Fixed / Improved Shotgun mod.

[G_Sergeant]

* Slightly decreased spread so you don't have to shove the shotgun in the face of your enemies anymore.
* Disabled gibbing for shotgun bullets, I'm still not sure if I should keep it that way.
* (Optional) Changed reload rate to 1 bullet at a time instead of two, but also sped up the reload animation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS1BudXT3iA

[triple_agent]

Nice, the game is pretty moddable. I was going the other direction. Spread was decreased and damage raised, also the number of pellets were raised, but enemies can take much more at the same time, so relatively, it takes two shots majority of cases to take down an Imp or a MarSec.

[triple_agent]

For the gun reloading, in my case I have decreased the storage to six, reloading is one by one, such as in your case. For the gun model, personally I prefer the alpha version.

For the shotgun itself, I tried to balance it against other weapons, namely the neighboring pistol and machinegun. All guns were rebalanced, so it is all that more relative.

EDIT:

But I can see how your point was to make it a shotgun fest, which is nice.

[G_Sergeant]

It's just a simple tweak for how I felt the shotgun should have been, the reloading is mostly the same and takes the same time, it's just that the player now loads 1 bullet at a time rather than weirdly loading in 2 for no reason where you can clearly see him place 1 bullet.

Balance is mostly untouched.

[triple_agent]

Balance is always a well of a topic.

[G_Sergeant]

It turns out the mod makes the game way too easy, Doom 3 drowns you in shotgun ammo even on veteran difficulty, I'm gonna have to make each shot cost 2 bullets instead of 1 and will raise max ammo from 8 to 10. I have a feeling the reason why they decided to force you to shove the shotgun in the face of your enemies before shooting was because otherwise the game would become too easy, I'll keep working on it and hopefully it'll become better by the time.

EDIT: Nvm, that was due to another mod I loaded, all's good now.

[triple_agent]

You can eventually lower the bonus the loot gives you.

But by what I saw in the footage, the game did get kinda easier with that insta kill on common foes.

[G_Sergeant]

The footage is recorded on normal difficulty, also it turns out I accidentally bumped the ammo rate given per each shotgun pickup, reverting this change made a big difference.

EDIT: Yes, this is how I always wanted it to be, later levels of the game also give you less shotgun ammo, which is good and lets you experiment with other guns. I'm surprised they didn't do this for the BFG Edition.

[triple_agent]

Shotgun is an iconic gun, but apart from BFG, is there any point in using the others?

[G_Sergeant]

Yes, MG to clear out lost souls and spiders, been doing a run through the game with this mod and the MG very handy against those, Plasma Rifle too against revenants especially later on in the game when you start running out of shotgun shells, grenades against shielded zsec. in fact shotgun is almost useless against those. feels perfectly balanced.

[triple_agent]

That is why modding is so fun, people may vary in what they considered balanced but if a game is moddable, those who are diligent, can tweak around and play the way they want it to be.

Shielded pistoleers uncover themselves partially when they run and shoot.

[captain0ackbar]

I know i'm a little late... but could you tell me how you changed the shotgun's reload from 2 to 1 ? The video above doesn't work anymore.