This is an unofficial bugfix and feature update for Ballistic Weapons V2.5, released with permission. It replaces the Ballistic Core, BCoreV25.u. As it is mostly the core I use for my own mod of Ballistic, minus the gameplay changes, it should work perfectly, but as I can't be sure I'm posting in Beta Releases for now.

Contains contributions from Izumo_CZ and locational damage code published in 2004 by Mr Evil.

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Changelog:

-=[Config settings]=-

These must be added to the .ini manually, as the Ballistic GUI is implemented in BallisticV25.u

[BCoreV25.BallisticDamageType]
bSimpleDeathMessages
Renders all Ballistic deathmessages as Killer [Weapon (Headshot/Suicide)] Killed

[BCoreV25.BallisticInstantFire]
DamageModHead
DamageModLimb
If bUseModifiers is set in BallisticWeapon, instant fire weapons deal locational damage based on their base damage multiplied by whatever values are set here.

[BCoreV25.BallisticProjectile]
DamageModHead
DamageModLimb
As above but for projectiles

[BallisticV25.BallisticReplicationInfo] (inherited)
ReloadSpeedScale
Scales all reload / cocking speeds by this value.
bNoFirstCock
Prevents weapons from cocking the first time they are brought up. *This is the default.*
bLockRecoil
Forces all weapons to have ViewRecoilFactor 1; that is, the crosshair and the weapon's aim are always aligned, and recoil shifts the view,
instead of the weapon pointing above the crosshairs.
bLockRecoil and AccuracyScale 0 replicates the Frag.Ops WYSIWYG aim system, and this is a setting for those of
you who may have wanted to play with recoil on but still have bullets go where the crosshair is aimed.

[BCoreV25.BallisticWeapon]
bUseModifiers
Locational damage done by weapons becomes the body damage multiplied by the modifiers set in BallisticInstantFire
and BallisticProjectile.
AimKnockScale
Scales the displacement of your weapon from taking damage. 0 disables the feature. The default is 0.1.
bViewDecline
If false (default), prevents the view from moving back through the path of the weapon's recoil, or "snaking", while recoil
is declining. Recommended.
bDrawSimpleCrosshair
Draws crosshairs CoD / BF / L4D style, a cross which expands to accurately show the potential
displacement of your weapon. For melee weapons, the crosshair shows the extent of the melee swipe arc. The color
of this crosshair is the Global crosshair color (Engine.HUD.CrosshairColor) which is the color used for non-customised crosshairs
in the Weapons menu of Settings.
bDrawCrosshairDot
Draws a 2x2 square in the centre of the screen when DrawSimpleCrosshair is enabled.
bPlayScopeUp
If set to false, prevents the weapon from resuming scope or sights view after temporarily scoping down for
whatever reason (reload, cock, long gun)

-=[Bugfixes / Feature additions]=-

~[Function] marks changes which may not work for all weapons, because the indicated function is commonly overridden without
calling Super.Function(). Only of interest to mod authors.

Changelogs by class/relation:

[Adrenaline]
Improved support for the Berserk combo.
By default in V25, Berserk increases fire rate by 25%.
~[Start/StopBerserk]Berserk increases reload/cocking animation speeds by 25%.
~[Start/StopBerserk]Berserk reduces recoil and fire chaos by 25%.
Berserk reduces incoming damage on the player by 25% if they have a BallisticWeapon equipped.

[BallisticFire]
~[ModeDoFire] Network related: fixed a bug causing weapons to shoot after the application of recoil.
Firemodes marked as "Burst fire" have an enforced delay, but the shots within the burst fire more quickly.
The Z component of the velocity recoil vector (pushback when firing) is scaled down by 75%. Prevents shotgun boost jumping and M925 parachuting.

[BallisticGrenadeFire]
Changed functionality. The altfire is always Auto Throw and the primary fire can switch between Long and Short throw, defaulting to Long.

[BallisticInstantFire]
~[DoDamage] Different code for locational damage:
Closest point to Z-axis of hit xPawn is found.
If this point is within the head radius, it's a headshot.
If this point is above the centre of the xPawn minus a certain fraction of the CollisionHeight,
and within 20 Unreal Units (xPawn collision radius is 25) of the centre, it's a torso shot.
Anything else is limb.

[BallisticMeleeFire]
Hit arc is smaller and aligned with the horizontal plane.
Melee weapons which hold fire (such as bayonets) will not aim off when the player sprints.

[BallisticMeleeWeapon]
If simplified crosshairs are being drawn, melee weapons will draw a crosshair based on the horizontal extent of their swing arc.

