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Projectile-Based Machine Guns

Apr. 7th, 2023:

Now that I know how to do some degree of sound modding - based on the work of one of my most recent mods, "Party Critical!" - this is something I may change - at least on my end - to make these weapons sound better, soon. I also plan to try and re-do part of this mod to fix some smaller, very strange issues it has, as I have no idea where they manifested from (as I did nothing to make these problems appear - they just appeared themselves (seriously)), and they have proven to be incredibly frustrating as someone who spends so much time working on my mods to make them extra-high-quality.

Again, hopefully these changes will be coming soon.

- Masters

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Major update (Nov. 25th, 2022)!!

MACHINE GUN LIGHT GLITCH HAS BEEN FIXED!!

I had been puzzling about why Machine Guns were building up light ever since I first created this mod, and, sadly, even now I don’t understand why. I had been investigating this and trying multiple solutions for a long time, but none of them ever worked.

It has been incredibly frustrating to provide a mod that doesn’t entirely work as intended, and I apologize for publishing something that was partially misleading. (In fact, I only found out that it was a problem after playtesting it extensively a month or so after I first made it; thinking that the problem went away after a while or was only a visual bug – not a performance-related bug.)

Unfortunately, a light effect had to be disabled in order for this to work; making the visual FX of hitting a ‘mech much less appealing. Still, it looks okay – just not as designed.

I plan to revisit this to re-implement the small light source, so that the weapons look and feel good to use.

Thank you very much for your patience, and I am very sorry for how much grief this may have caused some of you.

Please enjoy. :)

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Update (Nov. 20th, 2022)!

Minor VFX improvements, and some both large and small balance changes to almost all weapons (mostly to LR-MGs and P-P-MGs).

The following VFX changes have been made:
> Decal size for ground impact has been significantly decreased in size for all MGs, and has had duration decreased. Plasma-type MGs have a small-sized decal that lasts for 10 seconds (as opposed to 40), and MGs have an even smaller decal that last for only 5 seconds (again, as opposed to 40). (Finally. Was very hard to figure out how to do. Will be easier on GPUs)
> Fixed LODs and improved positioning for certain impact VFX

Please enjoy!**

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This mod makes machine guns projectile-based as opposed to trace-based a la vanilla MW5.

This mod also expands the selection of machine guns to include those found within the “Re-balanced and Expanded” weapons suite – there being three. In total, there are fourteen new weapons – including the previously mentioned three – separated into four classes.

Please be aware that the machine guns had to be made as separate weapons, as the mod editor was refusing to accept the weapons as modifications of the original machine gun. As a result, the weapons are denoted with a "(P)" at the end of their name. (I am aware that another mod uses “P” as a denotation, but I do not see an elegant solution to this problem, unfortunately.)

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Due to the nature of this mod, there have been some substantial changes to how weapons behave.

Please see the following Google Docs data sheet for the specifications of all weapons; including original MW5 values, and documentation on previously published versions of the mod: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kwQsuPqLVptTRGfXqyEB_WzQK964OLieyIvG9Od4tDw/edit?usp=sharing

The new weapons are: the Ultra-light Machine Gun (MG), the Light MG, the standard MG, and the Heavy MG; the Ultra-light Long-range MG (LR-MG), the Light LR-MG, the standard LR-MG, and the Heavy LR-MG; the Light Plasma MG, the standard Plasma MG, and the Heavy Plasma MG; and the Light Precision Plasma MG (P-P-MG), the standard P-P-MG, and the Heavy P-P-MG.

Please see the following Google Docs info sheet for information on the new and returning weapons: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1doqxtk8q3rS_T7l8VEuuPSotJWf0_X-V8nR8clW8hSA/edit?usp=sharing

The added weapons for this mod were created to further expand close-range, light ballistic play, as well as to create different ways for players to engage their surroundings by introducing different weapon behaviour for the weapon class.

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**Note:

Machine guns have been balanced in accordance with the “Re-balanced and Expanded Weapons” suite of mods with regards to prices and potency; with changes only to new variables such as velocity. As a result, the three types of machine guns from that mod within this one are: the Light, Standard (simply called "Machine Gun (P)"), and Heavy Machine Gun.

Be aware that, as these weapons are now projectile-based, they do not have damage falloff at maximum range – although hitting moving targets much beyond such a range will prove difficult. This was an option to keep off, but was not done so as it did not appear to make sense given that the weapons now shoot physical rounds.

Lastly, PLEASE NOTE that the A.I. has trouble using all machine guns in this mod with the exception of the P-P-MGs. Unfortunately, I cannot control this. I may introduce hitscan-based variants for the A.I. to use in the future, but, otherwise, it is recommended to use the machine guns in this mod (except for P-P-MGs) for user-controlled 'mechs only. Machine guns added to the "Re-balanced and Expanded Weapons" mod may be of interest to you for use with A.I., instead.

Please enjoy!

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P.S.: The "Re-balanced and Expanded Weapons" mod (another mod by me) can be found here, for those interested: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2869025156 . These mods may be incorporated at a later date.

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