[v0.999] CUSTOM GUN: THE GUN-ENING

[Mikk-]

Have you ever wanted 'Borderlands style' weapons in DOOM? Potentially zillions of guns? Well look no further for I present to you:
CUSTOM GUN

just what is CUSTOM GUN?

• Limitless* potential with randomly generated weapons!
• 7 new interesting weapon varieties!
• Upgrade your weapons with mod packs!

Ok, ok that's enough of the spiel, now. This mod aims to bring a new, rogue-like feel to DOOM, with CUSTOM GUN you can obtain the classic doom arsenal with a randomized twist. Map-placed weapons spawn with randomly generated parameters, as well as special abilities such as Incendiary, vampiric and toxic! You can also upgrade your weapons through the use of Mod Software - there are several varieties of Software which alter your weapon's properties in different ways. Each weapon has a set amount of slots which mods can occupy. Currently however, only the Pistol, Shotgun, Supershotgun and Chaingun have been modified and therefore there are no randomly generated Plasma Rifles, Rocket Launchers, Chainsaws or BFGs. Consequently, Mod Software will not work on these weapons. I also tried to keep this mod under 64KB - I use a few custom graphics but theres a bit of TEXTURES work and lots of neat stuff with Translations (god bless Desaturated Palette Gradients). Also for Doom 1 compatibility the Archvile fire sprites and sounds are included as they are used for the Incendiary Rounds.

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!!Press your +USE key to pick up weapons!!

You must bind an +ALTATTACK and +RELOAD key to benefit most from this mod!
+ALTATTACK when held will toss the currently equipped weapon allowing you to pick up another, more attractive weapon of the same type. If you cannot pick up a weapon due to holding the same type then then the stats of the weapon will be displayed.
Press and hold +RELOAD to display the stats of your currently equipped weapon. This will show the current Special of the weapon, as well as the Damage, Spread, Number of Bullets and maximum amount of mods equipped.


Mod Software and Mod limits:
Mod Software are spawned randomly alongside map-placed weapons and backpacks. They also occasionally appear on marine corpses. Monsters will also rarely drop Mod Software.
Each weapon has a limited amount of Mod Software that can be equipped. This can be anywhere from 3 to 8 slots. Your pistol will always have a guaranteed 5 slots. To show the current amount of Mod Software installed and remaining slots hold down the +RELOAD key.
Mods are equipped using the INVENTORY BAR and related commands. To install Mod Software onto a weapon simply select the weapon desire to be upgraded and select the chosen mod using the INVNEXT/INVPREV keys, then hit the INVUSE key to select and equip the chosen software. Do note that you can only equip Special Mods onto a weapon that does not already have a Special class such as Incendiary, High-Explosive or Toxic.

Weapon Class & Specials:
The weapon class denotes a specific way of Stat Distribution

• Hefty - deals higher damage but with a tendency to be slightly more innacurate
• Wimpy - Deals lower damage but seems to have a higher chance to spawn with certain Specials
• Accurate - Lower spread for a more accurate shot - can go either way in regards to damage
• Close-Quarters - Wildly innacurate but higher base damage per shot.

Weapons can sometimes be a Hefty Incendiary Shotgun or a Close-Quarters Super Shotgun or even a Wimpy Chaingun. Just to note, even wimpy has benefits

Mod Software types & rarities:
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Currently there are 5 types of Stat Mods and 7 types of Special Mods.
Stat mods are:

• Accuracy - Decreases the Spread of the chosen weapon by a certain amount of points
• Damage - Raises the damage of each bullet fired by a certain amount of points
• Range - Chainsaw exclusive, increases the effective range of the saw
• Speed - Rocket and Plasma exclusive, boosts the speed of the projectile fired
• Radius - Rocket Exclusive, amps up the explosive radius of the rocket projectile

Stat mods come in three flavours - Common [Bronze], Rare [Silver] and Legendary [Gold]. Common only bumps up stats by a small amount while higher rated software raises the stat considerably.
It is very easy to become over powered if you get your hands on a couple of Legendary Mods.

Special mods alter the weapon's properties in a way different to the stat distribution. Such as adding elemental or explosive attacks. The effects are known as Specials.
The Special Mods are:

• Incendiary - Deals fire damage, spreads quickly between foes - not so effective on those that deal with fire themselves.
• High Explosive - Deals extra radius damage
• Ice - freezes foes solid with a cone of frosty blades on impact.
• High-Tech - Different per weapon, per mod level basis.
• Toxic - Infects the target with a horrible disease which can be spread between monsters. Deals damage over time. Useless on boneheads.
• Vampiric - Slightly heals the player per hit
• Piercing - fires ripper blades which shred through foes, has limited range as shots are affected by gravity

Utility Upgrade Mods

There are four current utility mods in the game. In left-to-right order they are the UPGRADE Module, the SUPER UPGRADE Module, the RESET Module and the SHUFFLE Module.

• UPGRADE Module:
• This little bad-boy will massively amp up your firepower in different ways depending on your currently equipped mod. Upgraded weapons will display a * next to their name when displaying their stats dependent on their level
  
  SUPER UPGRADE Module:
• Much rarer than the standard upgrade module, will boost your weapon to MAX LEVEL in one use. Consumes multiple mod slots.
  
  RESET Module
• Removes the current Special module on the weapon, allowing you to replace it with a Special module of your choice
  
  SHUFFLE Module
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Todo List:

• BFG 9000 to be completed
• Custom HUD
• Custom sound effects and visual effects

Known Issues:

• This mod will not work in multiplayer correctly. This has not been tested but the nature of the scripts inside are only made to consider 1 Player.
• Piercing Projectiles will stick on walls and doors, but will remain in place if a wall is lowered or a door is raised etc. so they float wherever they hit.
• The BFG is still yet to be completed
• Monsters blackened by fire when raised will still be charred.
• Some translations may not look as pretty in the Software Renderer (most notably the ice corpses)

Changelog

• [0.999]
• Split upgrades into three sequential tiers
• Chainsaw, Rocket Launcher and Plasma Rifle all have new effects and can be customised
• Weapon-exclusive modules for Chainsaw, Rocket Launcher and Plasma Rifle to alter their specific properties
• Added Shuffle, Reset and Super Upgrade mods.
  
  [0.4]
• Added the Overdrive Upgrade mod which alters a weapon's Special to extreme levels.
• Tweaked Incendiary and Toxic's effectiveness on enemies (Most notably on revenants)
• Fixed ear-rape using High-Explosive modded weapons
• Tweaked High-Explosive's damage to deal (damage*3) instead of 32 damage outright.
• Made all monsters play "DSSLOP" when crushed
  
  [0.3]
• Attempted to fix High-Explosive earrape
  
  [0.2]
• Added tags to all the Mod Software Upgrades

Downloads:
M-CUSTOMGUN[0.999]

[Yholl]

Tried playing this, couldn't pick up any mod weapon at all, and all the mods have no tags so their names are pretty horrible to look at when you sort through them.

I'm very interested in seeing this in action, but well, I can't really do that right now.

[catoidi]

You gotta press use to pickup the custom weapons.

[Yholl]

You gotta press use to pickup the custom weapons.

Oh whoops, must've missed that in the wall'o text, hehe. Thanks.

[Mikk-]

OK so I updated the Main file to include tags for the Mod Software (I completely forgot tags exist)

[Yholl]

OW MY EARS

Could you please do something about the explosion noises? I appear to have deafened myself with a close quarters high explosive super shotgun

[Mikk-]

Oh geez, oops. I'm sorry! I'm trying to tinker about with the sounds but I can't seem to find a decent tradeoff. If I use $limit you will sometimes not hear the sound at all. So I'm kinda stuck here.

[Someone64]

It would be cool if there were stat and special mods that had more drastic effects on the weapons while also providing a random downside. Say, for example, a mod that majorly increases fire rate while decreasing damage so you can end up with weak chain shotguns if you mod them enough. Or mods that increase the bullet counts like crazy but also reduces accuracy a lot, etc...

[Redead-ITA]

This seems cool im gonna play it soon
but i have a question
Will be there manufacturers?

QUESTION: Should you like add what Emulator does it needs to play the mod?
Edit: NEvermind I need to use a devbuild

[Mikk-]

It would be cool if there were stat and special mods that had more drastic effects on the weapons while also providing a random downside. Say, for example, a mod that majorly increases fire rate while decreasing damage so you can end up with weak chain shotguns if you mod them enough. Or mods that increase the bullet counts like crazy but also reduces accuracy a lot, etc...

I've considered that when first making the mod. Messing with timing was a bit hacky but I'm sure I could cook something up.

I've been working on another Mod Software known as the Overdrive Upgrade - this mod will affect each Special differently. For example - High-tech + Overdrive = Homing Projectiles or Piercing + Overdrive = Projectiles that stick into walls and detonate a moment later. You can only use Overdrive on a weapon once and that change is permanent. It will also occupy 2 mod slots as it's such a hefty upgrade

[SuperSomariDX]

I seem to not be able to do any damage to Revenants with a Toxic Super Shotgun. I'm pretty sure this wasn't intended.
In fact. Toxic weapons don't seem to do damage to them at all.

[Mikk-]

Oh crap I intended to make Revenants resilient to the poison infection but accidentally made them resistant to all poison. I'll fix that in tonight's update

[Mikk-]

Pardon the double-post but version 0.4 is released!

• Changelog
• Added the Overdrive Upgrade mod which alters a weapon's Special to extreme levels.
• Tweaked Incendiary and Toxic's effectiveness on enemies (Most notably on revenants)
• Fixed ear-rape using High-Explosive modded weapons
• Tweaked High-Explosive's damage to deal (damage*3) instead of 32 damage outright.
• Made all monsters play "DSSLOP" when crushed

Download here: M-CUSTOMGUN [0.4]

[chronoteeth]

Honestly I kinda was thinkin the mod would be like, you took a bunch of different pieces of gun sprites and they randomly mish mashed together using some ACS and texture lump trickery

[Mikk-]

Now that's a cool idea, unfortunately that isn't this mod