Merciless v 4.5 released

[|GITS|Eggbeast]

OK today I'm starting tests of Merciless 4.5

New features - new skins, new hats, new teams (SAS, Polish Airborne, Royal Marines, SS Sturmtruppe), class based kit loadouts, modified menus, sounds, new voices, working medic calls, enhanced gore, MG42 moveable only by sniper, gunner and antitank, Vickers MMG moveable only by gunner.

Lots of older crap removed to reduce download.

You need the following 4 files (will zshare soon):
z_merc_weapons.pk3 4mb
z_merc_sounds.pk3 51mb
z_merc_skins.pk3 69mb
z_merc_core.pk3 20mb
total: 144mb

PART 1 download
http://www.zshare.net/download/18112785f4930b9f/

PART 2 download
http://www.zshare.net/download/18116785499f1ebf/

stock files needed:
uoconfig_mp.cfg
hunkusage.dat

please go into your call of duty/merciless_uo folder and remove any pk3 files in there (keep your config and hunkusage files to keep your name and control settings etc.)

My mod page on moddb is here (ignore downloads - their site upload system sucks unfortunately, use zshare for now)
http://www.moddb.com/mods/gitseggbeast

ok so here are some highlights of the new stuff:

the new menu screens





New MG:


all guns blazing


Now different classes get different kit:
Soldier has full pack, gasmask, rope, knife, etc. and lots of rifle ammo and a scrim helmet


medic has carbine ammo and basic beltpack only, medic helmet and glasses


sniper has glasses, pistol, binoculars, scrim helmet


Machinegunner has bag of mines, BAR ammo belt, 2 bandoliers of ammo, basic beltpack and basic net helmet:


Engineer has a roll of fusewire, officer helmet, greasegun clips, pistol, compass and flashbang


Anti-tank has bag of grenades and masses of tommy ammo (for ammo crate), pistol, knife and scrim helmet


wehrmacht

brown camo skins and new hats
full range of hats and gear to match class
4 types of face
4 voices
4 types of wounded/dead player model
set of 8 damage skins
COMPLETE

Wehrmacht winter

stock skins, new hats
full range of hats and gear to match class
4 types of face
4 voices
4 types of wounded/dead player model
set of 8 damage skins
COMPLETE

Fallschirmjager grey

new browner skins, new hats
full range of hats and gear to match class
4 types of face
4 voices
4 types of wounded/dead player model
*needs set of 8 damage skins

Fallschirmjager camo

new camo skins, new hats
full range of hats and gear to match class
4 types of face
4 voices
4 types of wounded/dead player model
*needs set of 8 damage skins

Kriegsmarine
Converted to Sturmtruppe class:
black SS uniforms with full deathshead insignia
full range of new hats and gear to match class
4 types of face
4 voices
4 types of wounded/dead player model
set of 8 damage skins
COMPLETE

waffen
stock waffen camo skins
full range of new hats and gear to match class
4 types of face
4 voices
4 types of wounded/dead player model
set of 8 damage skins
COMPLETE

waffen winter
stock waffen winter skins
full range of new hats and gear to match class
4 types of face
4 voices
4 types of wounded/dead player model
set of 8 damage skins
COMPLETE

US airborne
new darker non-camo skins and helmets
full range of helmets and gear to match class
4 types of face
4 voices
4 types of wounded/dead player model
Female Nikita is 5th soldier variant
*need to make a set of 8 damage skins

US airborne winter
stock skins and new helmets
full range of helmets and gear to match class
4 types of face
1 voice
4 types of wounded/dead player model
Female Nikita is 5th soldier variant
set of 8 damage skins
COMPLETE

british airborne
modified skins and new helmets
full range of helmets and gear to match class
4 types of face
4 voices
4 types of wounded/dead player model
set of 8 damage skins
COMPLETE

SAS (was commando)
modified SAS skins and new berets/ caps
full range of helmets and gear to match class
4 types of face
4 voices
4 types of wounded/dead player model
set of 8 damage skins
COMPLETE

Royal Marines (was commando winter)
modified royal marines skins and new berets/ caps
full range of helmets and gear to match class
4 types of face
4 voices
4 types of wounded/dead player model
set of 8 damage skins
COMPLETE

Polish Airborne
Russian conscript - modified to Polish Airborne skins and new berets/ caps
full range of helmets and gear to match class
4 types of face
4 voices
4 types of wounded/dead player model
*set of 8 damage skins needed
see this link for interesting tales of Polish soldiers on the Eastern Front
http://www.ww2.pl/Polish,Army,on,the,Ea ... nt,24.html

Russian con winter, veteran, veteran winter
stock skins and caps
full range of helmets and gear to match class
4 types of face
4 voices
4 types of wounded/dead player model
set of 8 damage skins
COMPLETE

here are the new hats:
NOTE: close your sidebar to see them all

wehrmacht


waffen


German para grey


SS Stormtroopers


German para camo


Polish Airborne (was russian conscript)


Polish skin: (go miaski !)


