[MOD 0.12.x] Hunting Grounds- Tame this vile world. - 0.1.0

[Raught19]

Type: Mod
Name: Hunting Grounds
Description: A collection of specialized weapons and ammo.
License: MIT
Version: 0.1.0
Release: 5/23/2016
Tested-With-Factorio-Version: 0.12.33
Category: Vanilla+
Tags: Weapon, Gun, Alien, Evolution, Balance
Website: viewtopic.php?f=94&t=25643

Fluff Descriptionn

Fluff Description
A Mod balanced around the use of Natural Evolution, Bob's Enemies, and Swarm. A collection of specialized weapons and ammo, Every Gun and Ammo has its purpose. Balancing and Personal tweaks, and the means to survive an ever evolving foe.

Spoiler Description

WARNING! Do not read if you like to be surprised and discover things yourself!

New/Changed Guns:

Magazine Ammunition Guns:

Pistol- Intended for High Ammo conservation and strong against small targets
Range: 22
Speed: 2
Bonus Damage: 100%
Movement Slow: 15%
Firing Type: Hitscan (Vanilla)

Submachine Gun- Intended for Medium Ammo conservation and strong against medium targets.
Range: 18
Speed: 15
Bonus Damage: 25%
Movement Slow: 25%
Firing Type: Hitscan (Vanilla)

Assault Rifle- Intended for minor Ammo Conservation and longer distance targets.
Range: 25
Speed: 12
Bonus Damage: 15%
Movement Slow: 45%
Firing Type: Hitscan (Vanilla)

Belt-Fed Ammunition Guns:

Light Machine Gun- Lightweight with fast firing projectiles, intended for medium zerg rushes. Low Ammo conservation.
Range: 30
Speed: 30
Bonus Damage: 0%
Movement Slow: 75%
Firing Type: Projectile/Direction


Gatling Gun- Immensely cumbersome with extremely fast firing projectiles, intended for huge zergs. Very Low ammo conservation.
Range: 45
Speed: 60
Bonus Damage: 0
Movement Slow: 100%
Firing Type: Projectile/Direction

Shotgun Ammo Guns:

Shotgun- Intended for Close range small-sized targets, High burst damage, low fire rate. High Ammo conservation. Great for Slugs.
Range: 20
Speed: 1
Bonus Damage: 100%
Movement Slow: 35%
Firing Type: Projectile/Direction

Combat Shotgun- Intended for Close range medium-sized targets, Medium burst damage, medium fire rate. Medium Ammo conservation. Great for Slugs/Shells
Range: 20
Speed: 2
Bonus Damage: 40%
Movement Slow: 55%
Firing Type: Projectile/Direction

Siege Shotgun- Intended for Close range medium and small-sized targets and zergs, low burst damage, high fire rate. Low Ammo conservation. Great for Shells.
Range: 20
Speed: 3
Bonus Damage: 0%
Movement Slow: 75%
Firing Type: Projectile/Direction


Liquid Ammo Weapons:

Flamethrower- Best biter-zerg buster, high firing rate, expensive ammo, weak against spitters. Can be dangerous to yourself. Watch where you put your flames!
Speed: 40
Movement Slow: 45%
Damage for Flamethrower increased 4x of Vanilla.



Ammunition Types:

Magazines:

Hollow-Point- High Single target damage.
Incendiary- Medium Single target that leaves damaging fire trails. Good against sustained zergs.
Explosive- Medium Single Target that explodes into an AoE, best for Ammo conservation and large groups of Aliens.
Neurotoxin- Low Single Target that causes fast acting and intense organic systems failure, Slows Aliens for a short duration.
Biological (From Natural Selection)- Highest Single Target damage that devours organic life.

Belt Ammunition:

High Caliber Ammunition Belt - Accurate belt fed projectile that causes heavy physical damage.
Hollow-Point Ammunition Belt - Highly accurate belt fed projectile that causes heavy internal damage.
Neurotoxin Ammunition Belt - Inaccurate belt fed projectile that burst on impact to cause fast acting and intense organic systems failure. Slows Aliens for a short duration.
Incendiary Ammunition Belt - Highly Inaccurate belt fed projectile that ignites on impact to engulf a target in a fiery inferno that leaves damaging fire trails.
Biological Ammunition Belt - Accurate belt fed projectile that devours organic life.

