This mod overhauls most of vanilla handheld weapons and explosives, and adds some of a new content
Overall changes:
- Most weapons and its ammo received ingame sprites and icon updates
- Changed weapons damage values: heavy and full-auto firearms now deal more damage comparing to vanilla to tie with burst-fire firearms
- Changed economics and availability of weapons and its ammo
- Added special underwater muzzle effects for firearms
- Several explosive materials changes
- Added supplemental content
HARPOONS:
- Harpoon guns no longer have a rope attached to it
- Harpoon Coil-Rifle is now faction-exclusive, available after difficulty level 30 from Coalition (0 for item, 40 for a blueprint reputation required), blueprint and item can be found on wrecks
- Added Hardened Harpoon from "Heavy Hitter" Engineer talent and Hunting Harpoon with a rope
- Decreased "Slayer" talent damage boost: from 25 passive/50% in open sea to 10/25%
BASIC FIREARMS (Revolver, SMG, Shotgun):
- Doesn't require recipe to craft default ammo
- Weapon blueprints recipe available from 30% difficulty
- Default ammo doesn't hitscan when fired underwater and has damage penalty
- Added Depleted Fuel Shotgun Shell from "Arms Race" Engineer talent
LIGHT ADVANCED FIREARMS (Machine Pistol, Rifle, Handcannon):
- Machine Pistol is actually as resource-efficient as SMG
- Rifle rate of fire and magazine size has been increased, but it can no longer fire grenades, since the role of inventory-held grenade launcher is designated for a new weapon
- Handcannon will punch you back if you have not enough weapon skill to use it
- Added Physicorium Handcannon and Armor-piercing Rifle ammo
HEAVY ADVANCED FIREARMS (Assault Rifle, Autoshotgun, HMG):
- Replaced HMG with AR recipe in "Warlord" talent, HMG is available only via blueprint in late game (difficulty level 60)
- Autoshotgun is now require "Implacable" talent
- HMG magazine damage pool is greatly increased but it can't be stored in inventory
- Added Armor-piercing and Physicorium Assault Rifle ammo
SECRET FIREARMS (Boomstick, Deadeye Carbine):
- Added blueprints that can be found on wrecks
MISC (FPA, Scrap Cannon):
- No longer available from merchants, replaced with new weapons
- FPA have increased damage and supports Rifle Scope
EXPLOSIVES AND EXPLOSIVE WEAPONS:
- Added tags for explosive materials
- Increased power of Compound N (same as C-4) and IC-4 (double as C-4)
- Grenade Launcher is now craftable, available via blueprint that can be bought or found on wrecks from 30% difficulty
- 40mm grenades now require recipe from default or Compact Grenade Launcher blueprint
- 40mm and hand grenades can be crafted from C-4, Compound N or IC-4
- Changed recipe of 40mm and hand stun grenades
- Increased Incendium Grenade fire power (no pun intended) to tie with Molotov Cocktail
NEW WEAPONS:
Compact Grenade Launcher:
- Compact 40mm grenade launcher. It's firepower is not as large as its full-scaled counterpart, but still high for this small package
- Available after difficulty level 30 exclusively from Separatists (0 for item, 40 for a blueprint reputation required), blueprint and item can be found on wrecks
Compact Rifle:
- Compact 6mm assault rifle. It has worse combat performance compared to the full-scaled version in exchange for ergonomics, comparable to a submachine gun
- Replaces Scrap Cannon in Separatist shops, available after difficulty level 60 (40/80 reputation require for an item/blueprint), blueprint and item can not be found on wrecks
Hand Howitzer:
- A lever action rifle chambering .61 caliber cartridges. Comparing to Handcannon, it has larger tubular magazine and doesn't break hands, but also quite bulky. Supports Rifle Scope
- Replaces RFA in Coalition shops, available after difficulty level 60, 40/80 reputation require for an item/blueprint), blueprint and item can not be found on wrecks
TALENTS:
- Gunsmith - Removed Revolver and Revolver Round recipe, added 20 weapons skill bonus
- Big Guns - Added Physicorium Handcannon Round recipe
- Weaponsmith - Added Revolver recipe
- Munition Expertise - Removed ammo recipes, added increases ammo fabrication yield bonus
- Boarding Party - Removed Harpoon Coil-Rifle recipe
- Slayer - Reduced damage bonuses
- Pacification Kit/Implacable - Replaced Autoshotgun recipe
- Rifleman/Warlord - Replaced Assault Rifle recipe, removed HMG recipe
- Heavy Hitter - Added Hardened Harpoon recipe
- Arms Race - Added Depleted Fuel Shotgun Shell recipe
OVERRIDES:
Items:
40mmchemgrenade
40mmgrenade
40mmstungrenade
alienspear
assaultrifle
assaultriflemagazine
assaultrifleround
autoshotgun
c4block
chemgrenade
compoundn
empgrenade
explosivespear
fraggrenade
grenadelauncher
handcannon
handcannonround
harpooncoilrifle
harpoongun
hmg
hmgblueprint
hmgmagazine
hmground
ic4block
incendiumgrenade
machinepistol
machinepistolblueprint
nucleargun
nucleargunbolt
revolver
revolverround
revolverrounddepletedfuel
rifle
rifleblueprint
riflebullet
scrapcannonblueprint
shotgun
shotgunshell
shotgunshellblunt
shotgunslugexplosive
shotgununique
smg
smgmagazine
smgmagazinedepletedfuel
smground
smgrounddepletedfuel
smgunique
spear
spearunique
stungrenade
uex
volatilecompoundn
Talents:
armsrace
bigguns
boardingparty
gunsmith
heavyhitter
implacable
munitionsexpertise
pacificationkit
rifleman
slayer
warlord
weaponsmith
Language strings (ALL):
entitydescription.assaultrifle
entitydescription.assaultriflemagazine
entitydescription.hmgmagazine
entityname.shotgunslugexplosive
Language strings (RU):
entitydescription.rifle
entityname.assaultrifle
entityname.assaultriflemagazine
entityname.hmg
KNOWN ISSUES:
- When applying this mod mid-campaign Harpoon Coil-Rifle will have vanilla charge rate and Autoshotgun - original scale
TRANSLATIONS:
Russian translation included