Russian


Royal Marines Commandos


Special Air Service


British Paras


And the new US airborne looks like this
hats


skins


the new mobile MG code should eliminate the 999 hangs i hope...

Next I'm working on:
1. damage skins for USairborne, fallschirm grey and camo - until these are done the damaged/ wounded players in these teams will revert to stock skins with blood on.

[$n1PeR08]

Good work again!!

[The | $nake]

Lovin' it!!!!!! Nice work egg

[|GITS|PRED@TOR]

Nice one Egg!

Gasmarks will be great - just when you think you're grenade has snuffed everyone out, up pops a masked figure to stick one between your eyes!

Pred

[|GITS|Eggbeast]

ok a few bugs noticed so far:

1/ no medic calls on bonneville, aquitaine, wolfsquare or viaduct - implying that they don't work on all custom maps atm
2/ too many visible models complaints from server log - may need to reduce zombietime (amount of time bodies are left in map) to stop models disappearing haphazardly etc
3/ aquitaine scripted mines need removing to prevent max gamestate on that map
4/ tracer on vickers seems set at the wrong height for the crosshair
5/ US Airborne winter - had a face texture missing on wolfsquare
6/ UK airborne sleeves are still bright version, but rest is the new dusty one
7/ holding melee for mine deactivation seems to have stopped working...
8/ max gamestate on wolfsquare, viaduct, and dufresne so far
9/ the health crate seemed to stop working on bonneville/ redoktober - needs looking into
10/ as reported - the damage skins are older versions for fallschirm grey, camo and us airborne - need updating
11/ picking up the MG42 on aquitaine turns into a vickers - must be built into the map as a misc_turret instead of a misc_mg42 - will look into it.

the 999 bug on the mg's seems less obvious, especially on bocage - am i right?

the good news is that the scripts for fixing this stuff are all simple - like a 100kb patch. finding the problems is gonna take a while though. but i hope you like it in general.

any more bugs?

[The | $nake]

Just one I noticed, with Russian sniper when you look through scope the area around the circle you see out of is normally black but in this case it was black + large grey blocks. I love the mod

[|GITS|Eggbeast]

was this on dufresne by any chance? I fiddled with the fog settings on it to make it more atmospheric and less of a spawnrape-fest, the only downside is that the users of scopes/binocs will see a weird glitch on the edges of the map when viewed from one or two locations in the map. this glitch, caused by the fog fx, only happens in the zone outside the map (beyond the fog limit) where other players can't see/go anyway, so i figured it was a reasonable sacrifice...

if it was another map, let me know.

[|GITS|Eggbeast]

quick update:

FIXED
/ no medic calls on bonneville, aquitaine, wolfsquare or viaduct - implying that they don't work on all custom maps atm
/ too many visible models complaints from server log - may need to reduce zombietime (amount of time bodies are left in map) to stop models disappearing haphazardly etc
/ holding melee for mine deactivation seems to have stopped working...
/ max gamestate on dufresne
/ picking up the MG42 on aquitaine turns into a vickers - must be built into the map as a misc_turret instead of a misc_mg42 - will look into it.
/ aquitaine scripted mines need removing to prevent max gamestate on that map - left in and hope its ok

TO DO
/ tracer on vickers seems set at the wrong height for the crosshair
/ US Airborne winter - had a face texture missing on wolfsquare
/ UK airborne sleeves are still bright version, but rest is the new dusty one
/ max gamestate on wolfsquare & viaduct so far
/ the health crate seemed to stop working on bonneville/ redoktober - needs looking into
/ as reported - the damage skins are older versions for fallschirm grey, camo and us airborne - need updating

[kalasnikov]

Mercastic!!!!! hope i don't get knived by slayer with glasses and snipers could not have glasses. They could have a telescope.

[|GITS|BADVIKTOR]

is the cooking time on the nades shorter?

[SENSEi]

never cook nades in water! thats dangerous and might kill you

[|GITS|BADVIKTOR]

i was cooking a nade and it went off lol. It mite have been my mistake, but a few other players got caught by it too i think?

[The | $nake]

was this on dufresne by any chance? I fiddled with the fog settings on it to make it more atmospheric and less of a spawnrape-fest, the only downside is that the users of scopes/binocs will see a weird glitch on the edges of the map when viewed from one or two locations in the map. this glitch, caused by the fog fx, only happens in the zone outside the map (beyond the fog limit) where other players can't see/go anyway, so i figured it was a reasonable sacrifice...

if it was another map, let me know.

