@steffire3 they're out now.

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@Sch123 I know, I could only do so much before giving up on trying to fix all of the issues.
I'm just about sure majority of them are dealt with by adding homing capabilities and increasing missile speed.
Then again the "missile" isn't even a missile as such, it's an invisible projectile that travels at 360m/s with some particle system attached to it.
It would seem the game really doesn't like terrain elevation differences, and it might be impossible to address that. Same for hitboxes being dependent on animations, at least I think they might be, since there is no rhyme or reason for the weapon to randomly miss a target one time and hit it perfectly the other.

Now, the "logical" step would be to increase missile collision radius, but that would mean it starts hitting more things than it should.
If I slow it down, it will hit stop acting like a hitscan weapon and there will be noticeable flow-breaking delay between firing and hitting an enemy.
On top of that, if I slow it down and leave homing speed as it is, it won't travel in a straight line and become even more overpowered than intended.

I know it's not perfect, it's very far from perfect. As much as I hate this, it's a case of win some, lose some - you have a sniper with stupidly long range and high damage, chances to proc debuffs, mechanics that allow it to fire through multiple targets, obstacles and world geometry. On the other hand, it can rarely miss some targets, it ignores enemies behind barricades until the latter are destroyed. I'm starting to think that might be a script thing because those appear to be props attached to enemies that are protected by them, similar to bandits with shields, except they're part of world spawns rather than special items.

Long story short: it's an experimental "proof of concept" that I very much have a love-hate relationship with. If you're disappointed by it, I can only apologise. My modding abilities allowed me to get it right only so much before there was nothing more that could be addressed :\

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Edit: just did a quick purge and recompile, also pushed an update on the offchance it may fix potential issues due to GUTS not liking date mismatch on DAT vs BINDAT files.
Also had another go at Echo Pass with the railgun. Out of every single enemy there, only one failed to get hit on the first go, they did however go down on 2nd attempt. All other enemies died in one hit with no retries.
As for barricades, I reckon it's possible to bypass them and shoot enemies directly by using "hold position" key and aiming about a metre ahead of them. In theory, this should make the missile ignore said barricade and hit the enemy behind it. At least it worked 3 out of 3 times I've tried it on the bears with spears.

@steffire3 they're out now.

Main mod: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1429753490

Standalone pack: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1495400247

@F430 Thanks for the release and the Mana Regen Fix! 

@F430 : I absolutely enjoy this possibility with the crowd efficient Poison Cloud for CQC Poison Pistols (yes, please replace Poison Spore) and making Skills enact from Weapons to make late game viable options... this is something I've seen Grim Dawn do and I've wanted TL2 to have something similar through modded means...

Grim Dawn also allows Affixes that give an extra Skill Point to all Skills and TL2 has this same feature more restricted in the form of Shrines.

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@Goblin informed me from Discord that he is requesting if you could make CQC Shotguns that are very slow and have extreme Knockback?

Paging @steffire3 !
As a little experiment, I made a booster potion that will temporarily improve charge gain and lessen its decay rate. It works fine, spawns as a generic potion drop, there are no issues with it.
Except for one - how do I make it at least a bit lore-friendly?
Initially the idea came from HEV suit batteries from Half Life games, and I wanted to use the suit battery render as the potion icon, but for now I'm using the glowing power source icon, as well as a custom sound, but more on that later.
The item itself is called "Suit Battery" and item card reads that it was reverse engineered from a Dwarven Automaton.
That's all fine and dandy, since they're placeholders for now, but I'm sure there is something more suitable as far as names and descriptions go, which is where your knowledge may come in handy, I believe.

@steffire3 while I do appreciate it, it's not exactly what I was referring to.
I simply need some lore-friendly ideas on item names and descriptions.
Ember is a neat way to make everything seemingly odd fit in the game but it's way overused, in my opinion.
Hence the question, and again, deferring to you on this - what sort of name/description should I give the potion?

Do keep in mind, it's only a potion because of how those work [class-neutral boosts over specific time], and it's an easy way to make them compatible with any other mods, since they won't affect spawnclasses or require new unittypes.
With that said, there is some flow break to it, because you can't really drink automaton fuel, as amusing as that may sound.
At the same time, I won't need a 3 paragraph item description that makes logical sense in a world where touching magical minerals gives you superpowers.

Shhhh, adrenaline is reserved for a completely different idea :v
Well, not completely different.
You pop one of those bad boys and it fills your charge bar. Now I just need to find a way to make it last 30 seconds even though it does one thing on use and then absolutely nothing. Emulation of cooldown for sake of balancing and all that jazz.
Do you think using an effect "NONE" with 30 sec duration could solve this?