MM8BDM | Forum - Xover Weapons

v3.0.0
- Now playable in MM8BDM v6b!
- 14 new Xover Weapons!
- Fusion table redesigned! Ingredient information is now visible
- Screws replaced by a new, damage-based system
- Can use custom weapons as ingredients
- Added support for modding!
Details

v2.1.0

		

<< GENERAL >>



	> Added 11 new Xover Weapons

	> Added compatibility with Cooperative/Survival/Invasion ("PvM") game modes

		Xover Weapons work against monsters and won't hinder allies

	> Xover Weapons options menu :

		- Added a "Update log" menu recapping this changelog

		- Added a game setting to multiply fusion prices (x0, x1, x2, x3, x4, x8)

		- Added a game setting to discard Xover Weapon ingredients on death

		- Added a game setting to keep weapons between maps (PvM modes only)

		- Removed the game setting to toggle item drop (screws/weapons) on death

	> Changed recipe Mix recipe animation to stay on screen

	> Changed players either drop screws or one of their vanilla weapon on death =>

		now players always drop screws on death, and if killed by a Xover Weapon, 

		will also drop one of their vanilla weapons



<< SCREWS >>

	> Changed screw economy. Old (left) and new (right) fusion prices are :

	

		From\To	2D	3D	4D	5D			From\To	2D	3D	4D	5D	

		1D		100 150 175 185			1D		100 200 300 400

		2D		—- 120 180 210			2D		—- 150 275 400

		3D		—- —- 150 225			3D		—- —- 250 400

		4D		—- —- —- 200			4D		—- —- —- 400	

		

	> Changed screw gains from pickups : small/medium/large 25/60/100 => 50/125/200

	> Changed screws replacing ammo probability 33% => 40% of the time

	> Changed screws/ammo respawn timer 30s => 18s

	> Changed starting screws (50 + [0,185 based on # of players]) => 

		50 (for PvP game modes)      0 (for PvM game modes)

	> Removed screws refund on uncombining

	

		

	

						

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			# — WEAPONS — #

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<<< AIMING LASER >>>

	> Uncharged attack

		- Damage 9*2 => 11*2	

		- Ammo cost 3.0 => 2.25 units	

		- RoF 1.17/s => 0.972/s

		- Can now target any shootable object

		- Added target count display on screen

	> Charged attack

		- Changed sound effect and obituary

		

<<< COUNTERSHADING TRACER >>>

	> Damage now increases over projectile life time

	> Over time increase :

		- Damage : 40 => [30 to 92]

		- Seeking angle [6 to 76] => [12 to 85]

		- Seeking range [64 to 320] => [128 to 640]

	> RoF 0.625/s => 0.36/s

	> Ammo cost 4.0 => 5.5 units

	

<<< DELAY FLAME >>>

	> Added new sound effect to distinguish with Atomic Fire’s

	

<<< FOREST WHIP >>>

	> Whip

		- Dunks twice as hard

		- Now uses a continuous formula for locking duration

		- Sprite is now affected by online latency to better reflect the whip's position

	> Bramble

		- Radius 80 => 50, height 80 => 128 (matching sprite height)

		- Damage doesn’t fall off with distance anymore

		- Added sound effects to distinguish with Slash Claw’s

		

<<< GLUE SHOT >>>

	> Block health 75 => 50 (same as Concrete Shot block)

	> Damage 33 => 30

	> Now applies 25% of the fully stacked slow effect on hit

	

<<< GROUND DASH >>>

	> Uncharged attack

		- Now resets player pitch to match the rock's trajectory when aimed too low

	> Charged attack

		- Damage 16 => 13

		- Speed when bumped (based on how big the boulder) : [15 to 8] => [23 to 10]

		- Bumping detection more generous

		- The boulder’s HP depletes over time in non-PVP game modes

	

<<< HELLFIRE CUTTER >>>

	> Now returns after half a second

	> Ammo cost 4.0 => 5.0 units

	

