why is it called thloatere

i named it after this really funny picture of a floater who got stuck in a pipe in a green foggy level and its tentacles all went taut and it looked like a funny sea urchin meat blob but i lost the picture i think D:

Thloatere Gear Mod

Thloatere Gear Mod is another mod that focuses on re-statting the game's existing arsenal into a more interesting state. VanillaReloaded already does this, so Thloatere tries to do something a bit more dramatic just to see how it plays out.

This time, the mod brings all the primary weapons down to the level of the Assault Rifle while making all the special weapons a lot more powerful and generally making tools and melees slightly stronger to make the power dynamic between the prisoners and the Sleepers swing more wildly each mission.

Additionally, changes are made so that each weapon feels decently unique to fire with their own identities when stacked up against each other. The mod also adds a few weapons to explore how far GTFO's weapon design space can be explored while still feeling vanilla-esque.

General Weapon Design

Thloatere categorises most of the weapons into one of a few distinct categories, mostly based off the theming, reload time spreads, and ammopack mechanics in vanilla GTFO where special weapons have longer reload times and refill more ammo per use of ammopack.

In the Primary category, automatic weapons focus on staggering enemies and holding a position over time with high downtime between magazines, while burst-fire weapons focus on quickly eliminating single targets with long-range precision fire and quick reloads to keep killing. The Primary weapons were made weaker to induce moments of tension while the Special weapon needs to reload or is out of ammo.

In the Special category, most weapons fit into one of four roles: crowd control such as the assault rifles or machineguns, small target removal such as the Revolver or Precision Rifle, big target removal such as the Sniper Rifle or Burst Cannon, and the shotgun class which serves mostly as a high-power panic button that can be shot at anything with different drawbacks based on the weapon. Power is concentrated into the Special weapons, making management of their uptime and leveraging of their respective strengths high priority. Weapon changes are generally made according to this philosophy.

New Melees

Pickaxe

This one came from the DRG enthusiasts in one of the units I tested this mod with, who wanted to see what a new melee could look like. While the initial concept of having a pickaxe that instantly breaks doors was too far beyond my skills to make, I still decided to try my hand at making it. Since it's quite pointless to make a melee lighter than the Knife, I instead chose to see if we could get heavier than the Spear. This instantly kills a Charger. It's also really good at wrecking bigs, but so far we've found it's super impractical for actually fighting enemies, but maybe someone out there can make it work...

• Charge-up time: 2.5sec
• Damage: 5 ~ 37.4
• Precision multiplier: 0.5x ~ 1x
• Stagger multiplier: 1x ~ 2x
• Sprint speed multiplier: 0.7x
• Shove stamina cost: 0.05x ~ 0.75x
• Attack stamina cost: 0.05x ~ 0.1x
• Environmental damage multiplier: 5x ~ 150x

New Primary Weapons

High Capacity Pistol

Originated as a meme request by one of the units I tested this with to 'add a semi-auto drum mag pistol' and I tried to make it work. What the mod ends up with is a simultaneous alternative to the Pistol and HEL Autopistol, which performs poorly for dealing damage but is able to continuously stagger big groups if the prisoner can aim well, while allowing them finer control over their rounds than using the Autopistol.

• Semi-automatic
• Damage: 2.3
• Precision multiplier: 0.8667x
• Stagger multiplier: 2.15x
• Magazine size: 35
• Ammo reserves: 212
• Uncapped fire rate
• Reload time: 1.6s
• Damage falloff: 6.5 ~ 34

Tactical Shotgun

An attempt to make a non-gimmicky primary shotgun for enjoyers of the weapon class. It's pretty basic but at least gets to call slightly higher effective range and slightly slow fire rate its own. Actually, this is sort of an attempt to reintroduce the vanilla Slug Shotgun but without the complications of not being a pellet weapon.

• Fully automatic
• Damage: 25.01
• Precision multiplier: 0.8x
• Stagger multiplier: 2x
• Magazine size: 6
• Ammo reserves: 42
• Delay between shots: 0.85s
• Reload time: 3s
• Damage falloff: 10 ~ 70
• Somewhat tight spread, between the Shotgun and Choke Mod Shotgun

High Caliber Rifle

This started off as a meme weapon to see how a musket would work, but it turns out that it's really good for a multitude of purposes. It wrecks Chargers, it allows autogun users to get a shot off on a key target between reloads, and it's a backup big target killer in a pinch.

• Reload after every shot
• Damage: 35.01
• Precision multiplier: 0.71x
• Stagger multiplier: 1x
• Ammo supply: 31
• Reload time: 1.3s
• Damage falloff: 10 ~ 50

New Special Weapons

Heavy Burst Rifle

After defining the auto/burst dichotomy, a burst counterpart of the Heavy Assault Rifle obviously seemed in order. It combines the slower long-range playstyle of the Burst Rifle with the 4-burst of the Carbine and the slow burst of the Double-Tap Rifle to represent the entire category as its own unique thing that stands up to the HAR.

• 4-round burst
• Damage: 4.875
• Precision multiplier: 0.55x
• Stagger multiplier: 0.38x
• Magazine size: 28
• Ammo reserves: 177
• Bursts per second: 2.564
• Reload time: 1.75s
• Damage falloff: 30 ~ 95

High Capacity SMG

The Heavy SMG provides a submachine gun in the Special category, albeit focusing on unusual attributes for a submachine gun. This introduces a more conventional high ammo focus SMG into the category.

• Fully automatic
• Damage: 2.78
• Precision multiplier: 0.6x
• Stagger multiplier: 1.5x
• Magazine size: 60
• Ammo reserves: 321
• Rounds per second: 17.4
• Reload time: 1.7s
• Damage falloff: 15 ~ 80
• Has minor projectile deviation while aimed in

Battle Rifle

An attempt to put a full-powered automatic rifle in a videogame, which can be somewhat uncommon compared to assault rifles. This should fill a role between the assault rifles and revolver-like weapons, outputting generally useful high-caliber firepower while requiring some care in using it.

• Fully automatic
• Damage: 14.7
• Precision multiplier: 0.45x
• Stagger multiplier: 1x
• Magazine size: 20
• Ammo reserves: 60
• Rounds per second: 5
• Reload time: 2.4s
• Damage falloff: 40 ~ 125

Accelerator Rifle

Killzone fans rejoice! The Accelerator Rifle is the vanilla Burst Cannon brought back as a more specialised weapon that demands the user flick a burst over crowds to annihilate them en masse, while also being able to provide ammo-hungry but time-efficient emergency removal of big enemies.

• 3-round burst
• Damage: 20.01
• Precision multiplier: 1x
• Stagger multiplier: 1x
• Magazine size: 12
• Ammo reserves: 37
• Bursts per second: 2.04
• Reload time: 2.2s
• Damage falloff: 25 ~ 95
• Charge-up time: 0.3s

Autocannon

A big and bulky weapon to stand with the machineguns. The Autocannon is an attempt to make a generalist weapon on par with the Heavy Assault Rifle. It's not particularly good at anything, nor is it particularly bad at anything.

