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The Venom Gun (M60 w/ Script Changes)

The Venom Gun from Return to Castle Wolfenstein (using the RealRTCW model), ported to the Source Engine by Nightstalker and fixed to work for Left 4 Dead 2 by me! I also made a script to go with this mod. Enjoyy (Pictures/video taken w/ viewmodel fov of 60).

If you prefer a version that is scriptless, then click here to download that version.

Note: This mod DOES NOT add reserve ammo to the M60. You must download a separate mod to do that. I personally use this mod.

• Almost all animations (no hand out anims)
  
• Fully blended animations
  
• RTCW sounds
  
• A script that makes the M60 behave closely to the Venom Gun in RTCW itself
  
• Compatibility with reskins

• Shoots faster
  
• Can penetrate (according to script file, M60 normally can't, which surprised me, unless it's lying to me)
  
• Shoots 2 bullets per shot
  
• Spread is larger (less accurate)

Any stat I didn't list is unchanged (or the change is technical).

I had a bit of a time figuring out how I wanted the script to be for this mod. For the first iteration, I wanted to make it exactly like the RTCW venom gun, but then I looked back at the game and realized that the clip size of it in RTCW is 500. Honestly, this wouldn't have been a problem if I could use its RTCW fire rate of 2000 RPM. However, when I made the M60 fire rate exactly that, it got so fast that the firing sounds would actually cut out and have spaces of no audio, so that wasn't going to work. I also got the spread way off my first try & had it too large. I test fired it while staring straight down a hallway and a bullet somehow shot 90 degrees up at the ceiling right above me.

For iteration 2, I changed some things and got the M60 feeling pretty closely to the Venom Gun itself. To make up for not having it fire 2000 RPM, I made it shoot 2 bullets per shot. Also I fixed the spread. I don't think it's exact to RTCW, but it's good enough. I was thinking that maybe I should nerf the clip size, but I decided that the gun shoots inaccurate enough that I don't care too much. It's definitely hecka strong & outcompetes default M60 by a long shot imo (except in long range), but the M60 weapon is rare anyway so whatever. Plus it still takes nearly all two clips from this gun at medium range to kill a single tank (on Expert). Yes, you have 3 other survivors with you in a situation like this, but still. If a tank has the potential to use the majority of the gun, I think its balance is fine enough. Plus its ammo is not refillable. It also shoots faster than the default M60, leaving one prone to exhausting their ammo quite quickly.

• Like the other mods, I didn't make HUD images cause I don't have time to do so.
  
• My previous 3 RTCW mods (perspective-wise) don't look exactly the same as they do in RTCW (or RealRTCW) itself. I just assumed I wasn't getting the positioning perfect and thus decided to leave them how they were if they were good enough. I've come to realize just from randomly thinking that the reason my mod versions looked a bit more squished horizontally is because the viewmodel fov in RTCW is a lot higher than what most people will have their viewmodel FOVs set to in L4D2. With this revelation in mind, I decided to stretch the Venom Gun's viewmodel horizontally to make up for L4D2's lower viewmodel fov. It still appears a little bit more squished than its RTCW counterpart, but it does alleviate that issue a bit.
  
• I initially tried porting the Venom Gun from RTCW myself, but for some reason, the rotation values on each anim were (I think??) completely reversed, and I could not for the life of me figure out how to unreverse them, so I gave up and used the model Nightstalker had already ported to the Source Engine.
  
• I removed the Wolfenstein logos from the Venom Gun because, in my mind, this would be a Venom Gun created by the U.S. after they stole the Venom Gun project book, and I'm 2000% sure they wouldn't leave those logos on it.
  
• I was able to make the scripted version have a better wind down sound unlike the normal, non-scripted version because I was able to edit the M60 to use the normal fire sound for both normal & incendiary ammo, which meant I had a whole extra sound to work with (being the incendiary fire sound file), and it was long enough to jam the wind down sound into it & have it play during the fire anim. I can't do the same thing with the non-scripted version because I'm out of sound files for it (unless I use a sound file from something not related to the M60, but I'm not going to do that).

• Gray Matter Studios: Animations, original Venom Gun model, & sounds
  
• Wolfmap, RTCWCoop Team, & Dark Matter Productions: Improved Venom Gun model
  
• мяFunreal: Making the weapon mod guide I partially used & providing the template for the thumbnail
  
• salt サルト: Making the weapon script guide I used
  
• Me: Making walking, melee, and idle anims, modifying existing anims, and porting to L4D2
  
• Nightstalker: Porting to Source Engine

You're free to request things if you want, but there's a very low likelihood I'll actually pursue your idea. I'll only do requests I like, but even then, I'm quite busy these days. I'm also not going to respond to requests because I don't want to get people's hopes up, then not do it.

As long as it's not just a straight up reupload, you're free to take the addon, change anything you want, and reupload it. You're also free to reupload it without changing anything if you're reuploading it anywhere OTHER than the Steam workshop. In either case, remember to credit everyone accordingly.

Anyway that's it. Unless you want a secret. In that case, tread to the second stop on a page where only sounds lie. Past modifications will show you the way.
(I don't mean a youtube page, and the secret is on a steam page that I can edit, so don't go looking somewhere off site. And I LITERALLY mean a (mod) page where only sounds lie)