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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

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 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	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
Arcfiend		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Vampire		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Wraith			Yes		Yes	Yes
Werewolf			Yes		Yes	Yes
Wrestler			Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Hunter					Yes
Krampus								Yes
Grinch			Yes			Yes	Yes
Sleeper Agent								Yes
Gimmick antag roles								Yes

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 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 them for the upcoming round.

Antag tokens are basically compensation 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 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 four 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.

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. 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.

Jobs on Space Station 13
Command & Security	Captain · Head of Security · Head of Personnel · Chief Engineer · Research Director · Medical Director Security Officer · Detective · Security Assistant Nanotrasen Security Consultant
Medical & Research	Medical Doctor · Medical Trainee · Roboticist · Geneticist Scientist · Research Trainee
Engineering	Engineer · Technical Trainee Quartermaster · Miner
Civilian	Staff Assistant · Janitor · Chaplain · Mail Courier · Radio Host · Mime Chef · Bartender · Botanist · Rancher Clown Gimmick jobs
Silicon	Artificial Intelligence · Cyborg
Jobs of the Day	Dungeoneer · Barber · Waiter · Lawyer · Tourist · Musician · Boxer
Antagonist Roles	With own mode	Arcfiend · Blob · Changeling · Gang Member · Flockmind ( Flocktrace) · Nuclear Operative · Spy Thief · Traitor · Revolutionary · Vampire ( Thrall) · Wizard
Antagonist Roles	Others	Sleeper Agent · Werewolf · Wraith ( Poltergeist) · Wrestler · Hunter · Grinch · Krampus · Gimmick antagonist roles
Special Roles	Ghostdrone · Monkey · Critter · Ghost · Cluwne · Santa Claus