<<< ICE GATLING >>>

	> Hits required to freeze 10 => 13, frozen duration 2.0 => 3.0s

	> Ice round damage 2 => 1, speed 35 => 48

	

<<< LEAF BOOMERANG >>>

	> Gives a new leaf if one didn't return after 3.0s => 1.7s

		

<<< MELT CREEPER >>>

	> Wave stops after 14.17s => 7.3s

	> RoF 0.55/s => 0.69/s

	> Ammo cost (charged) 8.0 => 6.5 units

	> The first column spawns one step ahead (rather than on user’s position)

	

<<< METGUARD FAMILY >>>

	> MetGuard1 cooldown increased by 0.43s

	> MetGuard2 cooldown increased by 0.29s

	> MetGuard1 and MetGuard2 damage 17 => 22

	> MetGuard3 and MetGuard3EX

		- Shockwave now clips to upper sectors

	> MetGuard3EX

		- Poison panel duration 2.74s => 4.11s

		

<<< RECYCLE INHALER >>>

	> Can now pull vertically

	> Can't pull players through monster blocking lines ("pits") anymore

	> Damage 27 => 24

	> Auto-releases after hitting a target

	> Recycle players into 3 random pickups => one R-Tank (fully restores HP)

		and 2 random pickups. Health and screws are removed from the pickup list

	

<<< SONIC SLICER >>>

	> Charged attack

		- Can now also damage objects

		- Min/max damage over time 18/69 => 28/78

		- Ammo cost 8.0 => 6.5 units

		

<<< SUPER ARROW >>>

	> Arrow HP : infinite => 160

	> Doesn't block ripping projectiles anymore

	> Won't damage/vanish on enemy contact when held

	> Automatically releases after two seconds of hold

	> Crashing radius 26 => 34

	> Maximum up/down angle while traveling 3 => 5

	> Ammo cost 4 => 3.25 units

			

<<< THOUSAND KNIVES >>>

	> Knives pattern reworked into a slower, accurate and hard hitstunning attack

	

<<< THOUSAND SPEAR FAMILY >>>

	> Stab damage 6 => 7, final thrust 16 => 18

	> Lateral stabs delay 0.09s => 0.91s

	> Now only use RNG for its pitch direction

	> Thousand Spear

		- Momentum gain 6 => 9 (final thrust)

	> Thousand Spear V2/V3/V5

		- Momentum gain 2 => 3 (stab), 6 => 12 (final thrust)

	> Thousand Spear V5

		- Summoned soldier

			+ Vanishes after 6 => 4 seconds

			+ Is summoned with a burst of forward speed

			+ Attack damage 2 => 4

			+ Locks target for 0.77s => 1.26s

			+ Has a more natural behavior



<<< TIME BOMB >>>

	> Damage 28 => 24

	> Max damage reached at quarter => half radius

	> Explosion radius 192 => 256

	> Slow strength 40% => 69%

	> Slow duration 2.08s => 1.29s

	

<<< TRIAD THUNDER >>>

	> Moved uncharged attack obituary to charged attack and got a new one

	> Charged attack

		- Quake min/max damage 3/10 => 2/8

		- Quake can now damage objects

		- Lightning ball damage 10 => 22

			

<<< WHITE ROSE CLUSTER >>> 

	> Uncharged orb damage 30 => 26

	> Mid charged orb

		- Damage same as fully charged (melee 10 => 13, thrown 14 => 16)

		- Ammo cost 6.0 => 5.0 units

	> Fully charged orb 

		- (melee and thrown) Damage now falls with range in the outer 33% orb radius

		

<< YOGA INFERNO >>>

	> Damage 11 => 12

	> Cost 5.0 => 4.0 units

		

						

				

