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).

Current Antagonists

Name	Has Own Game Mode?	Can Appear at Round Start?	Can Be Late-Join Antag?	Can Be Random Event Antag?	Spawns in Mixed (Action) at Round Start?	Spawns in Mixed (Mild) at Round Start?	Other Spawn Conditions?
Traitor	Yes	Yes	Yes		Yes	Yes
Wizard	Yes	Yes		Yes	Yes
Nuclear Operative	Yes	Yes
Blob	Yes	Yes		Yes	Yes
Gang	Yes	Yes
Revolutionary	Yes	Yes
Conspirator	Yes	Yes
Spy Thief	Yes	Yes	Yes		Yes	Yes
Changeling	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Vampire		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Wraith		Yes		Yes	Yes
Werewolf		Yes		Yes	Yes
Wrestler		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Predator				Yes
Krampus							Yes
Grinch		Yes			Yes	Yes
Sleeper Agent							Yes
Gimmick antag roles							Yes

Antagonists can also recruit lackeys in the form of mindslaves and Syndicate cyborgs, or subvert the AI and its regular Cyborgs. Vampires may also convert the dead into ghouls/zombies. 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!

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. The process ignores preferences. Players who join as Head of Security, Security Officer, or Vice Officer 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 not allow for latejoin antags.

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

• logged out.
• set DNR.
• died by the Suicide command.

Antag Tokens

Antag tokens are basically vouchers for a chance to play as the round's antagonist. They're not in-game items in the way Discount Dan's tickets are vouchers; rather, they're purely out-of-game, and, more importantly, "bestowed" by an Admin. The "bestowed" part is in quotes, because there are five reasons why an Admin will give you antag tokens:

• You did something Exceptionally Interesting or otherwise Highly Pleasing to an Admin.
• 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 four reasons did not actually give you the antag's associated abilities or uplink (happens more often than you think).

The choice to redeem these will appear when you join the server during the pre-round lobby, and can be used any time before the round starts. 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.

Tokens are infamously known to be mysteriously buggy. For example, if your token makes you a Traitor, it's possible for you to get the prompt and status but not the uplink. In especially terrible cases (of which there are many), the magical Admin buttons for handling antag status freeze up or otherwise fail to remedy the situation. If something like this happens to you, absolutely adminhelp it, via the adminhelp command or the F1 key.

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