Updated to B27! [V0.1] And with some minor fixes! [V0.11] And with a new machine gun, the Cerberus! [V0.12]
Until the version number exceeds 1.0, this is to be considered a public beta and I can't guarantee everything will be working quite right.


New stuff: (v0.1 or newer)
--New shown name, "Echelon Tech." "Shadow Echelon Tech" is too long I think, and without "Tech" it's not a campaign faction. Still known as "Shadow Echelon" or "[SE]," though.
--Loadouts for the campaign.
--Ammo system revamp. Several different types of cartridges for guns, ammo is interchangeable between them and can be bought. Ammo still can't be "pooled," though.
--VisInv reverted to actor-based; the campaign seems to like breaking attachable scripting.
--Chambered Rounds. Reloading is faster and you get an extra shot loaded if you reload before emptying a mag.
--AI won't try to shoot empty guns.
--AI won't get to shoot the last round of a mag for free.

--Cerberus addition! A new revolver-type machine gun. Can fire all three types of SE 6mm ammo by swapping cylinders with the pie menu.
--Old Faithfuls are dual wieldable via pi menu, (this means you don't have to special-order an offhand one from the pie menu; just use any two of them) and now have limited ammo.
--AutoMags now have limited ammo.
--MP7 addition! A new SMG, not particularly special or interesting but it fills a gap in the arsenal. Needs renaming.
--Pribor Tribarrel addition! Triple barrel SMG, replacing the AA12.
--Korobov is now the standard [SE] assault rifle, and is full auto only.
--Lightning is now the Nikonov, and is burst mode only.
--Koksharov is replacing the Assailant, and is a speedy infantry automatic rifle, an assault rifle/LMG hybrid.
--Combatant is now burst only.
--Flatline has a bipod! Overlap it with the ground to see farther and decrease recoil.
--Hexad is... still pretty janky, sorry.
--AntiMat replaces the Bulldog, and is now "single shot." (actually infinite mags with super slow cyclic speed)
--Neck Breaker converted to work in B27.
--Entrencher tool. A digger that's not for mining or infiltration, just for hiding from bullets. Needs sprites and all that jazz.
Any unmentioned devices are now deactivated and neglected, or don't exist yet, sorry.

DOWNLOAD V0.12 FOR B27 ON WINDOWS VIA MEDIFIRE HERE, ~16MB
Delete lines 272 through 290 if you want to fix the cerberus disappearing issue, or just wait for v0.13. Sorry.
UBERHEN'S LOW FILESIZE VERSION, ~3.4MB

General features to be aware of:
--The weapons have limited ammo. An extra HUD element displays your total ammo. You can buy more ammo, or get the ammo from other guns that use the same cartridge.
--Some of the weapons, particularly the automatics, have recoil, including muzzle rise. Pay attention to where your bullets are going, and adjust your aim or rate of fire accordingly. The point of this is to make shooting a little more user-involved, and less point & spray.
--The weapons reload faster and get a capacity bonus of 1 round if you reload before emptying the weapon, representing whether a round was already chambered when you reloaded.
--The 'biggest' sidearm and 'biggest' primary you have in your inventory, unequipped, will show up on your back and leg, respectively, as if holstered or slung. This does NOT limit your inventory to slots or anything like that. It's mostly aesthetic, but it is handy for player enemies, since your inventory's not hidden.

Spoiler contains credits, usage guidelines, known problems, and an update log.


Feedback, suggestions, complaints, comments, bug reports, and other such things are all highly appreciated.

Hey, it is that blue guy Azukki posts all the bloody time!
Like when he snapped the neck of Dimitri!

I always wanted to use this guy.

Hmm, maybe I should give him the neckbreaker technique to use when he's otherwise unarmed? I think that would be a befitting last-ditch special ability for an infantry guy.

Another thing I was wanting input on is limited ammo. I'm definitely going to have a couple specialty weapons with limited ammo, but I was wondering what people would think if everything in the faction had limited ammo. Would that be too misfitting, in a game where everyone else has unlimited ammo?

Maybe limited ammo with the your own actors?
Giving him the neckbreaker when un-armed is an awesome idea.

Limited ammo would be amzing, but some hater will hate, so you could always make and on/off button for the limited ammo.

Limited ammo isn't really going to work from a gameplay standpoint if you're playing against opponents without limited ammunition.

Limited ammo only works as a nerf to otherwise significantly overpowered actors, in my experience.

I'm all for the concept, but it's basically impossible to pull off, unfortunately.

Seeing as the AI is basically retarded, I don't see a problem with them having unlimited ammo, also, can't you impose the same limits on them?

Did someone say limited ammo?

Yeah, I'm thinking the same as Grif.
All weapons having limited ammo when the enemy isn't under the same burden probably can't really be balanced out.
It could be a good feature for a game mode where it applies to both teams, or for specialty weapons, though, so I'll be fiddling with the concept anyways.

V0.02
--Old Faithful, a pistol with proper recoil. It can either be pretty fast, or pretty accurate, but not both at once. Also durable and expensive.
--Assailant, a select fire assault rifle with a consistent muzzle rise, select fire, [see in-game description for controls] and limited ammo.
--Assailant Actor renamed to [SE] Rifleman. (I changed my mind, the name is more befitting of an assault rifle than its wielder)
--Rifleman now has an ammo counter GUI element, which displays the ammo remaining of his current weapon, (its Sharpness, actually) if he has a limited ammo weapon.

To Do:
-Give these guns proper gibs and sounds and muzzle flashes and such
-Balance them better after getting some feedback, probably including removal of limited ammo
-Make the ammo counter script not cause a bunch of crashes and/or remove it
-Test more before future releases

Yeah the ammo counter is totally broken. If you or the gun are gibbed, it crashes.
And now I've got it down to just crashing when the gun gibs out of your hands, but that's no good either.
Disable the script by opening the actor's ini and deleting the line for the script if you want to actually play with the actor.
Or wait until tomorrow and redownload, when I'll either find a solution to the crashing, or disable the problematic script.
Sorry about this.

On the topic of limited ammo, wouldnt you just make the AI have limited ammo as well? Or is the limited script actor based?

And another point, you might want to give your actors holsters for their own weapons.

The limited ammo is weapon-based, so for the enemies to have it, they'd need to be equipped with custom weapons. But really, AI enemies tend to not survive long enough to run out of ammo anyways, so maybe them having unlimited ammo wouldn't make a lot of difference anyways.

Yeah, I will reincorporate visible inventory, but I decided to wait until I had a least two primaries and two sidearms in the mod first.

I'm working on fixing that script, now, and if I can't get it in 2 hours, I'll just disable limited ammo as-is and worry about it when I'm actually make a limited ammo specialty weapon.

V0.03 is out; the ammo counter script no longer causes crashing.

Next, I'll probably polish the existing weapons, add another pair of them, give Rifleman the neckbreaker, and/or reincorporate visible inventory.

Some of the scripts' really simple but beautiful! I shall find if anything can be used in mine.

The only way to pull of limited ammo without destroying the faction's chances at survival would be to make a clip available for each weapon. For example, while a clip is in the actors inventory for a certain weapon, that weapon can fire x number of rounds before the clip is removed from the actor's inventory. The reload would only commence if another clip is in the actor's inventory, and then you could start shooting again. So, the ammo's limit is the number of clips the actor has on them. I would love to have that, since it wouldn't completely nerf the faction. Also, I love the idea of neck-snapping as a last resort. Nice job on the faction thus far!

The attachment doesn't work. D: