Scavver's Paradise V3 Beta - A Survival Horror Mod

[Viscra Maelstrom]

looking forward to the update! i've been having fun with the current version and am interested in seeing what's going to be changed.

[CaptainNurbles]

Just a little something to show that yes, things are being worked on! I'm essentially finished with what I want done in this update, all that's left is waiting for approval for some assets I'm wanting to use for a couple guns.

[CaptainNurbles]

Alright, time to give y'all a proper showcasing of what I've been working on for the past forever. Still waiting on responses for permission or denial to use some assets, but as soon as I get the word on that an upload will be coming, I promise you this.

So to get you lot excited, how about some teasers?

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Probably the BIGGEST change of all is the new and improved weight system. After SEVERAL months of constant tweaking and playtesting I think I've finally gotten it to where I want it. The part of me that likes the Stalker series is tempted to drop carry weight considerably, but with how this mod plays out I feel that the current weight limits are challenging without being unnecessarily punishing.



Without any backpacks, your max limit is 45 kilos. The more you carry, the slower you move, the weaker your jumps, and the less effective your dodges become. Once you hit your current weight limit your movement speed is abysmal, jumping is useless, and your dodge can't dodge shit. You can still carry above your limit, but good luck with that. Weapons, armor, equipment, and medical goods all add to your weight. Ammo and upgrades do not. Upgrades are weightless just to be fair, and ammo is weightless because A) I can't be assed, and B) There are so many calibers in the mod that you'd either have to deal with only carrying ammo for what can commonly be found, or I'd have to cut a LOT of unique ammo types.

Challenge loadouts have no backpacks at all. Standard loadouts spawn with common backpacks for 60 kilos of weight. Veteran loadouts have travel backpacks for 80 kilos of carry weight.



Backpacks can increase your carry limit to 60, 80, 100, or 120 kilos. All backpacks but the largest can also be found off of zombies, since with that many backpack types on top of all of the consumables and the new ammo harness (functionally identical to the old backpack), it made finding a good backpack STINKIN' HARD AND FRUSTRATING.

Also, zombies now have a chance to drop consumables, which makes using them so much more fun and useful.

ANYWAY, I have made the decision to make many changes to weapon calibers. As of the current public build, there are twenty-one unique ammo types, some with alternate ammo. Twenty one spunk-gargling unique flavors of demon killin' juice. With the new update I have reduced that to...



Eighteen. Still a LOT of calibers, but they've also been better balanced among one another. Redundancies have been worked out, and many weapons have been reworked into fitting different roles and being more useful. On top of that, I've worked on making weapons with rare calibers have more weapons to share that ammo with, to give you more opportunities to use that ammo. It's less the Fallout: New Vegas "player progression through higher caliber gear" that I initially intended, and more "have a lot of variety for the maximum possibilities when building your equipment loadouts for a larger amount of replay value."

There are only three pistol calibers available now. 9x23mm for basic, small caliber pot shots against smaller critters and as a backup for when you can't reload in the heat of combat, .357 magnum as a fiddly, hard to use large caliber ammo for bigger targets and armored zombies, and 12.7x34mm magnum for when you want a lot of damage in a semi-auto package, but don't want to fiddle with speedloaders or manual reloads and are fine with carrying much less ammo. The old 9x19mm SMG ammo was replaced with a 7.76x28mm caseless ammo, purely because the new magazine sprite lets me stick low-tier SMG ammo into more than one gun. The machine pistol is fun.

5.45x39mm ammo, gonezo. 5.45mm rifles did the SAME damage as 5.56mm, so why the redundancy? All 5.45mm weapons have been rechambered for 5.56mm, and 5.56mm magazines have been bumped up to 36 rounds per mag. Handy!

To make the old 9mm rifle actually useful, and to keep the old 5.56mm bolt-action rifle from having too large a magazine, they have both been rechambered for a new 6.5x48mm hunting rifle magazine, both sporting a capacity of 15+1.

5.56x45mm drum mags, also gone. The old SAW has been replaced with a belt-fed 5.7mm LMG which shares the same ammo as the chaingun. Chaingun has better recoil control and a super fast alt fire, LMG is more accurate, doesn't need batteries, and is lighter in weight.

Oh yeah, the chaingun needs batteries now. Each cell will last a LONG while, even if you use the alt fire which chews through battery something fierce, but it is something to consider.

Shotguns? One gauge. I do miss having pulse slugs, but to make regular slugs more useful they're a bit easier to find, and they deal large caliber damage instead of small caliber. Also to make up for the lack of 10 gauge shells, 12 gauge shotguns all do more damage. Halfway between the old 12 gauge damage and 10 gauge damage. Every 10 gauge shotgun has been reworked into 12 gauge, and every shotgun has been rebalanced with that in mind. Sure, the differences between the 12 gauge police shotgun and 12 gauge combat shotgun aren't too huge, but there's enough difference that you might be willing to look past the extra weight in the combat shotgun.

An aside, chaingunner-class zombies now wear combat armor, since with the rebalanced armor protection values the old security armor they were wearing was easy for small caliber weapons to break through. ~7 9x23mm rounds to down a 6.2mm rifle zombie, versus ~5 rounds of 5.56x45mm. Now that they wear combat armor the differences between small and large caliber weapons is considerable. To keep them from being TOO spongey however, their health has been dropped a wee bit.

Have you ever been wandering the hellish landscapes of earth and come across one of those lovely hellish spheres that heal your wounds or grant you invincibility or what have you? Ever wanted to take one along with you? Well now you can, with the brand new Lead-Lined Sphere Container!



These heavy sumbitches let you bring hellish spheres along with you! Simply activate the unit, press USE on a sphere, and boom, now you're carrying incredible restorative potential wherever you go! Of course, a filled LLSC weighs considerably more than an empty one, and that weight depends on the type of sphere contained within. An invulnerability sphere weighs nearly ten kilos!


(THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE A GIF. Dunno why it isn't playing properly but it's late and I'm tired as hell so I'll deal with it later.)

Speaking of carrying heavy things for future use, you can now carry spare armor with you wherever you go! As expected, this is done at the expense of extra carry weight to your loadout, but having an extra police vest as a backup for when your combat armor breaks could potentially save your life.

You also might have noticed the weird looking health and armor bar in the above GIF. That's for the energy-shielded vest. You can now repair the vest itself, and to make up for that the shield itself must be powered. You can recharge it on your Repairer Tool using Repairer Batteries or Compact Cells. If the shield is depleted all you're left with is a kinda heavy, subpar ballistic vest.

Since we're talking about armor, there's four new types of armor to compliment the current roster. I focused on these having special properties not found in other armors, or just being really handy with a significant drawback.



Things like being really strong for its tier, but being really flammable, protecting you from damaging floors, increasing movement speed at the cost of extra plasma/laser damage, and making your stimpacks more effective.



Random ammo boxes have been improved on. Better balancing on what's given when kicked, there's now a message telling you to kick them to open, there's now a random explosives box, and a random medical goods box that can rarely spawn on soulsphere and berserk spawns.

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SO MUCH WORK has been put into balancing weapons, ammo, consumables, and monsters to make this as fun as possible while still maintaining its roots as a high difficulty survival horror deal. I want it to be a challenge, to really push your skills not only in direct combat but with target prioritization and knowing how to best use and pack your gear, but I also want to keep things simple and fun, make it as easy to approach and play as possible. This is probably the biggest update I've made to the mod, and I really hope that the effort shines through and that you folks enjoy the new update when I can drop it!

[Viscra Maelstrom]

lots of things to be excited about! it's clear a lot of thought and effort has been put in on the balancing side of things for this. i'll be giving this a whirl whenever the new version drops!

[-Ghost-]

Looking good! Honestly I'm glad you merged the shotguns, it always felt kind of clunky with the different gauges when they functioned more or less the same anyway. I'd rather have a few shotguns that are more versatile by being able to load them up with different stuff than having a bunch of shotguns.

[CaptainNurbles]

Yeah the whole reason why I tiered the shotguns into two calibers (and just why there's so many calibers in general) was cause in the original design documents I did up when first starting the mod, I had in mind a Fallout: New Vegas sorta "player progression through weapons" thing in mind, starting off with dinky weapons, and finishing the game with stonky high caliber heavy duty weaponry and military grade armor. Problem is, that works out best when you have shops to buy and sell stuff in, and also scripting to distribute more high tier supplies as you get farther into the game. I theoretically could script something like that out if I tried, but honestly I feel like the current "loadout building" meta I'm going for is more interesting and more flexible with mapsets of different lengths. Hence why I've been dropping ammo types for this update.

[KTwo]

The plasma shotgun its just a floating casing..

[CaptainNurbles]

The plasma shotgun its just a floating casing..

I thought I deleted that from the mod!

That's there because in a previous update I started making a plasma shotgun, but gave up part of the way through coding it. The plasma shotgun doesn't spawn normally in game, only appearing with give all or IDKFA.

May end up taking an extra couple hours to finally finish that damn thing, actually.

[KTwo]

The plasma shotgun its just a floating casing..

I thought I deleted that from the mod!

That's there because in a previous update I started making a plasma shotgun, but gave up part of the way through coding it. The plasma shotgun doesn't spawn normally in game, only appearing with give all or IDKFA.

May end up taking an extra couple hours to finally finish that damn thing, actually.

I see, thanks!
I wanted to ask out if there's any chances to add a pretty powerful pump action shotgun alike the KS-23 were its ammunition could be pretty rare and even have special types of rounds like"Barrikada", this thing can pierce through car and truck engines it would be nice yo have something like that in this mod

[CaptainNurbles]

I wanted to ask out if there's any chances to add a pretty powerful pump action shotgun alike the KS-23 were its ammunition could be pretty rare and even have special types of rounds like"Barrikada", this thing can pierce through car and truck engines it would be nice yo have something like that in this mod

Prolly not. I've been leaning away from weapons with rare and/or dedicated ammo types since with the large number of weapons and calibers, and with the limited weight system, there'd be little reason to carry with you something that you can barely stock with ammo, especially when it's functionally identical to a bunch of guns that have much more common ammo. This is exactly the reason why I've removed 10 gauge ammo for this upcoming update.

Shotguns already have slug rounds which punch clean through armor and deal a metric dickload of damage. Going back to re-add a second shotgun caliber that's bigger than standard shells that also has big slug ammo that punches clean through armor and deals a metric dickload of damage would be needlessly redundant.

[Dr_Cosmobyte]

R.I.P. 10ga, i used to like it.

But seriously tho, i see you are working yourself a lot for this new update. I'm very eager to see what you are cooking up, because it's been a good time since i last played a campaign using your mod.

Can't wait!

[CaptainNurbles]

Don't you worry, the old 10 gauge shotguns are still present in the mod! They've just been rechambered for 12 gauge and rebalanced among one another. Besides, all shotguns deal a bit more damage anyway to make up for the lack of 10 gauge rounds, so you could say there's a little bit of 10 gauge in all the shotguns. One shot can almost kill a pinky. Stab 'em with a knife after and they're toast.

Right now I'm just awaiting some assistance from the community to help with optimizing some code for a new set of armor (With this particular armor equipped, getting into combat does lag up the game something fierce. Go to Map10 in Doom 2 and run to the zombie room and it'll drop the framerate to below 20 FPS after taking enough hits.) Once it's optimized, functional, and balanced to my liking, dropping this update.

Edit: I thought I fixed it, but I'm still running into framerate issues with the armor. Mod won't release until this is fixed.

Edit 2: Armor is fixed, no performance issues. Some oddities with sounds when things are busy, and sometimes the shield doesn't delay its recharging on taking damage, but it's otherwise functional as I like it. Gonna spend time tomorrow running through some maps for last minute bug hunting and playtesting the new armor for balancing. Expect update to drop tomorrow.

[CaptainNurbles]

Holy fuck, it's finally here... Several months, countless hours of bloed, zweet, en tranen, many agonizing nights spent working on my spaghetti code, making sprite edits to weapon reload sequences, and it's finally here.

This is probably the biggest update I've pushed to the mod to date. It sure as hell feels like it! So many changes that have been made, so much new content, so many additions and modifications to systems and equipment, it honestly feels like a completely new product compared to the last version.

NOTE: If you notice any major issues in the mod, please either comment here or contact me directly. I've playtested the everloving shit out of the mod, but with the last minute addition of shielded power armor, there may be issues I have yet to catch with that in particular. It SHOULD work just fine with no issues in how the armor works or in how it impacts performance, but STILL. PLZ contact me if you notice issues or bugs.

... Still gotta fix the HUD to allow for scaling.

Anyway! Dropping the download link here in this comment and in the topic post as always. Changelog is HUMONGOUS and I'm certain there's a few changes I've forgotten, at LEAST a few!

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DOWNLOAD HERE (Updated 18/3/23)

CHANGELOG:

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2.3 RESURRECTION, Released 18/3/23
Note: There have been so many changes made to balancing that I've probably forgotten to list some of them. Just know that a LOT of changes have been made to ammo distribution, weapons, armor, and items.

SWEEPING Changes:
* REVAMPED WEIGHT SYSTEM) Weapons, inventory items, and armor all add weight. Hard limit of 180 kilograms of weight. The more you carry, the slower you move. Four tiers of backpacks allow for better carrying capacity. The KGs display on the HUD will look a bit weird at times, I couldn't find a good way to make the decimal point follow the numbers well.
* Afflictions DECORATE code on all player classes has been cleaned up. Better organized, code improvements, better documentation. I tried to make it so that you don't have to copy/paste changes across all 12 loadouts, but I couldn't find a way to make that work, sadly.
* SO MUCH ITEM SPAWN BALANCING, OMG

PLAYER Changes:
* Marksman loadout uses a 6.5mm rifle now, with a 9mm mini pistol for a sidearm instead of the .45 magnum.
* Huntsman loadout now carries a 7.76mm machine pistol instead of a 9mm handgun.
* Bleeding Chance is the same, but Bleeding Intensity has been reduced. When you receive Bleeding debuffs it'll be less intense.
* When Irradiated, radiation finally reduces over time. Before it wouldn't remove the debuffs. Natural radiation reduction is much slower to promote the usage of rad pills.
* Player receives up to 50% extra rads per tic of Slime damage. Radpills reduce this down to 1 Rad per tic of Slime damage.

ITEM Changes:
* NEW ITEM: Lead-Lined Sphere Container) Wanna carry hellish spheres around with you? Stuff 'em in one of these! Hope you don't mind the back-breaking weight.
* Spare armor can be carried in your inventory.
* Armor can no longer fully prevent an affliction from occurring, only reduce the chance.
* Many armors have had their protection values changed. Lower tier armor has largely had protection values lowered to make up for how light they are compared to high tier armor (Police Vest weighs 2.7 kilos, Combat Armor weighs 10.5 kilos for roughly double the physical protection.) Not to mention many Thermal/Plasma oriented armors were the obviously better pick in most circumstances before this rebalancing.
-> Imp Leather Coat: Overall Protection dropped from 20% to 15%.
-> Police Vest: Overall Protection dropped from 20% to 15%. Small Caliber from 40% dropped to 30%.
-> Flame-Resistant Police Vest: Overall Protection dropped from 15% to 10%. Small Caliber from 35% dropped to 25%.
-> Security Armor: Overall Protection dropped from 25% to 20%. Small Caliber from 50% dropped to 40%. Large Caliber dropped from 30% to 25%. Pellet dropped from 65% to 60%.
-> Fireproof Armor: Overall Protection dropped from 20% to 15%. Small Caliber dropped from 35% to 30%. Flame protection dropped from 85% to 75%.
-> Energy Vest: Small Caliber is now 30%. Large Caliber is now 15%. Pellet is now 45%. Without shield, Flame is 15%, Plasma 10%, Laser 5%. With shield, Flame is 50%, Plasma is 75%, Laser is 50%.
-> Marine Armor: Flame increased from 75% to 85%. Plasma increased from 65% to 70%.
* Combat Armor's sprite has been edited for more detailing.
* Flame Vest no longer reduces chance for Burn affliction.
* Marine Armor now reduces Burn chance, not negates.
* NEW ARMOR: Makeshift Armor) Thick, kinda heavy, and pretty protective against physical attacks! Shame that it burns good.
* NEW ARMOR: CBRN Suit) An armored alternative to the HEV suit. Needs frequent maintenance, but protects against radiation and infection!
* NEW ARMOR: Speed Suit) Stretchy! Comfy! Makes movement easier, at the cost of receiving more plasma damage.
* NEW ARMOR: Combat Medic Armor) Not quite as good as the standard Combat Armor, but makes stims more healy!
* NEW ITEM: Koag Injector) Preemptively combats bleeding! Minor healing, minor bleed cure, with a major increase to bleed resistance. Stackable.
* Backpack has been split into two Item Types: Ammo Harness and Backpacks.
* NEW ITEM: Ammo Harness) Functionally identical to the backpack of old. Adds 50% extra ammo carryinng capacity.
* NEW ITEM: Common Backpack) Adds a bit of weapon/equipment carrying capacity.
* NEW ITEM: Travel Backpack) Adds a good amount of weapon/equipment carrying capacity.
* NEW ITEM: Combat Backpack) Adds a lot of weapon/equipment carrying capacity.
* NEW ITEM: Assault Backpack) Adds a shit ton of weapon/equipment carrying capacity.
* Military Medikits also include a Koag injector. Because of this, they weigh 1.9 kilos rather than 1.6.
* Megaspheres, rather than giving spiritual armor that cannot be repaired or removed, simply grants the ShieldSphere's protection on top of your currently worn armor. Also grants a permanent health boost.
* Ammo Boxes now have tags to let you know to kick them.
* Civilian Ammo Boxes can now drop .357 rounds and speedloaders.
* New Random Explosive Ammo Box!
* Both defensive turrets are now much more durable.
* Blast Suit's natural lowering of player movement speed has been removed. It weighing 21 kilos has a similar effect.
* Bandages can be applied up to 6 times at once to prevent issues where Bleeding affliction procs after third Bandage use leaving you no way to treat it.
* Zerk Injector now lasts for 90 seconds rather than 60 and heals 30 HP over 30 seconds.
* Painkillers can no longer be stacked with Morphine. Taking painkillers with morphine active will deny you. If you've got pain killers and morphine is injected, it'll remove your painkillers' protection. This is done because if you stack Morphine, Painkillers, Adrenaline, AND the Zerk Injector, with sufficient armor you'd be nigh indestructible.
* Bandages now only heal 5 HP over 5 seconds rather than 10 HP over 10. With how often bandages can be found in many mapsets they used to be able to be be used as a primary means of healing, resulting in hoarding of everything else.
* All stims now cure more bleeding. Stims cure 2 tiers of bleeding, Military Stims 3 tiers, and Super Stims cure all bleeding regardless of severity.
* Radiation Pills' rad resistance has been boosted from 50% resistance to 75%. Rads accumulate more slowly while RadPillz are active.
* Rad Pills, rather than removing ALL rads in one go, now reduces your radiation poisoning slowly over the span of 30 seconds.
* ShieldSphere, RegenSphere, ReflectSphere, and InvulSphere HUD elements have been improved. If you have multiple sphere effects present, their HUD elements no longer block each other.
* Energy Vests can now be repaired. However, the shield mechanism must be charged. With the Repair Tool you can use Compact Cells and Armor Repairer Batteries to recharge the shield by 50% and 25%, respectively.
* Energy Vest's reduction of Burn chance only applies with an active energy shield.
* Hellish Spheres' spawns have been modified. Spheres that buff the player (Soulsphere, Shieldsphere, Regensphere) spawn on Soulsphere spawns. Shields that give time-limited buffs (Invulsphere, Drainsphere, Reflectsphere) spawn on the InvulnerabilitySphere spawns. Logic being that in the base game Soulspheres are often placed in areas hidden away from combat, but Invulspheres are placed when you're about to enter combat. Makes sense for the time limited spheres to be placed when you're about to enter combat, dunnit?
* Flame Turret has been changed into a Plasma Turret. Slow, weak projectiles, but quite useful nonetheless.

