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>>4507703
I'm a total newb at modding that got inspired by Terminus and Pillowblaster weapon replacements.
I've never seen a weapon mod for heretic that I've been completely satisfied with - they either underdeliver, or add way too much unnecessary bullshit.
So the endgoal of my unnamed project would be to make a weapon mod for Heretic (compatible with Doom) that would:
1) Give the player as much fun options as possible
1a) Without overloading the arsenal
2) Make weapons more powerful and flashy, using the least intrusive particle effects possible so that player still has uncluttered battlefield in front of him, with attacks in a wide range of power to cover both low intensity encounters and up to slaughter scenarios.

The way I'm going about it: every weapon have several independantly selectable primary and secondary firing modes, some of which combine for additional/altered effect.
Every weapon has sprites different from vanilla (mostly OSCJ's stuff with mix of other sources), but all of them are gonna be heavily frankensprited.
Also every weapon will have 2 visual indicators for the fire modes it is using. Example: on picrelated is a OSCJ's Superwand. I'm gonna alter its color to orange-red, replace the runes on the base with heretic's iconic trident. State of that trident (glowing/not glowing/pushed in) would indicate the current primary fire, and several different sparkle patterns in the core gem would indicate secondary fire
Also altered TOMEing

Basically put player would still have same 7 weapons (well, 8 with a second melee) and would be able to chose the firing modes he likes in each one, and the selected modes would be remembered for later so he does not have to juggle through 30+ weapons to find what he wants, while having the option to reconfigure the weapons whenever.

I actually mentioned it last year >>4481859

Currently, I'm frankenspriting a crossbow and putting my ideas in a more detailed and orderly manner so I can trim up the concept.

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