• Fully automatic
• Damage: 23.5
• Precision multiplier: 1.07x
• Stagger multiplier: 1.5x
• Magazine size: 11
• Ammo reserves: 33
• Rounds per second: 2.94
• Reload time: 3.7s
• Damage falloff: 35 ~ 95

Combat Sniper

An in-between of shotguns and snipers, the Combat Sniper requires at least two shots to down big enemies but still softens them up for teammates to dump lead into and also has enough ammo to make rationed shooting of any target at long range occasionally worth it.

• Fully automatic
• Damage: 40.01
• Precision multiplier: 1.5x
• Stagger multiplier: 1.0x
• Magazine size: 5
• Ammo reserves: 21
• Rounds per second: 2.5
• Reload time: 3.1s
• Damage falloff: 50 ~ 135
• Inaccurate while hipfiring

Railgun

An attempt to cross the single shot style with the general utility of the vanilla HEL Rifle, only a bit more reined in to make sure it doesn't get too out of hand.

• Reload after every shot
• Damage: 37.01
• Precision multiplier: 1x
• Stagger multiplier: 30x
• Ammo supply: 28
• Reload time: 1.4s
• Damage falloff: 18 ~ 85
• Charge-up time: 0.7s
• Piercing: 1

Existing Melee Changes

Sledgehammer

The Sledgehammer continues to offer a well-rounded balance of heavy damage and stagger, so it's only received a very minor usability upgrade to keep pace with the rest of Thloatere's melees.

• Charge time: 1.8 -> 1.75
• Charged attack stamina cost: 5% -> 2.5%
• Shove attack stamina cost: 5% -> 2.5%

Knife

The Knife is really fun to use, especially when chain-killing a sequence of Sleepers as a risky but satisfying move in the middle of a fight. This attribute has been enhanced.

• Charge time: 0.6 -> 0.5

Bat

VanillaReloaded's Bat damage change was a very nice change that fit sthe vision of Thloatere well, accentuating a unique strength to set it apart from the Sledgehammer and Knife. In addition, its stamina cost was removed to better compete with the super-fast Knife of Thloatere.

• Light attack damage: 3.0 -> 4.0
• Charged attack stamina cost: 2.5% -> 0%
• Shove stamina cost: 2.5% -> 0%

Spear

Another case where VanillaReloaded really knows how to accentuate a weapon's strengths. Just as in that mod, these changes also help this iteration of the Spear gain a defensive advantage over the Sleepers while also providing a skilled prisoner with a way to take on multiple big enemies at once and readily win.

• Light attack damage: 2.0 -> 2.5
• Charged attack stamina cost: 5% -> 2.5%
• Shove stamina cost: 5% -> 2.5%
• Max damage charge time: 1.8 -> 1.5
• Sprint speed multiplier: 0.75x -> 0.85x

Existing Main Weapon Changes

Assault Rifle

The Assault Rifle was the primary everyone in this unit ran with when we were still new to the game and the balancing of its weak power with the power of the strong special weapons we used at the time was the basis for Thloatere's power balance. Thus, the Assault Rifle is set as the baseline and receives very minimal changes.

• Stagger multiplier: 1.0 -> 1.25
• Damage falloff start: 10 -> 20

Burst Rifle

The Burst Rifle is heavily changed according to the general design philosophy of the mod to act as a baseline for burst-fire weapons.

• Damage per bullet: 2.71 -> 2.6
• Precision multiplier: 0.8667x -> 1x
• Stagger multiplier: 1x -> 0.8x
• Magazine size: 30 -> 21
• Ammo reserves: 278 -> 251
• Reload time: 2.0s -> 1.5s
• Bursts per second: 4.5 -> 3
• Damage falloff start: 20 -> 25
• Damage falloff end: 85 -> 80

Submachine Gun

• Renamed: SMG -> Submachine Gun

The Submachine Gun has always traded off range for increased damaging power, and this stays the tradition in Thloatere with additional emphasis on an easy-to-use automatic weapon with very high ammo reserves as a pair for a weapon such as the Sniper Rifle.

• Damage: 1.98 -> 1.8
• Precision multiplier: 0.91x -> 0.75x
• Stagger multiplier: 1x -> 1.5x
• Magazine size: 50 -> 40
• Damage falloff start: 6 -> 7
• Has very minor projectile deviation while aimed in

Carbine

The Carbine has received similar changes to the Burst Rifle, only calibrated against the Submachine Gun instead.

• Damage per bullet: 2.38 -> 1.9
• Precision multiplier: 0.7413x -> 0.96x
• Stagger multiplier: 1x -> 0.8x
• Clip size: 48 -> 32
• Ammo reserves: 376 -> 320
• Reload time: 1.6s -> 1.4s
• Has very minor projectile deviation while aimed in

PDW

It was felt that the PDW could be differentiated more from the SMG by leaning into its role as a "personal defense weapon", so it now mainly focuses around quick and responsive high-DPS defense against all manners of threats while heavily losing out on uptime as a tradeoff. Its damage is already impressive enough.

• Stagger multiplier: 1x -> 1.5x
• Magazine size: 32 -> 40
• Reload time: 1.4s -> 1.8s
• Damage falloff start: 5 -> 4
• Damage falloff end: 47 -> 35
• Weapon swap time set to 0.2
• Flashlight changed to short flashlight to put emphasis on using the thermal sight
• Has minor projectile deviation while aimed in

Bullpup Rifle

The Bullpup Rifle fits into the mod nicely as a long-range alternative to the PDW. To emphasise its range and controllability compared to the PDW, its reload time has been reduced again to act as a disadvantage.

• Stagger multiplier: 1x -> 1.5x
• Reload time: 2.3s -> 2.4s

Machine Pistol

Really, the logical decision is to make the Machine Pistol escalate the SMG's design even further.

• Damage: 1.9 -> 1.5
• Precision multiplier: 0.7413x -> 0.8x
• Stagger multiplier: 1x -> 1.25x
• Ammo reserves: 484 -> 500
• Damage falloff start: 7 -> 5
• Damage falloff end: 35 -> 30
• Has minor projectile deviation while aimed in

HEL Autopistol

The idea of a crowd staggerer primary is very cool, but the HEL Autopistol was too good at doing that and having damage output competitive with other weapons. Thloatere chooses to lean more in the former direction. Also, at some critical mass of firepower, it becomes increasingly harder for a person to tell different rates of fire apart properly without some seriously dramatic changes, so the HEL Autopistol now fires at the speed of the Machine Pistol to feel more distinct from the rest of the guns and feel more like a proper alternative to it.

• Damage: 1.9 -> 0.8
• Precision multiplier: 0.7413x -> 0.5x
• Stagger multiplier: 5x -> 5.5x
• Magazine size: 60 -> 70
• Ammo reserves: 520 -> 680
• Rounds per second: 17.24 -> 25
• Damage falloff start: 5 -> 4
• Damage falloff end: 55 -> 30
• Piercing: 2 -> 1
• Added a 0.2sec charge-up time
• Has minor projectile deviation while aimed in

Pistol

Put in the new environment, the Pistol keeps its own identity as a generalist leaning towards precision shots and staggering at the cost of fire rate, but is overall too strong. No particular stand-out stats here, just a general toning down to fit Thloatere.

