[AFTERSHOCK] Basic Ballistic Weapons

[Mom-Bun]

Summary

Mods "Adding Basic Ballistic Weapons to Aftershock"

Purpose of change

Considering that Aftershock is set 500 years in the future, many of the guns currently in game wouldn't make much sense being used, and in general it is hard to make a general feel for combat balance with vanilla weapons and drastically different enemies.

This PR should add some 3 basic ammo typos and 4 guns to Aftershock that'll help provide stepping stones towards this, as well fill out the combat balance document for the AFS wiki.

Describe the solution

I added 4 basic weapons that fall under the umbrella of pistol, shotgun, rifle, and machine gun; and ammo types that should go along with these.

Guns

Gibson S86

This light grenade launcher should fulfill the criteria of being a heavy weapon for the combat balance document, it should use the 25mm ammo.

Seyfert 84K

This pistol should fulfill the criteria of being a light weapon for the combat balance document. It uses the 10mm ammo.

G&W SR-P9

This rifle should fulfill the criteria of being a medium weapon for the combat balance document. It uses the 6.5mm ammo.

Accipiter Hawk-00

This machine gun should fulfill the criteria of being a medium weapon for the combat balance document. It uses the 6.5mm ammo.

Ammo

One of the ideas in Aftershock is we want to both avoid the highly varied amount of ammo by using the same idea as generic guns ammo. The reason for this is both in-universe flavor, and game play reasons. Ammo in the Aftershock universe is very highly standardized and unified and one of the most common complaints is that the highly varied ammo in base game Cataclysm is very confusing.

25mm

This type of ammo should be saved for light grenade launchers, in general very hard hitting, but not the top tier weapons. Heavy grenade launchers should not use this.

These are not powerful enough to actually make a substantial explosion except to damage a mob.

10mm

This is the basic ammo for all modern earth-made pistols, and every pistol that is modern and earth-made, unless it is high tier or specialized pistols should use this type of ammo.

7.50mm

This is the basic ammo for all modern earth-made rifles and machine guns, the idea being that they are an intermediary bullet. These should be used with every rifle and machine gun that is modern and earth-made, unless it is exceptionally special or high-tier to call for unique ammo.

TBD:

- [x] Add gun bases for the rifle, machine gun, and pistol Unnecessary

• Fill in description and add flavor
• Add JHP variant of 10mm
• Add turret mount for the Hawk and s140
• Test balance to make sure they fall in the ranges that is needed for the combat balance
• Add ammo and guns to gun store drops.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Still using the same ammo and guns as in base Cataclysm.

Testing

Game boots up, guns work in the intended ranges I wanted them to; no errors and items drop.

I welcome that if other the other aftershock maintainers want to test the balance for the guns, it would be greatly appreciated.

Additional context

To note this isn't exhaustive as a PR, and merely here to help fill in the combat balance document by filling in ballistic weapons for Aftershock. For reference in the future we'd need ammo for shotguns, regular grenade launchers, and sub machine guns.

Another note is not all ammo is caseless, in the future there can be variants of ammo that can have cases; but they should have reason for this, either because they were handloaded by PrepNet Phyle, or it is very extraordinary/high tier as a bullet.

[Maleclypse]

I'm not sure what direction we should take on some of these items but I wanted us to come up with a consistent application.

[Maleclypse]

Suggested change

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	"material": [ "brass" ],

We can ignore whatever combustible adhesive we are using in place of powder for now? Or we can create the material and allow it to be scraped off and turned into makeshift explosives?

[Mom-Bun]

Probably best to ignore it for now; and in the future maybe allow it to be scraped off?

[actual-nh]

AFS wiki?

[Mom-Bun]

AFS wiki?

Something me and the other maintainers have been working on; once its polished and ready we will try to get it on the main repo

[actual-nh]

AFS wiki?

Something me and the other maintainers have been working on; once its polished and ready we will try to get it on the main repo

I have been doing some work on the overall Cataclysm wiki - it could use (much more) material on Aftershock.