WEAPON Changes:
* Finally learned how to do muzzle flashes good. I've applied better muzzle flashes to some weapons, and more will come in future.
* New sprites for the .357 Lever Rifle. Now it looks like an actual lever action rifle instead of a trench shotgun.
* SEVERAL weapons have had their reload sequences updated. Many reloads look a bit nicer, but the biggest change is the addition of bolt pulls on several weapons without them, adding to the importance of tactical reloads.
* .22 WMR Caliber ammo has been removed.
* .22 WMR Stealth Pistol has been removed.
* .22 WMR Rifle has been removed.
* 10mm Pistol ammo has been removed.
* .45 Magnum ammo has been replaced with a beefier 12.7x34mm magnum round. More damage, but you carry less of it than .357.
* 9mm Auto Pistol has been modified into a standard non-automatic handgun, and is now more common.
* 9mm Pistol has been modified into a lower accuracy compact pistol, and is now more rare.
* 10mm Pistol has been modified into a heavier weight 9mm auto pistol.
* 5.45x39mm ammunition has been removed completely.
* All 5.45mm weapons have been rechambered for 5.56x45mm box magazines. There REALLY isn't a reason behind having two types of .22 caliber rifle ammo.
* 5.56mm Magazine looks nicer.
* 5.56mm Drum Magazines have been removed.
* 9mm SMG Magazines have been replaced with a new 7.76mm Caseless magazine. Mostly a cosmetic change to allow the addition of a machine pistol using an SMG mag.
* 10 Gauge ammo has been removed. All 10 gauge shotguns have been rechambered for 12 gauge.
* 12 Gauge weapons deal slightly more damage to make up for the lack of the beefier 10 gauge shells.
* 10mm SMGs have been rebranded to 9x23mm SMGs. They deal slightly less damage than before, equal to 9mm pistols, but this was done for if I can ever manage a bullet-based ammo manager system like in HDster.
* NEW WEAPON: 9mm Stealth Pistol) Lightly damaging low volume assassination option.
* NEW WEAPON: 7.76mm Caseless Machine Pistol) Insane rate of fire, check. Overheat mechanic, check.
* NEW WEAPON: 12 Gauge Compact Shotgun) When you need your high grade shotgunning fun to be as lightweight as possible while still having a pump. My personal favorite shotgun.
* NEW WEAPON: 7.76mm Caseless Police SMG) Replaces the old 9mm SMG. Not that much different really.
* NEW WEAPON: 4.6mm PDW) Remember the old PDW from the beta? Basically just that! A lightweight alternative to the heavier, verstaile, shotgun-toting 4.6mm SMG.
* NEW WEAPON: 5.56mm Surplus Rifle) Fully automatic, reasonably accurate, nice ammo supply, but weaker and a bit on the heavier side.
* NEW WEAPON: 6.2mm Bullpup Carbine) Do you want a lightweight rifle using a heavy cartridge? Hope you like heavy recoil!
* NEW WEAPON: 20mm Double Barreled Rifle) Where the HELL did these come from?
* NEW WEAPON: 6.5mm DMR) Intermediate cartridge pinpoint headhunting, at your service.
* NEW WEAPON: 7.62mm Carbine) The power of the battle rifle in a lightweight package!
* REPLACED WEAPON: 10 Gauge Single -> 12 Gauge Pistol) Functionally very similar. Lighter in weight, slightly slower to reload, but worth it for how little it weighs.
* REPLACED WEAPON: .45 Magnum -> 12.7mm Magnum) Holy STINK this thing hits hard.
* NEW CALIBER: 6.5x48mm: A perfectly balanced long range rifle cartridge.
* RECHAMBERED WEAPON: .22 WMR Pistol -> 4.6mm Auto Pistol) Lightweight fully automatic armor piercing goodness!
* RECHAMBERED WEAPON: 9mm SMG -> 10mm Compact SMG) Sacrifice accuracy for lighter weight.
* RECHAMBERED WEAPON: 9mm Rifle -> 6.5mm Checkpoint Rifle) Dependable semi-automatic ranged weapon.
* RECHAMBERED WEAPON: 5.56mm Bolt Rifle -> 6.5mm Hunting Rifle) Insane accuracy, solid damages, reasonsble weight.
* RECHAMBERED WEAPON: 5.56mm SAW -> 5.7mm LMG) I HOPE YOU APPRECIATE THE FACT THAT I ANIMATED THE AMMO BOX EMPTYING AS YOU RUN OUT OF AMMO, THAT WAS A PAIN IN THE ASS.
* RECHAMBERED WEAPON: .45 Stealth Rifle -> 12.7mm Stealth Rifle) Yeah it's probably unfair for a weapon this strong to be silent lol.
* 10mm SMGs now have a max ammo capacity of 36+1 rounds. Having 48+1 rounds per magazine is a LOT of ammo, making these a bit overpowered in terms of ammo management.
* SMGs now have a maximum magazine carrying capacity of 6/9, like rifles. Being able to carry SHIT TONS of ammo for those things made them incredibly powerful for ammo management.
* 5.56mm Weapons now have magazine capacities of 36+1.
* Plasma Pistol now actually fires the proper projectile. Before it was using the Plasma Carbine's projectile.
* Plasma Pistol now has a three shot burst fire alt fire. Each shot is individually weaker than a standard bolt, but combined deals more damage than two standard shots.
* Finally fixed the lack of idle noises on the Chainsaw.
* 84mm Launcher with HEAT rounds loaded actually fire HEAT rockets when scoped.
* 12 Gauge Coach can now swap ammo when both barrels have been spent.
* 5.7mm Chaingun now requires batteries to operate. One battery will last you a long time, worry ye not.
* Plasma Carbine has a larger magazine, and weighs less than before.
* Machete is slower to swing, but deals a bit extra damage per hit. Before, the Machete was absolutely overpowered from very high damage and fast swing speeds, making it more useful than any other non-powered melee weapon.

