[0.10.6] Gun Bonsai -- everything-compatible weapon upgrading

[anthraxthanasimos]

I understand it is a big endeavour, but I believe in your talent! That would be really cool

[Ryuhi]

Is there any way in this mod to upgrade/level up only the player, but not the weapons, if that makes sense? Thank you

Technically not, *but* there is a trick you can do. Set it so that you can choose any option on level up, select one factor to add to the weapon (preferably one that can get a lot of stacks.) Then just reopen the menu and disable that upgrade, and just keep selecting the dummy factor when leveling the weapon up. You'll keep gaining levels but the weapon factor you select is disabled so you don't get any benefits other than contributing toward increasing your player level. little wonky, but it should work for what you'd like.

[stainedofmind]

Technically not, *but* there is a trick you can do. Set it so that you can choose any option on level up, select one factor to add to the weapon (preferably one that can get a lot of stacks.) Then just reopen the menu and disable that upgrade, and just keep selecting the dummy factor when leveling the weapon up. You'll keep gaining levels but the weapon factor you select is disabled so you don't get any benefits other than contributing toward increasing your player level. little wonky, but it should work for what you'd like.

Great idea. Didn't even think of that. Should work pretty good. To add to the idea, you could use the BONSAIRC lump to unregister all but one weapon upgrade, then set the weapon options per level to 1 so it will automatically choose that one. You'll still have to disable the upgrade for every weapon's first level, but still should make things run a touch smoother.

[stainedofmind]

I understand it is a big endeavour, but I believe in your talent! That would be really cool

Now that I've finally sat down and looked at things, the first option I mentioned was a lot simpler then I thought it would be, and can actually be done rather simply via the BONSAIRC lump. None the less, I wrote up a new Mini-Addon that disables all Weapon Upgrades. If you would like it, you can download it from my GB Addons post: viewtopic.php?t=78910. It's the last entry under "Mini-Addons", at the bottom of the page.

As for how it works, if there are no valid upgrades for a weapon, GunBonsai will just finalize the level up as soon as the upgrade selection screen is triggered. As suggested in the Mini-Addon readme, by setting the number of weapon upgrades offered at level up to "1", it skips over the upgrade selection screen and fully automates the level up.

I didn't test this very thoroughly, so there may be strange side effects, other wise, it's good to go!

I may still down the road, just for funsies, write a patch/addon that operates more like the complex version of this, that funnels all weapon XP to a single source, but that'll be down the road somewhat.

[anthraxthanasimos]

Amazing! You are an absolute legend!

[anthraxthanasimos]

Can I please clarify if I need to run both the original mod ( GunsBonsai) and the add-on?

[stainedofmind]

Can I please clarify if I need to run both the original mod ( GunsBonsai) and the add-on?

Yes, for the no weapon upgrades addon, you'll require both files, and load order shouldn't matter.

[Critzhater76]

Ugh. My weapon jitters whenever I used the Rapid Fire upgrade. It happens when you use either the **weapon sway** or **weapon tilt** or both added.

[Shadez12]

Ugh. My weapon jitters whenever I used the Rapid Fire upgrade. It happens when you use either the **weapon sway** or **weapon tilt** or both added.

Do you mean you're using UniversalWeaponTilter_v1_0.pk3? You can disable "Offset Sprite when Strafing" to fix that.

[Dan_The_Noob]

is this still being updated at all?

was going to request a pop-up on screen for what perk you unlock (incase of having it set to random)

it comes up in the feed with item pickups etc but it fades out real fast.

[anthraxthanasimos]

I tried to run GB, but this error pops up when I try to use any HUD. I did not have any issues before. What happened?

[Spaceman333]

This mod rocks, I've had it running along side multiple different weapons mods and they've provided a lot of fun and made bland arsenals become exciting throughout the course of longer campaigns.

I've also had the fun of cranking up everything to ridiculous levels and evolve weapons that can wipe out every enemy on the map with one chain reaction.

It also made melee more fun and usable where its often too underpowered and risky to use, to making it become good enough as the rest of the arsenal.

It can be set to be balanced and sane (default setting are good!) but also OP as heck. The upgrades are randomized and there are sort of different paths that the player can evolve their weapon into, which makes each run unique as the arsenals can complement one another in new ways that the original arsenal didn't.

The mod is stable too, I haven't had any crashes with it and the effects worked as intended with the 4-5 different weapon mod sets I played with.

5/5 Stars, super good universal addon!

[Carrotear]

I tried to run GB, but this error pops up when I try to use any HUD. I did not have any issues before. What happened?

Are you running the dev builds of gzdoom?

[BLSZDOOM]

i am loving the mod but i gotta say,i wish the increase fire rate upgrade only increased fire rate but it also makes reloading much faster.

[Dan_The_Noob]

i am loving the mod but i gotta say,i wish the increase fire rate upgrade only increased fire rate but it also makes reloading much faster.

this depends on the mod you're using that has reload and how it's coded.