Choosing which weapon has to be used after another one has..
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Choosing which weapon has to be used after another one has..
...no more ammo. It's a long title but the concept is clear.
When I fire a certain weapon (ex: shotgun) and shells end, the plasma gun is automatically selected. Since I hate using it because it steals ammo to the BFG, is there a way to choose which weapon has to be used after another one has no more ammo? Don't say "change it pressing a number" because during fightings every second precious.
When I fire a certain weapon (ex: shotgun) and shells end, the plasma gun is automatically selected. Since I hate using it because it steals ammo to the BFG, is there a way to choose which weapon has to be used after another one has no more ammo? Don't say "change it pressing a number" because during fightings every second precious.
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Re: Choosing which weapon has to be used after another one has..
I think this can be changed in DECORATE. The Priority number is what dictates what gets selected first automatically. The Plasma Gun, by default, has a very low priority number, so it's picked first. The rocket launcher's number is very high, and you will only select it automatically if you don't have the chainsaw (which is lower than the RL). The lower the number, the more important the weapon is.
If DECORATE is not a viable solution, you're kind of SOL. I know both ZDaemon and Skulltag did have weapon priority menus, but vanilla ZDoom does not.
If DECORATE is not a viable solution, you're kind of SOL. I know both ZDaemon and Skulltag did have weapon priority menus, but vanilla ZDoom does not.
Re: Choosing which weapon has to be used after another one has..
You could slap together a WAD where you only modify those numbers.
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The "Weapon.SelectionOrder" is what you want to adjust using DECORATE, in case you are still having trouble.
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Weird, I hate using the BFG because it steals ammo from the plasma rifle.
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You have to hit them dead on.phi108 wrote:Weird, I hate using the BFG because it steals ammo from the plasma rifle.
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...which usually kills them instantly. Which isn't fun. Unlike many doomers, I don't like the BFG because it just makes the game too easy.
I only use it when there's just a big dude with way too much health, or an army of enemies in a boring combat area, situations where spending a lot of time fighting them would be boring.
I only use it when there's just a big dude with way too much health, or an army of enemies in a boring combat area, situations where spending a lot of time fighting them would be boring.
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Re: Choosing which weapon has to be used after another one has..
Can this be a good feature suggestion?Project Dark Fox wrote:I know both ZDaemon and Skulltag did have weapon priority menus, but vanilla ZDoom does not.
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Re: Choosing which weapon has to be used after another one has..
It'd actually be pretty pointless.
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The +WEAPON.NOAUTOFIRE flag is worth mentioning. It stops the weapon firing if you autochange to it and happen to have the fire button pressed. Not too surprisingly, the RL has it.Project Dark Fox wrote:The rocket launcher's number is very high, and you will only select it automatically if you don't have the chainsaw (which is lower than the RL).
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Re: Choosing which weapon has to be used after another one has..
With all of the custom weapons mods and TCs coming out, which add or replace a plethora of new weapons, it'd make a restricting weapon selection set... useless.Pinky's ass wrote:Really?
In addition, consider the other games ZDoom has to support, and all of their weapons, plus the fact that the same weapons can be used again in other games, such as the Shotgun in Strife or what have you...
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You can set the slot for each weapon, can't you? Why not just make it so you can define WEAPON.SELECTIONORDER in the .ini in each Weaponsection?
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Re: Choosing which weapon has to be used after another one has..
Chaos will follow.Wagi wrote:You can set the slot for each weapon, can't you? Why not just make it so you can define WEAPON.SELECTIONORDER in the .ini in each Weaponsection?