[s][DNM] Movie-like Xeno Castes (ish) [Read Desc]

[Yorkoh]

About the pull request

HIGHLY LETHAL - USE AT OWN RISK - RECOMMENDED TO GIVE PLAYERS HEAP FOR FULL MOVIE ACCURACY TO ACCURATELY COUNTER THE INCREASE IN ARMOUR VALUES.

Ups xeno armour values and damage across the board but reduces their health to compensate (except the queen cos honestly she is frail as is). Soldiers are also a smidge slower.

Soldiers no longer spatter melting acid on death, but Crushers and Queens now do.

Significantly increased acid blood dmg on castes.

No need to swarm the players as instead short bursts of spawns will be a threat enough if they reach close range

TL;DR Xenos should drop as fast as they do in the movies but also be very dangerous to players in CQB.

NOTE: This is re-opening and expanding on #953

Explain why it's good for the game

For the occasions GMs want to run movie-ish accurate variants of standard Xenos.

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Changelog

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add: New health defines for DRONE and SOLDIER (both lower than standard)
add: New "RAPTOR" speed define for Soldier (slower than default)
balance: dropped (most) xeno health pools
balance: Upped (most) xeno Armor, Speed and Damage values
balance: Upped (most) xeno acid blood values
balance: disabled acid blood spatter for soldier, enabled for crusher & queen
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