/vr/ - Retro Games

>>2142380
Problem is you cant make a map with tight ammo or anything of the sort with this wad.
Every enemy drops a million different ammo types and ammo packs turn into several different kinds, you're required to have every weapon in order to play fairly.
I finished Grosse and still didnt have that burst pistol or the crossbow. I restart just to test and both the map01 shotgun and 02 SSG were crossbows. I turned idclip and run to see the replacements and not even map07 gave me a fucking shotgun.
A silent weapon is interesting and all but not even the slow ass sniper is guaranteed to kill an imp, so there is a gigantic jump in firepower between the 2 and the shotgun.
Then you have the problem that only 1/3 of the shell ammo morphs into actual shells, so if you get unlucky you can get only bolts/rifle rounds from like 10 supposed boxes, so its bad balance even if you have all the weapons.
Everything suffers from this. 20 cell packs are either 4 stun gun charges, 15 crossbow bolts or 7 fucking .50 rounds. Those things kill cacos with 3 shots.
Even better : rocket boxes. Technically the average damage is not much different since its mines, .50 or gasoline, but NONE of those are useable by one of the rocket launcher replacements, so something like e2m8 can give you a grenade launcher and zero ammunition for it.
Random loose ammo from kills too! Stronger enemies give more random drops, not random drops of higher quality. Kill a zombieman and get a grenade. Kill arch-vile and pic related.
The only exceptions are nazis and the bosses, but those dont get much better. Cyberdemons can either give you a gatling gun that stunlocks and kills other cybers/masterminds with 50/150 shots or...NOTHING! Either a gun that will rape everything or nothing at all. How the fuck is anyone going to balance this shit?

Combat is okay. Cacos and archies are retarded for opposite reasons in most maps, but a map designed for it would fix it. Problem is random ammo/guns and iSpook wont fix it.