First of all, sorry about the silence for so long. Everybody's schedules have been a little bit crazy and as a result progress on the mod has been somewhere between nonexistant and slow. There really isn't much to update about since the last update about the weapons, other than blocking weapons ending up being a much more difficult thing to do than we had thought.

To speed things up, Yukimono has set up the mod on GitHub and created a forum topic with the link to it and some info. That'll be open so anybody who wants to mess with the SDK can contribute, as well as serve as a place to keep all the information we've found out about messing with the game. There's also an IRC channel for development chat so drop on by @Rizon/#betascend for that!

Sorry again about the slow progress and overall silence, hopefully this will really get things going!

For anyone curious, and anybody wanting to mess around with the weapons in Tribes. Here's how to do it.

The first thing I'd suggest to do is to create a new function in the mod script to handle weapon modifications. Call it in ModInit() BEFORE any AddHook calls. Then you can mess with the settings of imported weapns through the DefaultProperties field on each of them.

Example: TrDevice_Thumper.DefaultProperties.m_fReloadTime = 10.0f;

That sets the reload time to be 10 seconds, which you can see the results of here.

You can find all the weapon values to modify in the developer version of the game, in the folder Development/Src/TribesGame/Classes. Weapons/grenades are TrDevice_WeaponName.uc and can be opened with notepad or notepad++. Projectiles are TrProj_ProjectileName.uc, most of the damage values are in the projectile files, where things like reload time and ammo count are stored in the weapon files.

Some of the properties have multiple instances with a number in parentheses after them. You call those by having the number in square brackets instead of parentheses in the mod script.

Example:
TrDevice_ChainGun.DefaultProperties.WeaponProjectiles[ 0 ]=TrProj_Spinfusor.StaticClass();

This sets it so that the chain gun fires spinfusor disks, which is as fun as you would expect.

Do note, for each weapon you want to mess with it has to be imported at the top of the mod file. So far we've just been messing with the test mod provided by Altimor, which has all the code for equipping weapons already in place.

Hopefully that was clear enough for everybody to be able to now go and mess around with the weapons. As we figure out more stuff I'll post announcements with how to do it.

Since it was asked in the group comments, we are hoping (still figuring out how) that we will be able to remove certain weapons. If/when we are able to do so we will be removing every weapon post-megapatch. Here are the megapatch patch notes again.[www.tribesascendwiki.com]

The following is a list of every weapon in the game for the megapatch, and what class they will be found on. If a weapon is not on this list, it will not be in the mod. However, after the mod is working at the megapatch stage it's possible to consider re-adding some of them.

• Light Spinfusor (Pathfinder)
  
• Bolt Launcher (Pathfinder)
  
• Light Assault Rifle (Pathfinder)
  
• Shotgun (Pathfinder)
  
• Impact Nitron (Pathfinder)
  
• Explosive Nitron (Pathfinder)
  
  
• BXT1 Rifle (Sentinel)
  
• Phase Rifle (Sentinel)
  
• Falcon (Sentinel)
  
• Nova Blaster (Sentinel)
  
• Claymore Mine (Sentinel)
  
• T5 Grenade (Sentinel)
  
  
• Rhino SMG (Infiltrator)
  
• Stealth Spinfusor (Infiltrator)
  
• SN7 Silenced Pistol (Infiltrator)
  
• Sticky Grenade (Infiltrator)
  
• Prism Mines (Infiltrator)
  
  
• Assault Rifle (Soldier)
  
• Spinfusor (Soldier)
  
• Thumper (Soldier)
  
• Eagle Pistol (Soldier)
  
• Frag Greande XL (Soldier)
  
• Anti-personnel Grenade (Soldier)
  
  
• TCN4 SMG (Technician)
  
• Thumper (Technician)
  
• Improved Repait Tool (Technician)
  
• Sparrow Pistol (Technician)
  
• Sawed-off Shotgun (Technician)
  
• Motion Sensor (Technichian)
  
• TCNG (Technician)
  
  
• ARX Buster (Raider)
  
• Grenade Launcher (Raider)
  
• NJ4 SMG (Raider)
  
• Whiteout Grenade (Raider)
  
• EMP Grenade (Raider)
  
  
• Fusion Mortar (Juggernaut)
  
• MIRV Launcher (Juggernaut)
  
• X1 LMG (Juggernaut)
  
• Spinfusor MKD (Juggernaut)
  
• Heavy AP Grenade (Juggernaut)
  
• Throwing Disk (Juggernaut)
  
  
• Chain Gun (Doombringer)
  
• Heavy Bolt Launcher (Doombringer)
  
• Saber Launcher (Doombringer)
  
• Frag Grenade (Doombringer)
  
• Mines (Doombringer)
  
  
• Heavy Spinfusor (Brute)
  
• Automatic Shotgun (Brute)
  
• Nova Colt (Brute)
  
• Heavy Sticky Grenade (Brute)
  
• Fractal Grenade (Brute)

I believe that's all of them. A post down the road will detail packs and perks.

I see this thrown around in the thread a lot, so this is going to serve as a codified "official" statement of what the plan for the mod is going forward.

The patch notes for the megapatch can be found Here[www.tribesascendwiki.com].
This means every aspect of the game that we can possibly change to be more like that beta stage, for better or worse, will be changed. This includes reverting things like the nerf to nitrons, whiteout grenades, flag bounce and flag punting, and many more balance changes as well as the removal of nearly half of the weapons currently in game. The reason for setting such a strict goal is that instead of trying to balance and fix the game from the broken position it's at now, we can instead start from a version of the game where everything is functional and playable.

What's going to happen, once the mod is playable in the state of the Megapatch, is that each issue/item will be posted about on the group forums on a case-by-case basis. This means things like what to do about Automatic weapons will be a discussion thread here in the group before potentially being changed in the game.

I know it's a little strict, but it's important to try and maintain solid short-term goals if we want this project not to crumble like /v/ projects so often do.