[Heretic] Firemace without momentum preservation

[StroggVorbis]

In Heretic, the Firemace's and the tomed Phoenix Rod's projectiles inherit the velocity of the shooter, making it difficult to aim at a target while moving.
Can someone tell me how to make them behave more akin to say, all the other projectile based weapons in Doom, Hexen & Strife?

[StroggVorbis]

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action void A_FireMacePL1()
	{
		if (player == null)
		{
			return;
		}

		Weapon weapon = player.ReadyWeapon;
		if (weapon != null)
		{
			if (!weapon.DepleteAmmo (weapon.bAltFire))
				return;
		}

		if (random[MaceAtk]() < 28)
		{
			Actor ball = Spawn("MaceFX2", Pos + (0, 0, 28 - Floorclip), ALLOW_REPLACE);
			if (ball != null)
			{
				ball.Vel.Z = 2 - clamp(tan(pitch), -5, 5);
				ball.target = self;
				ball.angle = self.angle;
				ball.AddZ(ball.Vel.Z);
				ball.VelFromAngle();
				ball.Vel += Vel.xy / 2;
				ball.A_PlaySound ("weapons/maceshoot", CHAN_BODY);
				ball.CheckMissileSpawn (radius);
			}
		}
		else
		{
			player.GetPSprite(PSP_WEAPON).x = random[MaceAtk](-2, 1);
			player.GetPSprite(PSP_WEAPON).y = WEAPONTOP + random[MaceAtk](0, 3);
			Actor ball = SpawnPlayerMissile("MaceFX1", angle + (random[MaceAtk](-4, 3) * (360. / 256)));
			if (ball)
			{
				ball.special1 = 16; // tics till dropoff
			}
		}
	}
}

I'm not sure, but I believe it's the ball.VelFromAngle() function.

Can somebody confirm if I'm onto something or moving into the wrong direction?

Thx in advance

[StroggVorbis]

Quick note: Tried to make a custom PhoenixRod but I get the error message "Private member FlameCount not accessible".