MONSTER Changes:
* .22 WMR Pistol and Rifle zombies are gone.
* 9mm Pistol zombies rarely drop lead pipes.
* NEW MONSTER: 5.56mm Surplus Rifle Zombie) Watch out for her rapid fire attacks!
* NEW MONSTER: 10mm Compact SMG Zombie) These hurt even more, youch!
* NEW MONSTER: 12.7mm Magnum Zombie) Holy FUCK that's a big pistol.
* NEW MONSTER: 7.62mm Carbine Zombie) GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME.
* REPLACED MONSTER) Tortured Soul -> Defiler: Oh fuck these things spit out WHAT?
* Icon of Suffering has been removed. Very phoned in enemy, not really fitting as a Pain Elemental replacement.
* 4.6mm SMG zombie now drops 4.6mm PDWs instead, since the 12 gauge underbarrel shotgun on the SMG is super useful.
* 5.7mm Chaingunner now drops Energy Cells.
* Zombies now have a rare chance to drop consumables such as Swarmer pods and Shield Generators.
* Chaingunguy class zombies have stronger armor, but less health, leaning on the importance of armor-piercing weaponry.

[Someonewhoplaysdoom]

Heck yeah, just in time to some deserved survival horror night on my country (even if I only play this mod with map packs and not additional mods xd, need to find some new mapsets that are not too hard for playing it).

NOTE: If you notice any major issues in the mod, please either comment here or contact me directly. I've playtested the everloving shit out of the mod, but with the last minute addition of shielded power armor, there may be issues I have yet to catch with that in particular. It SHOULD work just fine with no issues in how the armor works or in how it impacts performance, but STILL. PLZ contact me if you notice issues or bugs.

... Still gotta fix the HUD to allow for scaling.

The Hud scaling would be nice, but that could wait, taking on consideration the huge rework of the mod already.

[CaptainNurbles]

The Hud scaling would be nice, but that could wait, taking on consideration the huge rework of the mod already.

Last time I had a look at changing the SBARINFO for scaling all it took was removing one line of code.

Also adjusting and repositioning every single HUD element to better fit the new scaling. Every HUD element, weapon, armor, medical item, and the ammo/armor/upgrade screens, all would have to have the graphics, text, etc. shifted back into its proper position.

And that's why I don't wanna make an alternative HUD that's positioned for other aspect ratios. Just fixing it in the first place is a monumental pain in the ass. Simple, but unbelievably tedious.