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-The 'bad guy' for a given round. They are exempt from the rules about griefing and murdering, and come with a set of objectives to complete before the end of the round. Current antagonist types can be divided into three categories that in no way reflect their actual statistical chance of appearing:
+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).
-'''Common:'''<br>
+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.
-These antagonists appear in their own game modes. Some can even appear in other modes.
-* [[Traitor]]
-* [[Changeling]]
-* [[Wizard]]
-* [[Nuclear Operative]]
-* [[Blob]]
-* [[Game Modes#Conspiracy|Conspirator]]
-* [[Gang]]
-* [[Revolutionary]]
-* [[Spy Thief]]
-'''Uncommon:''' <br>
+==Am I an Antagonist?==
-These antagonists appear solely during [[Game Modes#Mixed|Mixed]] rounds.
+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 [[#Current Antagonists|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''.
-* [[Vampire]]
-* [[Wraith]]
-* [[Werewolf]]
-* [[Wrestler]]
-'''Rare:''' <br>
+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 {{Key|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.
-These antagonists can only spawn under certain circumstances, such as [[Random Events#Intruder Events|through particular random events]] or during certain times of the year.
-* [[Predator]]
+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.
-* [[Krampus]]
-* [[Grinch]]
-* [[Jobs#Admin Intervention|Gimmick antagonist roles]]
-Antagonists can also recruit lackeys in the form of [[Syndicate Items#Mindslave Implant|mindslaves]] and [[Syndicate Items#Syndicate Robot|Syndicate cyborgs]], or subverted the [[AI]] and its regular [[Cyborg|cyborgs]]. Traitor Chaplains with a [[Syndicate Items#Faustian Bargain kit|Faustian Bargain Kit]] can convert other players into Vampires or Macho Men, which the game calls Faustian Vampires and Faustian Macho Men. Vampires may also convert people to loyal thralls. Changelings can turn their own body parts in [[Changeling#The Hivemind|eyespider, handspider, and legworm]] minions. [[Syndicate Items#EMAG|Emagged]] cyborgs are renegades bound to no one!
+== Current Antagonists ==
+{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width: 60%; text-align: center"
+|-
+! 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 [[Game Modes#Mixed (Action)|Mixed (Action)]] at Round Start?
+! Spawns in [[Game Modes#Mixed (Mild)|Mixed (Mild)]] 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}}||
+|-
+| [[Arcfiend]] || ||{{Yes}}  || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}}||
+|-
+| [[Vampire]] || || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} ||
+|-
+| [[Wraith]] || ||  || {{Yes}} || || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || ||
+|-
+| [[Werewolf]] || ||  ||{{Yes}} || || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || ||
+|-
+| [[Wrestler]] || || || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}}|| {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} ||
+|-
+| [[Hunter]] || ||  || || || {{Yes}} ||  || ||
+|-
+| [[Krampus]] || || || || || || || || {{Yes}}
+|-
+| [[Grinch]] || || || {{Yes}} || || || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}}||
+|-
+| [[Random Events#Sleeper Agents Signal|Sleeper Agent]] || || || || || || || || {{Yes}}
+|-
+| [[Jobs#Admin Intervention|Gimmick antag roles]] || || || || || || || ||{{Yes}}
+|}
-=== Antagonist Selection ===
+Antagonists can also recruit lackeys in the form of [[Syndicate Items#Mindhack Implant|mindhacks]] and [[Syndicate Items#Syndicate Robot Frame|Syndicate cyborgs]], or subvert the [[Artificial_Intelligence|AI]] and its regular [[Cyborg]]s. Vampires may also convert the dead into [[Vampire#Thralls|thralls]]. Wraiths can transform ghosts into [[Wraith#Poltergeists|poltergeists]]. Changelings can turn their own body parts in [[Changeling#The Hivemind|eyespider, handspider, legworm, and buttcrab minions]]. Sometimes, [[Random Events#Hostile Critter|hostile antag critters]] appear through random events. [[Syndicate Items#EMAG|Emagged]] cyborgs are renegades bound to no one!
-Player selection for antagonist is random but weighted; it is based on how many previous plays as that antag type a player has had before. The more times someone's been selected as a certain type before, the less likely they will be selected for that type in a later round. However, there still remains a low chance to ignore weighting for an antag pick and just select any old schmuck.
-Antagonist selection happens before [[Jobs|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.
+Admins can also spawn a [[Admin#Special antagonists|unique array array of antags]], often with unique abilities seen nowhere else.
-==== Antag Tokens ====
+==Antag Selection==
-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:
+=== Roundstart Antagonist Selection ===
-#You did something Exceptionally Interesting or otherwise Highly Pleasing to an Admin.
+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.
-#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).
-You get a prompt/choice to redeem these whenever you join the server and press the ''Declare Ready'' button, regardless of whether the round's in progress or in setup. 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.
+Antagonist selection happens before [[Jobs|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.
-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 worst 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 button.
+<!--- Keeping this here for historical reference and in case weighting comes back. : random but weighted; it is based on how many previous plays as that antag type a player has had before. The more times someone's been selected as a certain type before, the less likely they will be selected for that type in a later round. However, there still remains a low chance to ignore weighting for an antag pick and just select any old schmuck. -->
+=== Latejoin Antagonist Selection ===
+Players can also be selected for antagonist when they join after the round has started, if the [[Game Modes|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.
-[[Category:Tutorial]]
+<!--- Keeping this here for historical reference and in case weighting comes back: being selected does not count in weighting for roundstart selection -->
+=== 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 [[Wrestler#Abilities|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 Antagonist Selection|latejoin antags]].
+To be eligible either of these, a ghost must '''not''' have...
+*logged out.
+*set DNR.
+=== Antag Tokens ===
+[[File:NewPlayerOptionsWithTokenOption.png|thumb|right|If a new round is starting, and you have at least one token, you'll get a special option to use them for the upcoming round.]]
+Antag tokens are basically compensation 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 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 four 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.'''
+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. 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.
+----
+{{JobMenu}}