Arkon Weapons BETA v02 is out

just in time for MSU, even if it hardly stands a chance against the neverending wave of RL mod mayhem. Well, there's hope, maybe if they accept it in the mutator category...

http://unrealed.planet-multiplayer.de/index.php?P=info&D=817

this is actually the first site to put up the file. The more high-traffic ones seem to be completely absorbed in dealing with the onslaught of total conversions being thrown at them at the moment

I'm going to add more links later, since it's a german site and I don't know how well it works for non-Europeans in terms of download speed.


Check ReadMe for installation instructions, since several old files (if you downloaded Beta1) are now obsolete and can be deleted.

Changes since Beta1:
- included new Desintegrator- and Thermo Grenade
- included new Mass Driver (RailGun)
- included Arkon Weapons Replacer. Still recommend WoRM though, because of performance issues
- included Arkon Shields Mutator (configurable, self-regenerating shields with a new, blue sphere like visual effect)
- utx and usx files combined in first attempt to reduce number of files used
- CMortar now fires EMP grenades, less damage but instantly nullifies all shields
- CMortar Alt-fire camera added
- ThermoBlaster fire tightened and damage reduced
- bSmallWeapons bug solved. ThermoBlasters now always visible
- CMortar charged fire instant-explosion bug solved
- CMortar 'ComboWhore' message bug solved
- PlasmaGun chargebar now working properly
- PlasmaGun charged fire tweaked, maxCharge reduced to 25, but twice as fast chargeup
- new grenade feature -> grenade held in hand explodes upon death. Very funny for snipers.

Feedback welcome, as always, especially concerning online behaviour.
(btw. if anybody finds out why the heck my mutator cuts between 5 and 8 FPS average and WoRM does not, I'm curious to hear it)

enjoy
Don


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Not to forget, special thanks go to Smoke39 and EvilDrWong for their insightful explanations. There would have been no shield effects, EMP grenade and Flak camera without their help.

Thanks for fixing Kangus. Here's another link, it's now also up on Unreal2003Files

http://www.ut2003files.com/file.info?ID=16329#Download

@vulture: the 'chicK' is an Ascari Da Vivo skin I created for my own enjoyment. She's an Arkonid (hence the name of the mod ), a white haired, red eyed superior humanoid race from the Perry Rhodan series (a German future series that started in the 60's and miraculously's still alive), and come to speak of it most weapons ar at least mildly inspired by descriptions found there.

Since she's Arkon's lead strategist I upped her tactics feature to +4, so she can help me out cappin' flags every now and then

And another

Levels4You
http://www.levels4you.com/download.l4y?file=4176

Help! It's an epidemy! Call the WHO! Watch out so you also get infected with ArkonWeapons

so, any opinions? Bug reports? Things that need improvement? Did you like the new grenades, shields and railgun? Three guns only have zoom as secondary, alternatives? I still need a powerful close combat weapon to somewhat round off the set. Any ideas?

SamMaster said:

May I ask how you made it bsmallweapons compatible?

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Most weapons in my mod use standard models from the game. The new ones (Thermoblasters and grenades) are just staticmeshes, and the only thing I had to do was to set PlayerViewOffset and SmallWeaponsOffset to the same values. This won't affect the actual size of the model at all, but prevents a weird "disappearing bug" I had before. Come to speak of it, I COULD add a DrawScale3D change if bSmallWeapons=True for the next Beta, but honestly I doubt it's worth the effort.

not at all

weapon.DrawScale3D.default=(x=...,y=...,z=...)

I'm dumbstruck. Arkon Weapons has made the MSU mutator finals. Wish me luck, maybe now someone's going to review it

I'm terribly sorry Kangus. I'd be pissed too, since even some really sucky stuff was at least "honorably mentioned". Dorks.