[size=16px]CLICK HERE[/size]
[size=18px]Krazy Kaboodles Weapon Pack: IN PROGRESS[/size] ('Krazy' refers to my insanity at keeping this up for so long. Not actually the name of the pack)
This started out as a bunch of weapon tweaks for balance and more realistic behaviors, but due to lack of discipline on my part, it has ballooned to something much more. It is essentially a pack filled with heavily tweaked versions of all the stock BW weapons (minus the ViPeR, HAMR, MRL, HVC, and staves), with a few tweaked skins here and there. I changed their names some to more easily differentiate them from the stock weapons. Some of them are probably different enough to be considered new weapons in their own right.
[size=15px](Incomplete) Overview of major changes so far:[/size]
[size=14px]Good God, man! What have you done?![/size]
[size=13px]General Stuff:[/size]
-Recoil: heavily tweaked, and hopefully more realistic. In general, recoil is much higher per shot, and slightly more random.
-Accuracy: Decreased while hip-shooting. If you want to reliably hit a guy from beyond 10 meters, use the sights.
-Iron sights: Much, much faster to pull up the sights than before. "True" iron sights for weapons, where possible. It didn't really work out for a few of the weapons, due to the way RS did their animations.
-Damage: Ramped up significantly, for the most part. Automatics now do about the same damage per shot as their semi-auto counterparts, when using the same or similar ammo. Machine guns also do about the same per shot as their rifle counterparts. Suffice to say, dying comes much more quickly.
-Machine guns: With the increased damage, machine guns now have much higher movement chaos and recoil when unmounted. These things are monsters.
-Shotguns: Lower per-shot damage potential for shotguns, but increased range, tighter spread, and faster fire rate. The original shotguns were capable of just ridiculous damage. (M290 did upwards of 600 damage on a point blank torso hit)
-Melee: Blocking decreases damage from guns and explosions, and blocks knives. Damage is also doubled from behind, for all melee attacks, including those found on a few guns.
-Explosives: Splash damage drops off faster with distance, but generally have higher blast radii and damage to compensate.
[size=13px]Specifics:[/size]
-A48: (renamed from A42) now fires in a 3-shot burst pattern, like a plasma shotgun. Also orange, and with a more reasonable recharge system, but suffers from overheating. Holding the alt-fire now continuously drains the battery, like the Plasma Pistol in Halo 2/3.
-A73: In addition to its basic plasma bolts, the A73 Mk II features a "blast" firemode that fires heavier, slower bolts of plasma with high damage and splash. It also features a recharging cell like the A42, but can also be manually swapped out when not full. For balance, only one additional plasma cell can be carried. It overheats like the A48 does. The Mk II is also fabulous.
-Fifty-9: Magazine reduced to 35 for balance and sanity. Extension of the stock now prevents the use of the melee attack, instead just turning it into the iron sight key.
-M763: now semi-auto, firing flechette rounds for superior range but less damage. It also features a variable choke, for close-quarters and medium-range shooting. I did this because the original M763 was rather uninteresting, and we lacked a rapid-fire shotgun (at least, before Kelly's M781). It's also green.
-M50: Grenades now have a minimum detonation range, meaning that they won't detonate on impact within a certain distance (about 16 meters). Instead, they'll just stick to whatever they hit and explode after 3 seconds. This includes people. To balance, the damage, blast radius, and muzzle velocity of the grenade have been increased greatly. This was because the original grenade launcher was actually better as a close-range weapon than the actual rifle it was attached to, which makes no sense.
-Minigun: Slightly higher damage per shot than the M50, with much a more manageable recoil system that actually lets you shoot the thing without the gun flying all over the place. To compensate, the irons sights have been removed, the gun requires spin-up before fire, and cannot be fired while running.
-SAR-12: stock option removed (always extended now) and split into 2 weapons: The AC-12 and AC-15. The AC-12 is basically the same as the SAR-12, but with a flashing unit similar but superior to the AM67 and a smaller 36 round mag. The AC-15 is a gunmetal-tinted variant, firing larger 7.62mm rounds with 30-round mag, and a more powerful version of the GRS9's searing laser. It's pretty sweet.
-XK2: Chaos drastically reduced, making it actually useful. Suppressor now permanently affixed, mag reduced to 40, and no longer a side-arm (no dual).
[size=13px]Oh dear sweet Christ, what are you doing now?![/size]
-Bugs-quashing, feature-completing, and balance-refining.
-Improving A48 and A73 weapon effects.
-Smoothing out recoil decline movement.
-G5 laser removed (I'm trying to figure out a better way to implement it).
-FP9 now has a 2.5 second arming delay, so you can no longer use them as close-combat weapons. I'm also trying to make them into claymores, with limited success.
-An grenade-launching MRS138. Though a new model would be preferable, you gotta work with what you have, right?
[size=13px]What evils have you in store for us in the future?[/size]
-Simplified weapon controls: Some of them have just too many extraneous features. For instance, the grenades have that "roll" alt-fire which isn't different enough from the standard throw to really justify its existence. They also have the 3 different throwing "modes" which further complicate things. The M50 has that camera with very limited uses. The G5's rocket cam is just pointless. These should be changed.
-A48: Replace the beam alt-fire with something more close-range. The beam sucks.
-HAMR: I'm thinking increase their projectile velocity, but remove the ability to fire unmounted.
-MRL: Not sure. Incendiary rockets? Proximity detonation? Laser-guidance? I'll definitely tone down the alt-fire as that thing is crazy.
-ViPeR: Not sure about this one either. I'm just not crazy (KRAZY!) about the idea of a human plasma weapon. I'm thinking make it a dedicated beam weapon, like something used prior to the Skrith invasions. Or maybe some kind of magnetic Gauss rifle?
-HVC: This one's a toughie. How do you balance this out while keeping it true to the original? Maybe an Electrolaser?
-FP9: Surveillance camera system? Allows you to see what an FP9 is currently pointed at, though only when the laser is inactivated.
-G5: Cluster rockets? I'd like to see something you can detonate in the midst of enemy infantry to devastating effect, especially in corridors.
-M50: A variant that shoots rockets instead of grenades.
-SRS900: clean up scope view some more. Too many useless widgets, and it also lacks a fire select indicator.
-Better weapon effects: In particular, the concrete and wood impacts for bullets are rather underwhelming. Explosions (excluding HAMR; that one kicks ass) are also kinda boring.
-Other community weapons?I would love to mess with some of the other community-created weapons, if given permission.
-Staves: I am probably not going to do anything with the staves.
[size=13px]Well, thank goodness he doesn't have:[/size]
-Modeling and animation skills, particularly for fixing firing and holding animations to get "true" iron sights to work better on a few of the guns.
-Better knowledge of how to use emitters.
-Better texturing skills. Most of mine are straight-up tint jobs.
-A time machine.
Screenshots:
A73-Mk2 Plasma Rifle:
R87-A1 Sniper Rifle:
SRS900E:
XMV858 Minigun:
... 
