So i was browsing through this mod's game files, not for anything notorious mind you, after i learned that the original WIP art for the piraterhomech not only was at one time equipped with a "Pyro cutlass" but what looked like a smg mecha battle rifle and immediately went looking through the files to see if it was possible to get that instead of the UP loving lmg it has.

I was surprised to find that in the vehicle file for the mech not only can you change the values for the mech like energy and speed but that it seems to readily have a way of switching certain weapons out for the rho mechs:

rho_mech- sword, machinegun, gravgun, laser gun(WIP)
pirate_rho_mech- sword, machinegun, gravgun, laser gun (WIP)

So with a coupl- NO... several hours worth of experimentation i managed to give the ZZ rho mech a battle rifle (the exact thing i was looking for) to replace the gravgun (things like that are only useful in Half-Life anyway) and then tried to replace the pirated mech's gravgun with a sword or the "Pyro Cutlass"...

turned down the "power" for the Battle Rifle from 600 to 6 because 1800 damage in one shot was the definition of META/OP and it worked, albeit have to give the arm a paint job since its that turqoise, but when i tried to use the Pyro Cutlass on the piraterhomech it did a couple of things...

-could break rocks and jars but did no damage to enemies as in no hit numbers came up
-said enemies i believe became invincible after being hit and didn't register hits
-my game crashed saying something about the damage was unknown for the weapon 2hsword
also
-the battle rifle doesn't aggro enemies, i don't know why

Anyone know Whats up since i really don't like the Rho mechs because of the gravity gun thingy?