Ah, so this was the "Rumples" thing that was in Wup's server when I went to do that machine gun spectate bug. I love the effects, though it gets kinda hard to tell the shock core and plasma projectiles apart.

I don't know why you would mix them up with Ballistic Weapons though. UT weapons and Ballistic weapons play completely differently, what with the weapon chaos and recoil and all. I mean with BW, you're basically required to crouch and use the sights for any sort of accuracy at medium-long range, but with UT weapons, standing still is tantamount to suicide.

But nah I know you, You prefer not to run and gun and stay crouched like a midgit with a gun........

I'm not against run and gun or anything. Crouch + Aim is just more important with BW with the chaos and all, especially at med-long range, which makes much sense. Anyone trying to run and gun with an M50 or SRS900 against anyone more than 50 feet away is a damned fool .

The reason I mod the weapons is that they're just so damn inconsistent sometimes. Take the XK2 and SAR-12, for example. The SAR-12 has less chaos than most of the other weapons in the game, while the XK2, which is much lighter and should probably be easier to handle, has the same chaos spread and movement chaos as the M50, a big assault rifle with a heavy grenade launcher attached to it. Result: SAR-12 kicks ass for run-and-gun, while the XK2 is only useful with the iron sights. That makes pretty much no sense and makes the XK2 damn near useless as a weapon.

Plus, the recoil for the weapons isn't handled very realistically. Oftentimes, they just go up and you end up shooting 45 degrees above your crosshairs (easily fixed by just pitching your view down), as if your character wasn't even trying to control his recoil. My modded weapons all have adjusted recoil so that they are more random and generally shoot around the crosshair (which is very hard to balance with this ridiculously complex aiming system).

Since attempting to effect significant changes to the main mod has gotten me pretty much nowhere (except in bug reporting), the only way I can have weapons with some degree of realism, consistency, and balance is to mod them myself. Which is a lot of fun, I might add.

And I'm not just doing a huge nerf-fest here. A lot of guns have been greatly improved (XK2 and M806), and most of the guns I considered overpowered were more "rebalanced" than nerfed by reducing their more annoying stats and buffing some others, or adding an interesting new ability (planting FP9s on people's backs, or giving melee attacks double damage from behind to counter-act their not ignoring shields anymore). Also, I think I increased the damage for pretty much every weapon except the AM67, D49, R9, and mines.

I wish more people would give good feedback on how I'm modding the weapons to see what imbalances exist and what I might need to change.


Oh, and don't have anything against Hedsteem or anything. There are some very interesting vehicles (though the maps generally bore me), but I'm just not very interested in vCTF. Plus, the weapons are still in their usual unbalanced selves, so that's another thing I don't like.

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And this is why you have so few people on Your Server

I'm not against run and gun or anything. Crouch + Aim is just more important with BW with the chaos and all, especially at med-long range, which makes much sense. Anyone trying to run and gun with an M50 or SRS900 against anyone more than 50 feet away is a damned fool .

The reason I mod the weapons is that they're just so damn inconsistent sometimes. Take the XK2 and SAR-12, for example. The SAR-12 has less chaos than most of the other weapons in the game, while the XK2, which is much lighter and should probably be easier to handle, has the same chaos spread and movement chaos as the M50, a big assault rifle with a heavy grenade launcher attached to it. Result: SAR-12 kicks ass for run-and-gun, while the XK2 is only useful with the iron sights. That makes pretty much no sense and makes the XK2 damn near useless as a weapon.


Plus, the recoil for the weapons isn't handled very realistically. Oftentimes, they just go up and you end up shooting 45 degrees above your crosshairs (easily fixed by just pitching your view down), as if your character wasn't even trying to control his recoil. My modded weapons all have adjusted recoil so that they are more random and generally shoot around the crosshair (which is very hard to balance with this ridiculously complex aiming system).

Since attempting to effect significant changes to the main mod has gotten me pretty much nowhere (except in bug reporting), the only way I can have weapons with some degree of realism, consistency, and balance is to mod them myself. Which is a lot of fun, I might add.

And I'm not just doing a huge nerf-fest here. A lot of guns have been greatly improved (XK2 and M806), and most of the guns I considered overpowered were more "rebalanced" than nerfed by reducing their more annoying stats and buffing some others, or adding an interesting new ability (planting FP9s on people's backs, or giving melee attacks double damage from behind to counter-act their not ignoring shields anymore). Also, I think I increased the damage for pretty much every weapon except the AM67, D49, R9, and mines.

I wish more people would give good feedback on how I'm modding the weapons to see what imbalances exist and what I might need to change.


Oh, and don't have anything against Hedsteem or anything. There are some very interesting vehicles (though the maps generally bore me), but I'm just not very interested in vCTF. Plus, the weapons are still in their usual unbalanced selves, so that's another thing I don't like.



EDIT: Long post is long.

Don't forget that Darkonxy almost went nuts when the Hedsteem servers went down.

Kaboodles I hate you for one reason alone you, Break under the chaos of things thats how hedsteem plays thats why I got so serious about this mod, I like it how it is and I can't help but think You violate it

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