• Damage: 4.64 -> 4.27
• Stagger multiplier: 1.5x -> 1.75x
• Magazine size: 15 -> 16
• Ammo reserves: 150 -> 137
• Rounds per second: 10 -> 7
• Reload time: 1.3s -> 1.5s

Burst Pistol

Same rationale as the Assault and Burst Rifles, but for the Pistol this time.

• Damage per bullet: 3.2 -> 4.97
• Precision multiplier: 0.8667x -> 0.66x
• Magazine size: 28 -> 14
• Ammo reserves: 255 -> 109
• Bursts per second: 5.56 -> 2.77
• Reload time: 1.25s -> 1.2s
• Damage falloff start: 10 -> 12
• Damage falloff end: 47 -> 55

Thermal Rifle

• Renamed: Rifle -> Thermal Rifle

The Rifle has always been this strange not-Pistol and needed more of its own identity. Thloatere also aims to give people more gameplay options and trying to give both weapon slots a short- and long-range thermal option was one such consideration. Crossing these two points, it felt right to make the Rifle into a long-range precision thermal weapon.

• Damage: 5.08 -> 5.1
• Precision multiplier: 0.8667x -> 1x
• Stagger multiplier: 1.75x -> 0.8x
• Ammo reserves: 121 -> 107
• Damage falloff start: 22 -> 30
• Damage falloff end: 80 -> 90
• Sight part changed to thermal scope; flashlight changed to short flashlight to put emphasis on using the thermal scope

DMR

In vanilla, the HEL Revolver is overtuned, in part because it has efficiency stats that probably should have been put on the DMR and vice-versa. So Thloatere mostly makes those swaps.

• Damage: 7.51 -> 7.01
• Precision multiplier: 0.87x -> 0.9x
• Stagger multiplier: 1x -> 0.7x
• Magazine size: 12 -> 10
• Ammo reserves: 78 -> 75
• Damage falloff start: 50 -> 40
• Damage falloff end: 100 -> 90

Double-Tap Rifle

The Double-Tap Rifle in vanilla has a really fun and challenging gimmick, but feels a bit too restrictive on what it can do. By applying the usual assault vs burst stat spread to the DTR, its damage stat increases enough such that it gains the ability to put down Chargers in short order while keeping its Striker double-tap gimmick.

• Damage: 5.51 -> 8.01
• Precision multiplier: 0.9x -> 0.65x
• Stagger multiplier: 1x -> 0.6x
• Magazine size: 14 -> 10
• Ammo reserves: 121 -> 96
• Bursts per second: 4 -> 2.5
• Reload time: 2.15s -> 2.0s
• Damage falloff start: 40 -> 50
• Damage falloff end: 90 -> 100

HEL Revolver

Swapping some stats with the DMR, but also giving the HEL Revolver a Shooter one-shot makes it compete with the DMR and DTR on more even grounds, while reducing its magazine size and reload time make it feel more unique to shoot compared to the DMR.

• Damage: 8.01 -> 6.48
• Precision multiplier: 0.7413x -> 0.95x
• Stagger multiplier: 1x -> 0.7x
• Magazine size: 8 -> 6
• Ammo reserves: 92 -> 67
• Uncapped fire rate (affected by charge-up time)
• Reload time: 2.3s -> 1.7s
• Damage falloff start: 10 -> 20
• Damage falloff end: 80 -> 65
• Added a 0.1sec charge-up time
• Improved the flashlight

Sawed-Off Shotgun

The Sawed-Off Shotgun is way too strong even in vanilla, so imagine how powerful it would be in Thloatere. Reducing the magazine size to 3 is an obvious change but it needs something more to stay relevant, and it looked like an ideal candidate for a PDW alternative in the realm of "instant self-defense".

• Damage: 30.4 -> 25.01
• Magazine size: 4 -> 3
• Ammo reserves: 41 -> 40
• Uncapped fire rate
• Reload time: 1.6s -> 1.4s
• Damage falloff start: 6 -> 4
• Weapon swap time set to 0.2
• Increased pellet dispersion

Slug Shotgun

The Slug Shotgun is another one of those weapons which is in a confusing spot; if you make it too good it boxes out the High Caliber Pistol and vice-versa. So instead it's been completely reworked to provide an anti-tank option if you hit your crits in the Primary slot to increase build variety, or just act as a long-range panic button.

• Damage: 21 -> 35.01
• Precision multiplier: 0.7413x -> 1.0x
• Magazine size: 6 -> 3
• Ammo reserves: 38 -> 24
• Delay between shots: 0.75s -> 0.2857s
• Damage falloff start: 6 -> 25
• Damage falloff end: 40 -> 80
• Weapon swap time set to 0.2

HEL Shotgun

I don't even know what to make of the vanilla HEL Shotgun, but as far as I can tell it's just meant to disintegrate everything within a short cone of the user and that it's far too strong. This version of the HEL Shotgun is less extreme, focusing mainly on sustained wide-area crowd stagger with a bit of damage and range as a bonus.

• Damage: 13.36 -> 18.1
• Precision multiplier: 0.7413x -> 0.65x
• Magazine size: 14 -> 9
• Ammo reserves: 83 -> 45
• Rounds per second: 3.8 -> 2.5
• Damage falloff start: 4 -> 8
• Added a 0.3sec charge-up time
• Piercing: 2 -> 1
• Now distributes its damage over 7 pellets (was 10)

Existing Special Weapon Changes

Heavy Assault Rifle

Much like the Primary weapons, the Heavy Assault Rifle is intended to be the bread-and-butter Special weapon. However, the HAR is too weak for Thloatere in the base game, so it's been heavily buffed to set a proper standard with a slightly slower rate of fire to not feel exactly like firing the basic Assault Rifle.

• Damage: 5.01 -> 6.1111
• Precision multiplier: 0.7413x -> 0.65x
• Stagger multiplier: 1x -> 1.1x
• Ammo reserves: 119 -> 150
• Rounds per second: 10.526 -> 9
• Recoil dramatically decreased

Machinegun

Having two Machineguns always felt a bit silly, and restrictive on what could potentially be done with distinct weapon models and design spaces. The decision was made to roll the rough average effectiveness of both Machineguns into one weapon, then buff it accordingly. The Arbalest was used as a base here.

• Damage: 5.35 -> 7.51
• Precision multiplier: 0.7413x -> 0.6x
• Magazine size: 40 -> 48
• Ammo reserves: 144 -> 115
• Charge-up time: 0.4s -> 0.3s
• Has almost imperceptibly minor projectile deviation while aimed in

HEL Machinegun

• Renamed: Machinegun -> HEL Machinegun

There was popular demand among the units I played with for a HEL Machinegun and I agreed that it was unexplored design space that the Veruta very easily converted to. The HEL Machinegun is now a crowd suppressor that works over long, long periods of time but demands team support to be most effective.

• Damage: 3.51 -> 2.3
• Precision multiplier: 0.7413x -> 0.6x
• Stagger multiplier: 1.45x -> 5.5x
• Magazine size: 60 -> 125
• Ammo reserves: 200 -> 288
• Piercing: 0 -> 2
• Has almost imperceptibly minor projectile deviation while aimed in

Heavy SMG

• Slot changed: Primary -> Special

The Primary category was overloaded with automatic weapons, and a heavier counterpart to the submachine guns felt like obvious design space to explore that hadn't been hit yet, which also presents an opportunity to return the "high damage high recoil" fantasy of the vanilla HAR. To this end, the goal is to offer comically large damage for those who can master the recoil while keeping an ammo economy downside on standby to prevent it from outshining all the other guns with good play.

• Damage: 2.45 -> 4.765
• Precision multiplier: 0.8x -> 0.64x
• Stagger multiplier: 1x -> 1.25x
• Magazine size: 33 -> 37
• Ammo reserves: 306 -> 185
• Reload time: 1.55s -> 1.9s
• Damage falloff start: 7 -> 9
• Recoil dramatically increased
• Has very minor projectile deviation while aimed in

Short Rifle

The Short Rifle has always been a puzzling item, in that I can see the vision behind a super fast firing semi-automatic weapon, but its current stats simply don't come together to make a cohesive weapon that feels good to shoot. I figured that making it a sort of beefed up Pistol would both be a good way to do the uncapped semi-auto concept and also allow for a short-range thermal option in Special.

• Damage: 4.81 -> 9.8
• Precision multiplier: 0.7413x -> 0.5816x
• Stagger multiplier: 0.5x -> 1.5x
• Magazine size: 30 -> 17
• Ammo reserves: 166 -> 100
• Reload time: 1.7s -> 1.6s
• Damage falloff start: 8 -> 12
• Damage falloff end: 58 -> 50
• Sight part changed to thermal sight; flashlight changed to short flashlight to put emphasis on using the thermal sight

Revolver

Revolvers in general are basically always a gunslinger's option, and while GTFO's take on it is already a fine weapon, it could still be pushed further into that archetype while then further changing the other small enemy clearing weapons to play differently. The Revolver has been made more reliable into maps containing Chargers.

• Damage: 14.21 -> 19.01
• Precision multiplier: 0.7413x -> 0.7647x
• Ammo reserves: 46 -> 44
• Reload time: 1.75s -> 1.7s
• Fire rate uncapped (recoil is noticeable)
• Damage falloff start: 12 -> 25
• Damage falloff end: 80 -> 90
• Flashlight improved

HEL Gun

The HEL Gun is another example of a gun with a strong baseline attribute and very strong stats combining to make something generally too powerful. By using the Precision Rifle as a baseline, it can then be scaled down to make a balanced take on a HEL mini-killer.

• Damage: 16.25 -> 15.01
• Precision multiplier: 0.8x -> 0.702x
• Ammo reserves: 40 -> 35
• Fire rate uncapped (keeps 0.2sec charge-up time)
• Damage falloff end: 90 -> 80
• Piercing: 3 -> 2
• Updated audiogroup to better reflect the weapon's power

Precision Rifle

To contrast the Revolver's fast bullet-slinging quick-reloading low magazine size nature with high upfront damage, the Precision Rifle is clumsy to use but offers a long-term strategic advantage over long periods of consistently hitting weakpoints thanks to its thermal scope and ammo reserves. Like the Revolver, this should be better into Chargers now.

• Damage: 13 -> 15.01
• Precision multiplier: 1.3x -> 1.3333x
• Magazine size: 10 -> 12
• Ammo reserves: 41 -> 42
• Reload time: 3.3s -> 3.0s
• Damage falloff start: 30 -> 50
• Damage falloff end: 70 -> 100
• Firemode changed: Semi -> Auto
• Updated audiogroup to better reflect the weapon's power
• Flashlight changed to short flashlight to put emphasis on using the thermal scope

Shotgun

The Shotgun is a pretty fine weapon already and just needs a slight adjustment upwards in power to match the general doctrine of Thloatere. Worth noting is the new headshot breakpoint that lets it 3-hit-kill Big Strikers, which is applied to all the 30 damage shotguns from this point forward to really sell their power.

• Damage: 30.1 -> 32.01
• Precision multiplier: 1x -> 1.17x
• Ammo reserves: 24 -> 26
• Reload time: 3s -> 2.8s
• Damage falloff start: 4 -> 7
• Damage falloff end: 40 -> 70
• Decreased pellet dispersion
• Now distributes its damage over 20 pellets (was 10)

Choke Mod Shotgun

The Choke Mod Shotgun, by comparison, sees little use due to being an awkward hybrid of the Shotgun and High Caliber Pistol that combines the wrong ups and downs, having neither the sustained punch of the HCP nor the spread pellet crowd control of the Shotgun. However, it still fires pellets, so it's not impossible to crowd control with it; rather Thloatere opens up players' abilities to target what they want by making its ammo expenditure a lot less stringent, and the new Big Striker breakpoint should be easier to hit with its concentrated spread.

• Damage: 30.08 -> 32.01
• Precision multiplier: 1x -> 1.17x
• Magazine size: 4 -> 5
• Ammo reserves: 24 -> 26
• Reload time: 2.72s -> 2.2s
• Now distributes its damage over 20 pellets (was 8)

High Caliber Pistol

This is just a slug shotgun in disguise, so it gets the same treatment as the shotguns. Thloatere aims to make it a more sustained-damage counterpart to the Choke Mod Shotgun, at the upside/expense of firing slugs instead of a spread of shells.

• Damage: 30.1 -> 32.01
• Precision multiplier: 0.7413x -> 1.17x
• Stagger multiplier: 1x -> 2x
• Magazine size: 6 -> 7
• Ammo reserves: 25 -> 28

Combat Shotgun

This gun is oppressively strong in vanilla but also just plain fun, so its out-of-place strengths have been reined in while its fun attributes have been further exaggerated. It's now a damage hose that can dump so much lead into a wave if needed, while also having respectable ammo economy for clearing out minis outside of that application.

• Damage: 15.06 -> 16.005
• Precision multiplier: 0.875x -> 1.17x
• Ammo reserves: 57 -> 48
• Reload time: 2.7s -> 3.1s
• Rounds per second: 4 -> 5.5
• Increased pellet dispersion
• Now distributes its damage over 10 pellets (was 9?)

Sniper Rifle

• Renamed: Sniper -> Sniper Rifle

The Sniper Rifle's damage profile was never the problem, rather it was just that 10C always either overshot or undershot its ammo count. This is yet another attempt to find the balance.

• Damage falloff end: 100 -> 150
• Magazine size: 2 -> 3
• Reload time: 3.5s -> 2.7s

HEL Rifle

I joined GTFO as a squad sniper, but got burned out on sniping eventually, but still needed to kill bigs, and then that's when I noticed there aren't really many alternative sniper rifle-type weapons in the game. So, rather than having the super-generalist HEL Rifle, Thloatere puts that impressive frame and weapon design to use as an alternative marksman weapon to the Sniper Rifle.

• Damage: 30.01 -> 40.01
• Precision multiplier: 0.73x -> 1.4x
• Magazine size: 5 -> 3
• Ammo reserves: 23 -> 20
• Delay between shots: 0.87 -> 0.8
• Charge-up time: 0.12s -> 0.3s
• Piercing: 6 -> 4
• Updated audiogroup to better reflect the weapon's power

Burst Cannon

The old Burst Cannon had a lot more of an identity as a REALLY unique take on a "big kill" weapon that I still want to praise this game's creativity for. With that in mind, the Burst Cannon has been reverted to a 5-burst and focus put on that identity (the mod's new weapons section is used instead to bring in a more focused big 3-burst weapon). The Thloatere take on the Burst Cannon gains a one-burst breakpoint on Big Strikers using the headshot while no longer being able to one-shot Strikers, to prevent it from treading common ground with the revolver-types.

• Damage: 22 -> 19.89
• Precision multiplier: 0.73x -> 1.3555x
• Ammo reserves: 46 -> 45
• Charge-up time: 0.7s -> 0.6s
• Overall now fires a burst every 1.2sec

HEL Scattergun

• Renamed: Scattergun -> HEL Scattergun

The Scattergun is one of those problematic weapons where it either needs to be good by just bulldozing things with up-front non-critical damage, or it's not good at all. This rework keeps the identity of the Scattergun as a brute force high spread damage bucket alive while allowing prisoners to use it in a wider variety of damage-bucket-related scenarios and maybe multikill a LOT of big enemies if the Complex aligns.

• Is now a 3-burst weapon
• Damage per shot: 153.6 -> 73.44
• Precision multiplier: 0.7333x -> 0.5x
• Magazine size: 2 -> 3
• Ammo reserves: 14 -> 33
• Reload time: 2.66s -> 3.1s
• Damage falloff start: 4 -> 30
• Damage falloff end: 30 -> 125
• Increased pellet dispersion
• Now has a 0.5s charge-up time
• Piercing: 0 -> 2
• Overall now fires a burst every 1.2sec
• Updated audiogroup to better reflect the weapon's power

Existing Tool Changes

Bio Tracker

No changes.

C-Foam Launcher

From VanillaReloaded: "The C-Foam Launcher is incredibly difficult to balance. Perma-foaming doors and ladder-foam can trivialize some of the hardest content in the game, but without such environmental advantages it struggles to find value. We believe that the only way to address its power would be to change how it interacts with doors and ladders in a major way." I agree with this and also lack the skill to implement such changes.

Mine Deployer

No changes.

Burst Sentry

The Burst Sentry is already pretty good, but it notably doesn't benefit from Bio Tracker Symbiosis, which is a missed opportunity to introduce more teamplay into the game. By allowing it this benefit, it better fits Thloatere's power level in a better way than just increasing all its stats.

• Symbiosis wind-up speed multiplier: 1x -> 0.9x
• Symbiosis rotation speed multiplier: 1x -> 1.1x
• Symbiosis ammo consumption multiplier: 1x -> 0.9x
• Symbiosis burst speed multiplier: 1x -> 2x

HEL Auto Sentry

The HEL Auto Sentry currently consumes a lot of ammo for relatively little output without incredibly high maintenance, but it is also really funny to see it firing at maximum RPM for prolonged periods of time. Thloatere addresses both sides by usually making it a slow-firing stagger machine that will barely help damage the enemies, only to massively ramp up in fire rate with appropriately reduced ammo consumption once Bio Tracker marked enemies enter the area.

• Damage: 0.8 -> 0.67
• Ammo reserves: 750 -> 1312
• Rounds per second: 12.5 -> 10
• Stagger multiplier: 6.4x -> 10x
• Symbiosis damage multiplier: 1x -> 0.69x
• Symbiosis stagger damage multiplier: 1x -> 2x
• Symbiosis wind-up speed multiplier: 1x -> 0.15x
• Symbiosis rotation speed multiplier: 1x -> 2x
• Symbiosis ammo consumption multiplier: 1x -> 0.569x
• Symbiosis rate of fire multiplier: 1x -> 1.5x

Sniper Sentry

The Sniper Sentry has high damage potential but just doesn't really get to fire all that often due to how sluggish it is, and even when it does, it tends to not have that much impact. This general improvement to the turret's stats should alleviate this.

• Ammo reserves: 32 -> 34
• Delay between shots: 2.6s -> 2.8s
• Wind-up speed: 2.8s -> 2.0s
• Symbiosis damage multiplier: 1x -> 1.14x
• Symbiosis wind-up speed multiplier: 0.5x -> 0.68x
• Symbiosis rotation speed multiplier: 1x -> 1.5x
• Symbiosis ammo consumption multiplier: 0.7x -> 0.625x
• Symbiosis rate of fire multiplier: 1x -> 0.68x

Shotgun Sentry

The Shotgun Sentry has so many things going on. Its short range prevents it from swiftly responding to threats, its high fire rate makes it tend to dump shots into freshly-created corpses, and it doesn't attack ideal elevations for its pellet spread pattern. This is basically a complete performance overhaul of the device to hopefully make it the lord of corners.

• Damage: 15.5 -> 16.08
• Precision multiplier: 1x -> 0.7x
• Stagger multiplier: 1x -> 2x
• Ammo reserves: 66 -> 86
• Delay between shots: 0.75s -> 0.65s
• Wind-up speed: 0.5s -> 0.3s
• Detection angle: 40 deg. -> 50 deg.
• Detection range: 10m -> 8m
• Symbiosis rotation speed multiplier: 1x -> 1.65x
• Symbiosis ammo consumption multiplier: 0.5x -> 0.8x
• Symbiosis rate of fire multiplier: 1x -> 0.65x
• Now shoots at enemy bodies instead of heads

Acknowledgements

A massive thanks to tru0067, for helping define the direction the mod should go in and settle the initial balancing pass for me to work off of. Thanks to MacCad for holding the HEL Revolver's flashlight in place. Thanks also to Rayalot72 and D4RKEVA for teaching me how the game is played at levels far beyond my comprehension. And finally, thank you to the units I've been diving with over the years and using as test subjects for these changes <3

A word on designing brand new weapons for GTFO

v5.55.55

Well, this is it, I think. Five fives is a good spot to end it off.

To be honest, I grow tired of maintaining this mod and wish to move onto other things, but I've felt the burst weapons, the Battle Rifle, and the cursed 1+1 weapons needed a final tweak to feel just right, and today I found that tweak. It required me to slightly bend the "no dependencies" rule, I'm out of guns to add or changes to make, and the HEL Revolver's flashlight still floats because the fix it was using is deprecated for good. Oh well. It's been fun regardless.

See you in Den of Wolves, maybe.

- orbitalviolet

Balance changes:

• Double-Tap Rifle
  • Super fun to use, but the one-two is a bit difficult to hit even when you know how to because the second shot comes out so fast.
    • Second shot delay: 0.09 -> 0.12 (overall shots/sec remains unchanged)
• Double-Tap Shotgun
  • Not really a balance change but it's been accelerated overall to feel different from the slower DTR.
    • Second shot delay: 0.11111113 -> 0.093
    • Now overall fires a burst every 0.47 seconds, down from 0.51
  • Fixed its documentation to have the correct between-bursts delay.
• Burst Rifle, Carbine, Heavy Burst Rifle
  • Thanks to the power of even more Dinorush mod dependencies, these now auto-fire (easier recoil control!) and feel more meaningfully different from the Burst Pistol and Double-Tap line of weaponry.
    • Will continue to fire bursts so long as the trigger is held down.
    • Carbine: recoilgroup changed: 50 -> 14. In practice this is a recoil decrease to account for the new automatic-fire capabilities.
• Bullpup Rifle
  • Feels weird that its reload cancel doesn't exist at all, doesn't it?
    • Now reload cancels exactly 2 seconds into its animation.
• Machinegun
  • Its awkwardly slow fire rate for a machine gun that isn't throwing stakes makes it slightly too punishing to use, so it is getting a very slight buffer against misses.
    • Reserve ammo: 115 -> 120
• Battle Rifle
  • I'm glad I added the Chain Boltthrower, but now that it's here it's basically the Battle Rifle, so let's not do that. This is a long-range automatic take on the Short Rifle now, kind of like the relationship between the PDW and Bullpup Rifle.
    • Damage: 14.7 -> 9.93
    • Rounds per second: 5 -> 5.5
    • Precision multiplier: 0.45 -> 0.65
    • Reserve ammo: 60 -> 100
    • Recoilgroup changed: 22 -> 7 (in practice, this makes the recoil more horizontally stable)
    • Updated weapon text
• Short Rifle
  • Unwieldy but reliable at short range, but it basically had the same performance as the Thermal Rifle into small enemies, so it's gotten a Shooter one-tap to not basically be an off-brand DMR in the Special slot and a bit more ammo to better fit in between the Battle Rifle and Heavy Assault Rifle.
    • Reserve ammo: 100 -> 111
    • Damage: 9.7 -> 9.81
    • Precision multiplier: 0.54 -> 0.62
    • Updated weapon text
• Chain Boltthrower
  • This had too much ammo to really justify bringing the Battle Rifle or Short Rifle; it still retains a relative ammo-to-damage advantage to compensate for the charge-up time.
    • Reserve ammo: 95 -> 80
• Thermal Rifle
  • This weapon completely outperformed the DTR and Boltthrower at the job of killing Strikers, so to account for it being better on bodyshot than the DMR class, it has a harder time dealing with Strikers, and enemies in general without critical hits; this also prevents it from being as good at staggering as the rather similar Pistol. It does say "high precision damage" after all.
    • Damage: 5.1 -> 4.9
    • Reload time: 1.9 -> 1.8
• Burst Cannon
  • I came across an old thread saying that if the Burst Cannon got properly nerfed it wouldn't need its insane recoil. While it does feel appropriately powerful with such a kick, this is true, and makes hitting the Big enemy one-burst too difficult.
    • Recoilgroup changed: 24 -> 48 (in practice, this is a recoil decrease)
• Sniper Sentry
  • 2 seconds is a long time for startup, so the Sniper Sentry will enter the action just that much faster.
    • Wind-up time: 2.0 -> 1.8
    • Biotracked wind-up time multiplier: 0.68x -> 0.77x
• Heavy SMG
  • Given that this gun has a hefty precision reward attached to it, controlling the recoil is challenging enough.
    • ADS spread: 0.25 -> 0.1
• Burst Cannon, Accelerator Rifle
  • These are technically Machineguns, so they were also given ADS spread to feel heavy, but it plays badly since they're a lot more precision demanding than the machineguns.
    • ADS spread removed
• Machinegun
  • Speaking of heavy-feeling Machineguns, the ADS spread has been turned up just a bit to really make it feel like you're trying to tame a beast when used from too far away.
    • ADS spread: 0.025 -> 0.06
• HEL Machinegun
  • Like above, but even more since the HEL Machinegun is mainly a suppressive weapon.
    • ADS spread: 0.025 -> 0.12

Bug additions:

• No longer trying to fix the HEL Revolver flashlight...

Other:

• Finally gave the mod a proper icon!
• Reorganised the website and mod internals to be far cleaner
• Updated the website's description to clarify the PDW's stat changes
• Heavy Burst Rifle
  • Shots sound more powerful (this was a free change that required changing one number so I decided to include it).
• High Capacity SMG
  • Updated audiogroup to sound like the vanilla Short Rifle, to at least use that sound somewhere.
• Charged SMG
  • Scope part: updated to use the vanilla Short Rifle sights which were missing from Thloatere (I knew I was forgetting one!) just to make sure they're used somewhere.
  • Documentation: now tells you how to actually use the thing.

v5.4.0

Balance changes:

• Chain Boltthrower
  • This is the second round of weapon parts changing, and... wow, this scope sucks. This scope just sucks. How did I think this was okay to put on a stake-launching weapon?
    • Sight part: now uses the Choke Mod Shotgun's holographic sight.
• Charged Shotgun
  • In the spirit of using every scope, one unlucky victim had to receive the awful scope that the Chain Boltthrower used to use since it was formerly the only weapon fielding this part. Thus, I have chosen the Charged Shotgun, the gun perhaps least needing of a scope in the mod (HEL Scattergun aside).
    • Scope part: now uses the Really Bad Scope.

Other:

• Railgun
  • Literally just a flavour change, but this gun is already so close to the High Caliber Rifle that making them use different sights at least makes them feel remotely different to wield and should let you tell which weapon you're holding if you're using both.
    • Sight part: now uses the Tactical Shotgun's iron sights instead of the Shotgun's.

v5.3.1

not again...

Bug fixes:

• Fixed a typo on the website.

v5.3.0

Balance changes:

• HEL Autopistol
  • Despite liking it where it is in DPS, the HEL Autopistol had a bit less damage per refill compared to the Machine Pistol than intended, so this has been changed in a way that further pushes it into the wave suppression role compared to the Machine Pistol's use as a damage output device.
  • Magazine size: 70 -> 77
  • Ammo reserves: 680 -> 748
• Double-Tap Rifle
  • It's just come to my attention that people consider the DTR to suck because of the scope it was given. I tried it myself... yeah, I agree. Let's give it the world's biggest non-stat buff.
    • Scope part: now identical to the DMR scope.
• Boltthrower
  • This is arguably just as demanding of precision as the DTR... and shared the DTR scope... yeah. That's a problem. The high recoil also felt powerful to play with but made this thing too awkward to actually use, so the recoil has been made slightly-less-but-still-high.
    • Sight part: changed to the unused sight from the Thermal Rifle's vanilla counterpart.
    • Recoilgroup changed: 47 -> 5 (in practice this is a recoil decrease)
• Charged Shotgun
  • Today I finally realised a Primary body-shotting Charger Scouts is still too crazy even for Thloatere. The Charged Shotgun has been changed to kill more regular Scouts and small Sleepers and still kill the same amount of Bigs, while not killing some of the bigger targets as well anymore.
    • Damage: 83.1 -> 50.01
    • Precision multiplier: 0.62x -> 1x
    • Magazine size: 2 -> 3
    • Reload time: 2.2 -> 2.85
    • Ammo reserves: 14 -> 21
    • Charge-up time: 0.8s -> 0.65s
    • Removed fire delay between charges
    • Damage dropoff changed: 3.0 ~ 24.0 -> 5.0 ~ 24.0
• HEL Machinegun
  • The HEL Autopistol's big brother had the same problem as it, so it's been given the same solution. Nothing will ever move again.
    • Ammo reserves: 288 -> 300
• Charged SMG
  • The meme has been buffed, and remains a meme! The funny factor is integral to the entire concept of the Charged SMG, but it definitely deserved to be better, and so it is, mainly by giving the user more agency over how it fires. Overall the Charged SMG still does the same damage per refill, the distribution of it has just been changed.
    • Magazine size: 60 -> 30
    • Reload time: 1.22s -> 0.94s
    • Damage: 2.43 -> 2.8433
    • Charge-up time: 0.77s -> 0.4444s
    • Rounds per second: 37 -> 20
    • Ammo reserves: 600 -> 548
• Autocannon
  • The Autocannon previously had similar usability issues to the Boltthrower, so it's also received the same fix. Additionally, its hipfire spread has been reduced in line with its intended place as the "jack of all trades".
    • Scope part: changed to the DMR scope.
    • Recoilgroup changed: 47 -> 5 (in practice this is a recoil decrease)
    • Hipfire spread: 1.5 -> 0.8
• Double-Tap Shotgun
  • It was almost perfect, it just needed a tiny bit more help to get into a good place, especially compared to the Combat and Choke Mod Shotguns.
    • Burst delay: 0.55s -> 0.4s (now overall fires a burst every 0.51 seconds)
    • Magazine size: 8 -> 10
    • Ammo reserves: 40 -> 38
    • Damage dropoff changed: 15.0 ~ 80.0 -> 20.0 ~ 90.0
    • Sight part: now uses the sight that was moved off the Autocannon, just so that it can see use at all. (The DTSG doesn't need to ADS anyway)
• Railgun
  • Surprisingly, this thing had too much ammo, to where it was more effective on bodyshot into a few big targets over the long term than its counterpart weapon the HEL Rifle; in addition, only piercing 1 enemy at a time made it feel sort of weak compared to the shotguns which it naturally competes with according to its damage profile. These stats have been rearranged a bit to place it more firmly into a multirole category.
    • Ammo reserves: 28 -> 24
    • Reload time: 1.4s -> 1.2s
    • Piercing: 1 -> 2
• Mine Deployer, Portable Railcannon
  • This isn't a "balance" change, the placement of the PRC was previously just misleading because it was positioned with the Sentries, making it appear like a Sentry when it's actually more akin to the Mine Deployer than anything.
    • Moved the Mine Deployer and Portable Railcannon above the C-Foam and Sentries in the gear selection menu

