Fallout 2 mod Fallout 2: Weapons Redone v2.3

I would very much appreciate any help with scripting or using the mapper, as I am basically just a grease monkey who stumbled upon a hex editor and decided to make FO2 a bit better. You are very kind to suggest this, Cubik2k

The thing is, I actually think 7.62 rarity is okay. FO2 takes place in the future, in a setting where no ammo is being produced because there are no factories. I would imagine that ammo types that are very common in the real world today (such as 7.62 or 9mm) would be rare in the future, because they are being used up quickly. While rare and futuristic ammo types (such as 2mmEC and 4.7 caseless) would be more plentiful because such types are rarely used and few people have weapons that use them. Normally, the common types of ammo would be, well, common, but in a post-apocalyptic setting with no ammo factories, the popular ammo types would eventually become used up, and less common types would be used.

But game balance comes before everything, of course, so I think the game should have a bit more easy access to 7.62. Something I'd rather do than edit the merchants would be to put huge stashes of 7.62 and 9mm in crates in for example the VC armory and the other vaults, as leftovers from a time when such ammo was plentiful. This also requires mapper use, so if Cubik wanted to do this I would be very grateful. I will probably not think about doing it until Killap and MIB88 release their sources for those maps, however.

A script from Killap that I would very much like to have is the one for Algernon in New Reno. What I would like him to do is to require one load of Junk for each upgrade. This means you will eventually have to pay for upgrades when there is no more Junk to find, and thus the incredible wealth that unbalances the game would be reduced.

 

.ssls out in the open sounds very good!

Here are some melee weapon stats I imagine for v0.5:

Blunt:
Brass Knuckles 4-6 damage, 3AP punch
Wrench 5-8 damage, 3AP swing
Club 7-9 damage, 4AP swing
Crowbar 6-10 damage, 4AP swing
Sledgehammer 13-16 damage, 5AP swing/thrust, 6 ST req.
Power Fist 10-15 damage, 3AP punch
Mega Power Fist 20-25 damage, 3AP punch
Louisville Slugger 20-30 damage, knockback, 4AP swing
Super Sledge 30-40 damage, 5AP swing/thrust, 6 ST req.

Not sure about Power Fists, Louisville Slugger and Super Sledge yet, I'll have to look at their stats.

Sharp:
Knife 3-7 damage, 3AP swing, 4AP throw
Spiked Knuckles 5-9 damage, 3AP punch
Combat Knife 4-10 damage, 3AP swing, 4AP throw
Switchblade 3-12 damage, penetrate, 3AP thrust
Little Jesus 4-14 damage, 3AP swing, 4AP throw
Spear 5-15 damage, penetrate, 5AP thrust and throw
Sharpened Spear 6-18 damage, penetrate, 5AP thrust and throw
Wakizashi Blade 15-35 damage, 4AP swing
Ripper 20-30 damage, penetrate, 4AP thrust

And for the ninja assassins out there:
Shiv 3-90 damage, penetrate, 10AP thrust (as if the player quickly stepped behind the foe and cut his throat or stabbed his heart.)

All sharp weapons will be throwable except for the Wakizashi Blade, the Ripper, the Spiked Knuckles and the Shiv. Blunt weapons like Crowbar and Wrench might be throwable if I can find suitable .frms for them. The Cattle Prods are different weapons entirely, as they rely on electricity to do damage.

I realise that I'm changing someone's favourite weapons completely here, and that most will think melee weapons are overpowered, especially spears. Fact is, a .44 Magnum does 12-18 damage and is available in the Den, overpowering a sharpened spear and being ranged, at the same AP cost. With FMJ ammo it also gains anti-armor capabilities like the Spear. My idea for melee weapons is that blunt weapons should do more minimum damage, while sharp weapons should do more maximum damage. The values above are open to debate, however.

 

Power Fist 10-15 damage, 3AP punch
Mega Power Fist 20-25 damage, 3AP punch

I will keep the power fists at their current damage level, but remove their completely undeserved Penetrate perk. The wakizashi is really a small sword, which looks sharp but not pointy and is meant to be a quick alternative to the large katana, hence the 4AP rather than 5. I've only given Penetrate to pointy weapons, look at Switchblade vs. Little Jesus, for example, so I won't be giving it to Wakizashi. I'm not sure about the Wakizashi's and the Ripper's damage, though.