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			# — BUGFIXES — #	

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<<< GENERAL >>>	

	> Recipe Mix's randomly given recipe doesn't favor anymore the leftmost 

		weapon ingredients on the current map weapon list. It truely is random now

	> Corrected "Power up! [weapon name]" message and Xover Weapon bar colors 

		sometimes being displayed erroneously online

	> Recipe Mix bags shouldn't unsync online anymore

	> Ammo and screws now don't respawn if sv_itemrespawn is disabled

	> Xover Weapons now won't consume ammo if sv_infiniteammo is enabled

	> Fixed an issue where the registered fusions weren't cleared, diverging

		from the player's actually owned fusions

	> The screen properly clears Xover Weapons ammo bars and the crafting table

		when joining the dead spectators in game modes like (T)LMS or Survival

	> Xover Weapons' tag name's color doesn't affect the text coming after anymore

	> Screws dropped by players now properly eventually vanish

	> Fixed the generic animated bar's animation

	> Vanilla weapons stay on map when picked up, rather than respawning 

		half a second later

	

<<< WEAPONS >>>

	> Glue Shot

		- Block shouldn't get players stuck inside anymore

		- Block sprite displays properly if voxels are turned off

		- Voxel lateral offset properly centered

	> Ground Dash

		- Fixed other players seeing a charged attack boulder's health by damaging it

		- Uncharged rock properly bounces (visually) on walls online

	> Hellfire Cutter

		- Can't mark non-players anymore

	> Ice Gatling

		- Now properly prevent frozen enemies from firing

		- Rate of fire now doesn't erroneously wait an extra 0.06s every 6 shots

	> Sonic Slicer

		- Uncharged attack properly vanishes and damage certain non-players

	> Thousand Spear V5

		- Soldiers correctly vanish after a set time, even if they are stabbing something

	> Time Bomb

		- Fixed speed down arrows inconsistant display

		- Properly disappears (visually) on negative gravity ceiling contact

		

<<< KNOWN BUGS >>>

	> If Xover Weapons are kept between PvM maps, a player dieing on map start

		(likely due to telefrag because of the map not having enough spawn spots)

		might glitch their weapon inventory. Enabling sv_unblockallies prevents 

		this issue, but it’s the mappers’ job to have sufficient spawn spots

>>> Class base slot used : 32

>>> Translation ID used : 6735 to 6802

>>> HudMessage IDs used : 6905 to 7471

If you’re a weapon coder, you can interact with Xover Weapons. Include this XOVER.acs library in your project to use the below functions. This is a top level view of the features ; scroll down to “Resource” sections for an example/implementation guide.

Create keywords

void defineXoverKeyword(int id, int label, str icon)

void defineXoverSecretKeyword(int id)

Traits given to weapons like “Fire”, “Crawler”, “Ice”, “Bounce”, etc.
You can make new ones, for example “Rockman no Constancy weapon” or “Mario weapon”. Secret keywords differ in that they don’t display in the fusion table. A created keyword is technically useless if you don’t create at least 1 ingredient and 1 Xover Weapon recipe using it.
Example

defineXoverKeyword(KW_CRAWL, “CRWL”, “XWKWTYP4”);

Create Xover Weapons

void defineXoverWeapon(str tag, str actor, str icon, int desc, int tier, int kw1, int kw2);

Label a weapon as a Xover one. It will appear when the player inserts ingredients with keywords kw1 and kw2 in fusion table.
In DECORATE, Xover Weapons have a special way to handle ammo,

// Must be called in Select state

select: TNT1 A 0 ACS_NamedExecuteWithResult(“XW Ammo”)

// To check ammo

fire: TNT1 0 A_JumpIf(!CallACS(“XW Ammo Check”, <amount>), “noAmmo”)

// To consume ammo

TNT1 0 ACS_NamedExecuteWithResult(“XW Ammo Use”, <amount>)

Aside from this, they are coded like standard weapons.
Example

defineXoverWeapon(“TAG_XWMETGUARD1”,”XWMetGuard1Wep”,”XWAAH0”,”DESC_XWMETGUARD1”,2,KW_CRAWL,KW_SAFETY);