Shotgun Shells/Slugs:

Dragon's Breath shotgun shell - A narrow burst of flames that engulf targets hit in a fiery inferno. Leaving fire trails in their wake.
Neurotoxin Buckshot shotgun shell - A wide spread of small capsules that burst on impact to cause fast acting and intense organic systems failure. Slows Aliens for a short duration.
Explosive shotgun slug - A single slug that explodes on impact in an AoE.
High Caliber shotgun slug - A single slug that causes intense internal damage.
Biological shotgun slug - A single slug that devours organic life.

New Technology:

Advanced Belt-Fed Ammunition: Unlocks the specialty Belt-Fed Ammo
Belt-fed Ammunition damage- Damage Upgrades for Belt-fed Ammunition
Belt-fed Ammunition shooting speed- Speed Upgrades for Belt-fed Ammunition
Flamethrower shooting speed = Speed Upgrades for Flamethrower
Advanced Military 1: Unlocks New Shotgun Ammo
Advanced Military 2: Unlocks Biological Ammunition Belt and Biological shotgun slug
Advanced Ammunition Loading 1: Unlocks Ammo Crates (Ammo crates combine ammo 5 stacks worth of Ammo into 1 item.)
Advanced Ammunition Loading 2: Unlocks Specialty Ammo Crates


Misc Tweaks/New Items:

Bio Organic Fuel- worth 125 MJ, costs 10 artifacts, or if you have Bob's Enemies you can combine 1 of Every type of Artifact to create 3 at once.
(Fluff item. I just wanted to be able to run my factories on the blood of my enemies.)

Tree Health Increased to 400.
(Don't freak out! They are super weak now to poison and fire, so 1 poison capsule still decimates trees, but now random stray bullets from your gatling gun and shotguns won't decimate forests by accident.)

Rock health increased to 1000, but they are super weak to explosions, so you now have a use for grenades!

Rocket Launcher range was increased to 60.


TLDR; 4 new Guns, 1 new Gun type , 15 new ammo, 1 new ammo type, Misc changes, Ammo crates. Pew pew Gatling

Pictures

Pictures


Incendiary Rounds Magazine with damaging fire trail


Incendiary Belt-fed Ammunition with damaging fire trail


Neurotoxin Belt-fed Ammunition slowing aliens

Neurotoxin Belt-fed Ammunition slowing aliens


Full recipe list from mods, in tab called Advanced Combat


Feed my ever growing Factory with your flesh!!! ( I cheated for this pic, I don't expect anyone to have quite this much Bio Organic Fuel easily.... lol)

Compatibility

Compatibility
Bob's Warfare (Kind of... it worked in my tests, but I'm unsure how balanced it will be.)

Downloads Requirements Recommendations

Downloads/Requirements/Recommendations

Latest Version
Hunting Grounds: On Attachment
Mirror 1: https://mega.nz/#!M1o2ADxQ!px68__VvT8Wk ... K6YhM9yzek
Mirror 2: https://github.com/Raught19/Hunting_Gro ... p?raw=true


Requires:
VanillaEx: viewtopic.php?f=94&t=23747 NOTE: Use 0.0.8, if you are going to be using multiplayer, there is a known bug, just delete VanillaEx's control.lua file.
Natural Evolution Enemies: viewtopic.php?f=94&t=13562

Highly Recommended: (Seriously, get these, because they are great, and my mod is balanced around them all together.)
Swarm: viewtopic.php?f=93&t=20165
Bob's Enemies: viewtopic.php?f=51&t=9243
Natural Evolution Expansion: viewtopic.php?f=94&t=13562
Natural Evolution Buildings: viewtopic.php?f=94&t=13562
RSO: viewtopic.php?f=79&t=13783

Other Recommendations:
Radar Two: download/file.php?id=7377

If your insane and want your playthrough to be intense and almost impossible, also get this:
Scary Nights: viewtopic.php?f=94&t=16461

Version history

Version history
0.1.0 - 5/23/2016: Release

Credits

Credits:
bloc97- For creation VannilaEx which I used as a base and inspiration for my mod. He provided the foundation many of the initial ammo/weapon types.
TheSAguy- For creation of Natural Evolution which was an inspiration to base off for balancing and difficulty.
Supercheese- Amazing work with Swarm, can't imagine playing without it!
BobingAbout- Does great things, while I didn't use any of his work directly that I recall, still amazing stuff!

To Do

To Do
Balance Vehicles and Vehicle weapons.
Make Hunting Trophy for fun. -DONE-
Attack Pheromone Capsule - DONE -
Incendiary Grenade - DONE -

Next Update Spoilers

Next Update Spoilers

Make sure you check my posts in the Thread, I post many spoilers of new features!

