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Hey, thanks for taking the time to comment. I'll address your feedback:

The SMG: Just yesterday I was thinking about this, actually. If it does happen, it will be a direct upgrade to the pistol and replace it in the player's inventory since there's no reason to keep it around when you have something better. A rebalance to make ammo a bit scarcer would also follow suit.
The Magnum: Not an unreasonable suggestion, but at the same time I don't think there's much space for it in the sandbox. Maybe as an add-on rather than the main experience.
The HUD code the mod inherited from Deimos-1 is pretty convoluted, so I make no promises here. As a middle ground, I can make the +1 mechanic more visible with a different icon or color though.
The movement probably will stay the same for reasons similar to those above.

Is there a github repo? I might take a crack at the HUD and movement code, it's a kind of thing I've done a lot of in my own projects.

REVOKE15 days ago

Nope, just the code in the mod proper. Feel free to take a crack at this if you like.

dawnbreez14 days ago

I've started poking around at this. The good news is that the HUD edit is pretty simple, but I found out why changing the movement code is a headache: it's copy-pasted across every weapon. I guess the Deimos-1 dev didn't know about using inheritance. I'll try to keep you posted, but I started poking around way too late in the day to be doing a full refactor, and I don't wanna half-ass it.

dawnbreez9 days ago (1 edit)

Status update: I un-spaghettied the movement code a bit. As I suspected, the differences in movement between weapons is encoded in the copy-pasted movement code, and I haven't adjusted for this yet, so right now everything handles as if it's the pistol. I'll poke at it a bit more. I could probably zscript-ify a lot of it, make it easier to alter the movement properties.

[EDIT]: Also, I tried putting together an upgrade item for the handgun. Since you suggested replacing the handgun entirely with the SMG, I figured, why not just make the "SMG" a full-auto conversion kit for the handgun? It fires every 2 tics, which is slightly faster than the AR (which fires every 3 tics). I might try upping the mag size as well later, but right now it feels pretty good.

dawnbreez6 days ago

All right, I've got a working version. Handgun upgrade kit doesn't spawn yet, use `summon HandgunUpgrade` to spawn it for testing. The weapon movements are jerkier because of how I redid the movement code, but I think I know how to fix that; I just wanted to upload what I have rn so you can poke at it. I've uploaded it to MediaFire here.

REVOKE6 days ago

Thanks, I'll have a look later.

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