Advanced Weaponiser

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Advanced Weaponiser is a SourceMod server plugin that adds additional items to Team Fortress 2. It is developed by Mecha the Slag.

Basic Use

Advanced Weaponiser remembers players via their Steam ID, letting them retain their items and equipment settings between visits to the server. When connecting to the server for the first time, a player will not have any Weaponiser items, but will be granted one shortly after spawning. Any player who respawns will occasionally be granted one Weaponiser item that they don't yet have (continuing until they have every non-restricted weapon), being announced with a text alert and in-game fanfare which mimics the process of earning official weapons and achievements. In the receiving player's HUD, the 'radio' menu displays the name, class and statistics of the weapon they've just found, and they have the option of either equipping it immediately or dismissing the message. The plugin also has its own achievements system (based upon one of Mecha's other plugins), and players who fulfill the achievement conditions are rewarded with Weaponiser's wearable items.

Player Commands

As is the case with most SourceMod plugins, commands must be prefixed with either ! or /. Using ! publicly displays the command in chat when entered, while / hides it. All of these commands display their output in the 'radio' menu:

• ach or achievements - A list of Weaponiser achievements for the class the player is currently playing, divided into 'Earned' and 'Not Earned' categories.
• achall or achievementsall - A full list of Weaponiser achievements for all classes, divided into 'Earned' and 'Not Earned' categories.
• info <weapon name> - Displays the name, class and statistics for the specified item.
• loadout - A browsing and 'equip' interface for the items the player has found, separated by slot (Primary, Secondary, Melee and Hat). Only shows items for the class they are currently playing.
• news - A log of all changes to the plugin, grouped in reverse chronological order. The date and plugin version for each change is not displayed.

The Great Slag Treasure Hunt

The Great Slag Treasure Hunt is a special event hosted on the Advanced Weaponiser server.

In order to participate in the hunt, the player must first collect 4 clues (the clues being the letters S, L, A and G). The clues can be found randomly through drops on the server, or can be stolen from other players who have clues by killing them 3 times.

Once all 4 clues have been found, a notification will be displayed to the entire server, stating the name of the player who collected all the clues. One of three treasure numbers along with the name of the map to find it on will also be displayed.

The player must then locate the treasure on the map that it appears on. Each treasure rewards the player with a special promotional item.

Treasure Locations

• Treasure #1 is located on koth_viaduct. It can be found on the bridge attached to a house near the Control Point. Upon locating the treasure, the user is rewarded with The Pegasus Boots.

• Treasure #2 is located on koth_nucleus. It can be found on the upper part of the map. Upon locating the treasure, the user is rewarded with The Celtic King.

• Treasure #3 is located on koth_harvest_event. It can be found on the roof of the Control Point building. Upon locating the treasure, the user is rewarded with The Lethal Injection.

Achievements

Class	Title	Weapon	Criteria
[[File:Leaderboard class default.png|link=Classes|20px|bottom]] All	Undroppable Force	N/A	Obtain every single drop weapon.
Scout	Atomic Safety	The Atomic Bat	Avoid fatal damage by using evasiveness.
	Attention Grabber	The Perceptionist	Disorientate 20 Heavies while they're firing.
Pyro	Flamotional Outburst	The Gentle Manne's Olde Firecannone	Hit more than one enemy with the Gentle Manne's Olde Firecannone 3 times.
Heavy	Bone-Breaking Brawl	The Fists of Steel	Using The Fists of Steel, smash 20 enemies into walls.
	Shocker Union	The Electroshock	Deploy The Electroshock 2 times in one life.
Sniper	Designated Target	The Walkabout	Perform a full combo on one enemy.
	The Walk of Glory	The Walkabout	Perform 2 Combos with The Walkabout in one Life.
Spy	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind	The Heart Opener	Have 3 enemies infected at once.
	Packing Heat	The Fire-Retardant Suit	Absorb a total of 2000 Fire damage using The Fire-Retardant Suit.

