported by the round type, you'll get the token back.

You can sometimes receive antag tokens as a random drop, as a reward for spending a significant amount of time on a server with a relatively low number of players. In addition, admins may give you an antag token, if your antag round is impaired by circumstances completely out of player control. In this case, they're essentially a compensation voucher.

Token Drops

You may be eligible to randomly receive an antag token when the round ends, if certain conditions are met:

• The server you're on doesn't have many players, relative to other Goonstation servers. More specifically, the ratio between the number of players on the server you are currently on and the number of players on the server with the highest player count must be equal to or lower than 0.6. For example, if the server with the highest player count has 60 people on, and you're playing on a server with just 10 people, the ratio would be 10/60 = 0.166, well below 0.6. This incentivizes people to play on rounds with low player counts and even out population imbalances.
• You are not banned from antag roles.
• You do not have a token already. This is meant to prevent token hoarding.

If all these conditions are true, you may randomly receive a token at round end (i.e. it's still up to random chance at the end). The longer you play, the more likely you are to gain a token.

Admin-Granted Antag Tokens

In certain cases, an admin may "bestow" you an antag token. The "bestowed" part is in quotes, because there are four main reasons an admin might give you a token:

• The server crashed during your antagonist round.
• A game-breaking bug ruined your antagonist round (e.g. not being able to exit a help/tutorial mode).
• Your antagonist round was ruined/significantly impaired by Admin fuckery (often goes in hand with both of the above).
• The antag token previously given for one of the above three reasons did not actually give you the antag's associated abilities or uplink.

An admin might also give you one as a gift for doing something funny/entertaining/interesting, but this is extremely, extremely rare, and like with a lot of gifts, deliberately trying to earn one usually doesn't work. In this sense, they're more like compensation money you'd get for a defective product than an actual prize or gift.

Antag tokens are distributed at an admin's discretion. You should not expect to be guaranteed a token, and there is no requirement for an admin to provide a token.

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