A late congratulations on the Cacoward this received. I found this mod last week and have been having quite a bit of fun with it. I do however have some thoughts I'd like to share about Quote as a long-time fan of Cave Story.
The set's visual presentation is excellent with the exception of the Spur. A simple sprite shake for charging the weapon is fine but the movements should be smaller, currently it looks very goofy and stands out against the otherwise smooth weapon animation this set has. Alternatively the charge animation could be a pulsating muzzle flash. The beam also just looks bad but I'm not sure how you could fix that within the confines of Zandronum.
Mechanically Quote mostly works as I expect but I noticed five things:
- The Spur's uncharged shot fire rate is too low. This is confusing since the level 3 Polar Star works as expected, the Spur's uncharged shot in CS is the exact same just with no projectile limit. (The level 3 Polar Star's is 4)
- The Cyberdemon has massive damage resistance against the Spur's charged beams for some reason. In my opinion this is unwarranted. Nearly three seconds of charge time for 300 damage on an enemy with 4,000 health is just terrible. I think the Spur is a bit underpowered anyway for how long it takes to fully charge it, the highest damage I was able to score on any single enemy was 700 and that's only because the Spider Mastermind has a gargantuan hitbox. Damage on average-sized targets is 500 and that's not even consistent, just the average if the entire beam connects which it almost never does against moving targets.
- The Nemesis doesn't function as expected. In CS it's fast-as-you-can-mash semi-auto but with a projectile limit of 2. In BYOC it's been made full auto with a slow rate of fire.
- The level 3 Missile Launcher consumes three rockets. In CS it didn't do that. With no damage boost given to the individual rockets it just makes having a level 3 launcher undesirable in BYOC. Level 2 is much more efficient with greater damage potential.
- The level 2 Blade is missing the 20% damage increase it's supposed to have in exchange for the lower range.
And lastly, a small suggestion. I'd love to see an implementation of the Turbocharger and/or Whimsical Star. I have no idea if this is possible but a way I could see it working is having them put into a pool alongside the Arms Barrier and having one of the two/three be given to Quote at an equal chance upon getting a chainsaw pickup.
Thanks for reading this ungodly long comment. Good luck with future updates. :)