[B18] Mechanite weapons 1.4

[vovik]

Mechanite guns mod
Did you wonder anytime why you cannot rip those charge lances and heavy blasters? Now you can even modify them! This is perfectly balanced because player canont mass-produce and needs to fight some dangerous enemies.

Adds 9 new guns that derivate from those on mechaoid`s:
3 lightened versions, 2 stationary upgrades for blaster and minigun, 2 upgrades for inferno cannon, even further modified charge lance and gauss cannon.

Different upgrades require research.

Reforged scyther blade:
Scyther blade is recieved by successfully downing scyther, and tearing off his blade. After obtaining it is mostly sold to traders because it is hard to manipulate objects with it after installig it as arm replacement... but one of researchers mentioned that it can be manipulated to extend itself without wielder, so jamming it in extended state and attaching a handle only is a thing of research and good craftsman.

Adjusted weapons:
Weapons ripped of most casing and adjusted for human wielding.

  Light charge lance:
Batteries and charging element were ripped from casing and relocated to backpack, main condensator element position unchanged, added grip, stock and sights for easier handling. Main working mechanism remains unhanged. Due to weapon`s specific properties recoil is very low. Decent replacement for survival bolt rifle.

  Light charge blaster
Adjusted heavy charge blater allowing for easier handling, although its still hard to aim because of slight recoil per shot and lack of sights.

  Light inferno cannon
Ripped off most metal casing, main working element - molten core is exposed resulting in better cooling after shots, though cooling still required to not melt wielder on next shot. Exposed core seemes to be unstable and may explode when triggered.

     Stationary weapons:
     These weapons require long stanging on place and take some time to setup and relocate.
  Stationary minigun
Minigun on tripod and with metal protective shield. Very low recoil per shot and high accuracy.

  Stationary charge blaster
Lightened charge blaster on a tripod with metal protective shield. Lowered recoil and sights allow for much better accuracy, though weapon is still not very accurate itself.

  Artillery cannon
Piece of engineer improvisation - lightened inferno cannon  repurposed into mortar allowing to fire heavy objects on long distances.

     Upgraded stuff:
  Rapid charge lance
Doubled amount of charging elements and condensators, improved cooling allows for greatly increased rate of fire. Manual switch and frequent reload takes some requirement on shooter too.

  Gauss cannon
This piece of tech is just for killing swarms of insects. Rip and tear.

  Napalm cannon
Inferno cannon molten core overclocked, exaust heat redirected into main firing chamber allowing for cascade of shots without frequent reload. Rapid firing causes massive barrel overheat requiring some cooling. Pyro, NO

v1.0 Initial release
v1.1 adjusted research and recipes to allow obtaining not on late game
v1.2 increased stationary weapons cost and reload time, fixed gauss cannon
v1.3 fixed weapon categories and balanced stationary weapons
v1.4 added reforged scyther blade, removed shield from stationary weapons(it didnt work anyway)
v1.5 balanced weaponery quite a bit, stationary minigun and blaster currently unchanged - they will become buildings

Download Latest: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1THLZgsyWBQX9zmrZgO4COtv-ewvOACmM

Licence: Free to download and use as you wish without notifying me.

Planned: transform stationary charge blaster and minigun into buildings, BFG?

[Yoonic]

I have never mod anything and appreciate your mod also. However, shouldn't you consider putting some sort of documentation for the guns and theirs' upgrades? Like a google doc that people can click in and see how their stats are, are they over- or under-powered and some sort, maybe some description about them also.

This lack of information really turn people away from your mod, and that is just sad in regard to the time you have already put into making it.

[macbuk]

As stated above - if you want people to download your mod, add some pictures and a detailed description. It's really not that much work.

[mafia_is_mafia]

I used the mod and I think there are some issues.

The stationary minigun is super OP. it has slightly longer warmup cooldown times but it has way higher accuracy and no forced miss radius. It also functions as a shield and has 600 health. Costs only 100 steel, 40 plasteel and a minigun while also having the same speed penalty as the normal minigun. It can kill a centipede in three bursts at 32 blocks away while aiming directly at them instead of aiming behind them like a normal minigun would have to do to be effective.

The stationary charge blaster can do it in 2 bursts.

The gauss rifle stuns the enemy but doesn't do any damage? I tried it on an insect but it only stunned them.

I like the idea though but the stationary weapons need to have a forced miss radius. Minigun without forced miss radius is op as hell and defeats the purpose of a minigun in the first place as crowd control.

[Canute]

A stationary Minigun should indeed be a very strong weapons.
Don't forget it get used as Anti-Rocket weapon (Phalanx CIWS).
Only the handheld got these handling handicap of the extrem weight and recoil.

[vovik]

Stationary minigun is as intended. Increased cooldown time and cost on stationary weapons a bit and changed damage type on gauss cannon, it should work now.

[vovik]

Varsion 1.4 changes:

• removed shield from stationary weapons
• added scyther blade reforge
• balanced stationary weapons

[Little_JP]

A. This is really freaking cool.

B. Could we get some kind of turret version of these?