[BallisticProjectile]
Network related: Fixed bug causing projectiles to have incorrect velocity vector on clients.
~[Explode, ProcessTouch] Network related: Fixed handling of !bNetTemporary projectiles, such as guided G5 rockets.
~[Explode]Network related: Fixed an issue causing BallisticProjectiles fired into walls to remain there, projecting dynamic light, until their
LifeSpan expired.
~[ProcessTouch, potentially]Network related: Fixed a bug causing projectiles to hit multiple times for massive damage.
If the projectile is PHYS_Falling and its max speed or base speed is greater than 3500, the projectile will ignore terminal
velocity. This is a fix for a bug with the HAMR and renders it an extremely powerful long-ranged weapon.
Network related: Fixed an issue with StartDelay being applied to projectiles in cases where it shouldn't have been.
~[DoDamage] Different code for locational damage, details in BallisticInstantFire.

[BallisticTurret]
Turret behaviour modified to allow turrets to act as normal BallisticWeapons in terms of recoil behaviour.
The mod weapon X-83 Sniper Rifle is the only known stock V25-based weapon to implement this.
Turrets reduce incoming damage on the player by 30%.
Turret operators are unaffected by damage momentum.
Network related: Turrets shoot on target, or as much on target as they're able to in the case of sniper turrets.
Network related: Weapons will no longer disappear in a player's Inventory when undeployed two or more times.
Network related: Drivers will no longer be made invisible on servers running Anti TCC.
Network related: Undeploying a turret will set the player's weapon to the undeployed turret weapon after a short delay.
Network related: Undeploying a turret will no longer incorrectly reset the player's view rotation.

Known remaining bugs: No tracer on first deploy (requires BallisticV25 access, caused by attachment replication failure)

[BCSprintControl]
Sprint recalculates speed anew rather than multiplying the current GroundSpeed (this approach had a permanent slowdown bug)
Sprint has a 1.2 second recharging delay if it's modified (Sprint dodge abuse fix)

[BallisticWeapon]
Adjusted the behaviour of OwnerEvent: BallisticWeapons skip Ammunition and inactive Weapons.
The above is to fix the Reloaded crash and other recursion crashes with many Inventory items.
The aim system is disabled entirely for bots, since they don't understand it. Expect improved bot aim.
AimSpread is scaled by the inaccuracy slider and not just ChaosAimSpread.
Adjusted cocking behaviour: Weapons will no longer skip their cocking animation if they are switched out and then back in.
The weapon must fully complete the animation in order to cock. Primarily a fix for the BORT rapidfire exploit.
Fixed a bug during reloading causing weapons to jam (if I recall, when switched out during a certain reload state).
Zooming is compatible with Anti TCC.
Reworked iron sights:
~[SetScopeBehavior] Iron sights smoothly zoom to the desired FOV and back. If SetScopeBehavior is overridden to reset
ViewAimFactor when leaving scope, there might be a flickering of the view when the player leaves scope view.
Weapon bob is scaled to zero over the course of the weapon's raising.
Fixed the "shunt" or "jump" in animation which occured when a weapon was fully aimed and went into scope or sights view.
Iron sights will no longer aim the weapon off from where the crosshair was - the weapon will naturally reaim to centre.
If the attempt to use iron sights is aborted, the weapon will reaim, and there is a limit to the frequency at which
centre reaims can occur to prevent abuse.
Grace is given for iron sights; CheckScope() will only force the player to abandon sight view if their Z velocity exceeds a certain
amount. Prevents the application of weaponfire momentum to the player from repeatedly resetting the weapon as it attempts to rise.
~[SetScopeBehavior] Network related: Weapons always initially use net aim (server will send weapon's aim info to clients). This works initially
for all weapons, and will fail if an overridden version of the aforementioned function, or another which modifies bUseNetAim, is called.
Reworked speedup/down;
Speed is set anew when a weapon is brought up, if the SpeedFactor differs from that of the previous weapon. The Speed
adrenaline combo is also accounted for. Fixes the Dual Wield massive speedup bug as well as some other speed problems.
~[NextWeapon/PrevWeapon] Adjusted NextWeapon / PrevWeapon logic to cycle weapons correctly. However, since the groupoffsets in BallisticV25 are bad,
and some weapons override these, this change alone will not fix the scrolling problem.
Network related: Added TargetedHurtRadius to BallisticWeapon. Mod authors should call it from here instead of within WeaponFires (Projectiles are OK)
to avoid ProcessEvent server crashes.

ScopeXScale (set via console command ScaleScope)
Sets the X:Y ratio of the currently selected weapon's scope.
Old scopes made for fullscreen 4:3 are 1.3333*
M46's scope is 1.25
Square scopes are 1

Hm, the HAMR is freakin' OP now... you can snipe people across the whole map with that monster!

Yep, this is pretty much what happened. A fix to BallisticV25 is being worked on that addresses this.

Now that the moddb page is down and I don't have any backups I don't know where to get SK mod, V5 of the Fishe Carver mod and Vani's JW pack. Neat. Without those BW is really boring for me. So what now?

My JW Pack should still be downloadable under the Junk Wars section.