List of Weapons

Class	Slot	Weapon name	Authors	Attributes
Scout	Primary	The Nailgun	CharlesMan (Script)	+10% damage done.  +30% Faster Firing speed.  -50% Clip size.
	Primary	The Perceptionist	DanielAwesomo (Model) Mecha the Slag (Script)	Disorientates on impact  -40% Clip size.  -20% Firing speed.
	Melee	The Atomic Bat	BANG! (Model) Mecha the Slag (Script)	Each hit adds 7% evasiveness.  Evasiveness is subtracted when damage is taken.  Evasiveness is ineffective against melee attacks.  +30% Firing speed.  -40% Damage done.  No random Critical hits.
Soldier	Primary	The Matador	Sgt Pepper (Model) Mecha the Slag (Script)	Rockets are semi-controllable  +30% Explosion Radius.  -10% Damage Done.  -25% Projectile Speed.
	Melee	The Marauder's Mace	MasterGir (Model) Mecha the Slag (Script)	Performs an earthquake upon landing after a rocket jump  Crits during and two seconds after a rocket jump.  -20% Slower Firing Speed.
Pyro	Primary	The Pilot Light	Pogo (Model) Mecha the Slag (Script)	Airblasts can now be charged, which will push enemies further  Reflected projectiles are Crits instead of Mini-Crits.  40% Less Airblast cost  +20% Afterburn duration  -20% Damage done.
	Secondary	The Gentle Manne's Olde Firecannone	Mecha the Slag (Script) Nirrti (Model & Texture)	Alt-Fire explodes the flare in mid-air.  Flare does no damage otherwise.  No random Critical hits.
	Melee	The American Gothic	Mecha the Slag (Script) Hideous (Model)	On Hit: Disables enemy primary temporarily.  -20% Damage done.  +20% damage from melee sources while active.
Demoman	Primary	The Rain-Man	Kosai106 (Model) Mecha the Slag (Script)	-50% Clip size.  Leaves a trail of grenades. Each grenade deals 50% damage
Heavy	Primary	Maxine	Svdl (Model) Mecha the Slag (Script)	+75% Speed while firing.  Will always fire when spun up.  15% Slower spin up time.  -50% max primary ammo on wearer
	Secondary	The Electroshock	Mecha the Slag (Script)	Revives you with an electrical shock upon death.  The machine needs to be charged by dealing damage.  Player cannot revive if they are gibbed by an explosion.  All ammo is lost upon revival.
	Melee	The Alternative Fists of Steel	Mister Royzo (Model) Mecha the Slag (Script)	On Hit: Knocks back victim  90 Damage is dealt if the target collides with a prop or wall in mid-air.  -40% Damage done.  -30% Firing speed.
Engineer	Primary	The Bulldog	JoshuaC (Model) Mecha the Slag (Script)	Damage removes Sappers.  +50% Firing speed.  -70% Clip size.  -50% Bullet distance.
	Melee	The Blizzard Builder	Treythepunkid (Model) Mecha the Slag (Script)	Buildings are built, repaired and upgraded by hurting enemies.  Sappers are removed in the same manner.  10% of damage done by the sentry is recovered on the owner
Medic	Secondary	The Elektric Assurance	Murphy (Model) Mecha the Slag (Script)	+15% ÜberCharge rate.  Can instantly deploy ÜberCharge at 20% or more.  Medic is unaffected by own ÜberCharge  -60% Heal Rate.  -60% Overheal.
Sniper	Primary	The Walkabout	Svdl (Model) Mecha the Slag (Script)	Uses combo system.  Combo is reset upon missing.  Damage increases by 35% for every hit.  3rd hit will be a Crit and reset the combo.  +50% Faster move speed while zoomed in.  No charged shots.  No Headshots.
	Melee	The Khopesh Climber	ez_jamin (Model) Mecha the Slag (Script)	Attacking a wall or prop allows the player to climb it.  -10% Damage done.  -90% Firing speed.
	Melee	The Amateur with Feelings	Mecha the Slag (Script)	Not polite, not efficient.  Just a bloke with a plan to kill his wife.  This weapon is restricted; it does not drop through normal means.  This weapon is manually rewarded to the mod's valued contributors.
	Melee	The Kangaroo Catcher	Mecha the Slag (Script) Hideous (Model) Pie_Tony (Texture)	Alt-fire throws the boomerang.
Spy
	Primary	The Fire retardant suit	SeneorGoat/LarryBraverman (Model) Roflman (Script) Mecha the Slag (Script)	Afterburn retardant.  +70% Fire damage resistance.
	Primary	The Great Escape	Viper Snake (Model & Script) Pie_Tony (Texture) Mecha the Slag (Script)	On hit with 50% Cloak or more: Instant Cloak, cloud of smoke, instant disguise, removes fluids and burning.  +20% Firing speed.  -30% Damage done.
	Melee	The Heart Opener	Mico27 (Model) Mecha the Slag (Script)	Backstabs infects the victim.  Infection disables the victim after 4 seconds.  The victim is killed after 8 seconds.  Does not remove disguise on a successful backstab.  Infection can be removed by a Medic or Health kit.

Treasure Hunt Weapons

Class	Slot	Weapon name	Authors	Attributes
Scout	Secondary	The Pegasus Boots	N/A	Passive item.  Alt-Fire: Fire Dash  Scout disappears and re-appears several metres away, leaving a pair of flame trails in his wake.  Does not go through walls.  Dashing decreases the 'Dash Meter', an on-screen percentage.  Longer dash distances drain more of the meter.  Cannot dash unless the meter is at 100%.  Moving at the speed of sound is no longer an issue!  This was found in the Great Slag Treasure Hunt
Demoman	Secondary	The Celtic King	Mnemosynaut (Model) Mecha the Slag (Script)	Passive item.  When 'The King' or nearby allies deal damage to opponents, charge increases  The more charge, the bigger damage and speed bonus on 'The King' and nearby allies  Charge decreases faster with greater charge  This was found in the Great Slag Treasure Hunt
Medic	Primary	The Lethal Injection	Hideous (Model) Svdl (Texture)	150% of damage dealt is healed on both patient and medic  -20 max health on wearer  The medication for an aggressive Medic  This was found in the Great Slag Treasure Hunt