Bug fixes:

• Changed "Portable Railgun" to "Portable Railcannon" in the Tab teammate status.
• The HEL Revolver flashlight decoupled again so this is an attempt to re-fix it.
• Fixed the Double-Tap Shotgun's ammo reserves stat on the website.

Bug additions:

• Changed "Bolter Sentry" to "Sentry Gun" in the Tab teammate status to be equally obscure compared to the other Sentries.

v5.2.0

Balance changes:

• Double-Tap Shotgun
  • Finally figured out what to do with this thing. It's become to the Combat Shotgun what the Choke Mod is to the regular pump-action.
    • Damage: 20.01 -> 16.005
    • Recoilgroup changed: 6 -> 18 (in practice this is a recoil decrease)
    • Reload time: 2.8 -> 2.5
    • Burst delay: 0.758 -> 0.578
    • Ammo reserves: 38 -> 48
    • Random spread decreased: 2 -> 1
    • Fixed spread decreased: 2 -> 1
    • Damage dropoff decreased: 5~50m -> 15~80m
• Portable Railcannon
  • Really fun, but still a bit wonky to actually use. This damage increase lets it one-shot a Snatcher which should hopefully justify the cost of commitment.
    • Damage: 150.01 -> 225.01

v5.1.0

Balance changes:

• Charged SMG
  • This gun is cursed. It's too weak but I have no idea what to do with it so here's a general buff to get it into better shape. It should now have a nice clean 2x2 on Strikers. If the 60-round burst is still unworkable I guess I'll try 30?
    • Damage: 1.99 -> 2.49
    • Precision multiplier: 0.82x -> 1.03x
    • Recoilgroup changed: 2 -> 31 (in practice this is a recoil decrease)
    • Reload time: 1.65 -> 1.22
    • Rounds per second: 35 -> 37
    • Charge-up time: 0.9 -> 0.77

v5.0.0

New weapon!

• Charged SMG
  • Special weapon with an agonizingly long charge-up time that then burst-fires its entire magazine. Fire into massive crowds, or don't fire it at all!

Other:

• Redesigned High Capacity SMG to look more distinct from the Heavy SMG

v4.1.3

Bug fixes:

• ACTUALLY correctly applied Sledgehammer melee damage
• Tried some sorcery to reattach the HEL Revolver flashlight

v4.1.2

Bug fixes:

• Railgun now mentions that it deploys quickly

Other:

• Cleaned up the descriptions on the anti-tank primary weapons
• Added "very" to quick reload on High Caliber Rifle and Railgun statblocks to emphasise intended use case

v4.1.1

Bug fixes:

• Fixed Boltthrower Sentry ammo counts on the website

Other:

• Added launch instructions

v4.1.0

Balance changes:

• Charged Shotgun

  • Man, this gun really is a problem child, isn't it? Anyway, comparing its effectiveness to that of the other Primary shotguns and its anti-tank competitor the Slug Shotgun, it didn't kill enough Bigs to justify bringing it over its competitors. So, now it can kill one more. The Slug will remain dominant into Big Strikers and Shooters with good aim, but the Charged's advantage into Big Chargers is honed.
    • Ammo reserves: 12 -> 14

• Tactical & Sawed-Off Shotguns

  • These guns aren't actually specialised anti-tank Primary weapons, so it was weird that they could keep up with the AT choices in terms of Big Chargers killed. Now, they can't, but lose none of their effectiveness into minis or Big Strikers.
    • Total damage: 25.01 -> 24.01

• Boltthrower Sentry

  • It's performing as intended; niche, but rewarding if its strengths are played into. It's getting a slight boost to help its consistency just a tiny bit when the niche doesn't quite work out as well as it probably should.
    • Ammo reserves: 64 -> 70

• Portable Railcannon

  • This item has a playstyle that doesn't compare to anything else that's in the game, which makes it hard to gauge how it's doing, but it's also such a demanding item that it really needs to make each shot worth it and will almost never be used at its peak performance. So, I thought it needed a bit of help; to contrast the Sentries' and Mine Deployer's natures as repeatable reliable tools, I've gone all in on its nature as an unreliable and super committal tool of very periodic mass destruction that now instantly kills every enemy up to the Big Charger.
    • Damage: 125.01 -> 150.01

• Bug fixes:

  • Hopefully un-detached the HEL Revolver's flashlight
  • Fixed the HEL Shotgun's position being wrong on the website
  • Fixed a few inconsistencies in the weapon statblocks on the loadout select screen and updated a few loadout select statblocks to actually tell you what the gun does
    • Stagger, charge-up time, and overpenetration now always come last
    • Controllability now always comes before reload
    • Added "Quick reload" to Burst Pistol
    • Added "Quick to deploy" to Slug Shotgun and High Caliber Rifle
    • Added "Very strong staggering effect" to Railgun
    • Added "Ultra rapid fire" to HEL Auto Sentry
    • Changed Portable Railcannon range to "Exceedingly long range"
    • HEL Auto, Shotgun, and Boltthrower Sentries now mention that they fire at center mass
    • Portable Railcannon now mentions that it fires at center mass
    • Clarify that 4.0.0 updated the Charged Shotgun's audiogroup and the Charged Shotgun, Double-Tap Shotgun, and Chain Boltthrower models

• Other

  • Renamed "Portable Railgun" to "Portable Railcannon" for flavour reasons
  • Moved Shotgun Sentry's firing targeting change to the top of its section on the website
  • Reordered the Special shotgun category based on feeling and to make it more clear that the High Caliber Pistol is actually a slug shotgun
  • Added rationale behind not changing the Bio Tracker and Mine Deployer

v4.0.2

• "Bug fixes":
  • Implements a snap decision to place the Boltthrower Sentry in between the Shotgun and Sniper Sentries in the loadout select menu to better reflect its effective range

v4.0.1

again </3

• Bug fixes:
  • Fixed the Portable Railgun's manufacturer/model name
  • Addressed the Charged Shotgun's manufacturer/model name change in the changelog (it changed in v4.0.0 when the gun stopped being a Doom shoutout)

v4.0.0

New... tools?!