Erm I only noticed it on one map can't remember which sorry

[|GITS|Eggbeast]

hmmm so we tested alpestra tonight - maxed on re, hq
aquitaine maxed on hq
carcasson maxed on re apparently (is this true?)

the mg's in sconseville need fixing
the sounds in vaddhe need fixing

[|GITS|Eggbeast]

wow look what the real merciless mod team are working on:

pic:

movie:
http://bastard.esgnhost.com/mercilessmo ... chdemo.wmv

[Bullseye!(NL)]

carcasson maxed on re apparently (is this true?)

carcasson just maxed (again?) about 10 minutes ago

[|GITS|Eggbeast]

ok thanks, so carcasson and wolfsquare currently have max gamestate probs... i'll fix em

another bug we forgot about - the G41 and AVS36 rifles don't precache properly and sometimes (especially in round-based gametypes like SD/ RE) players spawn with no ammo...

[NoXVII]

ehm how do I get the gasmask working? or ain't it in the game at the moment?

[|GITS|Eggbeast]

its just part of the soldier kit loadout, not a working mask lol

anyway - this is an amazing mod - gonna borrow a few weps from it i think
http://african-front.cba.pl/

ok im thinking, based on the mod weapons tried so far:

Axis
medic gets mauser semi-auto pistol instead of gewehr
sniper gets scoped G43
Gunner gets MG42 instead of FG42
Gunner gets scoped MP44 instead of MP44
Engineer gets silent walther instead of gewehr
Engineer gets FG42 instead of MP44
Antitank gets M18 instead of silent walther

American
Soldier gets revamped carbine and tommy
Soldier gets garand instead of greasegun
medic gets garand instead of carbine
Sniper gets scoped garand
Engineer gets scoped carbine instead of garand
Antitank gets revamped tommy2

Brit
Soldier gets revamped carbine
sniper gets scoped lee enfield instead of springfield
sniper gets scoped carbine
gunner gets lewis gun (if possible)
engineer gets silenced de lisle carbine instead of carbine
antitank gets PIAT instead of bazooka

russian
same tho i might try and add the maxim to the russian gunner

watch this space

[|GITS|Angel?!?]

DON'T take my carbine away !!! No sexy time for you ....

[NoXVII]

that explains a lot.... And I tried to run through the gas...lol

[|GITS|Hath]

And dont take away springfield or no sexy time either the rest sounds good to me though!

[|GITS|Eggbeast]

the scoped enfield is actually better than the springie

[SENSEi]

too much scopes and too unrealistic?

[|GITS|Eggbeast]

ok i'm nearly done. the weapon options are now looking like this:

Axis
Soldier: kar98, G41, MP40 with new butt, MP44
Medic: kar98, new mauser semi-auto pistol
Sniper: Kar98, scoped kar98, new scoped G43
Gunner: MG34, FG42, new MG42
Engineer: Gewehr 43, new silent walther p38
Antitank: flamer, new panzerschrek, new MP18 SMG

American
Soldier: Springfield (unscoped), new Carbine, new Tommy, new Garand
Medic: Springfield (unscoped), new Carbine
Sniper: Springfield (unscoped), Springfield (scoped), new scoped Garand
Gunner: 30 cal, deployable BAR
Engineer: Greasegun, scoped carbine
Antitank: flamer, new bazooka, new drum Tommy

Brit
Soldier: new enfield, new Carbine, sten, new UD42
Medic: new enfield, new Carbine
Sniper: new enfield, new scoped Carbine, new enfield scoped
Gunner: 30 cal, new deployable BREN
Engineer: silent sten, new De Lisle slilent carbine
Antitank: flamer, new PIAT, sten mk5

the new carbine is a woodstock version of the original para model. the para model and the unpopular M2 are off the menu
most of the new models like the garand/ enfield/ mp40/ tommy etc are from COD2

[|GITS|Angel?!?]

when you say new carbine ... do you mean that auto one ?

[|GITS|Eggbeast]

nope i took off the M2 after fairly universal negative feedback

anyway, it'll be on for testing monday 8 september so come check it out for yourself.

my faves: the de lisle, garand and carbine...

[NoXVII]

when are the new weapons coming online?
and, there are still knifes in the game or?

love ya for the mod

[kalasnikov]

testing.... My specialty

[|GITS|Eggbeast]

well you got your piat kala, i hope you're happy lol.

read this (combat use section)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIAT
for some very interesting history of how the PIAT saved many lives on D-day and at Arnhem.... shame they never built it into cod in the first place huh?