Create ingredients

void defineXover1(str wepActor, int kw1)

void defineXover2(str wepActor, int kw1, int kw2)

void defineXover3(str wepActor, int kw1, int kw2, int kw3)

…

Any custom weapon defined with v6b’s DefineWeapon, or fusion with DefineXoverWeapon, can be assigned keywords, up to 8. I believe 2~3 keywords (secret ones excluded) per weapon is the ideal amount. All weapons made compatible in 3.0.0 have 3 or less keywords.
The fusion table can display up to 5 keywords.
Example

defineXover2(“XWMetGuard1Wep”,KW_SAFETY,KW_CRAWL);

Resources

Anonymous said:

Note (2024-10-22 edit) : Regarding「Create Ingredients」, thanks to Trillster there is a way to avoid duplicating bloat DECORATE pickup code. I advise waiting for next Xover version (will be probably a minor/patch version) before making ingredients. It'll be much cleaner.

>> Download Xover Weapon modding tutorial <<
This minimal mod implements 2 standard weapons ("ingredients"), 2 keywords (one of them is secret) and 5 Xover weapons. Check the READ_ME inside for technical details.

Testers
Blews, Binary, Heelnavi, IamaMedalHunter, NeoElectrivan, PinkRoboBlaster, ThéophileCaceres

Spritework
- Sprites INC
- HUDs edits from other mods : V-Classes, Non Canon Classes, Mega Man X Mission Mode, MMX Classes, YD Classes
- fortegigasgospel, tsukiyomaru0, Dimpsy, Grundle, Heelnavi, TheBladeRoden, Geno, Flame-ful Justice, A-Chan, Magnet Dood, Chimera Man, IamaMedalHunter, Ze Robotico, Dio-ZX, Chimmii
- Spriters Resource

Anonymous said:

King Kirby, Dolphman, Friesnchip, Dazz, Hangsungkee, Silverbolt, Random Talking Bush, Mr. C, WhatsTheMatterScared?, TheHoodedTurtle, Ploaj, Amyd, TomGuycott, Sir Hoopsalot, SoniKast, Neslug, Unknowni123, Bean, White-Jet, Felineki, Rasgar, ThisNameIsTakenByMe

Weapons
Many of the Xover Weapons are references to other productions, so original design/base sprite goes to them :

Anonymous said:

Mega Man X/Zero/Battle Network/Legends series, Mega Man Rock n Roll, Mighty number 9, Rockman no Constancy, MegaMari, Mega Man Four Hounds, Mega Man Rocks, Mega Man Unlimited, Mega Man Super Fighting Robot, Mega Man Rock Force, Rokko Chan, Rockman 4 Minus Infinity, Darkstalkers, Sonic Robo Blast 2, SRB2Kart, Viewtiful Joe

Maps featured on game start
>>> v3.0.0 Pressure Trench (KNDM09) by Extus, A bout de bras (BUR17) by me, Shiver Peak (DRSG10) by Duora Super Gyro
>>> v2.2.0 Star Crator (DRSG16) by Duora Super Gyro
>>> v2.1.0 Decommissioning Plant (IDM06) by Ivory

Audio
- SFX mixed from various sources (Credits to The Sounds resource for the rips)

Anonymous said:

Mighty gunvolt burst, Pokemon (game boy), Sonic (Game gear), Gunsight (NES), Gunnac (NES), Mega Man Four Hounds, Gozonji: Yaji Kita Chin Douchuu, Mega Man series

- Xover - v3.0.0 trailer BGM by Jonpon
- Game startup jingle by https://hccweb6.bai.ne.jp/yomogi-farm/
- Some SFX from Doom/Strife

Special thanks
- CutmanMike and the MM8BDM devteam for the best Mega Man fan-game and engine, and v6b in particular which recently made this mod possible (Trillster/Russel)
- Capcom for Mega Man
- You for playing the megamens!

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