[Mod] Mission Mode: Strength in Numbers [v1e]

[ZeStopper]

Soooooooooooooooooooooooo,

I did that thing, you know, I added core weapons to the map so now you can shoot bad dudes with other guys weapons.

That's good for you.

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-Better places to put the special weapons.
-Limit on the amount of special weapons you can pick up
-Bananas
-Special Weapons will not disappear when picked up.

[Joseph Collins]

That reminds me of a fun thing you can do with DM Flags.

Unlike the vanilla Mega Buster and other unlimited ammo weapons, the Single Player weapons are not coded to vanish when dropped.

Enable "players drop weapons when killed" on your server and bam.  Suddenly, Fakeman is running around with Restore Flush (if he picks it up) and Roll has a her brother's charge shot.  It's basically the same thing as the "fake playerclass" glitch, except you can access both class' weapons.  And of course, people need to die for it to happen.  Could be useful in the maps, though.  Like, for example, if Roll dies while healing someone, someone else can grab her heal gun and pick up the slack~

The downside?  This only lasts until you die.  Gives you some real incentive not to, though, eh?

[Russel]

Looks like I have more things to iron out then~
Thanks for the info and I'm sorry for killing your fun again...but if you're going to do something like that, you may as well just enable cheats.

[ZeStopper]

Aw well, it was just for kicks.

[Joseph Collins]

You're totally going to get rid of the fake playerclass change bug too, aren't you?  *sobs*  No more blue-dress Roll with a revolver or or Doc Robot with a heal gun for me.  TxT

For those who aren't aware, the bug doesn't actually give you extra weapons or anything.  It just makes you look like another class while staying as your original one.  So for example, you could be Bass but look like Duo with funny colors, or play as Protoman, but look like Roll with a shield to other players.  Again, you're limited to your original class weapons, but you look like a different class.
It's also worth mentioning that this bug only works in online modes.  It won't trigger in Single Player or Offline Skirmish modes for whatever reason. (Probably the same reason you can't change your class and keep progress in the same game modes.)

[Knux]

Or Bass with Proto Man's weapons. Too bad I cleaned my files a few days ago, along with a screenshot of Bass with Proto colors.

[Superjustinbros]

So I was thinking, Since Duo technically is considered the strongest but slowest of the classes (not being able to attack unless at a close range), could he have the Hard/Toad armor used in the Classes wads that gives him an additional 50% of HP? Or would that make him broken in contrast to the more mobile classes that can snipe from a large distance away?

IMO, a fully-charged Duo Fist doesn't do enough damage for it's own good.

[Korby]

It two shots Escargot and one shots just about every basic enemy in the game.

Also, Duo is currently Sturdy armor. The Duo class in classes is going to have just a little less than that. I'm not giving him Hard armor.

[Superjustinbros]

It must have been since I was playing on the highest difficulty that the enemies needed more hits with Duo.

[Superjustinbros]

Bump, I know. But what was the general reason why Bass shoots the Bass Buster from MM&B rather than the one from MM10 (complete with different sounds), and why does it fire out like a drunk guy holding a machine gun, even though in all Bass' canon games and vanilla MM8BDM he can fire it with perfect accuracy?

Could the next version also restore the original Proto Buster (the version that's not covered in green highlights nor has the quite inefficient-to-use Proto Missles thanks to their delay before firing, slower speed, and sometimes hitting Proto's shield).

[Russel]

I wanted to make the characters visually different, which is why everyone has different buster sprites, sounds, and animations. I would give the Bass Buster a tighter angle range, but that isn't possible without the frandom function which is only available in ZDoom. [Likely to be in Zandronum 2.0]
Also feel I should mention that in 8BDM, the buster isn't fired with perfect accuracy; it just isn't randomized vertically. I suppose I could pull a vanilla Doom chain gun and make the first shot be perfectly accurate and everything else not.

Protoman's buster is designed in the way it is to make it different from Megaman and Duo without stretching the existence of a single charge shot. I gave Mega a charge buster to hopefully make him more viable and/or popular.

But yeah...I will likely all of Protoman's shots +THRUGHOST so they don't hit the shield anymore.

[Number86]

I would give the Bass Buster a tighter angle range, but that isn't possible without the frandom function which is only available in ZDoom.

You can actually get around this limitation by using division. For example, I gave Doom's Plasma Rifle a inaccurate spread of 12/-12 that pretty much works like frandom would:

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Fire:
    PLSG A 0
    PLSG A 0 A_GunFlash
    PLSG A 3 A_FireCustomMissile ("NewPlasmaBall", (random(120,-120)/100.0), 1, 0, 0, 0, (random(120,-120)/100.0))
    PLSG B 20 A_ReFire
    Goto Ready

Admittedly it's a bit hacky, but it works without making anything explode.

[Hallan Parva]

You are the coolest.


Also, admittedly I was supposed to make Proto Man suck less, but trademark laziness wins again. Whoops. Don't worry, he'll be far less awkward to use whenever Single Player (and, in turn, SiN) gets around to updating.

[Flare Blitz]

Hi!

I want to make a replica of this,  but instead of this,  it would be a Rockman No Consistancy version. I want it to be compatible with the new Justiderp, which changes bosses from 1-6. Oh., and I also want to host a server with these WADs. Can I have some help?

[Korby]

I'm a little bit confused by what you're asking for.
Could you elaborate a bit further?