M4A1

1.3.9 comes too soon while I was cooking...

In the meantime, have these small, but very impactful changes.

Assault Rifle

• Damage dealt by dummies is now also considered to be a "special damage source".
  • This will mostly not affect gameplay.

Particle Cannon

• Shots now pierce through enemies.
  • AOE damage is created each time the laser penetrates an enemy.

Other

• She can sprint backwards 😮

Balance

• Health Regeneration: 0.0 -> 0.5
• Armor: 15 -> 9

Loadout

• Colour: white -> green
• Add two new keywords: Networked and Lockout, hopefully making skill descriptions more sharper while still containing detail.
• Small revision to Dummy Link skill's description, where now it says "sync inventory", more accurately describing what M4A1 does for her dummies.

Bug Fixes

• Should work with 1.3.9 LOL
• Remove item displays for now :( sorry
• Add a null check in the spawn dummy skill icon

General

• Damage sources are now assigned to skills
  • Assault Rifle shoot Primary damage.
  • Grenades deal Secondary AOE damage.
    • Stun Grenades still stun.
    • Incendiary Grenades still set things on fire.
  • Particle Cannon fires Utility damage, both direct and AOE damage.
  • Spawning dummy links... does not deal damage at all.
• Add configurable invincibility during spawn. Sorry if that was more frustrating than funny 😢
• A bit of performance optimization related to weapon visibility.

Respawn Sickness

• Grenades can now be used during respawn sickness
• A timer indicator now appears over skills affected by respawn sickness.

Grenades

• Grenade throws are now staggered; it takes between 0 and 1 seconds for all dummies to respond to the command to throw their grenade.
• Now ALL of the M4A1's dummy links should be throwing grenades, instead of her immediate children.
  • This is probably important to Goobo Jr. fans 😉

Visuals

• Assault Rifle bullets now visually move faster, almost as if they're supposed to move as fast as bullets.
• Dummy links now have the grenade throwing animation applied to them

Bug Fixes

• The long-standing issue where the tracers of Particle Cannons sometimes don't appear, now do.
• Smoke buff particles and respawn debuff particles should be appearing now, at least to myself. I don't know why they broke.
• Luminous Shot now works with the Assault Rifle.
  • Grenades now also add a charge to each of your dummies.
• Goobo Jr. now does not count towards the dummy link count.
• Blacklisted items no longer do some odd things, e.g.
  • Generally, all of them can be infinitely recycled
  • Items may not have any effects

Please check your configs, I've been trying to make it pretty.

New Configurables

• Respawn Invincibility time
• Respawn Sickness time
• Dummy Link max stocks
• Dummy Link start of run stocks
• Dummy Link respawn stocks

Dummy Links

• Min cooldown visual on skill icon now only appears if you have at least one stock.
• Inventory (DISCLAIMER: THAT DOES NOT MEAN EQUIPMENT!!) now syncs with the main M4A1's inventory.
  • This means scrappers and printers now affect the dummies as they should, instead of giving alive dummies the best of both worlds.
  • Yes. This does mean that every time your inventory changes, potions, watches, and dios get "recovered" on dummies 😐

Balance

• Dummy Link start of run stock count: 4 -> 0.5
  • i.e. 30 seconds until the next stock recharges
• Dummy Link after revive stock count: 4 -> 0.6
  • i.e. 24 seconds until the next stock recharges.
  • For reference, Respawn Sickness lasts 20 seconds
• Dummy Link start of next stage stocks: 4 -> 0

Bug Fixes

• Now M4A1 can revive when she has a revive item and no dummies active :)
• Fix this mod's edge case interaction with CustomEmotesAPI, which soft-locks runs on survivors without CustomEmotesAPI support.
  • Although, even if it has already been fixed on their side, it's nice to support their older versions.
• Fix LookingGlass rubbing off the Dummy Link min cooldown effect.
• Fix Dummy Links not at least chucking their grenade somewhere if there's no available enemies.
• If the smoke grenade didn't make sound last version, now it does.

Update Image brought to you by Kurotora-23

Broken Versions

• 1.0.9: Fractional stocks of start-of-next-stage and revive values are actually being calculated with the fractional part of start-of-run stocks. It was a mistake :(
  • And also, who is messing with the royal capacitator lightning arm!!!

Configs

• Almost all of the values are now freely editable!
• You may now blacklist equipment, but I won't blacklist any equipment by default (Trophy Hunter SWEEP)

Assault Rifle

• Reload time is now affected by attack speed
  • i.e. 200% attack speed (100% + ~7 Soldier Syringes) is a 50% cooldown reduction
  • 3 * 1/(200%) = 1.5 seconds

Grenades

• Grenades can now be aimed, and it will go (not exactly) at wherever you look at.
• Dummy links should be smarter with throwing, aiming their grenades towards the closest enemy hitbox.

Dummy Links

• Now has a 2s delay on spawning dummy links, modified by cooldown reduction.

Stats Balance

• Base health regen: 0.1 -> 0.0
• Base Attack Damage: 17 -> 10
• Attack Damage Growth: 2.4 -> 2.0
• Dummy Link Assault Rifle damage: 80% -> 40%

Bug Fixes

• Fix an error caused by skill icon replacers attempting to check a non-existent skill, i.e. use MUL-T to swap primaries, causing a brief stream of it.

Dummy Links

• Respawn sickness: 8 -> 20 seconds
  • This shouldn't really matter unless you're against a boss
• Target chase distance: 256 -> 99999 units
  • I don't think this does much, please experiment this lol
• Now locks onto their target BEFORE firing their weapon
• Attempt to make them a bit more responsive to sudden threats

Incendiary Grenade

• Make it ignite enemies on it, like it SHOULD have done!!!

SFX

• Sound effects now actually decrease in volume when they are far away from the player (wow!!! just like rea l life)
• Make the assault rifle a bit louder

Animations

• Update sprinting (with rifle), jumping, and falling animations.
• Fix the "laggy" landing into running animation stuff.
• Fix weapon visuals being on her back.

Update image brought to you by すてきなAWA

Broken Versions

• 1.0.6: Still has that logical error that causes her to put all of her weapons on her back, unless you install CustomEmotesAPI (my fault)

SFX

• Now works properly with the sound slider
• In multiplayer, ensure players don't hear voicelines from other M4A1 players if configured not to.

Animations

• Fix the Particle Cannon clipping inside her chest. She just needed to lean the rest of her spine forward 😬

Misc

• Add CustomEmotesAPI support. Click the picture below to play it 😏

Broken Versions:

• 1.0.4: M4A1 emote icons are replacing ALL characters' icons instead of just her own
• 1.0.3: Mod is unable to run without CustomEmotesAPI

Dummy Links

• Add a configurable blacklist that restricts the items dummies can copy.
• When you go to the next stage, the dummies will now actually follow through, i.e. go to bazaar or void fields, but they still wont necessarily spawn near you :)

Assault Rifle

• Decreased the volume of the assault rifle.

Particle Cannon

• Increase the volume of the particle cannon shooting and blast... by a tiny bit.
• Decreased the size of the Particle Cannon explosion effect.
• Increase the damage radius of the Particle Cannon blast.

SFX

• Attempt to make sounds play with positioning instead of globally blare out.

Broken Versions:

• 1.0.1: Broken folder structure, causing the mod to be installed incorrectly through Thunderstore.

M4A1 Mod

• Initial Release