• Boltthrower Sentry
  • Medium-range sentry that is ineffective on bodyshot but can pierce up to two enemies and will instantly kill minis on a headshot; ensure to take advantage of the fact that sentries shoot at upward angles.
• Portable Railgun
  • Disintegrates a line of enemies once per deployment when it sees a marked target, so get ready to be constantly packing it up and make sure you're running with your Bio Tracker buddy. Use it either in reaction to a wave going south or place it as a surprise tool that will help you later then mark an enemy to spring the trap!

Balance changes:

• Charged Shotgun

  • So shortly after releasing this I realised its 3-burst is also basically just the Accelerator Rifle into minis, but on a Primary weapon... and also that it's really, really, really good against Scouts for a Primary weapon. So, this honestly made it way too versatile for what is supposed to be a Primary anti-tank option. It's a single fire monstrosity now; it still removes Scouts and Big Chargers from this plane of existence but this little maneuver will require a lot more risk going forward, both because it lands its pellets a lot less consistently and its damage dropoff is super aggressive now. Its matchup against bosses has been worsened; it can still kill an entire Tank by itself, it just won't overkill an extra tumor's worth of health into boss main healthbars. Incidentally, this is also a way less problematic resurrection of the old Scattergun and I kind of like that.
    • Firemode changed: Burst -> Semi
    • Total damage remains unchanged but is delivered over a single shot rather than three
    • Precision multiplier: 0.9x -> 0.62x
    • Clip size: 6 -> 2
    • Ammo reserves: 36 -> 12
      • Total amount of firing actions should remain unchanged
    • Random spread increased: 1 -> 2
    • Damage dropoff changed: 6 ~ 33 -> 3 ~ 24
    • Pellets damage is delivered over: 10x3 -> 15x1
      • This is to reduce its consistency at any ranges other than point blank
    • Updated audiogroup

• Other:

  • Added ExtraToolCustomization as a dependency
  • Changed the Charged Shotgun's manufacturer and model name to no longer be a Doom reference, since the gun itself isn't anymore
  • Updated visuals for Charged Shotgun, Double-Tap Shotgun, and Chain Boltthrower, mainly the scopes

v3.0.0

New weapons!

• Charged Shotgun
  • New Primary anti-tank option to keep the Slug Shotgun company. Short-range monster with clunky charge-up time, a long reload, and low ammo reserves that absolutely demolishes all manner of large targets.
• Double-Tap Shotgun
  • New Special shotgun that lives sort of halfway in between the regular pump-action and the Combat Shotgun in performance. Takes a bit of getting used to.

Balance changes:

• HEL Auto Sentry

  • I was surprised to learn that this thing is, like, comically powerful now, but apparently it just never ran out of ammo. So, its ammo reserves have been dramatically decreased, its damage output has tanked to account for its stat of Piercing 2 just to make it require that much more commitment to use in the player-facing ammo department, and its rate of fire outside of Symbiosis has been decreased to make it feel just that much more different from its accelerated output in Symbiosis.
    • Shots per second: 10 -> 9
    • Ammo reserves: 1325 -> 920
    • Damage per round: 0.66 -> 0.36
    • Biotracker Symbiosis bullet cost multiplier: 56.9% -> 51.21% of base value
      • Biotracker Symbiosis shots per second is still 15.15
      • Overall rounds fired and expended per second during Symbiosis should stay the same

• Bug fixes:

  • Fixed a bug where the website incorrectly displayed a piercing stat instead of a charge-up time for the Chain Boltthrower

• Other:

  • Updated website to acknowledge inspiration for every weapon in the mod, for people who care about that

v2.0.1

i can never get these right </3

Bug fixes:

• Removed even more unused shotgun stats from the High Caliber Rifle to placate the WeaponStatShower gods
• Made the description for the Chain Boltthrower on the website not suck

v2.0.0

New weapons!

• Boltthrower
  • New Wild West rifle-style Primary weapon that slings armour-piercing stakes, staggering up to two enemies per shot and instantly killing Strikers with a single headshot. Requires careful maintenance, as its reload and rate of fire are slow, and its damage and ammo reserves low.
• Chain Boltthrower
  • Machinegun-type Special weapon with an agonizingly long charge-up. Launches stakes that deal incredibly high damage to one enemy, but can't hold many and takes a while to reload.

Bug fixes:

• Removed space from manufacturer name of High Capacity Pistol
• Correctly beefed up muzzle flash and shell casing of High Caliber Rifle, Autocannon, and HEL Rifle

v1.1.0

Balance changes:

• High Caliber Rifle
  • The High Caliber Rifle's quick draw, single shot, and quick reload cancel encourage firing the weapon the moment the prisoner finishes changing to it, which conflicted with the rather heavy hipfire spread by single-shot-reload standards.
    • Hipfire spread: 1.0 -> 0.5

Bug fixes:

• Correctly applied the following changes:
  • Bat
    • Light attack damage: 3.0 -> 4.0
    • Attack stamina costs all reduced to 0%
  • Sledgehammer
    • Charge time: 1.8 -> 1.75
    • Charged attack stamina cost: 5%/5% -> 2.5%/2.5%
    • Light attack stamina cost: 0%/0% -> 2.5%/1.25%
    • Push attack stamina cost: 5%/5% -> 2.5%/2.5%
  • Spear
    • Light attack damage: 2.0 -> 2.5
    • Charged attack stamina cost: 5%/5% -> 2.5%/2.5%
    • Light attack stamina cost: 0%/0% -> 2.5%/1.25%
    • Push attack stamina cost: 5%/5% -> 2.5%/2.5%
• Fixed a bug where the Shotgun Sentry had 1/12 the intended ammo reserves
• Removed unused shotgun stats (holdover from testing) in the High Caliber Rifle and Autocannon statblocks to prevent WeaponStatShower from having an existential crisis
• Website now displays the correct Precision Rifle firemode change
• Website no longer displays redundant bursts/second information about the HEL Scattergun
• Credit to CatAssTrophy & co. for finding and helping fix these bugs

v1.0.2

Fixes a bug where Thunderstore didn't go to v1.0.1???

v1.0.1

Apparently I'm not immune to the day zero patch curse </3

• Fixes a really cursed looping audio bug with the Autocannon
• Updates the README with audiogroup changes I accidentally forgot

v1.0.0

Release at last :D