Ssparky's Gunnery

SUMMARY

Felt like creating some custom submarine weaponry, and so I did. Here it is!

The intent is for the guns in this mod to be fairly balanced with regards to vanilla, such that installing this mod is not an instant win button. Feedback with regards to this is highly appreciated! Suggestions for new ammo types or other misc things are also appreciated, as long as they are within reason. New guns not so much, as I believe this mod has enough guns as is.

CURRENTLY SUPPORTED LANGUAGES

• English
• Russian
• Simplified Chinese

GUNS AND AMMUNITION

Gauss cannon

A small-hardpoint railgun, in essence. Lower damage but higher firerate than a railgun. Comes with the following ammo options:

• Standard: what you expect it to be.
• Piercing: pierces more, does a bit more damage, costs more.
• Explosive: costs significantly more, explodes on impact.
• Physicorium: costs more, does more damage. Very simple.
• Depleted fuel: similar to phys, with less flat damage but radiation poisoning to compensate.
• Toxin: high-caliber toxin syringes. Inflicts heavy sufforin poisoning, as well as light deleriumine poisoning for extra flavor.
• Spreader: splits into weaker projectiles shortly upon leaving the barrel.

Point-defense autocannon

Light weapon primarily intended for defense against small creatures. Burst fire, delay between bursts decreases the longer it fires for. Comes with the following ammo options:

• Standard: what you expect it to be.
• Piercing: pierces a little, costs more.
• Explosive: costs more, small explosion on impact.
• Physicorium: costs more, does more damage. Very simple.
• Depleted fuel: Similar to phys ammo, with a bit less flat damage but radiation sickness to compensate.
• Rubber: (mostly) non-lethal option, inflicting serious stun instead.

Particle Accelerator Cannon (PAC)

Railgun alternative: very long chargeup, with high damage and a focus on piercing instead of AoE like the railgun. Comes with the following ammo options:

• Standard: what you expect it to be. Has some piercing built-in.
• Piercing: pierces even more, likely to go through an entire sub.
• Explosive: explodes on impact. As such, very similar to a typical railgun shell
• EMP: does not damage creatures much, but inflicts a long stun. Deals massive amounts of EMP damage to submarines.
• Defocused: shoots multiple weaker particles in a random spread.
• Dementonite: Large, high-power central beam with two secondary beams at about a 45 degree spread.

Trash cannon

Very cheap to install, with cheap ammo too. Fires junk in a shotgun-like manner. Potentially high damage if all pellets connect. Comes with the following ammo options:

• Standard: what you expect it to be.
• Explosive: Less spread, pellets explode. Expensive to produce, and more risky in terms of self damage.
• Flyshot: thrice the amount of pellets, with more spread and lower damage.
• Clown: (mostly) non-lethal option. Inflicts heavy stun instead.
• Sewage: Highly toxic and immoral ammo type.

Heavy Plasma Cannon

Large-hardpoint weapon similar to pulse laser, but with projectiles. Do not expect railgun-level damage from this! Has okay firerate, okay damage, and some AoE.

• Standard: standard projectile. Acts pretty much like EK Armoy's Pulse laser plasma ammo, if you know what that's like.
• Unstable: explodes based on proximity, or about a second after being fired.
• Paralyzant: inflicts paralysis in a small AOE on impact.
• Thermite: explodes several times on impact. Probably too strong, more testing required.
• Wave: shoots out weaker plasma bolts in random directions during its lifespan.
• Fulgurium: Higher-power shot that (inconsistenly) splits off some smaller chunks on impact.

MLRS

Large hardpoint rocket launcher. Fires in bursts of three, making it quite ammo hungry but potentially devastating in terms of damage. Comes with the following ammo options:

• AP - Solid rocket shell, basic but effective
• HE - Rocket loaded with explosives. More effective on swarms.
• Morbusine - Rocket loaded with morbusine poison.
• Frag - proximity fuze, shatters into many fragments.
• HEAT - more effective anti-submarine rocket. (not fully working at the moment)
• Nuclear - similar to the railgun's nuclear shell, but a bit weaker.

OTHER FEATURES

• Three containers for storing ammunition, of varying sizes and capacity (4,8, and 12 respectively)
• Variants of the toxin cabinet, one specifically for poisons and one for antidotes.
• All loaders (including vanilla) show up on status monitors, like every other repairable machine. (this is now a vanilla feature)
• All loaders take minor damage upon firing, meaning loaders have to be repaired more often.

WHAT'S COMING NEXT?

At some point I want to give all the guns some visual flair where possible (particles, lights, sounds, etc.), alongside doing more rebalancing and bugfixing. I have no ETA for when I might get around to this.

REGARDING FORKS, EDITS, AND PATCHES

Generally, you are free to make edits or patches of my mod. In the case of patches that change textures or sounds (or similar), I'm always okay with those. In the case of rebalance patches, I'm still fine with those, but I would prefer if you just let me know about balance issues instead so that I can adjust the main mod instead.

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES