New and ambitious project in the works.

[LinkHero]

You guys remember how the FC2 mercs drop crappy and rusty weapons on death

Well, I aim to fix that.
Of course, if you guys have any advice, please share.

[PZ]

I do recall a parameter involving weapon degradation, but do not recall if it applies to the weapons carried by the mercs.  I know you can change degradation for the weapons you carry.

[LinkHero]

Yeah, we did mod that, however, now my mercs drop AS50s and M16s, and I would like to use them without jamming them. I know of the "all weapons purchasable at start" route, but don't want to use that.

[LowPolyOWG]

I'm pretty sure our OWG archive should have an entry for this somewhere...

[LinkHero]

Update:
I was playing FC2 today, no modding, just enjoying, when I come upon a checkpoint with a sniper merc and several regular mercs.
After disposing of said mercs (with the trusty Dragunov) I start randomly checking their weapons. And the sniper merc has dropped a brand new squeaky clean Dragunov for me. (BTW, I do all my testing with Uzis, and I haven't touched the Dragunov section of any file.)
Coincidence, probably.
Anyway, this proves that there exists a script (or scripts) somewhere that converts live merc's shiny weapons to dead merc's rusty weapons. Now to find it...

[PZ]

 

[LinkHero]

Update:
Im testing something here. Need some help in testing. The procedure is as follows:

Add the pickups.xml file im your mymod category, go to "Weapons.AK47_new".
Scroll down to the line "          <value name="selLevel" type="UInt32">1</value>" and change that to zero.
Do the same for "Weapons.AK47_new.Dropped".
Build patch as usual
My AK47s, seem to be dropping shiny new on merc death. However, they still appear rustywhen not picked up. SO I need help confirming this.
Can anyone help me ??

[LowPolyOWG]

Hmm, must be a parameter showing the "world model". Most likely, the weapons have a "viewmodel" and a "worldmodel". The viewmodel is the model held in the player's hand(s) and the latter is the item dropped.

[LinkHero]

The world model isn't important right now. If we can change all view models to "new", then we're golden.

[LinkHero]

Update.
Good news: It has he possibility to w0#k on all weapons.
Bad News: You have to have those new weapons in your inventory first.
I had an AK47, a Star45, and an RPG in my inventory, and observed that only AKs and Star45s are dropping as new weapons (after changing some values.Everything else drops as rusty. So i went to a shop, purchased the Ithaca pump action shotgun, and changed my arsenal to Ithaca, MAC10,PKM. Suddenly, AKs drop all rusted up and all Ithacas and PKMs are clean as a whistle. Then I picked up a rusty M16 off a merc and set off to find another m16. I found one shortly later, and tried to switch between the two M16s. No such luck.
So, we're back to square one. Time to try a different line of attack.

[Art Blade]

+1 for your persistence and will

I hope that you can solve that weapons issue