Please give feedback!

[NoriSilverrage]

Hmm, the download site doesn't work for me. Do you have a alternative?

[Raught19]

Hmm, the download site doesn't work for me. Do you have a alternative?

Sure thing, setting it up now

EDIT: Added as Attachment and an additional Mirror just incase

[NoriSilverrage]

Just tried it again and this time it worked. So some fluke or something I guess.

[TheSAguy]

This looks great,
I'll give it a try in my existing game!

[Raught19]

Next Update will have my extremely simple but very fluffy, Hunting Trophies! They ward away future biter expansions from an area. I wanted a better-less-cheesy-feel to ward away expansions. Rather than placing random items out in the Wilderness. Or stonewall squares which I have been fond of in the past.

Before and After placement. (Green circles in minimap show possible biter expansion locations.)

Picture

This land is mine now.

Picture

[Shrooblord]

Heh sweet. I assume for these you'd need some wood and you'll sacrifice some percentage of your acquired Alien Artefacts in order to "sculpt" the bodies.

[Raught19]

Heh sweet. I assume for these you'd need some wood and you'll sacrifice some percentage of your acquired Alien Artefacts in order to "sculpt" the bodies.

Yep at the moment it costs 3 raw wood and 5 small alien artifacts. Its supposed to be kinda cheap and easy to make as its function is very simple haha. At the moment it doesn't require a technology.

[TheSAguy]

Was playing a little last night and just wanted to say that these additions are really nice.
BTW, do you use ExtraChests? If not, you should really give it a try. Upgrades the icons wonderfully when using Bob's.

Love the trophy idea I always just run around placing small electric poles to stop expansion.

[Raught19]

Was playing a little last night and just wanted to say that these additions are really nice.
BTW, do you use ExtraChests? If not, you should really give it a try. Upgrades the icons wonderfully when using Bob's.

Love the trophy idea I always just run around placing small electric poles to stop expansion.

Thanks for checking it out! I appreciate all feedback

I have not seen that mod, but that looks pretty cool! I'll have to branch out more and try out Bob's other mods besides enemies haha.



New Info for next update
I will probably release in the next 1-3 days, want more feedback before I change versions.

-Incendiary Grenades-

Pictures

These grenades explode on impact dousing everything around it in flames. Uses same functions as my incendiary ammo, so the damage stacks, and that means the more targets you hit, the more damage it deals!

-Attack Pheromone Capsules-
So credits to this one largely goes to TheSAGuy, as its based/inspired by his Alien Control Station which is fantastic work.

Pictures

Attack Pheromone Capsule makes a couple bites in its AoE to become hostile to other biters temporarily which causes pure chaos in a nest. For the screenshots I used a lot of capsules to show the devastation it can cause.
It will be a resource expensive endgame capsule used for distractions and fun. It turned out to be pretty balanced with Natural Evolution, because of the Worms summon biters, so if you aren't careful you can end up with more Biters than you started with!
Before Pheromones

During Pheromones' Havoc

After Pheromones

[Kryzeth]

...is it just me, or is it near impossible to kill a stone rock anymore? I tried using a shotgun to clear some boulders, and my shots were only dealing about 2 damage per hit, and the tooltip said this mod was the only one that was affecting it. I went in and deleted the changes to stone-rock entity under overrides, and then I noticed the boulders being even squishier than usual, presumably because of the buffs to the weapons (which also only mention this mod under the tooltip).

Is there any middle ground for this, or how else are you supposed to clear rocks early game?

[Raught19]

...is it just me, or is it near impossible to kill a stone rock anymore? I tried using a shotgun to clear some boulders, and my shots were only dealing about 2 damage per hit, and the tooltip said this mod was the only one that was affecting it. I went in and deleted the changes to stone-rock entity under overrides, and then I noticed the boulders being even squishier than usual, presumably because of the buffs to the weapons (which also only mention this mod under the tooltip).

Is there any middle ground for this, or how else are you supposed to clear rocks early game?

The rocks are super weak to explosions, so grenades work best to clear out rocks. I was originally going to add explosive charges for destroying rocks into ore, but I've been preoccupied with the release of Total Warhammer XD with 13 around the corner I slowed down dev since so much is changing

[Kryzeth]

Well I guess this will be a non-issue when you update to the mod to 0.13, because minable stone! One of my favorite new features, second only to landfill<3
So I retract my complaint. Although... I've never really built grenades.. ah x_x