 

Wakizashi: Penetrate will be added. I didn't know about the game text.

Power Fist: No. No penetrate. Nothing personal. The Mega Power Fist still does 20-40 damage for 3AP, which is a lot. And Knockback can be a downright liability if you're melee vs. ranged, since you have to run up to the victim.

Thrown things: I agree, though I usually find my Spears and Knives back. But if any coding wiz-kid out there knows how to make it so that weapons are always and always always visible and clickable *on top* of everything else on the ground, it would be a lot better, though perhaps a bit unrealistic. There is no word for the frustrations of losing a perfectly good Combat Knife under a Pig Rat corpse.


Some more info, v0.5 is in the works now:

Shotgun will do 16-26 damage, because it's a shotgun. AND: Knockback! awww yeahyeahyeah... The knockback replaces a 20% hit bonus, so its range has been increased by 2 to compensate a little. It's now a very good competitor to the Hunting Rifle, though the latter has better armor piercing, accuracy and ammo price.

Sawnoff shotgun will do 14-40 damage and get a 40% bonus to hit, because it's nearly impossible to miss with. (No knockback because the increased dispersion reduces projectile momentum.) It's range is also upped to 8. This is what you've been waiting for.

Sniper weapon min/max damage ratio will be 1/2, meaning that Hunting rifles do 10-20 damage, Sniper Rifle does 17-34 damage and the Bozar does 50-100 damage. Also, the Sniper Rifle will cost 6AP again.

The .223 pistol will lose its Penetrate perk so the Sniper Rifle has a chance against it.

The Flamer will do 50-95 damage. The Improved Flamer will do 60-100 damage. Both will have a range increase of 1 (this does not look weird)

Due to a grueful oversight on my part, all scoped weapons suddenly got a 40% bonus to hit instead of behaving like the Scoped Hunting Rifle. This will be fixed.

And so on.

 

This is very very nice of you. I would like all of the vaults, the Military Base and perhaps also the Toxic Caves to contain only "old" ammo (5mmJHP/AP, 7.62, 9mm, 9mmBall, 14mmAP and any others i forgot), since these stashes are pre-war, but not the common ones like .44 or .223 FMJ (though the Bozar in the caves should lie next to a huge pile of .223 FMJ). About 50-80 of the single shot-type ammos and around 150-200 of the burst-type ammos would be good. You don't have to add any new crates, just edit the stashes that are already there. Thank you very much in advance, you will be credited properly in the readme and first post.

EDIT:
I just saw your list, it looks kickass. Forget about the merchants and the randoms for now, though they are good ideas. Here are some more specific amounts I have. If these places already contain some amounts of the ammos I've listed below, those amounts should change into mine, unless there is already more of the ammo:

Toxic caves: 100x of .223FMJ and 5mmAP, 150x of 7.62 and 5mmJHP.

Military Base: 200x of both 5mmJHP and AP.

VC vault armory: 100x 5mmJHP, 150x 7.62, 4 clips of 14mmAP, 6 clips of 9mm, 4 clips of 9mmBall, 6 clips of both types of Needler ammo (medical-like weapon).

Vault 15: 40x Flamethrower Fuel, 20x Improved Flamethrower Fuel, 200x 7.62, 8 clips of 9mmBall, 6 clips of 9mm.

Redding Caves: 4 clips of 14mmAP in various places (not too hard to find).

Modoc cave: Various bits of all kinds of common ammo, like you said.

Ghost Farm caves: A Mauser pistol in one of the crates, with 5 clips of 9mmBall and 7 clips of 9mm. Also 75x 5mmJHP and 50x 5mmAP.

I would also like an empty Laser Pistol on the charred corpse next to the crashed Vertibird in Klamath, and one clip of Small Energy Cell (24 shots i think) in the tunnel northwest of where Smiley is in the Toxic Caves. We don't really need more energy ammo, as you can buy plenty of it in the game.

 

.45! I knew I forgot something. Add a helping of .45 equal to 9mm where I've written it in the post above. Flamethrower Fuel and Improved Flamethrower Fuel in Vault 15, perhaps 80 and 40, respectively? Many more Molotov Cocktails, one in Marcus's house, one in the Sheriff of Redding's house, one on Joey in the Den, one in Westin's ranch, a few standing around on the tables in bars in New Reno, etc. BBs are mostly a novelty, but you can buy them in NCR, so it's not a very big deal.