Removed Weapons

Class	Slot	Weapon name	Authors	Attributes
Heavy	Melee	The Drill	Sparkwire (Model & Script) NeoDement (Script)	+10% Move speed.  +15% Damage done.  +125 Max health on wearer.  Disables use of Primary and Secondary slot.  Removed because "it was rubbish" (stated during KritzKast's interview with Mecha)
Spy	Primary	The Backdoor Bandit	Viper Snake (Model) Lei Lei (Texture) Mecha the Slag (Script)	Shows no hurt indication to victim.  +50% More Accurate.  Firing does not remove disguise.  Cannot Kill.  Removed because it was "impractical, confusing, and didn't serve its purpose"
Pyro	Melee	The Endless Carnage	Mecha the Slag (Script) Nirrti (Model) LT_Commander (Texture)	+30 Max Health  +30% Firing speed.  On hit: +20 Health.  -50% Damage done.  The stats shown here represent the last released version of the weapon; the stats were initially changed during Australian Christmas because Valve added the Back Scratcher, which had identical stats to the original Endless Carnage. After a brief period where it used these changed stats, it was scrapped entirely.

List of Wearables

Class	Slot	Item name	Authors	Attributes
Multiple Classes	Head	The Rad Rap	Communist Cake (Model)	"Up On King of the Hill, there's a plastic tree."  Earned by completing all of the Weaponiser Achievements.  Rad Raps earned before the 17th December 2010 became 'Vintage'.  The Vintage version has a different skin.
Scout	Head	The Southie Arlecchino	JZeeba (Model)	"Given to the Scout by an old European immigrant to follow a family tradition. It will help the Scout perform the acrobatics that will leave your enemies speechless, mainly because they'll be dead..."

Known Bugs

• Inspecting a player that's using Weaponiser equipment causes accurate pro/con/description data to be shown, but the weapon's name, name color and icon are rarely correct.
• Viewmodels for most of the weapons are disabled, due to their previous glitchy nature (they would flicker between the Weaponiser item and the item in the player's 'real' loadout). Almost all 'world' models display correctly, but may glitch during certain animations.
• Certain items that are equipped on the regular loadout will carry their pros and cons, even when equipping the Weaponiser's weapons.
  • Using Your Eternal Reward with the Heart Opener will add the stats of the Heart opener and remove the Disguise Kit.
  • The Blizzard Builder will destroy Buildings upon respawn if the Engineer originally had the Gunslinger equipped.
  • If the user has all the items in a set equipped, the bonus given by the item set will apply while using the Weaponiser's weapons.
• Using Your Eternal Reward with The Great Escape can sometimes cause enemies to see classes (the disguised Spy) carrying weapons that do not belong to that class, e.g. a Scout carrying a Minigun.
• Players will not get kill/assist credit if a killed player was infected with Heart Opener, but not killed with said weapon.
• When holding Alt-Fire, Maxine sometimes doesn't show bullet sprites.
• When certain classes wear the Rad Rap, i.e the Engineer, it may clip with their head or sometimes not show up at all.
• When a disguised Spy backstabs someone with the Heart Opener, the Spy may be seen disguised while holding the Heart Opener in his/her hand from an enemy standpoint.
• Snipers equipped with The Walkabout have the cosmetic attachments of their 'real' primary weapon displayed on their player model (i.e. arrows in the quiver with the Huntsman equipped, darts in the pocket with the Sydney Sleeper.)
• The April 14th update introduced a permanent bug where players no longer are able to view weapon/hat models on nearly all players.

Trivia

• Some of the models in the mod were made specifically for Advanced Weaponiser, but also submitted to Valve's contribution page.
• Several weapons in Weaponiser are based on unused content or beta weapons.
• The original stats for the Endless Carnage were very similar to the stats now used for the Back Scratcher. Before being officially added to the game, The Fists of Steel model was also used for a weapon by the same name in Advanced Weaponiser. Since the Fists of Steel got officially added to the game, Advanced Weaponiser renamed its weapon to "The Alternative Fists of Steel".
• A function similar to that of the Gentle Manne's Olde Firecannone is attached to an official weapon in the latest update of the TF2 Beta, called the Detonator.
• The model of the The Heart Opener is based on the Yatagarasu's Key from Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth.
• The description for The Rad Rap is a reference to the Gorillaz song Melancholy Hill.
• When a player obtains an item in the Great Slag Treasure Hunt, they also earn 50-150 'Slag Shillings', a currency only used (at time of writing) on the "SLAG Gaming #1" server (home of TF2Ware). Because the Advanced Weaponiser server doesn't use Shillings, players are not told that they received them from the treasure.
• An Advanced Weaponiser loadout viewer is currently in development, and can be viewed here. Different players' backpacks can be viewed by Steam ID such as Humblerbee's loadout here.

External Links

• Advanced Weaponiser Official Group Page
• Facepunch Discussion Thread
• KritzKast interview with Mecha the Slag