wepon.pk3: Tiny Filesize, Great Big Guns! [V1.5, 06/30/26]

[kinker31]

(Requires the latest version of UZDoom/GZDoom to run, unless your source port can run ZScript.)
Download it here: V1.5 (June 30th, 2026)

To put it simply, wepon.pk3 takes the vanilla weaponry, and with the magic of pure ZScript (and a few DECORATE-esque bodges), augments and upgrades them into proper demon mulchers!

Want a list? Here, have a list:

• Pistols, Plasma Rifles, and Pump-Action Shotguns don't get automatically overshadowed!
• BFGs can choose between cells, or specialized BFG cells that don't interfere with your Plasma Rifle!
• Works on Final Doom, Doom 1, and most Doom 1/2 wads!
• Tested with Gun Bonsai, and should be completely compatible!

If you're planning on playing this with a mapset, make sure it doesn't radically modify the vanilla weapon lumps, otherwise you're gonna get some extremely weird-looking graphical bugs!
If you're the type to read as much documentation as possible before diving in, it's all been moved over to my website, feel free to give it a read before downloading, if you'd like!

[Shatter-Thought[V-4]]

Very cool ideas so far, some bugs I encountered with Gzdoom:

Shotgun's primary fire with the normal vanilla calculation uses 2 shotgun shells instead of one, though the last shell in the tube is used normally.

Super Shotgun's alternate fire uses NO ammo, I almost want an infinite 4 barrel firing shotgun, but I presume that's not intended ^^.

The mini-gun's speed reduction as it spins faster is clever, but if you empty your ammo as your slowed, the slowness persists once you switch back to the mini-gun after you get more ammo for it, even though it's not spinning super fast, also not being able to switch from a full spin even if not firing is problematic when you tactically need a different weapon in the moment, such as if you know you are about to go dry so you need to bring out your shotty.

Rocket launcher does not shoot grenades unless you have 3 or more rockets, at 2 it does not shoot anything except a firing plume from the barrel, and the alternate only takes one rocket per grenade cluster.

Plasma rifle's sound for the alternate and the eventual spread shot is a bit loud, would be best to lower those sounds a bit if you could, maybe program the spread-shot to only use a single sound.
Also a crash happened to me with the plasma rifle when holding the primary fire steady while opening a blue key door:
"VM execution aborted : tried to write to address zero."
called from EnergyPewPewweapon.PewPewFan at
wepon_rc1-hotfix.pk3 : zscript/plasmarifle. sz, line 178.

There were more lines but they seemed to be similar about the Pewpew thing.

Look forward to trying this out as it gets fixed and refined, it's very cool!

[kinker31]

Release Candidate 2 is now out! It might be good to be the v1.0 release, but I wanna see if I can get more feedback (and/or bug reports) before I'm ready to do so.

[Shatter-Thought[V-4]]

Just tried it and the fixes are great! The plasma rifle only consumes 1 ammo even as the fire spread triggers.

It's very fun so far, an awesome work using no new graphics.

[kinker31]

The plasma rifle only consumes 1 ammo even as the fire spread triggers.

Don't worry, the plasma rifle's meant to do that.

[kinker31]

A patch for RC2 has been released, mostly that I had to cut back on the shotgun shells you get because let's face it 8 shells is probably a bit much.
Also fixed a few things here and there too.

[kinker31]

Release Canidate 3 is now out, and this time, it will most likely graduate to the big 1.0 release!
Refer to the changelog to see what I changed, 'cause there's some pretty big changes in this one.

[kinker31]

wepon v1.0 has finally released!
As always, check the changelog, I made some pretty big changes (which unfortunately include a few nerfs, but such is life).

[kinker31]

Version 1.1 has been released!
From now on, all changes and further versions will be uploaded to my website, but I'll be sure to bump the thread if a new version releases.
Well, one important enough to warrant it, anyways.

[kinker31]

wepon.pk3's 1.2 has been released!
Check the website for your dose of new mod information, as well as changelog stuff.

[Mr. Mir]

Hi, I just want to say that I love this mod. The pistols and pump shotgun are especially good as they are not obsoleted by other weapons. It's always good to see a double chainsaw (I love DOOM 64), the punches are great, and the plasma rifle spread fire is great for slaughtermaps. The fact it's lightweight and fully compatible with monster mods and Gun Bonsai is just icing on the cake.

Edit: just one bug I have found with Gun Bonsai: if you take the Bandoliers upgrade and reload the SSG when it is full (4 shells), the reload animation plays over and over. Each time the animation plays, it wastes 2 shells, and it stops when you have no more shells in your reserve. The animation cannot be stopped while it is repeating.

[kinker31]

Well, it took a little bit (and it's still gonna be a bit more until my original plan for the update gets there), but version 1.3 is now available for downloading!
The main two highlights of said update are the new HUD, a fix to the SSG bug, and general code refactorization. Details, as always, can be found at my website!

Oh, and here's the new HUD in action:

[kinker31]

It's likely going to be a while before 1.4 will release, so here's a compiliation of most of the stuff I've implemented as of the making of this post:

[kinker31]

wepon/adonn 1.4 has been released! (I decided against the 2nd playerclass, which was originally gonna be the plan. Didn't have any good ideas for him.)
Whilst I plan to update the OP accordingly, the bulk of my changes can be read over at the website.

[OptimusCj113]

Yo, everytime I try to play with this I get the error:Script error, 'wepon_1.4.pk3:menudef" line 17: Integer expected, got true, this only shows up after I switched to the latest version(1.4)